Tag: prisons
Escaping From Prison Is Easier Than You’d Think. We Just Know Better.
On March 9, someone made a rare escape from a Georgia Department of Corrections ...
All the New Guards Hired to Improve Security Are Making Prison Less Safe
In the wake of a Department of Justice investigation that confirmed conditions in Georgia ...
Colorimetric Drug Tests Are Making Mass Incarceration More Miserable
Colorado legislators have proposed a working group to study the use of colorimetric drug ...
Prison RSAT Has a High Success Rate of Continuing to Exist
In 2020, Bill* was awaiting trial in a northern Georgia county jail when he ...
Georgia Moves to Ban All Transgender Health Care in State Prisons
Georgia senators have proposed legislation that would prohibit the state prison system from providing ...
Profits and Violence in the Prison Commissary Resale Market
The weekly limit of coffee I can order from the prison commissary is enough ...
Ask for Reasonable Housing in Prison and It May Get You Forcibly Medicated
Jack*, a loner by nature, requires a single-man cell to remain mentally stable in ...
“Additional Meals” in Prison Seems to Mean “Even Less Food Than Before”
It used to be that Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prisoners worked five days ...
Chaos for Trans Prisoners as Hard-Won Clothing, Hygiene Items Taken
In the wake of President Donald Trump’s January executive order that declared transgender people ...
The Prisons Crisis Lawmakers Want to Fix Is “Inmate-on-Staff Sexual Assault”
Lawmakers have unveiled a proposal they claim will improve safety and security in prisons ...
