Only 3 of Georgia’s 159 counties have Conviction Integrity Units. A GPS analysis reveals how legal barriers close the courthouse door on wrongful conviction claims.
An estimated 2,500 innocent people are imprisoned in Georgia. A GPS analysis documents 610 years of wrongful imprisonment, systemic racial disparities, and the state failures driving wrongful convictions.
Georgia forces incarcerated people to work for zero pay, then charges their families markups up to 1,150% on necessities. GPS maps the full extraction system.
142 people killed. A five-fold surge in homicides. Georgia’s broken prison classification system places people in the wrong facilities — and the DOJ calls it among the worst it has ever seen.
Private prison healthcare contractors are linked to death rates 18-58% higher than government-run facilities. Three major companies filed bankruptcy to dodge over $1 billion in malpractice liability.
Investigation reveals Georgia’s prison commissary extracts an estimated $8–15M annually through two-tier markups — charging up to 1,150% over retail for essential items like pain relievers and hygiene products.
New analysis traces a direct line from government-permitted lead poisoning of American children to the mass incarceration crisis — documenting how the state imprisoned millions for the neurological consequences of its own environmental failures.
Georgia’s parole grants dropped 42% in five years as the corrections budget hit $1.62 billion. More than half of all 2025 releases served complete sentences. 301 people died in custody.
Georgia prisons are at double capacity with 80% staff vacancies. The DOJ, a Senate committee, and the Governor’s own assessors all confirm a system in crisis. Here’s what reporters need to know.
DOJ declares Georgia prison healthcare ‘unconstitutional’ as 330 people died in custody in 2024. The state tripled its undercount of killings, per federal investigators.
