Tag: mass incarceration

    With Suicide Watch Full, Prisoners Now Kept in Makeshift Cells

    A decade ago when I transferred to South Central Correctional Facility, a medium-security Tennessee ...

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    Tony Vick

    Georgia Moves Backwards With New Forensic Mental Health Hospital

    For the past 16 years, Georgia was under a federal injunction: It could not ...

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    Jimmy Iakovos

    Georgia “One Strike Act”: Even More Life Sentences, Even Less Parole

    In late February, senators in Georgia introduced a bill known as the One Strike ...

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    Jimmy Iakovos

    Already Killing People, ICE to Scale Up With Warehouse Detention

    “No puedo respirar!” Geraldo Lunas Campos yelled as guards pinned him down. I can’t ...

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    Tana Ganeva

    The False Promises of TRICOR, Tennessee’s Prison Jobs Initiative

    For the past decade I worked at the print plant at South Central Correctional ...

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    Tony Vick

    The Last Days of Parole

    For the first time in six years, in 2025 the Georgia State Board of ...

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    Jimmy Iakovos

    “Your Life Is Over”: Prison Guards on 16-Hour Shifts With No Backup

    Three decades ago when I began my prison sentence, corrections officers worked eight-hour shifts. ...

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    Tony Vick

    Fixing Electronics in Prison

    There are few soft surfaces in prison, so when one of us drops a ...

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    Jimmy Iakovos

    The Georgia Parole Board Pardoned a Turkey

    Each year when the president did the White House turkey pardons it always seemed ...

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    Jimmy Iakovos

    Piece by Piece, FCC Dismantles Its Prison and Jail Phone Call Price Caps

    The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released the finalized version of its order regulating ...

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    Kastalia Medrano