2025 - Georgia Prisoners’ Speak

The Cost of Communication: Families Paying the Price

Families of incarcerated individuals face high communication costs, causing financial strain and emotional distress, particularly among Black and Latina women.

The Cost of Silence: Why Transparency is Georgia Prisons’ Biggest Problem

Georgia prisons face a transparency crisis affecting inmate safety and public trust, with urgent reforms needed to address systemic issues.

Profit Over People: The Privatization of Georgia’s Prison Healthcare

Privatizing prison healthcare in Georgia has resulted in preventable deaths, rising costs, and inadequate care, highlighting urgent reform needs.

Inside Georgia’s Gangs: How Prisons Became Crime Hubs

Georgia’s prisons face a crisis of violence and gang control due to severe understaffing, leading to unprecedented inmate deaths and corruption.

Death by Neglect: How Georgia Prisons Fail to Provide Medical Care

Georgia prisons are plagued by a healthcare crisis, resulting in preventable deaths and systemic neglect of inmate medical care.

Life on the Line: How Families Bear the Burden of Georgia’s Prison Crisis

Georgia’s prison crisis deeply affects families, causing financial strain and emotional trauma for children separated from incarcerated parents.

Buried Truth: The Story of Roy Mason Morris

When Teresa Lester Sisson learned that her brother, Roy Mason Morris, had died, it wasn’t just the loss that devastated her—it was the revelation that he had been dead for 14 months, and no one had told her. His death, shrouded in mystery, exposes the systemic neglect, corruption, and dehumanization within Georgia’s prison system. As Teresa fights for answers, Roy’s story becomes a call to action: a demand for accountability, transparency, and justice for those who have been forgotten.