Georgia spends $1.48 billion on prisons and $172,000 on vocational education. The DOJ found people ‘leave prison worse than when they came in.’ Here’s how to use this research to demand change.
Georgia spends $1.48B on prisons but $172,000 on vocational education. Federal investigators say people ‘leave prison worse than when they came in.’ The true recidivism rate is double what the state reports.
Georgia spends $1.48B on prisons but just $172,000 on vocational education. The DOJ found people “leave prison worse than when they came in.” The true recidivism rate approaches 50%.
Georgia spends $1.48 billion on prisons but just $172,000 on job training. The DOJ says people leave worse than when they went in.
Georgia holds people in solitary for years in conditions a federal judge called ‘flagrantly’ abusive. This advocacy toolkit arms you with the evidence to fight back.
A federal judge found Georgia corrections falsified compliance documents and showed ‘no desire or intention to comply’ with solitary confinement reforms — while 78% of people were held in isolation for over two years.
A federal judge fined GDC $2,500/day for flagrant violations of solitary confinement reforms. 78% of people in Georgia’s SMU were held over 2 years. Georgia has no legislation limiting the practice.
Georgia locks people in tiny cells for years. A federal judge caught the state faking its records. Here’s what families need to know.
Georgia accepted $82.2M in federal TIS grants and took on $40–50 billion in costs. Academic consensus: near-zero crime reduction. Here’s how advocates can use this research.
Georgia accepted $82M in federal TIS grants and incurred $40–50B in corrections costs — a 1:500 ratio — while academic consensus shows near-zero crime reduction from increased incarceration since 2000.