Tag: prisons
Call It “Overcrowding,” Not “Understaffing,” and Fix It With Parole
In 1996, the Prison Litigation Reform Act was enacted in response to the rising ...
Smoking in Prisons Has Changed. Why Are We Denied Lung Cancer Screens?
A talking point often circulated in harm reduction is that the moment someone is ...
NYC Activists Rally as Rikers Receivership Decision Delayed
On December 14, a federal judge held the New York City Department of Correction ...
“Split Sentences” and the Right to Housing
The room I rent in a Georgia boarding house for people on the sex ...
WA Prisons Still Using Drug Test Kits at Center of False-Positives Lawsuit
Sabastian Johnson had been unsuccessfully trying to get copies of a legal document related ...
On Thanksgiving I’m Grateful to Have Internet, Until Our Prison Catches Us
I am thankful that on my 33rd Thanksgiving in prison, I’ll be allowed an ...
The Nightmare of Prison Suicide Watch, Where Watching Is All We Do
Imagine looking through a window into a room at someone who’s been forcibly taken ...
For Decades, Tattoos Helped Me Make Sense of Death and Prison
I got my first tattoo at 15, a Grim Reaper profile with the scythe ...
The Right to Consensual Sex—and Condoms—in Prison
Greg* has been incarcerated in Tennessee for about 18 months. He’s been on a ...
Tennessee’s HIV Sex Offender Law Discourages Testing, Not Transmission
In the mid-’90s at Washington State Penitentiary, a corrections officer (CO) and I had ...
