The Deterrence Myth: Georgia’s Harsh Sentencing Backfired
Georgia’s harsh sentencing experiment failed to deter crime and fueled a deadly prison crisis. Here’s why the deterrence myth collapsed — and what actually works...
The Human Cost of Georgia’s Prison Extortion
Georgia families are spending hundreds each month on commissary, phone calls, and visitation just to keep their loved ones alive. These firsthand testimonies reveal the hidden human cost of Georgia’s predatory prison economy...
When Innocence Isn’t Enough: How Georgia’s System Turns Pretrial Detention Into a Machine for Guilty Pleas
Sandeep Bharadia's exoneration after 20 years exposes Georgia's deeper crisis: most wrongful convictions never reach trial. Dangerous jails, unaffordable bail, and prosecutorial overcharging turn pretrial detention into a machine that coerces guilty pleas—even from the innocent...
Forced Criminality: Inside Georgia’s Prison Violence Factory
The DOJ documented 142 homicides in Georgia prisons from 2018-2023. GPS documented 100 homicides in 2024 alone—nearly triple the previous year.This isn’t random violence. It’s the inevitable result of deliberate GDC policy:
→ Zero wages for prisoner labor
→ 1,200 calories/day (half...
Truth in Sentencing Broke Parole. Georgia Is Paying the Price.
Parole was built to manage risk and restore lives. In Georgia, “85% truth in sentencing” turned that safety valve into a death sentence...
Georgia’s $40 Billion Mistake: How Bad Science and Federal Bribes Created a Constitutional Crisis
Georgia spent $40 billion on Truth in Sentencing laws that academic research proves make prisons deadlier and increase crime. The policies—rooted in the discredited "superpredator" myth and response to lead poisoning the government allowed for 70 years—created what the DOJ...
America’s Hidden Crime: How the Government Poisoned a Generation, Then Imprisoned Them for It
INVESTIGATIVE REPORT
They called them “superpredators.” Remorseless. Without conscience. Politicians predicted 30,000 new teenage killers by 2000 and passed laws imprisoning millions.
They were catastrophically wrong. Crime collapsed instead.But there’s a darker truth: The “crime epidemic” was caused by something the government...
The Poverty-to-Prison Pipeline: How Georgia Criminalizes Being Poor
Georgia has the world's highest incarceration rate - achieved by systematically criminalizing poverty through cash bail, court fines, and predatory fees.Boys from Georgia's poorest families face 20x higher incarceration rates than those from middle and upper-class households...
Normalization: The Principle That Changes Everything
Georgia’s prisons aren’t “broken” — they’re illegal.The Constitution says the punishment is the loss of liberty, not starvation, violence, neglect, or death.
Yet every day, Georgia piles on punishments no judge ever ordered.Every other developed nation treats prison as a place...
Why Georgia Must Create a Liberty Interest in Parole
Georgia’s parole system is broken because people have no enforceable right to release — even when they do everything asked of them. Creating a liberty interest in parole would finally bring fairness, transparency, and real hope to thousands of families...