The stakes for tattoo aftercare are higher in prison than in the free world. If your ink fades, the artist…
Decades ago when he first entered Georgia Department of Corrections custody, D* used to look forward to transfers. Prisoners with…
On July 1, President Donald Trump visited the Florida immigrant detention compound dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.” On July 2, water began…
Back before the COVID-19 pandemic when the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) still had corrections officers, the first shift would…
In Nebraska, where state prisons are often at 140-percent capacity, the legislature is considering a bill pertaining to “double-bunking,” AKA…
Recently one of our prison’s library clerks, Polo*, remarked in passing that the Georgia Department of Corrections prison system was…
One of the most important things to understand about the rampant understaffing in United States prisons is that it is…
Nine years ago when the Department of Justice opened an investigation into violence inside Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prisons,…
[This article describes deaths by suicide, including reference to a method of suicide.] Asked if they ever think about…
I thought we learned from the Stanford Prison Experiment that college-age corrections officers are not a good idea. But it…