Jimmy Iakovos 
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 ...
What Jobs Are Prison Correctional Industries Training Us For, Exactly?
At every Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prison I’ve ever landed in without a ...
GA Prisons Padlock Our Cells. Will We Die in a Fire? Let’s Ask a Lockpicker.
In October 2024, the Department of Justice published the long-awaited findings of its investigation(s) ...
Escaping From Prison Is Easier Than You’d Think. We Just Know Better.
On March 9, someone made a rare escape from a Georgia Department of Corrections ...
All the New Guards Hired to Improve Security Are Making Prison Less Safe
In the wake of a Department of Justice investigation that confirmed conditions in Georgia ...
Prison RSAT Has a High Success Rate of Continuing to Exist
In 2020, Bill* was awaiting trial in a northern Georgia county jail when he ...
