End the Warehouse

Transform Georgia’s Prisons from Punishment to Rehabilitation

Georgia spends $1.8 billion per year on its prison system and $52 per person on rehabilitation — fourteen cents a day. The state invests 46 dollars in surveillance for every 1 dollar in programming. The DOJ has declared the system unconstitutional. Facilities operate at 216% of design capacity. And 333 people died in custody in 2024 alone.

End the Warehouse is GPS’s plan to change this through two connected tracks: federal litigation to force population reduction to constitutional levels, and evidence-based rehabilitation to build the programming Georgia has never provided. The evidence from California, Texas, Maine, and South Carolina proves this works — and 90% of voters across party lines support it.

Vision 2027

Post-Conviction Justice Reform

Georgia’s post-conviction system traps people in prison even when evidence proves they should be free. A 4-year habeas corpus deadline — the strictest in the nation — bars people from presenting new evidence of innocence. Ineffective counsel rules punish the wrongly convicted for their lawyers’ failures. And Georgia has no Conviction Integrity Unit to review questionable convictions.

The most striking part: the legislature doesn’t need to create new rights — it needs to enforce the laws it already passed. Two powerful Georgia statutes — one dating to 1863 — contain safeguards that courts have systematically gutted. The Sleeping Giants documents how judicial narrowing turned the legislature’s own protections into dead letters, and how three model bills can wake them up.

Vision 2027 targets the 2027 Georgia legislative session with these three bills. With a new Governor taking office in January 2027 and all 180 House seats up for election in 2026, the political window for reform is open.