If Prisons Are Meant for Rehabilitation, Stop Transferring Us All the Time

If Prisons Are Meant for Rehabilitation, Stop Transferring Us All the Time

Decades ago when he first entered Georgia Department of Corrections custody, D* used to look forward to transfers. Prisoners with long sentences often spend the early years in some of the state’s more notorious higher-security institutions before eventually being reclassified as medium-custody. “I was always glad to leave the hell I was in,” he told Filter, “hopeful that there was a better place ahead.” If one is young and physically fit, transf…