Tag: mass incarceration

    Vermont Prison Equity Bill: Free Calls, Paid Labor, Affordable Commissary

    Vermont legislators are reviewing a wide-ranging prison equity bill that, if enacted, would make ...

    Prison Visits Should Have Always Been a Right, Not a Privilege

    Adam* has been incarcerated in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) facilities for somewhere around ...

    What Jobs Are Prison Correctional Industries Training Us For, Exactly?

    At every Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prison I’ve ever landed in without a ...

    GA Prisons Padlock Our Cells. Will We Die in a Fire? Let’s Ask a Lockpicker.

    In October 2024, the Department of Justice published the long-awaited findings of its investigation(s) ...

    Gang-Run Prisons Compound Trauma. We Know How to Reduce It.

    In many United States prisons, corrections officers aren’t the ones calling the shots. Gang-affiliated ...

    All the New Guards Hired to Improve Security Are Making Prison Less Safe

    In the wake of a Department of Justice investigation that confirmed conditions in Georgia ...

    Georgia Moves to Ban All Transgender Health Care in State Prisons

    Georgia senators have proposed legislation that would prohibit the state prison system from providing ...