Tag: prison
The Tightrope of Talking About Mental Health in Prison
Dan*, a 40-something prisoner in Tennessee’s South Central Correctional Facility (SCCF), wants to make ...
He Fought Rockefeller Laws That Cost Him 10 Years. Now He Sells Cannabis.
I know the horrors of the failed War on Drugs,” Terrence Stevens said heavily. ...
If I Join a Church After Prison, How Much of My Past Is Safe to Disclose?
Last Sunday, I tried to work up the courage to go to church. I ...
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 ...
Leaving Prison After 13 Years, and the Preparations I Made to Get Here
On September 13, I got up at 4 am and took a shower. I ...
How We Clean Knife Wounds in Prison, Without Going to Medical
[Read Part 1 of this story here] Fighting is a fact of life in ...
A Prison Breakup Tested My Meth Recovery. Alcohol Helped Me Keep It.
I met Paul in 2018, at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison. I was an ...
“In the Dark”—the Wait for Another Unexplained Parole Denial
The Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles consists of five people who report ...
The Lonely Work of HIV Harm Reduction in Prison
Many people living with HIV who pass through Washington Corrections Center (WCC) tell me ...
Harm Reduction for the Syringes We Make in Prison
Harm reduction supplies are hard to come by in prison. In some facilities, people ...
