Tag: private prisons
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 ...
Not All Prisoners Get Fed Daily. Here, It Depends on How Fast You Can Run.
In three decades of incarceration I’ve seen many things that are a far cry ...
ICE Resumes Immigrant Detention at Private Jail Known for Medical Abuse
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is again holding detainees at the southern Georgia jail it ...
A Prison Mental Health Unit Is Left in Gen Pop, and the Grievance Is Ignored
South Central Correctional Facility is one of six Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) prisons ...
“A Shared Dread”: Immigrant Prisoners Near Release, Knowing ICE Is Waiting
Fourteen years ago, Mateo* was in a Tennessee county jail waiting to be processed ...
“Alligator Alcatraz” ICE Detention Opens, Floods, and Begins Filling Beds
On July 1, President Donald Trump visited the Florida immigrant detention compound dubbed “Alligator ...
At CoreCivic Prisons, Re-Entry Staff Are Told to Do Less
South Central Correctional Facility recently hosted a job fair, and didn’t invite anyone to ...
CoreCivic Crisis in Uncharted Waters at the Four Private Prisons in Tennessee
Private prison contractors have been around for a long time, but the concept of ...
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 ...
Everyone in Prison Needs a Hustle. For a Small Fee, I’ll Help You Find Yours.
When you enter the men’s prison system in Tennessee, you receive two blue, smock-like ...
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