News Category: Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Rare killings of women come to light as Georgia prisons set homicide record When a prisoner at Lee Arrendale State Prison was found dead in her cell this spring, Hallie Reed called her mother in a panic. Reed was in the same mental health unit as the dead woman, Sherry Joyce, and she told her …

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Death behind bars: Here’s how Georgia prisoners are being killed Georgia prisons saw an unprecedented 38 homicides in 2023, topping the previous record of 31 the year before. This year’s death toll has already set another horrific record. At least 44 people have been homicide victims so far in 2024. Among the recent homicides is …

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Georgia prison guards convicted in contraband trial A Baldwin County jury found three former correctional officers guilty Wednesday in a trial that exposed a scheme to smuggle drugs and cellphones into a privately operated state prison. Natashia Seals, Tierra Harrison and Shanell Brown, who all worked at Riverbend Correctional Facility in Milledgeville, were found guilty …

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Georgia preps for fight as feds expose horrific prison conditions One by one they stepped to the podium in a spare room at the Richard Russell federal building in Atlanta, the Justice Department’s top civil rights official and all three of Georgia’s U.S. attorneys. They used different words and offered up their own disturbing examples, …

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DOJ finds Georgia prisons in chaos, state ‘indifferent’ to unsafe conditions 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 …

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