They Told the People in Charge. Then They Left.
Former Georgia prison officers, sergeants and supervisors say the same thing on the record: they...
A three-minute film from Georgia Prisoners' Speak
From the State's Own ReportsWhat Georgia Is Paying For
A man inside a Georgia prison wrote that you think you're paying for justice. You aren't, he wrote. We checked what he said against the state's own records.
Is anyone safer? This film takes three minutes to answer that. Every number in it comes from a public record.
People serving life who were released in 2025 had been inside 31 years on average. In 1992, it was twelve and a half. Georgia now holds more than 50,000 people in prisons built for less than half that many. The state spends about $1.75 billion a year to do it. Since 2020, 1,928 of them have died there.
Scenes are illustrations, not footage of real people.
Georgia reported more homicides in custody than California, Florida and Texas combined.
310 homicides for FY2020 to FY2024. The three states together reported 294.
Source: BJA DCRA data. State-reported counts under the Death in Custody Reporting Act; the federal program says states undercount.
Georgia's prisons are killing people.
1,928+
Deaths Since 2020
224
Deaths in 2026 So Far 34 homicides
51,644
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Georgia spends $1.8 billion on prisons and $52 per person on rehabilitation. The DOJ has declared the system unconstitutional. Our two-track plan uses litigation to reduce overcrowding and evidence-based programs to build real rehabilitation — making Georgia safer.
216%Overcrowding
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Three model bills targeting the 2027 Georgia legislature: restore habeas corpus rights, fix ineffective counsel rules, and create Conviction Integrity Units. The legislature doesn't need new laws — it needs to enforce two dormant statutes it already passed. Freeing people who shouldn't be in prison — because the system that put them there is broken.
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