On June 5 right-wing think tank the Cicero Institute held its first-ever homelessness policy summit, a Washington, DC, event promoting…
Georgia’s public defender shortage was recently of interest to the media when it affected the prosecution of Robert Aaron Long,…
The first comprehensive report on the impact of offering free phone calls in United States prisons and jails shows that…
The Georgia Department of Corrections assigns every person in its custody a security classification: Minimum, Medium or Close. This classification…
[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…