…your attorney or legal team. They also correspond directly with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated survivors. Visit bwjp.org/our-work/national-defense-center-for-criminalized-survivors. Survivor Reentry Project (Freedom Network USA) This program connects survivors to pro bono…
Georgia already solved its prison crisis once. Governor Deal’s reforms cut the prison population 6%, saved $264 million, and didn’t increase crime. Then Governor Kemp reversed course, adding $700 million in spending while every outcome worsened. The math is on legislators’ desks. Will they choose what works?
Two federal judges. The U.S. Department of Justice. State legislators. A U.S. Senator. The press. Georgia’s Department of Corrections has stonewalled, obstructed, deceived, or defied every institution meant to hold it accountable — and paid no price. GPS traces the documented pattern.
GPS investigates Pulaski State Prison under Warden Wendy Jackson, tracing how an untested leader inherited a facility scarred by decades of lethal medical neglect, gang violence, sexual assault, and federal findings of unconstitutional conditions — and what families are reporting now.
Christian Krauch was tortured for three weeks at Macon State Prison in June 2024 — bound, stabbed, burned, and left under a bunk while GDC submitted 168 phantom inmate counts. He lost his right hand and leg to amputation. The state said nothing. No arrests were made.
For 830 years, habeas corpus protected the innocent from unlawful imprisonment—until Georgia destroyed it. The 2004 four-year deadline traps wrongfully convicted people in a prison system that killed 100+ by homicide in 2024. The Great Writ is dead. The innocent are dying with it.
…A facility for Crips. A facility for Hispanic gangs (who often unite as a bloc regardless of specific affiliation). And critically: facilities for non-gang inmates—the “civilians” who currently live in…
…https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3374923/ [↩] Sentencing Project https://www.sentencingproject.org/reports/counting-down-paths-to-a-20-year-maximum-prison-sentence/ [↩] Sentencing Project https://sentencingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Fewer-Prisoners-Less-Crime-A-Tale-of-Three-States.pdf [↩] CJCJ Prop 47 Analysis https://www.cjcj.org/reports-publications/publications/proposition-47-estimating-local-savings-and-jail-population-reductions-summary [↩] Prison Policy Initiative https://www.prisonpolicy.org/prisonindex/finland.html [↩] GPS Brown v. Plata Analysis https://gps.press/brown-v-plata-a-legal-roadmap-for-georgias-prison-crisis/ [↩] California Courts…
Analysis of 257,000 GDC records shows that 37% of Georgia parolees were released within 12 months of their max-out date. Lifers now serve 31 years before release—up from 12.5 years in 1992. The system preserves the appearance of clemency while systematically denying meaningful early release.
Georgia bans phones to hide abuse, not ensure safety. DOJ found constitutional violations. Staffing at 50-70% vacant. Budget up $700M with nothing to show. The issue isn’t technology—it’s control without transparency.