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…
On the evening of July 24, South Central Correctional Facility, a medium-security private prison in Tennessee, gave notice that 128…
Before the days of modern air-conditioning, homes and businesses in the Southeastern United States were built with 10- to 14-foot…
A top federal drug official is calling for the government to move “away from criminalization” under the drug war, saying…
On July 2, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) more than doubled the number of states authorized to provide…
At around 4 am on June 16, Smith State Prison became the site of the only fatal shooting in recent…
On June 20, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) approved the state’s first regulation protecting indoor workers…