Georgia spends $1.60 a day to feed 53,000 incarcerated adults — about 13,000 of them over fifty, some on these trays for decades. The bodies arrive at the morgue marked cardiac arrest, organ failure, natural causes. The medical literature, going back eighty years, calls it starvation.
On May 13, a Georgia grand jury indicted former Smith State Prison Warden Brian Adams on RICO and bribery charges. He’s the latest output of a closed promotion pipeline that has produced 43 of 43 current state wardens — and the agency cannot explain why pay raises haven’t fixed it.
In March 2020, a 58-year-old inmate was locked down with 63 other men in a cramped concrete dormitory at Macon State Prison during the COVID-19 outbreak. This firsthand account reveals the prison’s failure to provide basic health protections, medical testing, and adequate staffing—and how a journalist’s investigation briefly exposed the system’s deadly negligence.
Marcus Aurelius ruled the Roman Empire while writing private notes about how to live well. Eighteen centuries later, his wisdom offers prisoners and their families ten practical lessons for navigating difficult people, controlling anger, building an inner refuge, and finding freedom of mind even in the most restrictive circumstances.
In 2008, the Georgia Supreme Court 4-3 confirmed that defendants could challenge a void conviction under a statute Georgia had carried since 1863. Fourteen months later, after one justice retired, a new 4-3 majority erased the rule. Same statute. Same words. Different result. Article 3 of the No Way Out series.
Three of Georgia’s 35 prisons are fully air-conditioned. More than 13,000 incarcerated Georgians are 50 or older. As another deadly summer arrives — and federal courts call prison heat unconstitutional — Georgia’s aging prisoners are stacked into uncooled dorms with no published heat ceiling.
Maria Montalvo, Sheila Denton, Dasha Fincher: across arson, bite marks, and field drug tests, junk forensic science continues to convict the innocent. Georgia is the national outlier — and almost nothing in state law lets the courts correct the record.
After nearly ten years in Georgia’s prison system, an inmate reveals the deteriorating conditions of prison meals—from roaches and mold to bone shards and severe malnutrition. He exposes how budget cuts and unpaid labor have created a healthcare crisis affecting thousands.
Damita Bishop, co-founder of prison reform nonprofit FAIR and author of the Georgia Second Chance and Smart Justice Reform Act, has qualified as a Republican candidate for House District 61. GPS profiles her criminal justice reform platform and its alignment with both the End the Warehouse and Vision 2027 campaigns.
Photographs from Johnson State Prison reveal contaminated food trays — the result of broken dishwashers, chemical-barrel washing, and 30 years of deferred maintenance. Three Georgia prisons have failed health inspections since 2022 while the state spends just $0.60 per meal.