Tag: mass incarceration
Out Early From a 15-Year Carfentanil Sentence, Her Next Fight Begins
Wendy Kraus-Heitmann has had a hard life, but one that someone could write a ...
Prison Didn’t Rehabilitate Me, But Using Meth in Prison Did
It’s ironic in retrospect that drugs were part of why I went to prison, ...
Lifers, Lab Rats and the Mandatory Minimums Experiment
In the 1950s, John’s Hopkins University Professor Curt Richter ran a series of experiments ...
Why Allowing Only Prison-Issue Cell Phones Hurts Our Reentry Prospects
The Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) is no longer allowing prisoners on work release ...
Judge Orders County to Offer OUD Meds to All Jailed Patients, in US First
A New York district judge has ordered upstate Jefferson County to offer medication for ...
Traumatized Veterans Who Use Drugs Left to Suffer in Prison
About seven years ago, the Tennessee private prison where I’ve been incarcerated for the ...
Is the “Progressive Prosecutor” Movement on Its Last Legs?
Once upon a time, Milwaukee elected Frank Zeidler, the last socialist mayor of a ...
Tobacco Bans in Our Prisons Are Rich Pickings for Me—and the COs
The first time the Georgia Department of Corrections tried to go tobacco-free was 1994. ...
“No Evidence” Higher Incarceration Rates Reduce Fears of Crime
A population that perceives itself at the top of the pile soon becomes fearful, ...
Biden’s Clemency Announcement Falls Far Short
On April 26, President Joe Biden announced that he was using his clemency powers ...
