With Georgia prisons on pace to set yet another grim record for homicides, the Department of Corrections has decided to no longer issue reports on how its inmates are dying.
After years of providing monthly mortality reports that often included the initial manner of death, the GDC abruptly decided to withhold that information, starting with the March report. Instead, GDC said it will release the manner of death for prisoners only after local medical examiners make those determinations— a process that can take a year or more.