Every recent Georgia exoneration occurred beyond the state’s 4-year habeas corpus deadline. Under strict application of the law, none would have been possible.
Georgia’s four-year habeas deadline costs taxpayers $105,000+ per year per wrongfully imprisoned person. Every recent Georgia exoneration exceeded the deadline. Major states impose no such limit.
Georgia’s 4-year habeas deadline traps innocent people in prison. Every recent exoneration took far longer. The law may violate the Constitution.
Georgia’s own state-commissioned assessment confirms emergency-level failures across staffing, infrastructure, healthcare, education, and sexual safety in 34 state prisons housing 49,000 people.
Georgia’s own state-commissioned assessment confirms a system-wide prison crisis: 20 facilities unsafe, 82.7% officer turnover, failing infrastructure, and a 38% drop in parole releases.
The state’s own independent assessment confirms Georgia’s prisons are in crisis: emergency staffing at 20 prisons, 82.7% officer attrition, broken locks, and only 7% of PREA cases substantiated.
Families of incarcerated people bear a $350 billion annual burden — nearly 4x taxpayer prison spending — through inflated commissary prices, phone kickbacks, and fees in 48 states.
Families of incarcerated people bear a $350 billion annual burden — nearly four times the $89 billion taxpayers spend on prisons. Georgia families face commissary markups up to 161% and phone kickbacks flowing into unaudited funds.
Families of people in prison pay nearly $350 billion a year. Women and Black families bear the heaviest burden. This report explains how the system works.
GPS analysis maps the legal strategy behind the largest court-ordered prison population reduction in U.S. history and identifies direct parallels to Georgia’s current prison crisis.