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 ...
A Eulogy for Prison Wakes, Which There Are Too Many Deaths for Now
We used to hold funerals in the prison chapel. There was a sheet-covered table ...
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 ...
Escaping From Prison Is Easier Than You’d Think. We Just Know Better.
On March 9, someone made a rare escape from a Georgia Department of Corrections ...
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 ...
“We Haven’t Seen the Worst Yet”—Private Prisons Relish Trump Deportations Plan
Immigration was a dominant theme of President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress on March ...
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 ...
