Inmates Review Prisons on Yelp via ABC News It’s not unusual to go on Yelp to find reviews of restaurants or stores, but now the online review website includes posts … Continue reading
Prison is never a place one would choose to be and definitely never a place one would consider as a vacation destination. This particular prison may change your mind. Norway … Continue reading
Time and date set for Troy Davis execution The state has set a time and date to execute Troy Anthony Davis at 7 p.m. Oct. 27, 2008 even as his advocates … Continue reading
Under the Three Strikes Law in California nearly 65% of those incarcerated are charged with non-violent crimes. I am a big believer that people who break the law need to … Continue reading
#Prisonworld View – The First Amendment – What Does it Really Mean for Inmates? Amendment I [1791] Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the … Continue reading
Virginia Union Announces Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program; First in State Virginia Union University has begun offering the first Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program in Virginia. The program began in the spring … Continue reading
Harry Belafonte Blasts Hollywood Re: Mass Incarceration As major celebrities sat in the audience enjoying the NAACP Awards ceremony, Harry Belafonte steps to the mic to accept his award with … Continue reading
Microchip Technology Being Implanted In Inmates says an Inmate This type of technology is said to be happening to inmates across the country. There have been stories on various local … Continue reading
con·trol [kuhn-trohl] Show IPA verb, -trolled, -trol·ling, noun-verb (used with object) 1.to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command. freak 1 [freek] Show noun 1.any abnormal phenomenon or … Continue reading
America’s Most Segregated Cities In three years time, it will have been exactly six decades since the Supreme Court ruled against school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education, … Continue reading
Solitary Confinement Explored by @DanbHarris of ABC News Recently ABC News aired a segment regarding solitary confinement explored by investigative reporter Dan Harris. Harris spent 48 hours in a cell … Continue reading
Prisoner Experts Label Same Sex Conjugal Visits as a “Setback” in Prison Reform The State of New York has just approved conjugal visits for same sex married couples inside of … Continue reading
METH is the “New” CRACK [VIDEO] The 1980′s and 1990′s saw a massive increase in jail and prison population due to the crack laws and get tough on crime. … Continue reading
(Plant Manager Eddy Goss and company President David Deaton inspect the new furnishings in the Tishomingo County detention facility.) #Prisonworld View – County Finds a Way to Build a Better … Continue reading
#Prisonworld View – An Inmate’s Letter to Santa Dear Santa, (or as you are known on the cell block – Santizil my Nizil) As I sit here another year in … Continue reading
Dawah International, LLC, a multimedia company, is in its fifth year of publishing Prisonworld Magazine, and its third year of producing and distributing Prisonworld Radio Hour is providing a voice … Continue reading
The mission of Community Oriented Correctional Health Services (COCHS) is to help local correctional facilities improve health care delivery to inmates by brokering partnerships between jails and local community health … Continue reading
The following two poems were written by incarcerated veterans.There are numerous prisoners, men and women, who have served on the battlefields of this country and for various reasons have fell … Continue reading
#Inmate View – One Thing I Would Change About the Prison System What Would it Be…..and Why? I would change the visiting structure and restore the true purpose and meaning … Continue reading
