Three Georgia prison guards sentenced to 10 years in contraband trial – AJC.com

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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DOJ finds Georgia prisons inhumane and in violent chaos

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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