Six weeks after the United States Department of Justice published the findings of its investigation into Georgia Department of Corrections…
On November 20, advocates, formerly incarcerated people, their families and congressmembers gathered at the United States Capitol, urging President Joe…
In 2015, when I was about three years into a 14-year prison sentence, the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) started…
[Part 1 and Part 2 of this series were published in October] Just about everyone who makes it out of…
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…