Jimmy Iakovos 
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 ...
Georgia Prisoners Took Risks for DOJ’s Investigation. Why Did We Bother?
Nine years ago when the Department of Justice opened an investigation into violence inside ...
As Years in Prison Become Decades, Lifers’ Thoughts on Suicide Evolve
[This article describes deaths by suicide, including reference to a method of suicide.] ...
New York’s Solution to Prison Staffing Shortage Is to Hire Teenagers
I thought we learned from the Stanford Prison Experiment that college-age corrections officers are ...
Georgia Prisons Now Hold Over 10,000 Lifers as Parole Crisis Deepens
In the Department of Justice report summarizing its years-long investigations into the Georgia Department ...
Can Any Banks Explain How Prisoner ID Cards Aren’t Valid State-Issued ID?
If you didn’t already have a bank account before you were incarcerated, it’s almost ...
Georgia’s Death Penalty Reform Bill Has an Odd View on Life Sentences
Georgia is on the brink of reforming its death penalty law for intellectually disabled ...
A Eulogy for Prison Wakes, Which There Are Too Many Deaths for Now
We used to hold funerals in the prison chapel. There was a sheet-covered table ...
Prison Visits Should Have Always Been a Right, Not a Privilege
Adam* has been incarcerated in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) facilities for somewhere around ...
