Tag: mass incarceration
Oregon Will Close Its Oldest Prison by Building Two, One for “Geriatric” Care
Aliza Kaplan spends most Wednesday nights inside Oregon State Penitentiary, the state’s only maximum-security ...
The Communities We’ve Built in Prison
The informal, prisoner-led writing club at South Central Correctional Facility in Tennessee has a ...
Lockdowns Are a Dangerous Way for Prisons to Respond to Gang Violence
One morning in July we wake to rumors of being on lockdown, which happens ...
BOP to Close Six Prisons, as Trump Pushes Agency Deeper Into Chaos
The federal Bureau of Prisons plans to permanently close six facilities, citing extreme understaffing ...
Protests as Cicero Institute Launches Homelessness Policy Summit
On June 5 right-wing think tank the Cicero Institute held its first-ever homelessness policy ...
Ignoring Georgia’s Public Defender Crisis, and the Obvious Way to Fix It
Georgia’s public defender shortage was recently of interest to the media when it affected ...
First Analysis of Free Prison Phone Calls Shows They Reduce Violence
The first comprehensive report on the impact of offering free phone calls in United ...
Lifers Fall Through the Cracks of the Prison Security Classification System
The Georgia Department of Corrections assigns every person in its custody a security classification: ...
Prison Suicide Watch Was Once a Staff Job. “Inmate Observers” Are Cheaper.
[Read Part 1 of this story here] Up until 2019, monitoring the people in ...
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 ...
