Tony Vick 
AI Chatbots Bring Unexpected Business Boom to Jailhouse Lawyers
Most people in prison can’t afford a lawyer, so if they want to get ...
ICE Picked Him Up From Prison. Then Agents “Hounded” His Family.
[Read Part 1 of this story here] In late 2025 Mateo* completed his ...
“Fresh Meat”—How Prison Punishes Child Sexual Abuse
[This article contains descriptions of physical and sexual assault.] The scarlet letter in ...
Media Fights for Access to Executions, But Not the Rest of the Prison System
In April, the Tennessee Supreme Court temporarily blocked a ruling that would allow journalists ...
Prison Can’t Be the New Nursing Home If It Isn’t Wheelchair-Accessible
Ralph*, one of the men incarcerated with me at South Central Correctional Facility in ...
Prison Suicide Watch Was Once a Staff Job. “Inmate Observers” Are Cheaper.
[Read Part 1 of this story here] Up until 2019, monitoring the people in ...
With Suicide Watch Full, Prisoners Now Kept in Makeshift Cells
A decade ago when I transferred to South Central Correctional Facility, a medium-security Tennessee ...
How Tennessee’s Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills Are Already Playing Out in Prison
Through my three decades of incarceration in Tennessee, I’ve seen attitudes toward LGBTQ+ prisoners ...
Tennessee Prison Guards Want to Wear Body Cams. Prisoners Want That, Too.
Tennessee’s GOP-supermajority legislature seems to have found a bipartisan idea it can support: body-worn ...
The False Promises of TRICOR, Tennessee’s Prison Jobs Initiative
For the past decade I worked at the print plant at South Central Correctional ...
