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Not Everyone Chooses the “Sober Dating” Life. Some of Us Are on Parole.
Many people who are in recovery have noted that the culture of modern dating ...
Do These Sex Offender Employment Restrictions Make Sense to Anyone?
In the month since I was released from Georgia Department of Corrections custody, I’ve ...
Trying to Make Friends as an Adult, After an Adult Life Spent in Prison
The other day I was in Walmart when a little girl, maybe 8 or ...
Trans Health Care, Medicaid and the Shortfalls of Prison Re-Entry Services
For about three weeks, I’d been communicating smoothly with the clinic where I’m scheduled ...
As a Trans Woman, Sex Offender Laws Make Re-Entry a Test I’m Meant to Fail
[Read Part 1 of this story here.] For the first 30 minutes of the ...
“In the Dark”—the Wait for Another Unexplained Parole Denial
The Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles consists of five people who report ...
How Drug Courts Keep You in Prison, Even Without Drug-Related Charges
In 2016, Larry Vessey Jr. was sentenced to 58 months in the custody of ...
Prison “K2”: The Hidden Center of a Chaotic New Drug War
Back when I was running with biker gangs, we used to play a game ...
Harm Reduction for Electronic Monitoring, Until We Can Abolish It
A new American Civil Liberties Union report on electronic monitoring (EM) lays out a ...
