A federal investigation has uncovered stunning violence, rampant sexual assaults, gang-run facilities and other startling conditions in an out-of-control Georgia state prison system, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday.
“The findings report we issue today lays bare the horrific and inhumane conditions that people are confined to inside Georgia’s state prison system…,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division during an afternoon news conference. “People are assaulted, stabbed, raped and killed or left to languish inside facilities that are woefully understaffed.”