prisons

In Final Meeting, GA Prisons Senate Committee Votes for the Status Quo

Brought into existence to tell us whether Georgia's notoriously unsafe prison system is unsafe, a state Senate study committee has…

December 16, 2024

Time for a Concerted Push to Get Vapes in All Prisons

Tobacco harm reduction in the United States, like most other harm reduction, tends to ignore the prison-industrial complex and the…

December 13, 2024

In Prison, a Sex Conviction Is a Target for Assault. Staff Pretends Otherwise.

Coming into the Tennessee men’s prison system nearly 30 years ago, I assumed that my murder conviction would make me…

December 11, 2024

Offering Narcan to Just the Prisoners Being Released Doesn’t Work

[Read Part 1 and Part 2 of this series] One of the most commonly cited statistics in overdose prevention comes…

December 9, 2024

There Are Multiple Routes to Prisoner Naloxone Access. These Are the Best.

[Read Part 1 of this series here] So far only one prison in the United States has an Overdose Education…

December 3, 2024

US Appeals Court Blocks Securus, Pay Tel Bids to Stall Prison Call Rate Caps

The landmark Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations poised to bring down costs of phone and video calls for incarcerated people will…

November 21, 2024

How Tablets Changed Georgia Prisons, More Than GDC Intended

In 2015, when I was about three years into a 14-year prison sentence, the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) started…

November 19, 2024

Learning to Live With Suicide in Prison

[This article describes deaths by suicide, including references to the methods of suicide.]              …

November 14, 2024

Overdose Prevention in Prisons Means Giving Prisoners Access to Naloxone

In the free world, bystanders who call EMS to an active overdose receive legal immunity according to state-level Good Samaritan…

November 13, 2024

Given Few Options for Chronic Pain, Prisoners Are Making Safer Moonshine

Moonshine, hooch, julep, toilet wine, clear—whatever they call it, over the past 30 years Tennessee’s prison bootleggers have improved their…

November 12, 2024