Tag: prisons
Maryland Cancels Supervision, Drug-Testing Debt for Everyone on Parole
Maryland has canceled the more than $13 million in debt that residents on parole ...
Banning Prison Visitors From Vaping Is Unjustified and Harmful
Washington State is one of only four in the nation to allow what are ...
DOJ Investigation Found Horrors in Georgia Prisons. It Missed a Lot, Too.
Four years after the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division opened an investigation into ...
Some Thoughts on Dying in Prison
Over the course of my nearly 30 years in Tennessee Department of Correction custody, ...
Prisoners Need Civilian Review Boards, Too
Toward the end of my sentence in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) custody I ...
Georgia Won’t Fix Its Prisons Crisis. There’s Money in Letting It Get Worse.
When I began my sentence in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prisons over 30 ...
Guards Delegate Security to Prisoners as Understaffing Crisis Evolves
Corrections officers (COs) have long relied on prisoners to do various parts of their ...
The Prison Mail Bans Aren’t About Fentanyl. They’re About Understaffing.
On September 19, Senator Robert Casey (D-PA) introduced legislation that would require the Federal ...
Trans Health Care Requires You to Be “Sick.” In Prison, You Can Work That.
On September 17, a federal judge halted the Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) ban ...
Why Tobacco Harm Reduction? A First Question of Many
When I first heard the words “tobacco harm reduction,” as recently as 2022, I ...
