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.

    Georgia Prisons Are Deadlier Than Ever. One Reason? We’re Starving.

    The Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) is once again on track to surpass the ...

    Inevitably, FCC Moves to Let Prisons Use Illegal Cell Phone Signal Jammers

    The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is about to formally consider allowing corrections departments to ...

    With a Contraband Market in Flux, More Prisoners Turn Toward Gambling

    [Read Part 1 of this story here]   In May, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp ...

    The Mental Health Impact of a Prison’s Short-Lived, Off-Book Yoga Class

    Buggs*, about 20 years into a life sentence in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) ...

    The Return of the Prison Poker Game

    The tobacco bans that Georgia Department of Corrections implemented in 2010 changed the way ...

    Harm Reduction for Prison Tattoos

    The stakes for tattoo aftercare are higher in prison than in the free world. ...

    If Prisons Are Meant for Rehabilitation, Stop Transferring Us All the Time

    Decades ago when he first entered Georgia Department of Corrections custody, D* used to ...

    “Alligator Alcatraz” ICE Detention Opens, Floods, and Begins Filling Beds

    On July 1, President Donald Trump visited the Florida immigrant detention compound dubbed “Alligator ...