Tag: prisons
“A Shared Dread”: Immigrant Prisoners Near Release, Knowing ICE Is Waiting
Fourteen years ago, Mateo* was in a Tennessee county jail waiting to be processed ...
For Wrongful Convictions, Tennessee Slowly Builds a Pathway Out of Prison
In November 2007, 24-year-old Adam Braseel was convicted of multiple charges including first-degree murder, ...
FCC Begins Quietly Backing Off From Phone Call Price Caps in Prisons, Jails
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has temporarily waived the deadline for correctional telecommunications providers ...
Feds Share Prison Contraband Data They May Not Have Thought Through
The United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) has released a report on sentencing for contraband ...
Prisons Need Their Own Post Offices, Not That We’ll Ever Get Them
Back before the COVID-19 pandemic when the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) still had ...
SAMHSA’s Guide for MOUD in State Prisons Kinda Forgot About Something
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has released new guidance for ...
Nebraska’s Fix for Double-Bunking in Solitary Confinement May Need Work
In Nebraska, where state prisons are often at 140-percent capacity, the legislature is considering ...
It Shouldn’t Be Quite This Hard to Get Into Our Prison’s Library
Recently one of our prison’s library clerks, Polo*, remarked in passing that the Georgia ...
To Bring Tobacco Harm Reduction to Prisons, We Need Outside Allies
Harm reduction efforts outside prison often involve lawyers and other experts identifying policy that ...
Prisons Want to Hire More Officers. It’s Easier Than Retaining Them.
One of the most important things to understand about the rampant understaffing in United ...
