Tag: mass incarceration
Wellpath, Fleeing GA Prisons Contract, Fails One Last Bid at Extortion
On July 1, three years into its nine-year contract, private health care provider Wellpath ...
How Prison Guard Became the Job Everyone Leaves
Lonnie, in his late 40s, was a high school teacher for 20 years before ...
WA Prisons to Ban Greeting Cards and Postcards, Presuming Synthetic Drugs
The Washington State Department of Corrections (WDOC) will ban people in its custody from ...
The Lifers Trapped in Georgia’s Parole Crisis Are Watching Senate Bill 586
About a decade ago, people serving life with parole in Georgia Department of Corrections ...
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 ...
