Over the past two weeks GPS published 14 articles — including the finale of End the Warehouse and an investigation into Legionella in a South Georgia prison’s water — mailed 50 firsthand stories to legislators, and sent 623 emails on your behalf.
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There’s Nothing Wrong with the Water
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.
Have a story from inside? Share it through Tell My Story at gps.press/tell-my-story — and refer a loved one inside who has one to tell.
Articles published
- There’s Nothing Wrong with the Water — Jun 7
Legionella confirmed in a prison’s water; corrections told the men no outbreak existed. - The Giant I Still Have to Face — Jun 7
A firsthand account of pursuing a challenge to a void count in an indictment. - The Case for Bringing TEDx Into Georgia’s Prisons — Jun 7
A public-speaking and leadership program that builds leaders and costs the state nothing. - Flying Into the Sun — Jun 5
Seeing the sunset again after a year without it from a cell window. - Life Without God — Jun 5
A firsthand reflection on faith and stability inside. - Blue Duck — Jun 5
A moment of prison life at Georgia State Prison in the mid-1990s. - A Plea for Justice: One Prisoner’s Story — Jun 5
A man describes being held in violation of the law and seeking relief. - Spiders On The Inside — Jun 5
Surviving brown recluse bites and the medical response inside. - Reopen the Doors — Normalization — Jun 5
The finale of End the Warehouse and a blueprint out. - The Last Thread — Jun 3
An investigation into how the state severs family contact by design. - Social Death — May 31
The despair the state manufactures by policy, refuses to treat, and declines to count. - Officer Flowers — May 30
A firsthand account of lockdown conditions at Georgia State Prison in 1994. - $150 Million to Watch Them Die: Georgia’s OWL Surveillance Goes Live — May 30
The first centralized real-time prison-surveillance hub in American corrections. - The Only Family Left — May 30
How the state manufactured the vacuum its gangs now fill.
Mailings this period
3 advocacy letters (all certified).
We put 50 firsthand stories from inside directly into Georgia legislators’ hands this period — real accounts mailed as Tell My Story postcards, each carrying a pull-quote and a QR code to the full story, so lawmakers can’t look away from what’s happening in their prisons.
Have a story that belongs in a legislator’s hands? Share it at gps.press/tellmystory.
Emails sent on your behalf
623 emails sent this period:
Legislative: 598
Advocacy: 14
Open Records Requests: 11
New advocates
10 new advocates joined this period.
Explore GPS
Two corners of GPS worth a look:
GPS Quote Bank
A searchable archive of voices from inside and around Georgia’s prisons — the words behind the reporting, sourced and citable.
GDC Policy Library
Every GDC standard operating procedure GPS could obtain, organized and searchable — see the rules the system is supposed to follow.
— The GPS Team — accountability@gps.press