Tag: prison
Learning to Be Openly Gay in Prison, to Anyone Who Asks (Except PREA)
The experience of being gay in prison has changed a lot since I was ...
In My Church There Was No Queer Community. In Prison, I Built One.
I grew up in the Pentecostal Church. Ever since age 7 when I was ...
I’ve Always Been Incarcerated With Men. I Never Felt Safe Until This Time.
In the year between paroling out of Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) custody and ...
I Know ID Verification Is Anti-Trans, But at Least Let Me File My Taxes
In the middle of the 13 years I spent incarcerated, there was a brief ...
Watching the Trump Trials in Prison, With Con Artists Cheering Him On
Our living unit at South Central Correctional Facility in Tennessee doesn’t have a communal ...
The Private Prisons Industry Is Changing What Constitutes “Food”
Prisoners in solitary confinement are often served something called Nutraloaf. Imagine taking all the ...
The Recipes I Use to De-Escalate Violence in Prison
In 2015 I was transferred to West Tennessee State Penitentiary, a prison with a ...
“Fifty Years Just Ain’t Enough”: Dying in Prison, and Still Denied Release
Donald Snook, 70, has 38 plants in his cell in Washington Corrections Center (WCC). ...
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 ...
As Prisons Shutter Classes and Mental Health Care, Drugs Fill the Gap
I first met David “Lucky” Kestner about 15 years ago, when we were both ...
