Law enforcement has done a good job of portraying recidivism as a kind of unfortunate tendency some people just can't…
Four years after the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division opened an investigation into the whether the Georgia Department of…
Over the course of my nearly 30 years in Tennessee Department of Correction custody, I've seen many friends die painlessly.…
When I began my sentence in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prisons over 30 years ago, bunk beds shoved into…
In 2014, California voters passed a ballot initiative that punished most drug possession and shoplifting as misdemeanors rather than felonies.…
Corrections officers (COs) have long relied on prisoners to do various parts of their jobs. But since the onset of…
When you enter the men's prison system in Tennessee, you receive two blue, smock-like shirts and two matching pairs of…
As a transgender woman incarcerated in a men’s prison system, each day was a fight to maintain my sense of…
For nearly three decades, I've been hearing people scream for help. Screams of people being raped, robbed, stabbed. Screams of…
The library at South Central Correctional Facility, a Tennessee prison privately operated by CoreCivic, consists of a single wall of…