Tag: incarceration
Hopes of Shutting Rikers Grow Under Mamdani, as Deaths Continue
On March 25, 39-year-old Barry Cozart collapsed at Rikers, New York City’s notorious island ...
Oklahoma Prisoners Can Now Buy “Jail Puff” Vapes and Pouches
Oklahoma has just begun allowing prisoners to purchase safer nicotine products—vapes and pouches—at commissary. ...
ICE Unleashed as Trump’s War on Immigrants Escalates
As President Donald Trump’s war on immigrants escalates, hundreds of Venezuelans were deported to ...
New Jersey Governor Issues Pardons for Dozens of Drug-War Convictions
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy (D) has announced pardons for dozens of people with ...
How We Still Find Joy After Decades in Prison
After nearly 30 years in prison, I still find moments of joy and happiness. ...
For Decades, Tattoos Helped Me Make Sense of Death and Prison
I got my first tattoo at 15, a Grim Reaper profile with the scythe ...
WV Governor, Chief of Staff Fighting Subpoena for Jail Civil Rights Suit
West Virginia Governor Jim Justice (R) is fighting a deposition that would require him ...
Trying to Make Friends as an Adult, After an Adult Life Spent in Prison
The other day I was in Walmart when a little girl, maybe 8 or ...
Harm Reduction Meets People Where They’re at, Unless They’re at a Prison
Harm reductionists on the outside often say the work happens in a legal gray ...
Making Phone Calls From Our Prison Costs Us More Than Just the Money
Thirty years ago, Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prisoners were only allowed one 15-minute ...
