[Read Part 1 of this story here] Up until 2019, monitoring the people in the suicide watch cells at South…
A decade ago when I transferred to South Central Correctional Facility, a medium-security Tennessee prison privately operated by CoreCivic, there…
For the past 16 years, Georgia was under a federal injunction: It could not build any state-run psychiatric hospitals, because…
In late February, senators in Georgia introduced a bill known as the One Strike Act. Though the name—a riff of…
“No puedo respirar!” Geraldo Lunas Campos yelled as guards pinned him down. I can’t breathe. The moments leading up to…
For the past decade I worked at the print plant at South Central Correctional Facility, one of the few jobs…
For the first time in six years, in 2025 the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles allowed more people…
Three decades ago when I began my prison sentence, corrections officers worked eight-hour shifts. Some did the work well and…
There are few soft surfaces in prison, so when one of us drops a pair of glasses or a radio…
Each year when the president did the White House turkey pardons it always seemed kinda funny, even from prison. Seeing…