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This is a summary of reporting published by WGXA on November 5, 2026. It was not written by Georgia Prisoners’ Speak. GPS tracks coverage of Georgia’s prison system so the record stays in one place. The full article is on WGXA’s own site.
A 36-year-old inmate at Hancock State Prison in Sparta, Devin Edwards, died on October 30 after a physical altercation with his cellmate, and the Georgia Department of Corrections is investigating the death as a homicide. Hancock County Coroner Dontrelle Andrews told WGXA that Edwards was taken to Washington Regional Medical Center in Sandersville, where he was pronounced dead at 8:55 a.m. Andrews said the cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head and strangulation, and the GBI Crime Laboratory ruled the death a homicide following an autopsy. Edwards had been incarcerated since 2022, serving a 15-year sentence for a methamphetamine trafficking conviction out of Coffee County involving 200-399 grams.
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