Christopher Zoukis, JD | May 7, 2025 | Prison Life
While the days of gruel in a tin cup have long gone by for inmates confined in the Federal Bureau of Prisons, no one imprisoned in today’s facilities will accuse their captors of providing a five-star dining experience, either. Most federal prisoners will agree that a key component of happiness behind bars is ensuring that […]
Read MoreChristopher Zoukis, JD | May 7, 2025 | Educational Programs
Phillips State Prison has fostered various academic programs that lead to a general education diploma. Historically, this prison’s programs have included remedial literacy, special education, and basic adult education. It has recently moved beyond the high school education arena, however, to provide college-level courses. Located in Buford, Georgia, Phillips State Prison is the site of […]
Read MoreChristopher Zoukis, JD | May 7, 2025 | Prison Life
On April 22, Verizon implemented a service change in which its landline customers are no longer allowed to accept collect calls from inmates confined within the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Federal inmates were notified of this new policy through an April 17 notice posted to the Inmate Bulletin Board system on TRULINCS computers. This follows Verizon’s […]
Read MoreChristopher Zoukis, JD | May 5, 2025 | Educational Programs
American prisoners and wild mustangs roaming the Arizona desert have a lot in common. The most obvious mutual denominator inmates and these untamed beasts share is there are too many of them. There are about five prison programs in the U.S. that bring prisoners and horses together to tame each other and ultimately lower the […]
Read MoreChristopher Zoukis, JD | May 5, 2025 | Prison Life
Prison officials in several states are mulling over two sides of the same coin with respect to organ transplants for prisoners: first, the eligibility and cost of such medical procedures, and second, whether prisoners should be allowed to donate their organs. Prisoners in Need of Organ Transplants In Rhode Island, a liver transplant performed on […]
Read MoreChristopher Zoukis, JD | May 5, 2025 | Legal Rights
A California high school football star who was exonerated after serving five years in prison for kidnapping and raping a classmate has fulfilled his dream of playing for the NFL, and there are plans to make a movie about his ordeal. Meanwhile, the woman who falsely accused him has been ordered to pay $2.6 million. […]
Read MoreChristopher Zoukis, JD | May 5, 2025 | Educational Programs
The Tayba Foundation offers a correspondence program for prisoners desiring to study the Islamic sciences. On the website, Tayba Foundation lists over 20 courses complete with texts, supplementary ready materials, quizzes, essay prompts, and accompanying CD commentaries and/or DVD’s. All of it is in a semester format convenient to students. Currently, the Tayba Foundation has about 400 students and offers these print-based courses […]
Read MoreChristopher Zoukis, JD | April 2, 2025 | Advocacy and Reform
Kathryn Griffin, 53, leads an unconventional reentry program at the Harris County Jail in Houston for women who have been incarcerated for prostitution. Griffin’s mission to rehabilitate women who were living on the streets supporting their drug addictions by means of prostitution is not just a coincidence. She has lived this lifestyle herself. Griffin’s experience began […]
Read MoreChristopher Zoukis, JD | January 13, 2025 | Prison Life
The Federal Bureau of Prisons houses approximately 188,000 inmates in over 200 federal prisons, prison camps, and private contract prisons. Tens of thousands more are housed in federal custody in jails and detention centers not directly operated by the federal prison system. Federal prisoners are continually transported from one federal prison, detention center, or country jail to […]
Read MoreChristopher Zoukis, JD | January 12, 2025 | Prison Life
Prison can be a dangerous place, even in the best of circumstances. For inmates convicted of sex offenses, an ever-growing population within the Federal Bureau of Prisons, unique challenges and pitfalls exist beyond those experienced by the prison population as a whole. Introduction: Convict Stratification Prison is a society unto itself. Inside the walls, as […]
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