=== 2025 (84 articles) ===
TITLE: Georgia's Shadow Sentencing System
DATE: December 28, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: GDC’s own data shows Georgia prisoners now serve 27% longer than a decade ago—not because of new laws, but because the Parole Board quietly curtailed releases. At $86.61 per day, this shadow sentencing system costs taxpayers over $1 billion annually.
URL: https://gps.press/georgias-shadow-sentencing-system/
TITLE: Georgia Parole Board Fears Federal Scrutiny in Humphreys Case
DATE: December 23, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article, Parole
DESCRIPTION: Georgia's parole board postponed Stacey Humphreys' execution and declassified clemency documents—not out of mercy, but fear of federal scrutiny. Eleven jurors say his death sentence was coerced. The board's secrecy is finally being exposed.
URL: https://gps.press/georgia-parole-board-fears-federal-scrutiny-in-humphreys-case/
TITLE: Amathia: The Moral Failure Behind Georgia's Prison Crisis
DATE: December 14, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: The ancient Greeks called it amathia—willful ignorance, a moral failure. Governor Kemp commissioned reports documenting Georgia's prison crisis. One year later: staffing at a fifteen-year low, population at a fifteen-year high, and over 100 homicides. The evidence exists. Leadership refuses to see.
URL: https://gps.press/amathia-the-moral-failure-behind-georgias-prison-crisis/
TITLE: Mass Incarceration Was Not an Accident
DATE: December 11, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: Mass incarceration was not a response to crime—it was a political project. From the War on Drugs to Iran–Contra, the federal government made deliberate choices that devastated communities. Georgia inherited this framework and intensified it. This is the history we must confront.
URL: https://gps.press/mass-incarceration-was-not-an-accident/
TITLE: Georgia’s 2026 Candidates on Prison and Parole Reform
DATE: December 9, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: Georgia voters will choose a new Governor and Lieutenant Governor in 2026 amid a prison crisis. GPS surveyed candidates on parole reform, prison conditions, and sentencing policy. Only two candidates—Jake Olinger and Josh McLaurin—have detailed positions. Here's what we found.
URL: https://gps.press/georgias-2026-candidates-on-prison-and-parole-reform/
TITLE: The Deterrence Myth: Georgia’s Harsh Sentencing Backfired
DATE: November 28, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: 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.
URL: https://gps.press/the-deterrence-myth-georgias-harsh-sentencing-backfired/
TITLE: The Human Cost of Georgia’s Prison Extortion
DATE: November 26, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: 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.
URL: https://gps.press/the-human-cost-of-georgias-prison-extortion/
TITLE: When Innocence Isn't Enough: How Georgia's System Turns Pretrial Detention Into a Machine for Guilty Pleas
DATE: November 26, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: 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.
URL: https://gps.press/when-innocence-isnt-enough-how-georgias-system-turns-pretrial-detention-into-a-machine-for-guilty-pleas/
TITLE: Forced Criminality: Inside Georgia’s Prison Violence Factory
DATE: November 25, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: 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 what’s needed) → Ramen marked up 350%...
URL: https://gps.press/forced-criminality-georgia-prison-violence-factory/
TITLE: Truth in Sentencing Broke Parole. Georgia Is Paying the Price.
DATE: November 25, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article, Parole
DESCRIPTION: Parole was built to manage risk and restore lives. In Georgia, “85% truth in sentencing” turned that safety valve into a death sentence.
URL: https://gps.press/truth-in-sentencing-broke-parole/
TITLE: Georgia’s $40 Billion Mistake: How Bad Science and Federal Bribes Created a Constitutional Crisis
DATE: November 23, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: 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 calls "among the most severe constitutional violations" nationwide. One hundred...
URL: https://gps.press/georgia-truth-in-sentencing-40-billion-failure/
TITLE: America’s Hidden Crime: How the Government Poisoned a Generation, Then Imprisoned Them for It
DATE: November 22, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article, Press Releases
DESCRIPTION: 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 knowingly allowed for 70 years—lead poisoning from...
URL: https://gps.press/government-lead-poisoning-created-crime-wave/
TITLE: The Poverty-to-Prison Pipeline: How Georgia Criminalizes Being Poor
DATE: November 22, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: 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.
URL: https://gps.press/the-poverty-to-prison-pipeline-how-georgia-criminalizes-being-poor/
TITLE: Normalization: The Principle That Changes Everything
DATE: November 20, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: 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 for rehabilitation. Georgia treats it as a...
URL: https://gps.press/normalization-the-principle-that-changes-everything/
TITLE: Why Georgia Must Create a Liberty Interest in Parole
DATE: November 13, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article, Parole
DESCRIPTION: 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 across our state.
URL: https://gps.press/liberty-interest-in-parole-georgia/
TITLE: Georgia’s 2026 Legislative Session: A Second Chance for Real Parole Reform
DATE: November 11, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article, Parole, Press Releases
DESCRIPTION: Georgia’s 2026 legislative session could finally bring transparency and fairness to parole. With SB 25 and the new *Second Chance Parole Reform Act of 2026*, advocates are demanding written explanations, video hearings, and real opportunities for release. Learn how families can act now and use Impact Justice AI to push...
URL: https://gps.press/georgias-2026-legislative-session-a-second-chance-for-real-parole-reform/
TITLE: The Price of Staying Close: Families Pay the Cost of a Broken System
DATE: November 11, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: Across Georgia, families are going broke just to keep their loved ones alive and connected behind bars. From elderly grandparents skipping meals to mothers living on disability, the human cost of Georgia’s prison economy runs far deeper than commissary prices or phone bills. These are the voices of those paying...
URL: https://gps.press/the-price-of-staying-close-families-pay-the-cost-of-a-broken-system/
TITLE: The Classification Crisis: How Four Medium Security Prisons are Killing People
DATE: November 10, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: Georgia has secretly packed four medium security prisons with close security inmates at rates up to 10 times higher than other facilities—creating a deadly mismatch that’s killing people. GPS obtained data showing Dooly, Wilcox, Calhoun, and Washington State Prisons now house 28-30% close security populations. The result? Homicide rates 4-5...
URL: https://gps.press/the-classification-crisis-how-four-medium-security-prisons-are-killing-people/
TITLE: The Price of Love: How Georgia’s Prisons Bleed Families Dry
DATE: November 6, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: For many families in Georgia, having a loved one behind bars doesn’t mean only missing birthdays and phone calls—it means chronic financial strain. A new national study finds that families who provide direct support to incarcerated relatives spend on average 6 % of their household income each month just to...
URL: https://gps.press/the-price-of-love-how-georgias-prisons-bleed-families-dry/
TITLE: When Warnings Go Ignored: How Georgia’s Prison Deaths Became Predictable—and Preventable
DATE: November 5, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: GEORGIA’S PRISON DEATHS AREN’T ACCIDENTS—THEY’RE POLICY CHOICES By September 2025, Georgia’s prisons had already outpaced last year’s homicide total. The DOJ called it “deliberate indifference.” We call it what it is: preventable. Georgia pours $1.6 billion into new walls while people inside starve. California spent $239 million on rehabilitation last...
URL: https://gps.press/when-warnings-go-ignored/
TITLE: Georgia’s Prison Commissary Extortion: Convenience Store Rejects Sold at Premium Prices for $47 Million
DATE: November 1, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: Stewart Distribution supplies convenience stores across Georgia with chips, honey buns, and ramen. When products approach expiration, stores pull them from shelves. Where do those products go? Back to Stewart’s warehouse in Blackshear—then straight to Georgia’s prisons at premium prices. The result: Inmates pay $0.90 for ramen worth $0.20 wholesale,...
URL: https://gps.press/georgias-prison-commissary-extortion/
TITLE: Death by Neglect: The Hidden Deaths Inside Georgia Prisons
DATE: October 24, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: At Georgia’s main prison, men are dying from neglect—not executions. The sick go untreated, suicides are ignored, and bodies vanish from the record. These aren’t isolated cases—they’re the rule. Read how Georgia’s prison system erases the dead and silences the living.
URL: https://gps.press/death-by-neglect-the-hidden-deaths-inside-georgia-prisons/
TITLE: Prisneyland: What Prison Should Be
DATE: October 22, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article, Press Releases
DESCRIPTION: California is proving what real reform looks like. At Valley State Prison, there were zero homicides and only one serious violent incident last year. In Georgia, there were 333 deaths and more than 100 murders. The difference? California invests in education and rehabilitation, not concrete and isolation. “Prisneyland” isn’t soft...
URL: https://gps.press/prisneyland-what-prison-should-be/
TITLE: Georgia’s “Hardened” Solution: Another Fortress Instead of Reform
DATE: October 18, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: Georgia is spending hundreds of millions on new “hardened” prisons while people inside are starving, dying, and losing hope. The state calls it reform, but it’s really just repackaged repression — concrete solutions to moral failures. The Department of Justice has already declared Georgia’s prisons unconstitutional, yet instead of addressing...
URL: https://gps.press/georgias-hardened-solution-another-fortress-instead-of-reform/
TITLE: Georgia Supreme Court Opens Door for Prisoners to Challenge Convictions Based on Outdated Science
DATE: October 17, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: Georgia prisoners convicted on discredited forensic evidence now have precedent for new trials. Southern Center for Human Rights wins landmark Smith case.
URL: https://gps.press/georgia-supreme-court-opens-door-for-prisoners-to-challenge-convictions-based-on-outdated-science/
TITLE: Parole: A Promise Broken — and How Georgia Can Make It Right
DATE: October 6, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article, Parole
DESCRIPTION: Parole isn’t mercy—it’s a promise. A promise that if you do the work, you can come home. Families across Georgia have waited years for the system to keep that promise. It’s time for the state to restore trust and fairness.
URL: https://gps.press/parole-a-promise-broken-and-how-georgia-can-make-it-right/
TITLE: Starved and Silenced: The Hidden Crisis Inside Georgia Prisons
DATE: October 5, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: “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...
URL: https://gps.press/starved-and-silenced-the-hidden-crisis-inside-georgia-prisons/
TITLE: Sheqweetta Vaughan’s Death at Arrendale Prison: Another Tragedy of Neglect in Georgia
DATE: October 3, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: On July 9, 2025, Sheqweetta Vaughan, a 32-year-old mother incarcerated at Lee Arrendale State Prison in Georgia, was found dead in her cell. By the time staff discovered her, her body was already decomposing. Her death is not only a tragedy—it’s a stark indictment of the Georgia Department of Corrections...
URL: https://gps.press/sheqweetta-vaughans-death-at-arrendale-prison-another-tragedy-of-neglect-in-georgia/
TITLE: Why Families Must Fight FCC Prison Jammers Now
DATE: October 1, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: 📢 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
URL: https://gps.press/why-families-must-fight-fcc-prison-jammers-now/
TITLE: Record Every Call: How to Expose Contempt and Abuse
DATE: September 22, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article, Information&Resources
DESCRIPTION: 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.
URL: https://gps.press/record-every-call-how-to-expose-contempt-and-abuse/
TITLE: The Hidden Violence in Georgia’s Prisons: Beyond the Death Toll
DATE: September 19, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: 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.
URL: https://gps.press/the-hidden-violence-in-georgias-prisons-beyond-the-death-toll/
TITLE: Slavery by Another Name: Forced Labor in Georgia Prisons
DATE: September 17, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: 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.
URL: https://gps.press/slavery-by-another-name/
TITLE: Stop the Silence: Why Georgia Must Legalize and Monitor Cell Phones in Prisons
DATE: September 13, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article, Press Releases
DESCRIPTION: Georgia already bought the tech to control prison cellphones. MAS can register and monitor devices, protect victims, and flag real crime—without illegal jamming or silencing families. It’s time to use MAS to supervise phones, not push them underground.
URL: https://gps.press/stop-the-silence-why-georgia-must-legalize-and-monitor-cell-phones-in-prisons/
TITLE: A Constitutional Betrayal: Georgia’s Deadline on Freedom
DATE: August 10, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: 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.
URL: https://gps.press/a-constitutional-betrayal-georgias-deadline-on-freedom/
TITLE: Why Georgia Hasn’t Had Its Attica—Yet
DATE: July 12, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: 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.
URL: https://gps.press/why-georgia-hasnt-had-its-attica-yet/
TITLE: Exposé: How Georgia’s Justice System Functions as a Criminal Enterprise
DATE: July 4, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: Georgia’s prison system is rotting from the inside—and the cover-up goes all the way to the Attorney General’s office. From smuggled contraband to hidden evidence and retaliated whistleblowers, this investigation exposes how deep the corruption runs.
URL: https://gps.press/expose-how-georgias-justice-system-functions-as-a-criminal-enterprise/
TITLE: Unconstitutional: Georgia’s Extrajudicial Punishment
DATE: June 20, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: When judges hand down prison sentences, the punishment is supposed to match the crime. But in Georgia, the real sentence isn’t what’s on paper—it’s what happens behind the walls: violence, medical neglect, and trauma that far exceed what the law allows. This isn’t just a moral crisis. It’s a constitutional...
URL: https://gps.press/unconstitutional-georgias-extrajudicial-punishment/
TITLE: A Win for Justice: Supreme Court Expands Jury Trial Rights for Prisoners Blocked from Filing Grievances
DATE: June 19, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: In a groundbreaking 5–4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has expanded prisoners’ rights to jury trials—marking a major shift in how incarcerated individuals can seek justice when prison officials block access to the grievance system. This decision could be a game-changer for abused and silenced inmates across Georgia and the...
URL: https://gps.press/a-win-for-justice-supreme-court-expands-jury-trial-rights-for-prisoners-blocked-from-filing-grievances/
TITLE: No Way Out: How Georgia’s Broken Grievance System Silences Prisoners and Shields Abuse
DATE: June 19, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: ...unsafe conditions—is widely known by prisoners as a trap. For many, attempting to file a grievance doesn’t lead to help. It leads to retaliation. “In Georgia, a grievance is not...
URL: https://gps.press/how-georgias-broken-grievance-system-silences-prisoners-and-shields-abuse/
TITLE: Georgia’s New Drug Crisis: The Strip Epidemic Inside State Prisons
DATE: June 10, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article, Press Releases
DESCRIPTION: Inside Georgia’s prisons, inmates are inhaling toxic smoke from drug-laced paper strips soaked in synthetic chemicals and mailed in through legal documents. The Georgia Department of Corrections knows how it’s getting in—but refuses to stop it. What’s happening isn’t just a drug crisis. It’s a slow-motion mass poisoning, and GDC...
URL: https://gps.press/georgias-new-drug-crisis-the-strip-epidemic-inside-state-prisons/
TITLE: Fixing Georgia’s Parole System: The Ultimate Plan for Justice
DATE: June 1, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article, Parole
DESCRIPTION: Georgia’s prison system is failing, driven by a parole board that perpetuates injustice through bias, lack of transparency, and arbitrary decisions. This broken system has fueled violence, overcrowding, and catastrophic deaths across the Georgia Department of Corrections, leaving inmates without hope and families in despair. This article explores the urgent...
URL: https://gps.press/fixing-georgias-parole-system-the-ultimate-plan-for-justice/
TITLE: A Second Chance for Georgia: Fixing Parole With the Reform It Desperately Needs
DATE: May 25, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article, Information&Resources, Parole, Press Releases
DESCRIPTION: Georgia’s parole system is failing—and people are dying behind bars after serving 30, 40, even 50 years with no path to release. In 2026, lawmakers have a chance to fix it. We call it the Second Chance Parole Reform Act. Here’s what needs to change—and how you can help.
URL: https://gps.press/second-chance-act/
TITLE: Forbidden Essentials: The Everyday Items Georgia Prisons Ban from Incarcerated People
DATE: May 22, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: In Georgia prisons, nail clippers, floss, even Band-Aids are contraband. Prisoners risk punishment for basic hygiene. Learn what everyday items are banned—and how you can fight back using Impact Justice AI.
URL: https://gps.press/forbidden-essentials-the-everyday-items-georgia-prisons-ban-from-incarcerated-people/
TITLE: How a Simple Tool Is Helping Georgians Fight Back: Impact Justice AI
DATE: May 18, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article, Information&Resources
DESCRIPTION: Impact Justice AI is helping Georgians fight back against injustice in prisons—one email at a time. Learn how this powerful advocacy tool works and why over 15,000 messages have already been sent to lawmakers, parole board members, and the media.
URL: https://gps.press/impact-justice-ai/
TITLE: Caught in the Gears: The Ordeal of Jason Palmer and Georgia’s Ongoing Crisis of Justice
DATE: May 17, 2025
CATEGORY: Conditions, Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: Jason Palmer’s conviction for murder in Camden County is riddled with red flags: no evidence, a conflicted juror, a rushed verdict, and inhumane prison conditions. His story exposes how Georgia’s criminal justice system still fails the innocent, and why ongoing reform is so urgent.
URL: https://gps.press/caught-in-the-gears-the-ordeal-of-jason-palmer-and-georgias-ongoing-crisis-of-justice/
TITLE: Rule 3.8 Comes to Georgia: A New Tool for Prisoner Justice
DATE: May 17, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article, Information&Resources
DESCRIPTION: Georgia’s adoption of Rule 3.8 gives prisoners a powerful new tool to demand justice, requiring prosecutors to act when new evidence of innocence or misconduct surfaces. Learn how this rule can be used in real cases to overturn wrongful convictions and restore fairness.
URL: https://gps.press/rule-3-8-comes-to-georgia-a-new-tool-for-prisoner-justice/
TITLE: A New Path to Justice: What Georgia’s HB 176 Means for Incarcerated Individuals
DATE: May 16, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article, Information&Resources
DESCRIPTION: With the signing of HB 176, Georgia has restored the right to out-of-time appeals, opened the door to guilty plea challenges, and guaranteed legal counsel for indigent defendants. This long-overdue law corrects the fallout from Cook v. State and gives thousands a new chance to pursue justice.
URL: https://gps.press/a-new-path-to-justice-hb-176/
TITLE: Justice at Last: Georgia Enacts Landmark Compensation Law for Wrongfully Convicted
DATE: May 14, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article, Information&Resources
DESCRIPTION: After years of advocacy and bipartisan collaboration, Georgia takes a historic step forward with the signing of the Wrongful Conviction and Incarceration Compensation Act into law. This groundbreaking legislation offers new hope and financial justice to individuals wrongfully convicted, marking a major victory for fairness, accountability, and human dignity in...
URL: https://gps.press/justice-at-last-georgia-enacts-landmark-compensation-law-for-wrongfully-convicted/
TITLE: Caged and Forgotten: The Hidden Horrors of Valdosta State Prison
DATE: April 26, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: In recent months, global attention has focused on the appalling conditions at the infamous CECOT prison in El Salvador. However, equally horrific conditions are taking place right here in the United States—within Georgia Department of Corrections’ Valdosta State Prison. The abuses at Valdosta reveal a disturbing parallel, and perhaps surpass...
URL: https://gps.press/caged-and-forgotten-the-hidden-horrors-of-valdosta-state-prison/
TITLE: Invisible Scars: A Path to Healing and Reform in Georgia’s Prisons
DATE: April 9, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: Georgia’s prison crisis demands immediate action—but there’s hope. In this powerful conclusion to our Invisible Scars series, we explore proven solutions from states and countries that have transformed their prison systems, significantly improving safety, cutting costs, and reducing recidivism. Discover how Georgia can implement humane reforms to break the cycle...
URL: https://gps.press/invisible-scars-a-path-to-healing-and-reform-in-georgias-prisons/
TITLE: Invisible Scars: Cycle of Retaliation and Abuse in Georgia Prisons
DATE: April 7, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: Inside Georgia’s prisons, silence is enforced through fear, and those who speak up are punished brutally. Officers incite beatings, gang members control dorms, and retaliation is policy—not exception. From mothers being extorted to inmates beaten for asking questions, this is not a correctional system—it’s a war zone disguised as justice....
URL: https://gps.press/invisible-scars-cycle-of-retaliation-and-abuse-in-georgia-prisons/
TITLE: Invisible Scars: How Georgia’s Prisons Perpetuate Trauma and Abuse
DATE: April 6, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: Behind Georgia’s prison walls, inmates live in perpetual fear—witnessing brutality, murder, and unimaginable cruelty. The violence they witness leaves invisible scars: trauma untreated and voices unheard. Using firsthand accounts and DOJ findings, this article brings these hidden realities to light, demanding urgent change.
URL: https://gps.press/invisible-scars-how-georgias-prisons-perpetuate-trauma-and-abuse/
TITLE: Heat, Humidity, and the Constitution
DATE: April 5, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: In Georgia’s sweltering summers, prisons become life-threatening ovens, subjecting inmates to unbearable heat and humidity. Recent federal court rulings in Texas declared similar conditions unconstitutional, exposing how extreme temperatures violate basic human rights. Could this landmark decision pave the way for urgent reforms in Georgia? Read on to discover why...
URL: https://gps.press/heat-humidity-and-the-constitution/
TITLE: Triple Bunking Crisis: The Harsh Reality Inside Georgia Prisons
DATE: April 5, 2025
CATEGORY: Conditions, Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: In Georgia prisons, men live stacked like human cargo—three men confined to spaces designed for one, each given just enough room to stand. This isn’t just overcrowding; it’s a humanitarian crisis. Step inside the stark reality of triple bunking and discover why change can’t wait.
URL: https://gps.press/triple-bunking-crisis-the-harsh-reality-inside-georgia-prisons/
TITLE: Unqualified and Unprepared: Leadership Failure in Georgia’s Prisons
DATE: March 28, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article, Press Releases
DESCRIPTION: Georgia’s prisons are in crisis—and the root cause is deeper than you think. Decades of insular promotions, inadequate training, and resistance to outside expertise have created a leadership vacuum with devastating consequences: rampant violence, widespread corruption, and staggering human and financial costs. How did Georgia’s prison system become trapped in...
URL: https://gps.press/unqualified-and-unprepared-leadership-failure-in-georgias-prisons/
TITLE: Downsize to Rightsize: Georgia’s Prison Crisis Needs Urgent Action
DATE: March 27, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: Georgia’s prisons have spiraled into crisis: overcrowding, violence, and deteriorating conditions have overwhelmed correctional officers. It’s time to acknowledge that the current system is unsustainable. Decarceration isn’t just compassionate—it’s necessary for safety, management, and restoring basic human dignity.
URL: https://gps.press/downsize-to-rightsize-georgias-prison-crisis-needs-urgent-action/
TITLE: Who’s the Real Criminal? How Georgia Steals money
DATE: March 21, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: The Georgia Department of Corrections isn’t just locking people up—it’s shaking them down for every penny. Through a no-bid contract with Stewart’s Distribution, commissary prices have been artificially inflated, forcing inmates and their families to pay double, sometimes triple, the real cost of basic necessities like ramen noodles and coffee....
URL: https://gps.press/whos-the-real-criminal-how-georgia-steals-money/
TITLE: Decarceration as a Solution to Georgia’s Prison Crisis
DATE: March 19, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: Georgia’s prisons are overcrowded, violent, and costly—but the solution could be simpler than you think. Thousands of elderly and long-term inmates remain behind bars, despite overwhelming evidence they pose little risk. Could releasing these prisoners save taxpayer money, improve safety, and humanize a broken system? Explore how decarceration has successfully...
URL: https://gps.press/decarceration-as-a-solution-to-georgias-prison-crisis/
TITLE: Georgia Prisons’ ACA Compliance vs. Inhumane Reality
DATE: March 15, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: Georgia prisons claim to meet ACA standards for humane treatment, yet investigations reveal a shocking reality: overcrowded cells, dangerously inadequate meals, and filthy conditions that defy basic human rights. Behind the official accreditation lies a disturbing pattern of neglect and abuse, exposing a system that’s ACA-compliant in name only.
URL: https://gps.press/georgia-prisons-aca-compliance-vs-inhumane-reality/
TITLE: The First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All The Lawyers
DATE: March 13, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: The Corrupt Business of Justice in Georgia - For centuries, people have distrusted lawyers—but in Georgia, that distrust is well-earned. Criminal defense attorneys demand massive upfront payments with no refunds. Judges and district attorneys—often former defense lawyers themselves—profit from the same system they claim to regulate. State lawmakers, many of...
URL: https://gps.press/the-first-thing-we-do-lets-kill-all-the-lawyers/
TITLE: Nutrition Neglect: How Georgia’s Prison Food Is Fueling Violence
DATE: March 10, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: Could something as basic as food be the hidden trigger behind prison riots and unrest? In Georgia prisons, hunger isn’t just about discomfort—it’s fueling a crisis. Malnutrition and barely-edible meals at $1.80 a day are not just depriving incarcerated people of nutrition; they’re driving desperation, mental health breakdowns, and escalating...
URL: https://gps.press/nutrition-neglect-how-georgias-prison-food-is-fueling-violence/
TITLE: Georgia's Corrections Spending vs Public Safety: A Costly Imbalance
DATE: March 9, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: Georgia's Costly Corrections System: Billions Spent, Average Safety Returns Georgia incarcerates more of its citizens than any democratic nation on Earth, with an incarceration rate of 881 per 100,000 people. Since 1970, the state has seen a staggering 671% increase in its prison population. Despite pouring over $35 billion into...
URL: https://gps.press/georgias-corrections-spending-vs-public-safety-a-costly-imbalance/
TITLE: A Tale of Two Prisons: What Georgia Can Learn from Norway
DATE: March 1, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: Georgia’s prisons breed fear and violence, trapping inmates in cycles of despair. Norway, however, offers humane conditions and genuine rehabilitation—proving that dignity, compassion, and investment in prisoners lead to safer communities and drastically lower recidivism. Georgia has a chance to choose a better path.
URL: https://gps.press/a-tale-of-two-prisons/
TITLE: Lethal Negligence: The Hidden Death Toll in Georgia’s Prisons
DATE: February 26, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: The Georgia prison system is not just negligent—it is complicit in covering up murders. With protective custody failures, gang-controlled facilities, and blatant falsification of documents, the state has perfected the art of avoiding accountability.
URL: https://gps.press/lethal-negligence-the-hidden-death-toll-in-georgias-prisons/
TITLE: THE FIGHT TO SURVIVE: INSIDE GEORGIA'S DEADLY PRISON CRISIS
DATE: February 24, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: In 2024, 330 people died in Georgia prisons—nearly 100 by homicide. Already in 2025, 33 more lives have been lost. Behind these statistics are human beings trapped in a system the Department of Justice has declared unconstitutional, where cells designed for two hold three, gangs control housing units, and staff...
URL: https://gps.press/the-fight-to-survive-inside-georgias-deadly-prison-crisis/
TITLE: The Felon Train: How Georgia Turns Citizens into Convicts
DATE: February 23, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: “One in seven adults in Georgia is a felon. Do you really believe over a million people are just criminals? No. This system is rigged to keep the prisons full.” Georgia’s justice system isn’t about justice—it’s about control. It’s about turning everyday people into lifelong convicts, feeding a machine built...
URL: https://gps.press/the-felon-train-how-georgia-turns-citizens-into-convicts/
TITLE: Rooting Phones: A Prisoner’s Guide
DATE: February 21, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: In Georgia’s prisons, cell phone access has become a vital lifeline for inmates seeking to communicate, report abuse, and even safeguard their health. Yet the Georgia Department of Corrections is aggressively implementing Managed Access Systems (MAS) designed to shut down unauthorized devices and silence dissent. For those determined to bypass...
URL: https://gps.press/rooting-phones-a-prisoners-guide/
TITLE: Georgia’s Cell Phone Crackdown: Security or Silence?
DATE: February 19, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: ...(MAS) • Creates a controlled network inside the prison, allowing only approved devices to function. All unauthorized phones are blocked from connecting. 🔹 Beacon Technology • Detects and disables contraband cellphones when they enter a restricted area. 🔹 Geolocation-Based...
URL: https://gps.press/georgias-cell-phone-crackdown-security-or-silence/
TITLE: Punishment for Profit: How Georgia’s Justice System Makes Millions
DATE: February 19, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: In Georgia, being poor, mentally ill, or struggling with addiction isn’t just hard—it’s a crime. Instead of offering help, the justice system funnels thousands into prison for minor offenses, all while private companies and politicians profit. It’s not about safety—it’s about money.
URL: https://gps.press/punishment-for-profit-how-georgias-justice-system-makes-millions/
TITLE: Georgia Prison Population vs. Capacity: 2025 Data
DATE: February 19, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: Georgia's prisons face severe overcrowding and staffing shortages in 2025, impacting inmate safety and rehabilitation efforts.
URL: https://gps.press/georgia-prison-population-vs-capacity-2025-data/
TITLE: Left for Dead: The Tragic Story of Jamie Shahan
DATE: February 16, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: Jamie Shahan was sentenced to five years, but at Washington State Prison, his punishment became a death sentence in everything but name. Beaten, hospitalized, and left on life support—his mother fights for answers while the prison covers its tracks. How much more suffering will Georgia’s prison system ignore?
URL: https://gps.press/left-for-dead-the-tragic-story-of-jamie-shahan/
TITLE: From Kangaroo Courts to Chaos: Georgia’s Prison Crisis
DATE: February 9, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: Georgia’s prison system isn’t failing by accident—it’s built for brutality, where violence thrives, and justice is just a myth. Violence is ignored, gang control is unchecked, and the disciplinary system punishes the weak while protecting the strong. Inmates who report attacks are thrown into solitary, while their attackers remain free....
URL: https://gps.press/from-kangaroo-courts-to-chaos/
TITLE: A Simple Message for the GDC
DATE: February 3, 2025
CATEGORY: Blog, Featured Article, Press Releases
DESCRIPTION: 🚨 Want to immediately reduce violence in Georgia prisons? Separate gangs, bring back tablets, provide daily yard time, end triple bunking, fix the food, and indict in-prison murders. Until this happens, the bloodshed will continue. #PrisonReform
URL: https://gps.press/a-simple-message-for-the-gdc/
TITLE: Buried Alive: Innocent and Sentenced to Life in Prison
DATE: February 2, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: Mario Navarrete wasn’t the killer—but Georgia sentenced him to life anyway. No evidence. No intent. Just being there. This is how Georgia’s justice system buries the innocent. #FreeMario #JusticeForMario
URL: https://gps.press/buried-alive-innocent-and-sentenced-to-life-in-prison/
TITLE: Guilty Until Proven Innocent: You WILL be Found Guilty
DATE: January 29, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: 1 out of every 7 adults in Georgia are convicted felons. With the highest felony conviction rate in the nation, this isn’t just a statistic—it’s a warning sign. Something is terribly wrong with Georgia’s justice system.
URL: https://gps.press/guilty-until-proven-innocent-you-will-be-found-guilty/
TITLE: Former Inmates Share Life Inside Georgia Prisons
DATE: January 24, 2025
CATEGORY: Conditions, Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: Explore the dire conditions within Georgia's prisons, revealing systemic failures that impact inmate safety, health, and rehabilitation efforts.
URL: https://gps.press/former-inmates-share-life-inside-georgia-prisons/
TITLE: Violence And Corruption Unleashed: The Truth About Washington SP
DATE: January 23, 2025
CATEGORY: Conditions, Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: Behind the towering walls of Washington State Prison lies a hidden world of chaos and corruption, where gang leaders wield unchecked power, contraband flows freely, and those entrusted with maintaining order blur the line between authority and complicity. The murder of Dontavis Carter on January 7 is not just a...
URL: https://gps.press/violence-and-corruption-unleashed-the-truth-about-washington-sp/
TITLE: Buried Truth: The Story of Roy Mason Morris
DATE: January 16, 2025
CATEGORY: Conditions, Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: When Teresa Lester Sisson learned that her brother, Roy Mason Morris, had died, it wasn’t just the loss that devastated her—it was the revelation that he had been dead for 14 months, and no one had told her. His death, shrouded in mystery, exposes the systemic neglect, corruption, and dehumanization...
URL: https://gps.press/buried-truth-the-story-of-roy-mason-morris/
TITLE: The Truth About Cellphones in Georgia’s Prisons
DATE: January 12, 2025
CATEGORY: Conditions, Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: Discover the truth about cell phones in Georgia’s prisons and their surprising role in saving lives, exposing corruption, and bringing hope to inmates. Learn how prohibition fuels black markets and violence, while unrestricted access could foster transparency and change.
URL: https://gps.press/the-truth-about-cellphones-in-georgias-prisons/
TITLE: AI Meets Advocacy
DATE: January 11, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article, Information&Resources
DESCRIPTION: Imagine this: With just a few clicks, your concerns about the Georgia prison crisis are transformed into a professional, research-backed email that lands directly in the inbox of those with the power to enact change. Instead of feeling overwhelmed or unheard, you become part of a collective movement working toward...
URL: https://gps.press/ai-meets-advocacy/
TITLE: Beyond the Hashtags: Unpacking the Truth About Georgia’s Prison Crisis
DATE: January 9, 2025
CATEGORY: Conditions, Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: Social media is flooded with hate: ‘Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.’ But does vengeance actually make us safer? Georgia’s prisons are brutal, corrupt, and failing everyone—including the taxpayers footing the bill. It’s time to rethink justice. #ReformNow #JusticeForAll
URL: https://gps.press/beyond-the-hashtags-unpacking-the-truth-about-georgias-prison-crisis/
TITLE: In and Out: The Lives Destroyed by the GDC
DATE: January 5, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: Georgia’s prison system is failing its most basic responsibilities—to ensure safety, provide dignity, and rehabilitate those in its care. Behind the razor wire fences, stories of brutality, neglect, and systemic corruption paint a harrowing picture of life inside the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC). From the horrific torture of Christian...
URL: https://gps.press/in-and-out/
TITLE: Technology as a Tool for Justice: How ImpactJustice.AI is Changing Advocacy
DATE: January 4, 2025
CATEGORY: Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: Explore how an AI platform is transforming advocacy for prison reform, enhancing outreach, and driving systemic changes in the justice system.
URL: https://gps.press/technology-as-a-tool-for-justice-how-impactjusticeai-is-changing-advocacy/
TITLE: Forced to Drink: Blue Water Scandal at Washington Prison
DATE: January 1, 2025
CATEGORY: Conditions, Featured Article
DESCRIPTION: Georgia’s prison system is crumbling, and nowhere is this more evident than in the deteriorating infrastructure at facilities like Washington and Autry State Prisons. Most of these prisons, built over 30 years ago, have been neglected for decades, with maintenance funds mismanaged or outright stolen. At Washington State Prison, inmates...
URL: https://gps.press/blue-water/