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CoreCivic Responds to Hard Crackers
Well, well, well, imagine our surprise when we received an email message from Ryan Gustin, the Public Affairs Manager of CoreCivic, the outfit that operates the Trousdale Turner Correctional Center in Tennessee, in response to an ...
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Doing Time in Trousdale is a Death Sentence! Tennesseans Speak Out
Trousdale Turner Correctional Facility is leading the nation in the number of positive COVID-19 cases, an estimated total of 1,393. Trousdale is a private prison for men in Hartsville, Tennessee, about an hour drive from Nashville. ...
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“Enough is Enough!” A Letter from Ramsey Orta
“These DOCCS employees working under the color of law with a badge of authority from the State of New York, knowingly and maliciously engage in criminal activity with state sanctioned impunity from acting Commissioner of DOCCS, ...
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“They Wouldn’t Be Able to Deal With an Outbreak”: A View From Inside an Arizona Women’s Prison
Earlier this month, Andrea Portillo, an inmate at Perryville State Prison in Arizona, shared her experience with postpartum psychosis with Hard Crackers. She tells us what itโs like inside her facility during the pandemic. What is ...
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Stick-up on Rikers Island
It started with the phones. A few minutes before 9:30 on Saturday morning, mid-conversation with wives, children, friends, and lawyers, the lines all went dead. This was March 22nd. Visits had been suspended a week prior, ...
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“When Your Home Turns into a Prison”: Former Prisoner Reflects on Life Under Coronavirus Lockdown
Ronald Owens, aka โCornbread,โ lives in Lynn, Massachusetts. He spent 13 years in a Massachusetts maximum security prison, where he and Noel Ignatiev met in 1996 as pen pals. They remained close friends ever since. What ...
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Angola Prisoners Say: โThis is a war โ and weโre in itโ
CJ LeBlanc is a journalist who writes primarily about issues related to criminal justice in the Deep South and seeks opportunities to amplify marginalized voices. In this short piece, CJ LeBlanc shares with us the communiques ...
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My Experience
Out of fear I took the advice of my lawyer and signed a plea of second-degree murder. Websterโs Dictionary describes murder as โthe unlawful and malicious or premeditated killing of a person.โ That is not me. ...
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The Crucifixion of Rikers Ysland
In February of 1965 Salvador Dalรญ was invited to visit a Rikers Island prisoner art program by longtime correction commissioner Anna M. Kross. The wily reform commissioner appealed to the artistโs thirst for publicity by promising ...
This Place is Poisoning Our Loved Ones
Below is a post from the โLook Out For One Anotherโ FB group in Huntsville, Alabama. Most of the responses gave specific information about who to contact, but a few made larger points such as the ...
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