Media Resource Center

Press Briefing Materials

The GPS Research Division produces in-depth analysis of systemic issues inside Georgia’s prison system — from healthcare failures and prison labor exploitation to wrongful convictions and infrastructure collapse. Each research topic is translated into a press briefing written specifically for journalists and editors: source-ready data points, reportable findings, expert context, and background you can use immediately in your coverage.

These briefings go deeper than tip briefs. Where a tip brief gives you a fast summary of a specific case or pattern, a press briefing gives you the full research picture on a systemic issue — the data, the fiscal impact, the human cost, and the policy failures driving it. Each briefing is built from peer-reviewed research, government data, court records, and GPS’s own investigative documentation.

Topics currently covered include:

• Privatized healthcare failures and death rates
• Prison classification breakdowns driving violence
• Zero-wage labor exploitation and commissary markup schemes
• Wrongful convictions and the absence of conviction integrity units
• Infrastructure crisis and the $600M emergency plan
• Lead poisoning’s role in mass incarceration
• Parole system collapse and rising costs

New briefings are published regularly as GPS research is completed. All materials are free to use with standard attribution.

About Georgia Prisoners’ Speak (GPS)

GPS is an independent investigative organization documenting violence, corruption, medical neglect, underreported deaths, and constitutional violations inside the Georgia Department of Corrections. We combine:

• Direct communication with incarcerated witnesses
• Statements from families and victims
• Open records requests and public documents
• Internal state reports
• Data analysis
• On-the-ground verification

GPS exists because Georgia’s prison system routinely conceals information from the public, the press, and even families of the deceased.

Our mission is simple: expose the truth the state refuses to tell.

Request an Interview

GPS regularly facilitates interviews with:

• Family members of victims
• Formerly incarcerated individuals
• Incarcerated witnesses (when possible)
• Policy experts
• Attorneys and investigators
• Advocacy partners

To request an interview, email media@gps.press with:

• Your outlet
• Your story focus
• Your deadline
• Whom you wish to interview
• Whether you need documents, video, images, or data

Machine-Readable Data & AI Tools

GPS provides structured, plain-text data pages optimized for researchers, data journalists, AI crawlers, and automated analysis tools. All pages are publicly accessible and require no authentication.

GPS Lighthouse AI Assistant

GPS Lighthouse is our interactive AI assistant trained on GPS data, Georgia law, and prison system documentation. Researchers and journalists can use it to quickly query our databases, ask questions about Georgia’s prison system, search case law via CourtListener, and get sourced answers. Available at gps.press/ask-ai/.

Research & Policy Libraries

AI & Automated Access

If you are building AI tools, conducting automated research, or integrating GPS data into your own systems, the only page you need is our AI Index:

API Access

GPS provides programmatic access via the WordPress REST API at gps.press/wp-json/gps/v1/ with public endpoints for articles, facilities, statistics, and categories. Authenticated API access is also available for the GPS Gateway. Contact media@gps.press for API documentation or custom data format requests (CSV, JSON, etc.).

Access to Images, Graphics & Documents

Upon request, GPS can provide:

• Facility photos (where available)
• Charts and graphics (violence, deaths, staffing, etc.)
• Public records PDFs
• Verified statements
• Incident timelines
• Full investigative summaries

If you need images for publication, please specify orientation (16:9, portrait, square) and we will supply the correct format.

Reuse & Sharing Policy

GPS encourages the responsible reuse of our reporting, data, and investigative materials under the following conditions:

Credit the Source

Please include: “Originally published by Georgia Prisoners’ Speak (https://gps.press). Used with permission.”

Do Not Alter Factual Content

Edits for clarity, length, formatting, or style are acceptable. However, the facts, figures, and investigative findings must remain accurate and intact.

No Use for Harmful or Punitive Narratives

Our reporting may not be used to support anti-prisoner rhetoric, political fear-mongering, misleading interpretations, or narratives that justify cruelty, negligence, or misinformation. GPS content may only be used for transparency, reform, advocacy, education, or legitimate journalism.

Notification of Reprints

If you republish, quote extensively, or adapt GPS content, please notify us via our contact form, Facebook Messenger, or media@gps.press.

No Commercial Use Without Permission

GPS content may not be sold, paywalled, or used for commercial distribution without written permission.

Our Commitment

GPS’s mission is to make information about Georgia’s prison crisis accessible to everyone. If sharing our work helps expose the truth, protect lives, or inform the public, you have our blessing.