Advocate Explainers Archives

Families as the Hidden Tax Base: How $350 Billion in Incarceration Costs Are Shifted to Families — An Advocacy Toolkit

Families pay nearly $350 billion annually to support incarcerated loved ones — almost four times what taxpayers spend on prisons. This advocacy toolkit provides the data, talking points, and strategies to fight the Family Tax.

Brown v. Plata: The Legal Blueprint Advocates Need to Challenge Prison Overcrowding in Georgia

Brown v. Plata provides the legal blueprint for challenging unconstitutional prison overcrowding. This advocacy guide shows how to use its precedent to fight for Georgia prison reform.

Prison Deaths Are Being Hidden: How Data Gaps, Misclassification, and Accountability Failures Conceal a Mortality Crisis

GPS analysis reveals 5,000+ uncounted prison deaths nationally, 44 misclassified deaths in Georgia, and a federal reporting system in collapse. Here’s how advocates can use this research.

Drugs in Georgia’s Prisons: An Advocacy Guide to the Crisis the State Wants Hidden

GPS research documents a hidden drug crisis in Georgia prisons: overdose deaths surged 2,350%, GDC misclassified 44 deaths, and the state’s own employees fuel the pipeline.

Conviction Integrity Units: How Advocates Can Push Georgia to Address Its Wrongful Conviction Crisis

Georgia has only 3 Conviction Integrity Units for 159 counties. Here’s how advocates can use this research to push for statewide reform.

Innocent People in Georgia Prisons: An Advocacy Toolkit on the Scope and Scale of Wrongful Conviction

An estimated 2,500 innocent people are imprisoned in Georgia. This advocacy toolkit provides data-backed talking points, key quotes, and strategic guidance for using wrongful conviction research in legislative testimony, media, and coalition building.

Prison Labor & Wage Exploitation in Georgia: An Advocacy Toolkit for Reform

Georgia pays incarcerated workers nothing while extracting hundreds of millions in labor value. This advocacy toolkit gives reform advocates the data, talking points, and strategies to demand change.

Broken by Design: How Georgia’s Classification Failures Are Killing People in Prison

Georgia’s broken classification system is placing people in the wrong facilities — and people are dying. 142 homicides between 2018-2023. Here’s how advocates can use this research.

Prison Healthcare Is a Death Sentence: How Privatization, Cost-Cutting, and Legal Barriers Are Killing People Behind Bars

Private prison healthcare contractors produce death rates 18-58% higher than government facilities. This GPS analysis arms advocates with the data to fight back.

Georgia’s Prison Commissary Extraction Machine: An Advocacy Guide to Fighting Exploitative Pricing

GPS investigation documents a two-tier commissary markup scheme extracting $8-15 million annually from Georgia’s incarcerated families. Advocacy guide with talking points, key quotes, and strategies.