In early July, for the first time since COVID-19 protocols were lifted in April, a general-population prisoner at Washington Corrections…
I thought I was too old to have to worry about being raped in prison. But as his sweat dripped…
In 1992, the year I learned I had HIV, a friend got me a dishwasher job at a restaurant in…
Harm reductionists on the outside often say the work happens in a legal gray area. That real harm reduction plays…
In 20 years of incarceration across four different Washington State Department of Corrections (WDOC) facilities, I don't remember seeing someone…
Like with so many prisons across the country, the pandemic sent Tennessee's South Central Correctional Facility (SCCF) into a state…
[Read Part 1 of this story here] When prisoners with release dates enter the final years of their sentence, Washington…
Just before the pandemic hit, when my Washington Corrections Center (WCC) job assignment was Maintenance crew, I fell off a…
Thirty years ago, Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prisoners were only allowed one 15-minute phone call per month. You made…
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp (R) has been bolstering his "tough on crime" agenda by promising that the state will prosecute…