Tag: prison
Remembering Albert Woodfox, Who Fought to Free Me From Death Row
On March 1, Maurice Hastings was officially declared innocent after spending 38 years in ...
An Act of Resistance: The True Meanings of Prison Tattoos
The true measure of how a prison treats its prisoners can be found in ...
How I Quit Cigarettes in Prison, After Smoking for 40 Years
I’m coming up on the three-year anniversary of the day I stopped smoking cigarettes. ...
A Team of Prison Braille Transcribers Works, in a System That Doesn’t
In the Georgia Braille Transcribers (GBT) shop within Central State Prison, a sign informs ...
Among Georgia Prison Leadership, a Deepening War On Transparency
After four years at the helm of the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC), Timothy ...
“There’s More Accidents”: Disabled Prisoners Struggle Amid Understaffing
John, 41, has been incarcerated in the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) system for ...
Drastic Commissary Price Hikes Leave Prisoners Without Food, Medicine
Nationwide, prisoners and their loved ones are reeling from exorbitant commissary price hikes that ...
The Christmas Traditions I’ve Created Over a Decade in Prison
Many people I’ve spent Christmas with in prison have described this time of year ...
How Drugs Grew in Our Prison Flower Beds for Over a Decade
[Read Part 1 of this story here.] Charlie was someone you’d expect to be ...
The Gardener Who Grew Our Health Care in Prison
For most of his time in Georgia Department of Corrections custody, Charlie was assigned ...
