Tag: prisons
“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 ...
In Brazil, New Era of Private Prisons as Feds Auction Contracts to Build Them
On October 6 in Rio Grande do Sul, the government of Brazil held the ...
Texas’s “Drug-Busting” Prisons Lockdown Will Only Harm Us
From September 6 to October 16, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) implemented ...
Do These Sex Offender Employment Restrictions Make Sense to Anyone?
In the month since I was released from Georgia Department of Corrections custody, I’ve ...
