Tony Vick 
TN Private Prisons Quietly Transfer Us, This Time Without Saying Why
In 2016, the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) opened Trousdale Turner Correctional Center—the largest ...
The Private Prisons Industry Is Changing What Constitutes “Food”
Prisoners in solitary confinement are often served something called Nutraloaf. Imagine taking all the ...
The Recipes I Use to De-Escalate Violence in Prison
In 2015 I was transferred to West Tennessee State Penitentiary, a prison with a ...
As a Prison Fills With Wheelchairs and Walkers, an Eldercare Collective Forms
From our table in the prison day room at South Central Correctional Facility in ...
A Prison Drug Recovery Unit Provides Refuge, If You’re Abstinent
At South Central Correctional Facility (SCCF), a Tennessee prison privately operated by CoreCivic, those ...
As Prisons Shutter Classes and Mental Health Care, Drugs Fill the Gap
I first met David “Lucky” Kestner about 15 years ago, when we were both ...
The Tightrope of Talking About Mental Health in Prison
Dan*, a 40-something prisoner in Tennessee’s South Central Correctional Facility (SCCF), wants to make ...
The Right to Consensual Sex—and Condoms—in Prison
Greg* has been incarcerated in Tennessee for about 18 months. He’s been on a ...
Selling Meth Sent Him to Prison. It Also Saved His Life.
Louis Bell was a type of person we typically didn’t encounter in our Tennessee ...
Amid the Trauma of Prison, an Unexpected Oasis: Crochet Club
Travis learned to crochet from his grandmother. He was 10 when she showed him ...
