Georgia Prisoners’ Speak – Media Resource Center
Georgia Prisoners’ Speak (GPS) provides verified information, rapid documentation, and direct access to sources inside Georgia’s prisons. This page is designed to give journalists, editors, researchers, and producers everything needed to report quickly, accurately, and safely on Georgia’s unfolding prison crisis.
For urgent media inquiries: media@gps.press
Start Here: Tip Briefs
GPS maintains concise, media-ready background sheets that summarize key cases, statewide patterns, and investigative leads.
These briefs include:
- Key facts and dates
- Story contradictions
- Quotable analysis
- Public records to request
- Sources and verification notes
- Leads for further investigation
Access all briefs here:
👉 https://gps.press/tip-briefs
If you are working on deadline, Tip Briefs are the fastest way to get up to speed.
About Georgia Prisoners’ Speak (GPS)
GPS is an independent investigative organization documenting violence, corruption, medical neglect, underreported deaths, and constitutional violations inside the Georgia Department of Corrections. We combine:
- Direct communication with incarcerated witnesses
- Statements from families and victims
- Open records requests and public documents
- Internal state reports
- Data analysis
- On-the-ground verification
GPS exists because Georgia’s prison system routinely conceals information from the public, the press, and even families of the deceased.
Our mission is simple: expose the truth the state refuses to tell.
Media Contact
Email: media@gps.press
Organization: Georgia Prisoners’ Speak (GPS)
Response Time:
- Urgent inquiries: within 1 hour
- General inquiries: within 24 hours
- Requests for interviews with incarcerated individuals: varies based on facility conditions
NOTE: If you are on deadline, include DEADLINE in the subject line.
Request an Interview
GPS regularly facilitates interviews with:
- Family members of victims
- Formerly incarcerated individuals
- Incarcerated witnesses (when possible)
- Policy experts
- Attorneys and investigators
- Advocacy partners
To request an interview, email media@gps.press with:
- Your outlet
- Your story focus
- Your deadline
- Whom you wish to interview
- Whether you need documents, video, images, or data
Verified Data Resources
GPS maintains the largest independent, publicly accessible database on Georgia prison conditions.
Available resources include:
- GDC Statistics: Independent breakdowns of the GDC Monthly and Friday Reports
- Investigative Series & Deep Dives:
- Death investigations
- Medical neglect
- Violence and gang control
- Forced criminality
- Parole failures
- Systemic cover-ups
- External Source References:
- U.S. Department of Justice findings report
- FOIA and Open Records documentation
Reporters are encouraged to request additional verification materials when needed.
Quote Bank (Pre-Cleared for Press Use)
The following quotes may be used without additional permission or attribution requirements:
On violence:
“Georgia’s prisons are not violent because the people inside are violent. They are violent because the state abandoned its legal duty to protect human life.”
On medical neglect:
“When prisoners die of treatable conditions while officers watch, that is not neglect — it is policy.”
On forced criminality:
“When you pay prisoners $0 and raise commissary prices 400–900%, you do not rehabilitate them. You force them into underground economies to survive.”
On accountability:
“The public cannot trust a system that hides deaths, buries audits, and refuses to tell grieving families what happened to their loved ones.”
On transparency:
“If the public saw what happens inside Georgia’s prisons every day, there would be a statewide emergency tomorrow.”
GPS Editorial Stance
Georgia Prisoners’ Speak supports:
- Safe, constitutional prisons
- Independent oversight
- Transparency in reporting prison deaths
- Reforming parole and sentencing
- Restoring access to communication
- Evidence-based, humane policy
We oppose:
- Withholding information from families
- Underreporting homicides
- Excessive use of lockdowns
- Allowing gangs to fill the vacuum left by absent staff
- Medical neglect
- Forced criminality through zero wages and inflated commissary pricing
- Policies that worsen violence under the guise of “security”
GPS is nonpartisan and independent. We work with journalists across all political backgrounds.
Access to Images, Graphics & Documents
Upon request, GPS can provide:
- Facility photos (where available)
- Charts and graphics (violence, deaths, staffing, etc.)
- Public records PDFs
- Verified statements
- Incident timelines
- Full investigative summaries
If you need images for publication, please specify orientation (16:9, portrait, square) and we will supply the correct format.
Press Release Archive
Browse official GPS statements and updates here:
👉 https://gps.press/press-releases/
🟦 Reuse & Sharing Policy
Georgia Prisoners’ Speak (GPS) encourages the responsible reuse of our reporting, data, and investigative materials. Journalists, researchers, educators, advocates, and policymakers may quote, republish, adapt, or build upon our work under the following conditions:
Credit the Source
Please include this line wherever GPS content is used:
“Originally published by Georgia Prisoners’ Speak (https://gps.press). Used with permission.”
If quoting directly, attribute clearly.
Do Not Alter Factual Content
Edits for clarity, length, formatting, or style are acceptable.
However, the facts, figures, and investigative findings must remain accurate and intact.
No Use for Harmful or Punitive Narratives
GPS exists to expose violence, corruption, and systemic failure within the Georgia Department of Corrections.
Our reporting may not be used to support:
- Anti-prisoner rhetoric
- Political fear-mongering
- Misleading interpretations
- Narratives that justify cruelty, negligence, or misinformation
GPS content may only be used for transparency, reform, advocacy, education, or legitimate journalism.
Notification of Reprints
If you republish, quote extensively, or adapt GPS content, please notify us through:
- Our website contact form, or
- Facebook Messenger, or
- Email: press@gps.press
This helps us maintain accuracy and build newsroom partnerships.
No Commercial Use Without Permission
GPS content may not be sold, paywalled, or used for commercial distribution without written permission from GPS.
Our Commitment
GPS’s mission is to make information about Georgia’s prison crisis accessible to everyone.
If sharing our work helps expose the truth, protect lives, or inform the public, you have our blessing.
Corrections & Clarifications
GPS maintains strict standards for accuracy and documentation.
If you believe any material requires correction, please email: media@gps.press
Corrections are reviewed and published within 48 hours.
Stay Connected
Follow GPS for updates, breaking reports, and new investigations:
Facebook: facebook.com/gaprisonersspeak
Website: https://gps.press