Tag: mass incarceration
TN Private Prisons Quietly Transfer Us, This Time Without Saying Why
In 2016, the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) opened Trousdale Turner Correctional Center—the largest ...
NY County Sued for Illegally Denying Person OUD Meds in Jail
A lawsuit accuses a New York county jail of repeatedly denying a man held ...
GA Prisoners Tortured in the Showers, as DOJ Ponders Whether It’s Safe Here
On February 27, two men were held down in the shower room of a ...
The Recipes I Use to De-Escalate Violence in Prison
In 2015 I was transferred to West Tennessee State Penitentiary, a prison with a ...
As a Prison Fills With Wheelchairs and Walkers, an Eldercare Collective Forms
From our table in the prison day room at South Central Correctional Facility in ...
Georgia Senate to Study Prisons, Just in Case the Problem Isn’t Cell Phones
The Georgia Senate has contemplated the bloodbath unfolding inside its state prisons and concluded ...
St. Louis Weighs What to Do With the Shuttered “Workhouse” Jail
For years, St. Louis activists have fought to shut down the city’s notorious Medium ...
For Misdemeanor Poverty, Georgia Would Assign Mandatory Cash Bail
February 29 is Crossover Day in the Georgia General Assembly, with lawmakers clambering over ...
The Imaginary Points We Earn in Prison, to Get Imaginary Parole
Unless they’re serving life, most parole hopefuls in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) custody ...
Cash Assistance for Prison Re-Entry Still Controversial, for Some Reason
On February 7, the Colorado Senate Judiciary Committee killed legislation that was almost guaranteed ...
