Tag: prisons

    Tennessee Prison Guards Want to Wear Body Cams. Prisoners Want That, Too.

    Tennessee’s GOP-supermajority legislature seems to have found a bipartisan idea it can support: body-worn ...

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    Tony Vick

    Georgia “One Strike Act”: Even More Life Sentences, Even Less Parole

    In late February, senators in Georgia introduced a bill known as the One Strike ...

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    Jimmy Iakovos

    When Prisons Ban Visitors With Felony Records, Everybody Loses

    On August 29, 2020—a date I had been counting down to for 10 years—I ...

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    Jeff Noland

    Audit: Widespread Failures in Federal Prisons’ Use of Halfway House System

    The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is not only continuing to incarcerate people past ...

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    Kastalia Medrano

    “An Attempt to Shift This Dynamic”—House Revives Prison Libraries Act

    On January 27 lawmakers reintroduced the Prison Libraries Act, the first federal bill to ...

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    Kastalia Medrano

    The Last Days of Parole

    For the first time in six years, in 2025 the Georgia State Board of ...

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    Jimmy Iakovos

    “Your Life Is Over”: Prison Guards on 16-Hour Shifts With No Backup

    Three decades ago when I began my prison sentence, corrections officers worked eight-hour shifts. ...

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    Tony Vick

    Fixing Electronics in Prison

    There are few soft surfaces in prison, so when one of us drops a ...

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    Jimmy Iakovos

    DOJ Opens Wildcard Investigation Into Colorado Prisons, Youth Centers

    The Department of Justice Civil Rights Division has announced a special investigation into conditions ...

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    Kastalia Medrano

    As Gang Power Expands, Protective Custody in Prisons Is Changing

    During my nearly 30 years of incarceration in the Tennessee prison system, there has ...

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    Tony Vick