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Damita Bishop, co-founder of prison reform nonprofit FAIR and author of the Georgia Second Chance and Smart Justice Reform Act, has qualified as a Republican candidate for House District 61. GPS profiles her criminal justice reform platform and its alignment with both the End the Warehouse and Vision 2027 campaigns.
Photographs from Johnson State Prison reveal contaminated food trays — the result of broken dishwashers, chemical-barrel washing, and 30 years of deferred maintenance. Three Georgia prisons have failed health inspections since 2022 while the state spends just $0.60 per meal.
In less than three months, Warden Kendric Jackson transferred 87 lifers out of Calhoun State Prison — 79% to close-security facilities. GPS data reveals a systematic population swap: stable, long-term inmates shipped to Level 5 prisons while younger short-timers arrive from those same facilities. No other medium-security prison in Georgia is doing anything close to this.
Georgia’s prison phone crackdown spent years failing to stop $1.5 million in scams at a single prison — before and after MAS arrived. The $50M blocking system is deaf by design. Georgia already has the hardware, the law, and the precedent to monitor instead. The Commissioner needs to make one decision.
Ronald Allen asked for insulated gloves before handling frozen beef patties at GDCP. He got two pairs of disposable ones. Eight weeks of medical neglect later — a doctor who never examined him — Allen lost his dominant hand. His lawsuit names 12 defendants including Commissioner Oliver.
Two existing Georgia statutes — one from 1863, the other containing the most powerful safety-valve language in Georgia law — could unlock post-conviction justice if anyone would enforce them. Article 1 of the “No Way Out” series.