Jimmy Iakovos 
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 ...
Prison Budgets Keep Growing, Yet They Keep Giving Us Used Underwear
As of July the state of Georgia is in Fiscal Year 2026, for which ...
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 ...
Prisons Need Their Own Post Offices, Not That We’ll Ever Get Them
Back before the COVID-19 pandemic when the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) still had ...
Nebraska’s Fix for Double-Bunking in Solitary Confinement May Need Work
In Nebraska, where state prisons are often at 140-percent capacity, the legislature is considering ...
It Shouldn’t Be Quite This Hard to Get Into Our Prison’s Library
Recently one of our prison’s library clerks, Polo*, remarked in passing that the Georgia ...
Prisons Want to Hire More Officers. It’s Easier Than Retaining Them.
One of the most important things to understand about the rampant understaffing in United ...
