Rachelle Terry spent almost two years at Pulaski State Prison. We sent her eight questions about the dorms, the medical care, the staffing and the classes. Here are her answers, in her own words, alongside what the state’s own records show.
GDC has confirmed that a woman held at Pulaski State Prison died of complications of tuberculosis. Families had been warning since October 13. Here’s what the state has said, what families report from McRae and Pulaski, and what GDC’s own TB policy requires.
A mother shares her daughter’s fear of dying from a tuberculosis outbreak at McRae Women’s Facility, where inmates are denied masks and testing while staff are threatened with firing for helping.
GDC tells people in prison that programs can shorten a sentence. The Parole Board’s handbook says Georgia has no good time at all. In a prison system the DOJ calls unconstitutional, Justice Reed reads the state’s own paper and lays out a law that would cut sentences in half for people who earn it.
Two men at Calhoun State Prison just added 26 years and 8 months of federal time for a jury-duty phone scam, on top of the Georgia sentences they were already serving. Here’s how the time adds up.
Georgia’s prisons can’t block or seize their way out of phone scams. GPS argues for registered, monitored phones inside, with lawyers excluded, backed by the state’s own arrest reports and the DOJ’s findings.
My daughter is a nonviolent offender at McRae Women’s Facility. Her parole date is 2031. She tells me there are no programs, staff shortages, and mail delays. I’m sharing her story to ask for compassion and second chances.
My fiancé has stage IV cancer and blood clots, yet prison staff watched him swallow his pills and then accused him of selling them. When we spoke up, retaliation followed—false reports, denied medication, and cut communication.
State fire inspectors found padlocks and slide bolts on cell doors in four housing units at Washington State Prison in September. Broken locks, the warden said. Georgia has been buying new ones for more than a decade, and this year it set aside another $84,596,895.
A mother describes her daughter’s transfer from Whitworth to McRae Women’s Facility, where she says women are denied rehabilitation programs and mental health support while men receive work details. She shares who her daughter was before incarceration and why she fights for her release.