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.

    How Prison and Parole Can Pull You Into a Debt Trap

    In her late 20s, Laura* sold an eighth of Vitablend to a person who ...

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    Lifers, Lab Rats and the Mandatory Minimums Experiment

    In the 1950s, John’s Hopkins University Professor Curt Richter ran a series of experiments ...

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    Tobacco Bans in Our Prisons Are Rich Pickings for Me—and the COs

    The first time the Georgia Department of Corrections tried to go tobacco-free was 1994. ...

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