Tag: prisons
How Wound Care Works in Prison, Without Doctors or Running Water
Most wound-care guidance in the United States is premised on access to potable water. ...
Receiver Could Soon Take Over Rikers Island, After New Damning Report
The political and legal battle over the future of New York City’s Rikers Island ...
COVID Testing in Our Prison Has Been Used to Harm, Not Help
In early July, for the first time since COVID-19 protocols were lifted in April, ...
The Only Openly LGBTQ Prisoner-Led Community in Tennessee
I thought I was too old to have to worry about being raped in ...
Violence Harm Reduction: How Peer De-Escalation Works Inside Prisons
In 1992, the year I learned I had HIV, a friend got me a ...
Harm Reduction Meets People Where They’re at, Unless They’re at a Prison
Harm reductionists on the outside often say the work happens in a legal gray ...
Our Prison Is Used to Mental Illness. Taking Care of Our Own Was New.
In 20 years of incarceration across four different Washington State Department of Corrections (WDOC) ...
COVID Left Our Private Prison With a New Normal: “Rolling Lockdowns”
Like with so many prisons across the country, the pandemic sent Tennessee’s South Central ...
Prisoners Near Release Face a Choice: Not Getting Meds, or Not Going Home
[Read Part 1 of this story here] When prisoners with release dates enter the ...
Medical Privacy Is Still Our Right in Prison, Unless It Involves Psych Meds
Just before the pandemic hit, when my Washington Corrections Center (WCC) job assignment was ...
