When a man is killed in a Georgia prison, someone may be charged with the stabbing, but almost nobody asks what the staff knew. GPS is asking district attorneys to review every prison homicide for staff who were warned, and putting wardens on notice.
Before Zeary Davis was killed at Dooly State Prison, GDC’s Commissioner had a written warning and the deputy warden and a captain had calls. Georgia law already has charges for staff who ignore a known danger. District attorneys should be asking who knew, and what they did.
Three men were reported killed at Macon State Prison from October 21 to 23. GDC has acknowledged one of them, Juld Carter. A week later it locked down more than two dozen prisons, Macon among them, and described a fight at Hays where nobody died. Here’s what the state has said, and what people inside describe.
Zeary Davis died on the floor of his dorm at Dooly State Prison in September 2024. A grand jury has indicted Qwinterrious Dodson on murder charges in his death. In five prison killings GPS has followed to a sentence, four men got life without parole and the fifth got life.
Rachelle Terry spent almost two years at Pulaski State Prison. We sent her eight questions about the dorms, the medical care, the staffing and the classes. Here are her answers, in her own words, alongside what the state’s own records show.
GDC has confirmed that a woman held at Pulaski State Prison died of complications of tuberculosis. Families had been warning since October 13. Here’s what the state has said, what families report from McRae and Pulaski, and what GDC’s own TB policy requires.
GDC tells people in prison that programs can shorten a sentence. The Parole Board’s handbook says Georgia has no good time at all. In a prison system the DOJ calls unconstitutional, Justice Reed reads the state’s own paper and lays out a law that would cut sentences in half for people who earn it.
Two men at Calhoun State Prison just added 26 years and 8 months of federal time for a jury-duty phone scam, on top of the Georgia sentences they were already serving. Here’s how the time adds up.
Georgia’s prisons can’t block or seize their way out of phone scams. GPS argues for registered, monitored phones inside, with lawyers excluded, backed by the state’s own arrest reports and the DOJ’s findings.
State fire inspectors found padlocks and slide bolts on cell doors in four housing units at Washington State Prison in September. Broken locks, the warden said. Georgia has been buying new ones for more than a decade, and this year it set aside another $84,596,895.