GPS Intelligence System
Accountability data on Georgia's prison system. Facilities, leadership, deaths, lawsuits, and the patterns connecting them.
About the Intelligence System
The GPS Intelligence System collects, organizes, and cross-references information about Georgia's prison system from multiple verified sources. Each intelligence page is built from original source material and updated regularly as new information becomes available.
Our sources include:
- News coverage from Georgia media outlets and national publications
- Court filings, DOJ reports, and legal proceedings
- GDC's own statistical reports (weekly, monthly, annual)
- Academic research on incarceration, health, and reform
- Firsthand accounts from incarcerated people and their families
- Public records and government accountability filings
Data panels update in real-time from our databases. Click "Learn More" on any page section for deeper analysis with full source attribution.
Browse Intelligence
GDC Overview
Complete overview of Georgia's prison system — death trends, violence patterns, medical failures, legal exposure, and reform efforts.
Updated Oct 4, 2026 FacilitiesBrowse by Facility
Intelligence profiles for individual GDC facilities — incidents, deaths, lawsuits, conditions, staffing.
Updated Oct 6, 2026 PersonnelGDC Leadership Accountability
200+ wardens and deputy wardens cross-referenced against deaths and federal lawsuits. Per-person profiles document tenure-window incidents.
PersonnelGDC Personnel Directory
Every warden, commissioner and director with a published profile, listed A–Z. The complete index behind the accountability rankings.
OversightWho Answers for the Dead
The Board of Corrections, GDC administration, and Parole Board — each official’s name, salary, and the deaths in custody during their tenure.
Written Oct 4, 2026 For LegislatorsLegislative Brief
Fiscal impact, reform opportunities, comparison to other states, and policy recommendations.
Written Oct 4, 2026 For MediaMedia Brief
Unreported patterns, data discrepancies, story leads, and investigative starting points.
Written Oct 4, 2026 For AdvocatesAdvocate Brief
Action items, facility-specific concerns, advocacy resources, and family support information.
Written Sep 27, 2026 What WorksSolutions
The other half of the ledger - what GPS proposes to fix it: separate the gangs, Vision 2027, End the Warehouse, and a costed fix for each documented problem.
ResearchResearch Wiki
Academic research and data analysis on incarceration, health, reform models, and policy.
AIAsk Lighthouse AI
Ask questions about Georgia's prison system and get answers sourced from our intelligence databases.
MethodologyHow We Verify
The trust model behind these pages: how GPS ranks sources, lets canonical data override stale claims, and retires figures that have been superseded.
Browse by Issue
Vision 2027
A three-bill reform package targeting Georgia’s broken post-conviction system: habeas corpus deadline repeal, conviction integrity units, and ineffective assistance of counsel reform.
Written Oct 1, 2026End the Warehouse
A comprehensive plan to transform Georgia’s prison system from warehousing to rehabilitation — litigation strategy, policy reform, and a roadmap for constitutional compliance.
Written Oct 4, 2026GDC Budget
Where Georgia’s $1.77 billion corrections budget goes — program-by-program spending, year-over-year trends, and what taxpayers are paying for.
Written Oct 8, 2026Deaths in Custody 298
Tracking every death in Georgia’s prison system. GPS independently investigates and classifies cause of death where GDC will not.
Written Oct 6, 2026Facility Conditions 248
Crumbling infrastructure, overcrowding, unsanitary living conditions, and the constitutional violations they represent.
Written Oct 6, 2026Family Communication 93
How GDC fails to notify families of injuries and deaths, and the barriers that separate incarcerated people from their loved ones.
Written Oct 4, 2026Legal Access 211
Barriers to courts, broken post-conviction appeals, and how Georgia’s system traps people even when evidence of innocence exists.
Written Oct 8, 2026Legal Settlements & Lawsuits 307
Taxpayer-funded payouts for wrongful deaths, civil rights violations, and the legal consequences of institutional neglect.
Written Oct 4, 2026Medical Neglect 46
Preventable deaths, denied treatment, and the billion-dollar private healthcare contracts that prioritize profit over patient care.
Written Oct 8, 2026Mental Health 4
Inadequate treatment, dangerous housing conditions, and a crisis-level shortage of mental health professionals behind the walls.
Written Oct 8, 2026Oversight & Investigations 270
Federal findings, DOJ investigations, legislative inquiries, and the agencies responsible for holding GDC accountable.
Written Oct 4, 2026Prison Nutrition in Georgia
Georgia spends roughly 54 to 56 cents per meal to feed about 52,000 incarcerated people, a figure that falls far short of federal nutrition benchmarks and produces documented hunger, contaminated trays, and a commissary system that profits from the shortfall.
Written Oct 4, 2026Retaliation 21
How prisoners who report abuse, file grievances, or cooperate with investigators face punishment instead of protection.
Written Oct 4, 2026Scores Without Sanitation
Georgia's DPH food-safety inspection scores — mostly A's, with sharp failures at Johnson, Pulaski, and Smith — measure a single scheduled kitchen walkthrough, not what arrives on the tray. GPS's review of the inspection database and inmate-maintenance accounts finds the contradiction is the story.
Written Oct 4, 2026Sexual Abuse
Documented patterns of staff-on-prisoner sexual abuse confirmed by DOJ findings and federal investigations.
Written Oct 6, 2026Solitary Confinement
Extended isolation, punitive lockdowns, and the documented physical and psychological harm of restrictive housing.
Written Oct 4, 2026Staff Misconduct 23
Officer abuse, corruption, contraband smuggling, evidence destruction, and failures of internal accountability.
Written Oct 4, 2026Staffing Crisis 76
Officer vacancies at crisis levels, mandatory overtime, dangerous ratios, and how understaffing drives every other problem.
Written Oct 2, 2026The Staff Supply Chain
GDC's own contraband arrest reports, 2010 to 2026, name 374 of its own staff, officers and contract staff as a recurring supply route for contraband into Georgia prisons. GPS assembled all 599 reports and 1,615 incidents, including 265 reports recovered from the Internet Archive.
Written Oct 4, 2026Violence & Safety 139
Record homicide rates, gang violence, and the systemic failures that make Georgia’s prisons among the deadliest in America.