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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 ...
In Maximum Security Prison, the System Works to Deny Us Transfers
Since 2018, I have been incarcerated in a maximum security unit of Michigan’s Baraga ...
Global COVID Vaccination Rates for People in Prison Remain Far Too Low
On December 14, Harm Reduction International (HRI) and Penal Reform International (PRI)—two non-governmental organizations ...
Our Prison Is Closing, With a Bitter Legacy of Contrasting Deaths
Every year on the last Friday afternoon in January, bagpipes can be heard from ...
