Georgia legislators say they're going all-in to improve literacy rates. On March 10 the House approved a budget proposal of…
Through my three decades of incarceration in Tennessee, I’ve seen attitudes toward LGBTQ+ prisoners like myself change a lot. But…
Tennessee’s GOP-supermajority legislature seems to have found a bipartisan idea it can support: body-worn cameras for corrections officers in the…
In late February, senators in Georgia introduced a bill known as the One Strike Act. Though the name—a riff of…
On August 29, 2020—a date I had been counting down to for 10 years—I walked out of South Central Correctional…
The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is not only continuing to incarcerate people past the point when they should have…
On January 27 lawmakers reintroduced the Prison Libraries Act, the first federal bill to establish and expand library services within…
For the first time in six years, in 2025 the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles allowed more people…
Three decades ago when I began my prison sentence, corrections officers worked eight-hour shifts. Some did the work well and…
There are few soft surfaces in prison, so when one of us drops a pair of glasses or a radio…