Jimmy Iakovos

    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.

    In Final Meeting, GA Prisons Senate Committee Votes for the Status Quo

    Brought into existence to tell us whether Georgia’s notoriously unsafe prison system is unsafe, ...

    GA Parole-Eligible Lifers Are Headed to the Private Prison Aftercare Industry

    Of the 51,284 people currently incarcerated in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prisons, 7,937 ...

    GA Lawmakers Welcome Increasingly Wild Testimony in Vape Registry Push

    On September 17, the Georgia House committee studying the “youth vaping epidemic” holds its ...

    GDC Senate Study Committee: What If Prisoners Were Allowed Cigarettes?

    In February, Georgia lawmakers created a study committee to think about whether people in ...