Tag: parole
The Georgia Parole Board Pardoned a Turkey
Each year when the president did the White House turkey pardons it always seemed ...
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 ...
Georgia’s Death Penalty Reform Bill Has an Odd View on Life Sentences
Georgia is on the brink of reforming its death penalty law for intellectually disabled ...
Georgia Suggests Making Sex Offender Registry Removal More Confusing
Georgia is weighing legislation that would make it more difficult for people on the ...
No One Prepares You for the Sex Offender Registry Phone Scams
In April 2024 I picked up a call from an unknown number at the ...
Parole Violations Didn’t Always Mean Prison. They Sent Us Somewhere Else.
Ben* is about to parole out of Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) custody. His ...
TN Prisons Don’t Expedite Early Release. What If It’s an Emergency?
Douglas Richmond’s case for early release from prison is relatively straightforward. He’s served six ...
In Final Meeting, GA Prisons Senate Committee Votes for the Status Quo
Brought into existence to tell us whether Georgia’s notoriously unsafe prison system is unsafe, ...
Confronting GA’s Practice of Housing Trans Women in Men’s Prisons
[Read Part 1 of this series here] One of the first things that happens ...
Enough With the Sex Offender Registry
Law enforcement has done a good job of portraying recidivism as a kind of ...
