Jimmy Iakovos 
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 ...
Profits and Violence in the Prison Commissary Resale Market
The weekly limit of coffee I can order from the prison commissary is enough ...
Ask for Reasonable Housing in Prison and It May Get You Forcibly Medicated
Jack*, a loner by nature, requires a single-man cell to remain mentally stable in ...
“Additional Meals” in Prison Seems to Mean “Even Less Food Than Before”
It used to be that Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prisoners worked five days ...
Prison Social Circles Will Run on Smoking Until Vaping Isn’t Banned
Years ago, in that other life before prison, a friend once announced, I am ...
Parole Violations Didn’t Always Mean Prison. They Sent Us Somewhere Else.
Ben* is about to parole out of Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) custody. His ...
