Tag: prisons
“Soups Will Cook There”: How Prisons Became Heat Traps by Design
Before the days of modern air-conditioning, homes and businesses in the Southeastern United States ...
How Prison Tobacco Bans Created a Drug Market No One Wanted
[Part 1 and Part 2 of this story were published earlier in July.] Back ...
“A Moral Crime”: 22 Years in Solitary, and the Prison System That Watched
At age 18, Frank De Palma entered Nevada Department of Corrections custody on a ...
How Iron Law of Prohibition Works in Prisons, Where Everything’s Prohibited
[Read Part 1 of this story here] When I got off the chain bus ...
How Prison Smoking Bans Created a Health Crisis
When I first entered Washington State Department of Corrections custody in 1995, the currency ...
Grants Pass Homelessness Case, and the Line Between Shelter and Prison
In 2013, the City Council of Grants Pass, Oregon, was looking for a solution ...
“Preventable Security Lapses”—Gun Violence Comes to Georgia Prisons
At around 4 am on June 16, Smith State Prison became the site of ...
CA Mandates Extreme Heat Workplace Safety, Except in Forced Labor Camps
On June 20, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) approved the ...
As Waupun Correctional Staff Arrested for Abuse, Lockdown Drags On
After Dean Hoffman was transferred to Waupun Correctional Institution in April 2023, his daughter ...
Prison Call Center Jobs Pay Minimum Wage, Which for Us Seems to Be $1.30
I work at prison call center. My job is to read from a script ...
