“Your LDL’s are high. Too high for being in here,” the nurse observed. “It might not be a great diet, but it’s not high fat. Are you eating a lot of chips and papas?” Papa is the Spanish word for tuber but, in prison, it’s a paté of crushed potato chips, hot water, squeeze cheese ..read more

My February 12, 2021 column. Posted here for sharing purposes. Private prisons are the preferred piñata. Less than 9% of incarcerated people live under management by a private company, but they’ve become a boogeyman of reform activists and the scapegoat for everything wrong with modern corrections.  With every hit, journalists and an array of detractors ..read more

Prison Diaries added a new section today, a survey and storytelling outlet where people can report what’s going on inside correctional facilities with respect to the novel coronavirus. Click here to jump right over and tell us what’s going on. It’s also available under the “Take Action” tab. We will use the stories and the ..read more