Tag: prisons
White House Budget: No Funds for Housing, Some for Reopening Alcatraz
President Donald Trump has released his proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2027, which outlines ...
Prison Suicide Watch Was Once a Staff Job. “Inmate Observers” Are Cheaper.
[Read Part 1 of this story here] Up until 2019, monitoring the people in ...
Jair Bolsonaro, Enemy of Books, Now in Brazil’s Prison Reading Program
In 2020, Brazil’s then-president Jair Bolsonaro criticized grade-school didactic books for having “too much ...
With Suicide Watch Full, Prisoners Now Kept in Makeshift Cells
A decade ago when I transferred to South Central Correctional Facility, a medium-security Tennessee ...
Georgia Lawmakers’ “Number-One Priority” is Literacy, Except in Prisons
Georgia legislators say they’re going all-in to improve literacy rates. On March 10 the ...
How Tennessee’s Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills Are Already Playing Out in Prison
Through my three decades of incarceration in Tennessee, I’ve seen attitudes toward LGBTQ+ prisoners ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
