Tag: prisons
Given Few Options for Chronic Pain, Prisoners Are Making Safer Moonshine
Moonshine, hooch, julep, toilet wine, clear—whatever they call it, over the past 30 years ...
“Ethical Porn” Probably Doesn’t Mean the Porn We’re Producing in Prison
P, serving life in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) custody, looks at the men ...
How Prisoners Practice Tobacco Harm Reduction, With No Vapes
Harm reduction can always be practiced, regardless of whether you have government approval and ...
Confronting GA’s Practice of Housing Trans Women in Men’s Prisons
[Read Part 1 of this series here] One of the first things that happens ...
Photographing the Community on Tennessee’s Death Row
From 2010 to 2015 I was incarcerated in Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, the Tennessee ...
A Death Row Pastor’s View of Executions
From 2010 to 2015 I was incarcerated at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, ...
GA Parole-Eligible Lifers Are Headed to the Private Prison Aftercare Industry
Of the 51,284 people currently incarcerated in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prisons, 7,937 ...
Maryland Cancels Supervision, Drug-Testing Debt for Everyone on Parole
Maryland has canceled the more than $13 million in debt that residents on parole ...
Banning Prison Visitors From Vaping Is Unjustified and Harmful
Washington State is one of only four in the nation to allow what are ...
DOJ Investigation Found Horrors in Georgia Prisons. It Missed a Lot, Too.
Four years after the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division opened an investigation into ...
