G has lived in all but a couple of Alabama’s adult male prisons throughout his single sentence, which started when he was 15 years old, for a crime he claims he did […]
(Part 1) Mid-Sentence Prison Transfers in Alabama: “You Will Find Out On The Way”
(Author’s Note: Prisoners were interviewed confidentially for this article. They are each identified by a randomly chosen letter to protect their privacy and safety.) American prisoners are incarcerated for years, often decades, […]
(Part 4) Alabama Prisoners Consider Country’s Next Steps as President Trump Hides in Bunker in June
“Z” — “If They Ain’t Dead” “It starts with the police force, the racial profiling, stereotyping, of a lot of Black males,” says “Z,” who’s been incarcerated in Ventress on nonviolent charges […]
(Part 3) Alabama Prisoners Consider Country’s Next Steps as President Trump Hides in Bunker in June
“B” — “It’s a People Thing” “Politically,” says B, President Trump “is in a bad situation. He put the whole country into a whole uproar.” B has been incarcerated in Ventress Prison […]
(Part 2) Alabama Prisoners Consider Country’s Next Steps as President Trump Hides in Bunker in June
(2) “X” — “Democrats and Republicans are Supposed to be Different” A long time Christian, X believes that despite how often American politicians espouse religious rhetoric in their political messaging, this country […]
(Part 1) Alabama Prisoners Consider Country’s Next Steps as President Trump Hides in Bunker in June
(Author’s Note: Sources in this series confidential to protect their safety and privacy, and are each identified by a randomly chosen letter.) (1) “G” — How America “forgot about” itself. An American […]
Phone problems, lack of information on COVID-19 worry inmates at Ventress prison
This article first appeared in The Alabama Political Reporter in May, 2020. Gregory Anderson, Jr. was released from Ventress Correctional Facility on March 25, carrying legal papers and the only items the […]
“Nasty as Hell”: Work and Food in Alabama Prison, February-May, 2020
A version of this article first appeared in Red Crow News in June, 2020 (Author’s Note: Inmate sources are kept confidential to protect their safety and privacy. Each prisoner is identified by […]
“A Turning Point”: Mayor Narkewicz says “only direction” is defunding City’s Police, proposes level funding for Police
By T. Wilmot and Matthew Vernon Whalan I am a Northampton resident who finds the violence by armed law enforcement, which I’ve witnessed firsthand in Northampton and has been unfolding nationally, appalling. […]
“When All Shall be No More:” Arrest leads to chain of misfortune keeping poet/artist homeless in Florida & Vermont
(This interview first appeared in The Brattleboro Commons in 2019) RONDA-JANE, 51, has lived in Brattleboro “a little over 20 years,” on and off. She is an artist and poet who has […]