In 2015 I was transferred to West Tennessee State Penitentiary, a prison with a reputation for violence. My new cellie…
From our table in the prison day room at South Central Correctional Facility in Tennessee, my friends and I can…
At South Central Correctional Facility (SCCF), a Tennessee prison privately operated by CoreCivic, those of us in general population are…
I first met David "Lucky" Kestner about 15 years ago, when we were both incarcerated at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution…
Dan*, a 40-something prisoner in Tennessee’s South Central Correctional Facility (SCCF), wants to make it clear that he doesn't intend…
Greg* has been incarcerated in Tennessee for about 18 months. He’s been on a waiting list for job placement for…
Louis Bell was a type of person we typically didn’t encounter in our Tennessee prison. A middle-aged white man with…
Travis learned to crochet from his grandmother. He was 10 when she showed him his first stitch, in 1986, and…
In the United States, anyone convicted of a sex offense is punished with two criminal sentences. The first is the…
I thought I was too old to have to worry about being raped in prison. But as his sweat dripped…