Tag: mass incarceration
Georgia’s Jails Are Less Violent Than Its Prisons. That Comes at Other Costs.
Six weeks after the United States Department of Justice published the findings of its ...
Advocates, Lawmakers Urge Biden to Expand Cannabis Clemency Now
On November 20, advocates, formerly incarcerated people, their families and congressmembers gathered at the ...
How Tablets Changed Georgia Prisons, More Than GDC Intended
In 2015, when I was about three years into a 14-year prison sentence, the ...
Georgia Probation Is an Alternative to Something, But Not Jail
[Part 1 and Part 2 of this series were published in October] Just about ...
Enough With the Sex Offender Registry
Law enforcement has done a good job of portraying recidivism as a kind of ...
DOJ Investigation Found Horrors in Georgia Prisons. It Missed a Lot, Too.
Four years after the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division opened an investigation into ...
Some Thoughts on Dying in Prison
Over the course of my nearly 30 years in Tennessee Department of Correction custody, ...
Georgia Won’t Fix Its Prisons Crisis. There’s Money in Letting It Get Worse.
When I began my sentence in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prisons over 30 ...
CA Proposes “Treatment-Mandated Felony” Sentence for Drug Possession
In 2014, California voters passed a ballot initiative that punished most drug possession and ...
Guards Delegate Security to Prisoners as Understaffing Crisis Evolves
Corrections officers (COs) have long relied on prisoners to do various parts of their ...
