Tag: mass incarceration
New York’s Solution to Prison Staffing Shortage Is to Hire Teenagers
I thought we learned from the Stanford Prison Experiment that college-age corrections officers are ...
St. Louis Agrees Compensation for People Jailed at Notorious “Workhouse”
For many years, the “Workhouse” jail in St. Louis, Missouri, subjected people to horrific ...
Georgia Prisons Now Hold Over 10,000 Lifers as Parole Crisis Deepens
In the Department of Justice report summarizing its years-long investigations into the Georgia Department ...
Can Any Banks Explain How Prisoner ID Cards Aren’t Valid State-Issued ID?
If you didn’t already have a bank account before you were incarcerated, it’s almost ...
Vermont Prison Equity Bill: Free Calls, Paid Labor, Affordable Commissary
Vermont legislators are reviewing a wide-ranging prison equity bill that, if enacted, would make ...
A Eulogy for Prison Wakes, Which There Are Too Many Deaths for Now
We used to hold funerals in the prison chapel. There was a sheet-covered table ...
Prison Visits Should Have Always Been a Right, Not a Privilege
Adam* has been incarcerated in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) facilities for somewhere around ...
What Jobs Are Prison Correctional Industries Training Us For, Exactly?
At every Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prison I’ve ever landed in without a ...
GA Prisons Padlock Our Cells. Will We Die in a Fire? Let’s Ask a Lockpicker.
In October 2024, the Department of Justice published the long-awaited findings of its investigation(s) ...
Gang-Run Prisons Compound Trauma. We Know How to Reduce It.
In many United States prisons, corrections officers aren’t the ones calling the shots. Gang-affiliated ...
