Write the Board of Corrections
The Georgia Board of Corrections is the citizen board that sets policy for the state's prison system. They can order changes the wardens can't — like separating gangs, fixing food and medical care, and requiring public reporting.
Pick a board member and a message, and it opens in your own email to send. Your voice, from your own inbox, carries the most weight.
Set Health Staffing Standards
Set Minimum Health Staffing Standards
As a Georgia resident, I urge the Board of Corrections to use its policy authority to establish minimum medical and mental health staffing standards for every Department of Corrections facility. Chronic understaffing of doctors, nurses, and mental health professionals is a well-documented, systemic problem in…
End Food as Punishment
Adopt Policies Ensuring Nutritious Food and Ending Its Use as Discipline
I write as a Georgia resident to urge the Board of Corrections to adopt a clear policy that guarantees all people in state prisons receive adequate, nutritious meals and that explicitly prohibits the use of food as a form of punishment or control. This is…
Gang separation
Please direct GDC to separate gangs from the general population
Dear Board Member, As a Georgia resident, I'm writing to urge the Board of Corrections to direct the Department to separate confirmed gang members from the general population in our state prisons. Housing rival gangs alongside people who simply want to serve their time safely…