Tobacco settles the nerves, relaxes the body, quiets the mind. A mild, pleasant high. I'm not making any scientific or…
On a Monday morning in June, Derek Collier smiled from atop his bunk in Washington state's Monroe Correctional Complex. His…
It’s ironic in retrospect that drugs were part of why I went to prison, because drugs were also why, while…
In the 1950s, John's Hopkins University Professor Curt Richter ran a series of experiments on rats that involved placing them…
The Tennessee private prison where I’ve been incarcerated since 2016 has long maintained that the supply of contraband drugs here…
Since 2018, I have been incarcerated in a maximum security unit of Michigan’s Baraga Correctional Facility. It's an isolated location…
On December 14, Harm Reduction International (HRI) and Penal Reform International (PRI)—two non-governmental organizations based in the United Kingdom that…
Every year on the last Friday afternoon in January, bagpipes can be heard from the parking lot of Monroe Correctional…