Tony Vick

    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

    Amid the Trauma of Prison, an Unexpected Oasis: Crochet Club

    Travis learned to crochet from his grandmother. He was 10 when she showed him ...

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    Sex Offender Registry Reform Is a Harm Reduction Issue

    In the United States, anyone convicted of a sex offense is punished with two ...

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    The Only Openly LGBTQ Prisoner-Led Community in Tennessee

    I thought I was too old to have to worry about being raped in ...

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    COVID Left Our Private Prison With a New Normal: “Rolling Lockdowns”

    Like with so many prisons across the country, the pandemic sent Tennessee’s South Central ...

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    Traumatized Veterans Who Use Drugs Left to Suffer in Prison

    About seven years ago, the Tennessee private prison where I’ve been incarcerated for the ...

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    We Know Visitors Aren’t the Ones Bringing Drugs Into Our Prison

    The Tennessee private prison where I’ve been incarcerated since 2016 has long maintained that ...

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