A sixth statewide lockdown began after deadly gang violence at Ware State Prison. Georgia Prisoners’ Speak has demanded gang separation for fifteen months — a reform that costs almost nothing and that Texas, Arizona, and California proved cuts violence. Georgia keeps choosing the body count instead.
Christian Krauch was tortured for three weeks under a bunk at Macon State Prison while GDC filed 168 paper counts saying he was accounted for. He survived. Part 2 of the GPS series Who Are the Victims documents what Georgia does to the people who enter its prisons as victims first — and the federal record now in place.
In 1998, two inmates at Georgia State Prison orchestrated a daring escape using dummy heads and wire cutters, only to be recaptured hours later. This narrative contrasts the humane conditions under federal control with the deterioration that followed when the state regained operational control.
In 1996, newly appointed GDC Commissioner Wayne Garner responded to a published inmate letter by systematically removing prison amenities and allegedly authorizing a violent raid on Hays State Prison. This account details the removal of equipment, alleged beatings, and subsequent cover-up attempts that led to Garner’s removal.
For 27 years, a mother has watched her son serve time for a crime he didn’t commit, repeatedly denied parole despite completing every program and excelling at work. She shares the emotional toll of the system and questions: how much time is enough?
On January 5, 2026, Nicole Boynton walked free after twenty-three years inside. Georgia’s Survivor Justice Act recognized her as a victim — twenty-three years too late. The science says she is not alone. A new GPS series asks who else qualifies as a victim under Georgia law, and why the state has chosen to look away.
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.
…gang’s leader, Nathan Weekes, out of solitary confinement. They also say Adams buried prison shanks and contraband cellphones in his backyard to obstruct the investigation 2. Adams was a 26-year…
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.