Over the last 14 days GPS published 18 articles — including the finale of the End the Warehouse series — sent 641 emails and 28 letters on behalf of people inside, and mailed 50 Tell My Story postcards.
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Five new Tell My Story pieces went up this period, in the writers’ own words — from a sunset glimpsed after a year (Flying Into the Sun) to brown recluse bites (Spiders On The Inside) and a plea for justice (A Plea for Justice).
Have a story to tell, or a loved one inside who does? This is a great way to help legislators and media understand what’s really going on in Georgia’s prison system, justice system, and parole system. Start at Tell My Story.
From the Newsroom
The End the Warehouse investigation reached its finale, Reopen the Doors — Normalization, the blueprint out. Earlier installments covered family contact (The Last Thread), despair (Social Death), and Georgia’s new OWL surveillance hub going live ($150 Million to Watch Them Die).
Articles published
| Reopen the Doors — Normalization Jun 5, 2026 The finale of End the Warehouse, and the blueprint out. |
| The Last Thread Jun 3, 2026 How Georgia rations family contact — the strongest predictor of going straight. |
| Flying Into the Sun Jun 5, 2026 A sunset glimpsed again after a year inside. |
| Life Without God Jun 5, 2026 On faith as a source of stability behind the walls. |
| Blue Duck Jun 5, 2026 A moment of prison life at Georgia State Prison in the mid-1990s. |
| A Plea for Justice: One Prisoner’s Story Jun 5, 2026 An appeal for justice and reform from inside. |
| Spiders On The Inside Jun 5, 2026 Brown recluse bites and the resourcefulness needed to survive them. |
| Social Death May 31, 2026 The despair the state manufactures by policy and declines to count. |
| Officer Flowers May 30, 2026 Lockdown conditions at Georgia State Prison in 1994. |
| $150 Million to Watch Them Die: Georgia’s OWL Surveillance Goes Live May 30, 2026 The first centralized real-time prison-surveillance hub in American corrections. |
| The Only Family Left May 30, 2026 How the state manufactured the vacuum its gangs now fill. |
| The Existential Vacuum May 28, 2026 The emptiness Georgia’s prisons have built, and the doors bolted shut. |
| Zombie Dorms May 25, 2026 What idleness manufactures when no one has a reason to stay sober. |
| Nothing to Do May 24, 2026 How enforced idleness is precisely how rehabilitation fails. |
| The Flame May 23, 2026 How coercion and corruption enabled phone scam operations inside. |
| Who Are the Victims: The Statute That Erases Them May 23, 2026 The statute that bars prison-injury victims from compensation, and the fix. |
| On the Books Since 1897: The Separation Law Georgia Refuses to Enforce May 22, 2026 Finishing the separation law already on the books. |
| Separate the Gangs. It Costs Nothing. Georgia Keeps Choosing the Bodies. May 22, 2026 A sixth statewide lockdown, and the reform that costs almost nothing. |
Mailings this period
- 3 advocacy letters
- 25 open records requests
- 28 letters sent certified
We also mailed 50 Tell My Story postcards to legislators. Be sure to tell your stories and experiences. Start at https://gps.press/tellmystory.
Emails sent on your behalf
641 emails sent this period:
- Legislative: 556
- Media: 36
- Open Records Requests: 27
- Advocacy: 22
New advocates
17 new subscribers joined this period.
Explore GPS
Two corners of GPS worth a look:
GDC Statistics Portal
Interactive dashboards that turn GDC’s dense reports into plain numbers — population, deaths, parole, and drug data — updated within days of each official release.
https://gps.press/gdc-statistics/
Ask GPS Lighthouse (AI)
Ask anything about Georgia’s prison system and get answers drawn from GPS’s investigative archive, court records, and data — free, no login.
https://gps.press/ask-ai/
The GPS Team — accountability@gps.press