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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 grocery store where I work. The…

February 5, 2025

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 approved release address is with his…

January 6, 2025

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 years on a first-time, nonviolent conviction,…

December 26, 2024

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, a state Senate study committee has…

December 16, 2024

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 upon entry into the Georgia Department…

October 31, 2024

Enough With the Sex Offender Registry

Law enforcement has done a good job of portraying recidivism as a kind of unfortunate tendency some people just can't…

October 23, 2024

GA Parole-Eligible Lifers Are Headed to the Private Prison Aftercare Industry

Of the 51,284 people currently incarcerated in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prisons, 7,937 people are serving life with parole.…

October 18, 2024

Maryland Cancels Supervision, Drug-Testing Debt for Everyone on Parole

Maryland has canceled the more than $13 million in debt that residents on parole owed for unpaid supervision or drug-testing…

October 10, 2024

Nothing Sums Up the Sex Offender Registry Quite Like Halloween

Since 2008, people on sex offender registries in Missouri have been required to post a sign at their home each…

October 9, 2024

Some Thoughts on Dying in Prison

Over the course of my nearly 30 years in Tennessee Department of Correction custody, I've seen many friends die painlessly.…

October 2, 2024