Gordon Grilz explains the growing spice epidemic inside Arizona’s prisons, revealing how synthetic cannabis is destroying lives and overwhelming correctional facilities. According to the Arizona…
Devin Giordano explains how the prison economy operates on scarcity and survival, where even efforts to eliminate drugs may trigger dangerous unintended consequences. I watch…
Daniel Harris writes about the reality of a 24-hour lockdown in Texas prisons, highlighting how mass punishment unfairly impacts innocent prisoners for the actions of…
Jerry Metcalf explains how prison overdose deaths—like that of a young inmate who died alone on a cell floor after using K2—expose the brutal failure…
After I finish my morning coffee, I wait for the cell door locks to disconnect and for the front of my cell to open up.…
Brian Jones believes willful negligence by prison staff to hold prisoners accountable for drug use exacerbates addictive behavior instead of encouraging recovery and rehabilitation. July…
Shawn Harris found recovery in prison. Through therapy and self-reflection, he realized that to beat back temptation, he had to find himself. I found my…
Arnold Barnes recounts a harrowing prison transport experience that exposes the chaos, humiliation, and shock of arriving at a new facility where danger and disbelief…
The new “high” in prison — synthetic cannabinoids — is easier to smuggle, nearly undetectable by standard drug testing, cheaper and produces more psychotic effects…
All across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, there is a Zombie Medication Line in prison that forms immediately after it is announced over the loudspeaker. A…
Guys are dying of overdoses and suicides in a Texas prison. One inmate, Jeremy Busby, tries to help. Then his best friend commits suicide. Do…
Charles details the chilling reality of having severe psychotic episodes in prison, offering a raw take on the mental health struggles many face behind bars.…
Amid the grim realities of incarceration, a story of heroism in prison emerges, shining a light on an inmate’s brave rescue. The trustee dorms have…
I have a scar on the index finger of my left hand. It’s barely noticeable, even though it traverses the pad, wrapping around almost touching…
It’s 4:21 a.m. at Telford prison in Texas as I write this and I count eight people (that I know of) in my dorm that…
The war on drugs continues in its hypocrisy. In September, Texas locked down the entire prison system to eradicate drugs. It didn’t work. I’m not…
My cellmate and I were like best friends. We ate together, shared our family photos and were a perfect match. The both of us had…
After the 2020 pandemic temporarily shut down all visitors from seeing their loved ones in person–even behind plexiglass–the flow of contraband in prison, such as…
Sometime during the pre-dawn hours of Wednesday, 06 September 2023, I was informed by a “nurse” that Texas had enacted an institutional lockdown in Texas…
As a young man growing up in crack-era Harlem I bore witness to the havoc and mayhem that crack reigned in my community. The separation…
Starting July 17, 2023, all general mail from the public to Texas prisoners will have to be sent to a new digital mail processing center.…
I remember the first time I smoked K2 in prison — synthetic marijuana! It was in 2007, I was housed at the supermax prison in…
Born with addiction to drugs and raised in chaos, Valerie Baker’s story is a raw and powerful account of surviving addiction, mental illness, and the…
An informal, unedited phone conversation between two friends who both agreed to be recorded. One, a former Latin Kings hitman and the other, a female…
Somewhere back around 2006, a glaringly bright lightbulb burst to life inside my skull, and I realized that I needed Alcoholics Anonymous. Actually, to be…
I died that night. Twice. Later, I was told that when I arrived at the medical department I did not have a heartbeat and I…
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