Tag: contraband
FCC Moves Forward With Prison Cell Phone Signal-Jamming
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is moving right along in its bid to cut ...
Prison Contraband Drone Drops Are Becoming a Problem for Local Jails
Drones are such a popular method of bringing contraband into Georgia’s prisons that they’re ...
Inevitably, FCC Moves to Let Prisons Use Illegal Cell Phone Signal Jammers
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is about to formally consider allowing corrections departments to ...
With a Contraband Market in Flux, More Prisoners Turn Toward Gambling
[Read Part 1 of this story here] In May, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp ...
The Return of the Prison Poker Game
The tobacco bans that Georgia Department of Corrections implemented in 2010 changed the way ...
Feds Share Prison Contraband Data They May Not Have Thought Through
The United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) has released a report on sentencing for contraband ...
How Tablets Changed Georgia Prisons, More Than GDC Intended
In 2015, when I was about three years into a 14-year prison sentence, the ...
One Drug Dominates Our Prison’s Supply. We Don’t Know What It Is.
During the pandemic, the Michigan Department of Corrections suspended all Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, “substance ...
