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…
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…