Tag: mass incarceration
“The Great Meltdown”: In Prisons, a Drug War Without Harm Reduction
Those of us incarcerated by the Georgia Department of Corrections got used to the ...
Harm Reduction for Electronic Monitoring, Until We Can Abolish It
A new American Civil Liberties Union report on electronic monitoring (EM) lays out a ...
Don’t Brag About Hiring People With Criminal Records If You Ignore Those of Us With Felonies
The first thing employers are going to ask me when I get out of ...
Will Tennessee’s Initiative to Formally Outlaw Slavery Help Prisoners?
A ballot initiative in Tennessee would formally outlaw slavery in the state constitution. It ...
Restoring Pell Grants to Prisoners Boosts Our Education—in Theory
In 2023, the Education Department will restore Pell Grant eligibility to incarcerated students and ...
Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner the Latest Target of Anti-Reform Backlash
On September 13, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed a resolution holding Philadelphia’s district ...
American Bar Association Calls for the Abolition of Life-Without-Parole
The life-without-parole sentence is barbaric. Decarceration activists call it “death by incarceration.” Pope Francis ...
Why Many of Us Began Playing the Stock Market From Prison
On a Monday morning in June, Derek Collier smiled from atop his bunk in ...
Biden’s “Safer America Plan” Involves Hiring 100,000 More Cops
On July 21, the Biden administration released its “Safer America Plan,” part of its ...
How Prison and Parole Can Pull You Into a Debt Trap
In her late 20s, Laura* sold an eighth of Vitablend to a person who ...
