Jimmy Iakovos is a pseudonym for a writer who is incarcerated in Georgia. It is illegal in some Southern states to earn a living while under a sentence of penal servitude. Writing has enabled Jimmy to endure over 30 years of continuous imprisonment.
Georgia is on the brink of reforming its death penalty law for intellectually disabled defendants, a move being heralded as…
We used to hold funerals in the prison chapel. There was a sheet-covered table with a dais in front of…
Adam* has been incarcerated in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) facilities for somewhere around 40 years. His wife Ruth* has…
At every Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prison I’ve ever landed in without a work detail already assigned to me,…
In October 2024, the Department of Justice published the long-awaited findings of its investigation(s) into violence inside Georgia Department of…
On March 9, someone made a rare escape from a Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) probation detention center. He was…
In the wake of a Department of Justice investigation that confirmed conditions in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prisons are…
In 2020, Bill* was awaiting trial in a northern Georgia county jail when he asked his lawyer about getting into…
The weekly limit of coffee I can order from the prison commissary is enough for about two days, so for…
Jack*, a loner by nature, requires a single-man cell to remain mentally stable in prison. He requires nothing else; just…