2025 - Georgia Prisoners’ Speak

Blended Learning in Prisons: Cost and Benefits

Blended learning in prisons enhances education through digital tools and in-person teaching, addressing barriers while promoting rehabilitation.

Vocational Training in Georgia Prisons: Impact on Recidivism

Vocational training in Georgia prisons significantly reduces recidivism by equipping inmates with essential job skills and post-release support.

How Contraband Fuels Gang Violence in Georgia Prisons

Georgia’s prison system is in crisis due to contraband and gang violence, leading to rising deaths and unsafe conditions for inmates and staff.

Resources for Georgia Prison Families: Where to Find Help

Support for families of incarcerated loved ones includes emotional, financial, and practical resources tailored to help navigate challenges.

Pathways to Success: Reading Your Way to Freedom

Discover how reading can transform your loved one’s prison sentence into a time of growth, curiosity, and hope. This guide offers compelling reasons and practical advice for prisoners and their families to read together, expanding their minds, stepping outside their comfort zones, and building unbreakable bonds through shared experiences.

Segregation in Georgia Prisons: Problem or Solution?

Georgia prison segregation aims to reduce gang violence but raises serious mental health and ethical concerns, calling for comprehensive reforms.

Impact of Incarceration on Family Mental Health

Incarceration affects not just inmates but also their families’ mental health, causing stress, anxiety, and emotional struggles for children and adults alike.

Unqualified and Unprepared: Leadership Failure in Georgia’s Prisons

Georgia’s prisons are in crisis—and the root cause is deeper than you think.

Decades of insular promotions, inadequate training, and resistance to outside expertise have created a leadership vacuum with devastating consequences: rampant violence, widespread corruption, and staggering human and financial costs. How did Georgia’s prison system become trapped in this cycle of dysfunction, and what can be done to fix it? This article uncovers the troubling reality behind the walls, explores why current leadership practices are failing, and offers concrete, actionable solutions—including the urgent need for decarceration—to build a safer, more humane correctional system.

The stakes are high, and the time for change is now.

Downsize to Rightsize: Georgia’s Prison Crisis Needs Urgent Action

Georgia’s prisons have spiraled into crisis: overcrowding, violence, and deteriorating conditions have overwhelmed correctional officers. It’s time to acknowledge that the current system is unsustainable. Decarceration isn’t just compassionate—it’s necessary for safety, management, and restoring basic human dignity.

GDC Master Commissary list

This is the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) Master Commissary List, detailing all items approved for sale in prison commissaries statewide. Individual prisons select only certain items from this comprehensive list to offer to inmates. This resource is valuable for understanding prison economics, pricing practices, markup strategies, and the challenges inmates face regarding the affordability and availability of basic goods within Georgia’s prison system.