Phillip Smith

Mar 6, 2024 | opencampusmedia.org | Phillip Smith

I walked laps around the beaten red clay track on the rec yard at Nash Correctional with a Muslim friend who told me, “You’ll learn a lot in the seminary, but the professors have no problem condemning you to hell for not following Christ.” He was in his second year in the North Carolina Field Minister Program. As an atheist considering enrolling in the program, I needed to learn everything I could. “So they accept all faiths, but they don’t tolerate those faiths once they’re in school?” I asked.

Feb 1, 2024 | daily.jstor.org | Phillip Smith |Catherine Nelson |Steve Fraser |Joshua Freeman

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. In a 2019 issue of The Reflector, a prison newspaper, Catherine Nelson shared a common grievance among the incarcerated. “The only problem I have with my job is the pay hasn’t increased in over two decades,” wrote Nelson. At the time, she worked in a prison factory where she was forced to save two weeks’ pay “to buy one 18-pack of feminine hygiene pads,” a basic necessity.

Nov 23, 2023 | ncnewsline.com | Phillip Smith

I’ve been doing life in the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction (NCDAC) for almost 22 years. In 2021, the NCDAC made my life worse by contracting TextBehind to remotely scan and print our mail, supposedly to thwart synthetic drug smuggling, although it is widely accepted that prison employees are the main source of contraband. Problems with TextBehind are too many to list.

Sep 25, 2023 | watermagazine.co.uk | Phillip Smith |Michael Capel

A reliable backup power system can safeguard an organisation from the potentially devastating consequences of a power failure and WIMES Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) and Generators, are widely used in the water industry to provide backup power and resilience to mitigate such events. A UPS reacts to a power outage by providing seamless transition to battery backup power for short duration interruptions, with longer-term backup power being supplied by use of a generator.