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,…
About 20 years ago, a man I was incarcerated with asked me to help him learn to read. Crane* had…