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.
One morning in July we wake to rumors of being on lockdown, which happens at least once a month these…
Georgia’s public defender shortage was recently of interest to the media when it affected the prosecution of Robert Aaron Long,…
In 1734, New York Weekly Journal publisher John Peter Zenger was arrested for seditious libel because the publication was critical…
The Georgia Department of Corrections assigns every person in its custody a security classification: Minimum, Medium or Close. This classification…
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For the past 16 years, Georgia was under a federal injunction: It could not build any state-run psychiatric hospitals, because…
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For the first time in six years, in 2025 the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles allowed more people…
There are few soft surfaces in prison, so when one of us drops a pair of glasses or a radio…
Each year when the president did the White House turkey pardons it always seemed kinda funny, even from prison. Seeing…