Year: 2026

The Felon Train: How Georgia Turns Citizens into Convicts

“One in seven adults in Georgia is a felon. Do you really believe over a million people are just criminals? No. This system is rigged to keep the prisons full.”

Georgia’s justice system isn’t about justice—it’s about control. It’s about turning everyday people into lifelong convicts, feeding a machine built to profit from mass incarceration. People like Wayne Key, who spent a decade behind bars—not for violence, not for endangering others, but for the same substances now sold legally on every street corner.

The Felon Train isn’t just real—it’s running full speed, and once you’re on it, there’s almost no way off. Overcharging, forced plea deals, probation traps, and a parole board that answers to no one—it’s all designed to keep Georgia’s prisons full and its citizens powerless.

If you think this can’t happen to you, think again.

The 2,900-Calorie Menu That 53 Cents Can’t Buy

A Georgia legislator assured a constituent that state prisons serve a 2,900-calorie, dietitian-designed menu meeting “American Dietary Association” guidelines. The State’s own budget funds about 53 cents a meal — and there is no American Dietary Association.

The Receipts Were Always the Point

Courage didn’t end the injustices we teach as history — documentation did. From John Howard to Ida B. Wells, reformers won by making suffering impossible to deny. GPS is that method turned on Georgia’s prisons, with the entire record now given freely to the world.

There’s Nothing Wrong with the Water

A corroded, rust-stained institutional faucet drips discolored water beside aging exposed pipes in a decaying state facility.

Georgia’s public-health agency confirmed Legionella in a South Georgia prison’s water. Thirty days later, the corrections department told the men living there — in writing — that no outbreak existed. The contamination, and the antibiotics, followed them to the next prison.

The Giant I Still Have to Face

Illustration for the story: The Giant I Still Have to Face

After reading O.C.G.A. 17-9-4, I believed I had a clear path to challenge a void count in my indictment. But the courts denied my motions, and a recused judge ruled on my case. Years later, I still seek answers.

The Case for Bringing TEDx Into Georgia’s Prisons

An empty prison multipurpose room arranged with rows of chairs facing a microphone and podium, lit by light from high windows

A structured public-speaking and leadership program — culminating in a TEDx event inside the prison — that builds leaders, lowers risk, and costs the state nothing. Georgia can be the first Southern state to host one.

Flying Into the Sun

Illustration for the story: Flying Into the Sun

After a year without seeing the sunset from my cell window, I finally witness it again—a brilliant fireball of orange, red, and purple. This daily blessing reminds me of God’s beauty even after decades inside.

Life Without God

Illustration for the story: Life Without God

Without belief and faith in God, my prison life would be a living hell. Faith brings stability, freedom, and the confidence that God governs for my good.

Blue Duck

Illustration for the story: Blue Duck

In the mid-1990s at Georgia State Prison, a prisoner’s daily routine with alcohol-based window cleaner ‘Blue Duck’ leads to an unexpected and humorous struggle. This story captures a moment of prison life before gangs and modern security measures.