Vermont legislators are reviewing a wide-ranging prison equity bill that, if enacted, would make the Vermont Department of Corrections (VDOC)…
Georgia is on the brink of reforming its death penalty law for intellectually disabled defendants, a move being heralded as…
Under a proposed bill, Florida would no longer allow officer misconduct complaints to be filed anonymously—requiring that they be signed…
We used to hold funerals in the prison chapel. There was a sheet-covered table with a dais in front of…
Adam* has been incarcerated in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) facilities for somewhere around 40 years. His wife Ruth* has…
Drug-related law enforcement is more likely to increase violence than reduce it, indicates a report commissioned by the government of…
At a time when agencies across the federal government are seeing massive spending and workforce cuts under the Trump administration,…
Private prison contractors have been around for a long time, but the concept of handing over management of an entire…
Increasing criminal penalties for fentanyl had zero impact on overdose deaths in Colorado and accomplished nothing good. That’s the result…
At every Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prison I’ve ever landed in without a work detail already assigned to me,…