prisons

GA Prisons Padlock Our Cells. Will We Die in a Fire? Let’s Ask a Lockpicker.

In October 2024, the Department of Justice published the long-awaited findings of its investigation(s) into violence inside Georgia Department of…

March 25, 2025

Gang-Run Prisons Compound Trauma. We Know How to Reduce It.

In many United States prisons, corrections officers aren't the ones calling the shots. Gang-affiliated prisoners are, and essentially have free…

March 19, 2025

Escaping From Prison Is Easier Than You’d Think. We Just Know Better.

On March 9, someone made a rare escape from a Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) probation detention center. He was…

March 18, 2025

All the New Guards Hired to Improve Security Are Making Prison Less Safe

In the wake of a Department of Justice investigation that confirmed conditions in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prisons are…

March 11, 2025

Colorimetric Drug Tests Are Making Mass Incarceration More Miserable

Colorado legislators have proposed a working group to study the use of colorimetric drug tests within the criminal-legal system, and…

March 5, 2025

Prison RSAT Has a High Success Rate of Continuing to Exist

In 2020, Bill* was awaiting trial in a northern Georgia county jail when he asked his lawyer about getting into…

March 4, 2025

Georgia Moves to Ban All Transgender Health Care in State Prisons

Georgia senators have proposed legislation that would prohibit the state prison system from providing medically necessary gender-affirming treatment to people…

February 27, 2025

Profits and Violence in the Prison Commissary Resale Market

The weekly limit of coffee I can order from the prison commissary is enough for about two days, so for…

February 24, 2025

Ask for Reasonable Housing in Prison and It May Get You Forcibly Medicated

Jack*, a loner by nature, requires a single-man cell to remain mentally stable in prison. He requires nothing else; just…

February 20, 2025

“Additional Meals” in Prison Seems to Mean “Even Less Food Than Before”

It used to be that Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prisoners worked five days a week and got a sack…

February 12, 2025