Intersections + Injustice
Georgia’s Jails Are Less Violent Than Its Prisons. That Comes at Other Costs.
Six weeks after the United States Department of Justice published the findings of its ...
US Appeals Court Blocks Securus, Pay Tel Bids to Stall Prison Call Rate Caps
The landmark Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations poised to bring down costs of phone ...
Overdose Prevention in Prisons Means Giving Prisoners Access to Naloxone
In the free world, bystanders who call EMS to an active overdose receive legal ...
Given Few Options for Chronic Pain, Prisoners Are Making Safer Moonshine
Moonshine, hooch, julep, toilet wine, clear—whatever they call it, over the past 30 years ...
Georgia Probation Is an Alternative to Something, But Not Jail
[Part 1 and Part 2 of this series were published in October] Just about ...
Confronting GA’s Practice of Housing Trans Women in Men’s Prisons
[Read Part 1 of this series here] One of the first things that happens ...
San Joaquin County, CA, to Vote on Drug-Testing Public Benefit Recipients
Voters in San Joaquin County, California, are about to decide if people on public ...
Enough With the Sex Offender Registry
Law enforcement has done a good job of portraying recidivism as a kind of ...
A Death Row Pastor’s View of Executions
From 2010 to 2015 I was incarcerated at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, ...
GA Parole-Eligible Lifers Are Headed to the Private Prison Aftercare Industry
Of the 51,284 people currently incarcerated in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prisons, 7,937 ...
