Georgia governor seeks to spend hundreds of millions more on prisonsKemp’s $458M budget amendment and $145M increase, new facility planning, renovation program response to federal investigation.
Georgia Senate study committee agrees to reform prison conditionsRecommendations for salary increases, mental health, vendor audits—but no independent oversight.
A Georgia inmate used a gun to kill a prison kitchen worker before killing himselfSmith State Prison shooting, firearm obtained inside facility.
Georgia prison officials in ‘flagrant’ violation of solitary confinement reforms, judge saysJudge Marc Treadwell contempt ruling, SMU conditions called “one of the harshest and most draconian” in the country.