Aliza Kaplan spends most Wednesday nights inside Oregon State Penitentiary, the state’s only maximum-security institution. Kaplan, a law professor and…
The informal, prisoner-led writing club at South Central Correctional Facility in Tennessee has a dozen or so members. Earlier in…
One morning in July we wake to rumors of being on lockdown, which happens at least once a month these…
The federal Bureau of Prisons plans to permanently close six facilities, citing extreme understaffing and “decades of deferred maintenance." The…
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…