Tag: prison
Georgia Privatizes Prison Medical Care—With Contractor’s Goal to Cut Costs
After years of attempting to privatize prisoner medical care, the Georgia Department of Corrections ...
Prisoners Without Cells or Beds Are Sleeping Outside in Georgia
Many effects of the understaffing crisis within the Georgia Department of Corrections have been ...
Don’t Brag About Hiring People With Criminal Records If You Ignore Those of Us With Felonies
The first thing employers are going to ask me when I get out of ...
Restoring Pell Grants to Prisoners Boosts Our Education—in Theory
In 2023, the Education Department will restore Pell Grant eligibility to incarcerated students and ...
“Liberty Is Not What I Have”: Ashley Diamond Speaks to the Trans Women Still in Prison
In 2016, Ashley Diamond won a historic lawsuit against the Georgia Department of Corrections ...
I’m 79 and in Prison. Cigarettes Have Shaped My Life.
Tobacco settles the nerves, relaxes the body, quiets the mind. A mild, pleasant high. ...
Why Many of Us Began Playing the Stock Market From Prison
On a Monday morning in June, Derek Collier smiled from atop his bunk in ...
Prison Didn’t Rehabilitate Me, But Using Meth in Prison Did
It’s ironic in retrospect that drugs were part of why I went to prison, ...
Lifers, Lab Rats and the Mandatory Minimums Experiment
In the 1950s, John’s Hopkins University Professor Curt Richter ran a series of experiments ...
We Know Visitors Aren’t the Ones Bringing Drugs Into Our Prison
The Tennessee private prison where I’ve been incarcerated since 2016 has long maintained that ...
