Tony has served almost three decades of a life sentence in Tennessee. He is the author of two books, Secrets From a Prison Cell (Cascade Books, 2018) and Locked In and Locked Out (Resource Publications, 2023). His writing has also been published at Solitary Watch, the Progressive, Truthout, Shado and in multiple books and anthologies, the most recent of which is Storms of the Inland Sea (Shanti Arts, 2022). His Filter story about CoreCivic medical care won “Best News” at the 2025 Stillwater Prison Journalism Awards. You can reach him by USPS.
Tony Vick #276187
South Central Correctional Facility
PO Box 279
Clifton, TN 38425-0279
Through my three decades of incarceration in Tennessee, I’ve seen attitudes toward LGBTQ+ prisoners like myself change a lot. But…
Tennessee’s GOP-supermajority legislature seems to have found a bipartisan idea it can support: body-worn cameras for corrections officers in the…
For the past decade I worked at the print plant at South Central Correctional Facility, one of the few jobs…
Three decades ago when I began my prison sentence, corrections officers worked eight-hour shifts. Some did the work well and…
During my nearly 30 years of incarceration in the Tennessee prison system, there has always been a need for protective…
It used to be that if someone in the custody of the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) stabbed another prisoner,…
In three decades of incarceration I’ve seen many things that are a far cry from what the system presents to…
South Central Correctional Facility is one of six Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) prisons with a supportive living unit (SLU)…
Any moment now, an unknown number of Tennessee National Guard troops are expected to arrive in Memphis to fight so-called…
In 2022, Tennessee amended its state constitution to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime. Before this,…