Press Releases

Starved and Silenced: The Hidden Crisis Inside Georgia Prisons

“My son went in weighing 180 pounds. Now he looks like he belongs in a concentration camp.”

Across Georgia’s prisons, men and women are wasting away — surviving on a few spoonfuls of grits, bologna, and moldy air. The Department of Corrections calls it efficiency. We call it **cruelty by design.**

Starvation, disease, and violence are the price of Georgia’s broken prison food system — a system that profits from suffering and punishes the hungry.

Why Families Must Fight FCC Prison Jammers Now

📢 The FCC wants to allow prison cell phone jammers. In Georgia’s understaffed prisons, phones aren’t just contraband—they’re lifelines that save lives. Families must speak NOW.

Read why and how to contact the FCC to voice your opinion

Record Every Call: How to Expose Contempt and Abuse

When Georgia families call the GDC, they’re often ignored, belittled, or cursed at — and left in the dark about whether their loved one was stabbed, hospitalized, or even died. Georgia is a one-party consent state. Record every call. Show the world how GDC treats families.

The Hidden Violence in Georgia’s Prisons: Beyond the Death Toll

For every person killed in Georgia’s prisons, as many as 12 to 18 others are stabbed, slashed, or beaten so severely they require hospitalization. In 2024, that means nearly 1,200 men and women left with permanent scars, organ loss, or lifelong trauma — violence the state never counts.

Slavery by Another Name: Forced Labor in Georgia Prisons

Prisoner planting crops at Georgia prison, inmates in orange uniform working outdoors, highlighting issues of incarceration and forced labor in Georgia, Georgia Prisoners' Speak.

Slavery never ended in Georgia—it just changed names. Today, thousands of incarcerated people are forced to work for free sustaining state agencies and private corporations under threat of punishment. This is slavery by another name.

A Constitutional Betrayal: Georgia’s Deadline on Freedom

Georgia prisoners' speak about the four-year Habeas Corpus deadline in Georgia being a constitutional disaster, highlighting the hurdles in accessing law libraries and the delays that trap inmates in a maze of legal challenges.

Georgia’s habeas law is unconstitutional. It gives prisoners just 4 years to prove their innocence—while the state blocks law library access, removes books, and forces them to teach themselves legal research. Wrongful convictions often take decades to uncover. Georgia’s deadline isn’t justice—it’s a trap.

Why Georgia Hasn’t Had Its Attica—Yet

Inmate speech at Georgia prison highlighting issues related to detention, incarceration, and prisoner rights.

Despite horrific conditions, Georgia’s prisons haven’t erupted like Attica—yet. Fear, fragmentation, and surveillance suppress rebellion, but pressure is building. This exposé examines why no major uprising has happened, and what must change before one does.