Media Resource Center
Verified information, rapid documentation, and direct access to sources inside Georgia’s prisons. Everything journalists, editors, researchers, and producers need to report quickly, accurately, and safely on Georgia’s prison crisis.
For urgent media inquiries: media@gps.press
Tip Briefs
GPS maintains concise, media-ready background sheets that summarize key cases, statewide patterns, and investigative leads. If you are working on deadline, Tip Briefs are the fastest way to get up to speed.
These briefs include:
- Key facts and dates
- Story contradictions
- Quotable analysis
- Public records to request
- Sources and verification notes
- Leads for further investigation
About Georgia Prisoners’ Speak (GPS)
GPS is an independent investigative organization documenting violence, corruption, medical neglect, underreported deaths, and constitutional violations inside the Georgia Department of Corrections. We combine:
- Direct communication with incarcerated witnesses
- Statements from families and victims
- Open records requests and public documents
- Internal state reports
- Data analysis
- On-the-ground verification
GPS exists because Georgia’s prison system routinely conceals information from the public, the press, and even families of the deceased.
Our mission is simple: expose the truth the state refuses to tell.
Media Contact
Email: media@gps.press
Organization: Georgia Prisoners’ Speak (GPS)
Response Time:
- Urgent inquiries: within 1 hour
- General inquiries: within 24 hours
- Requests for interviews with incarcerated individuals: varies based on facility conditions
NOTE: If you are on deadline, include DEADLINE in the subject line.
Request an Interview
GPS regularly facilitates interviews with:
- Family members of victims
- Formerly incarcerated individuals
- Incarcerated witnesses (when possible)
- Policy experts
- Attorneys and investigators
- Advocacy partners
To request an interview, email media@gps.press with:
- Your outlet
- Your story focus
- Your deadline
- Whom you wish to interview
- Whether you need documents, video, images, or data
Verified Data Resources
GPS maintains the largest independent, publicly accessible database on Georgia prison conditions. Available resources include:
GPS Databases
- GDC Statistics – Independent breakdowns of GDC Monthly and Friday Reports
- Deaths Database – Complete mortality records
- Facilities Directory – All GDC facilities with data
Investigative Topics
- Death investigations
- Medical neglect
- Violence and gang control
- Forced criminality
- Parole failures
- Systemic cover-ups
Reporters are encouraged to request additional verification materials when needed.
Machine-Readable Data & AI Tools
GPS provides structured, plain-text data pages optimized for researchers, data journalists, AI crawlers, and automated analysis tools. All pages are publicly accessible and require no authentication.
GPS Lighthouse AI Assistant
GPS Lighthouse is our interactive AI assistant trained on GPS data, Georgia law, and prison system documentation. Researchers and journalists can use it to quickly query our databases, ask questions about Georgia’s prison system, search case law via CourtListener, and get sourced answers. Available at gps.press/ask-ai/.
Machine-Readable Data Pages
These pages contain the same information as our public-facing pages but formatted as structured plain text for easy parsing and ingestion:
/ai-index/
- Master site index for AI systems
- Live statistics, key sections, common Q&A
- Data source descriptions
- JSON-LD structured data
/statistics-data/
- Population & demographics
- Mortality statistics
- Parole & length of stay data
- Drug admission profiles
/facilities-data/
- All GDC facility profiles
- Capacity, population, security level
- Warden info, contact details
- Mortality counts by year
/release-statistics-data/
- Annual release statistics
- Parole vs. max-out rates
- Time served by offense type
- 35 years of trend data
/blog-data/
- All GPS articles with full content
- Structured text format
- Publication dates & categories
- Ideal for corpus analysis
/faq-index/
- FAQ index page
- Common questions & answers
- Also available at /faqs/
API Access
GPS provides programmatic access via the WordPress REST API at gps.press/wp-json/gps/v1/ with public endpoints for articles, facilities, statistics, and categories. Authenticated API access is also available for the GPS Gateway. Contact media@gps.press for API documentation or custom data format requests (CSV, JSON, etc.).
Quote Bank (Pre-Cleared for Press Use)
The following quotes may be used without additional permission or attribution requirements:
On Violence
“Georgia’s prisons are not violent because the people inside are violent. They are violent because the state abandoned its legal duty to protect human life.”
On Medical Neglect
“When prisoners die of treatable conditions while officers watch, that is not neglect — it is policy.”
On Forced Criminality
“When you pay prisoners $0 and raise commissary prices 400–900%, you do not rehabilitate them. You force them into underground economies to survive.”
On Accountability
“The public cannot trust a system that hides deaths, buries audits, and refuses to tell grieving families what happened to their loved ones.”
On Transparency
“If the public saw what happens inside Georgia’s prisons every day, there would be a statewide emergency tomorrow.”
GPS Editorial Stance
GPS is nonpartisan and independent. We work with journalists across all political backgrounds.
We Support
- Safe, constitutional prisons
- Independent oversight
- Transparency in reporting prison deaths
- Reforming parole and sentencing
- Restoring access to communication
- Evidence-based, humane policy
We Oppose
- Withholding information from families
- Underreporting homicides
- Excessive use of lockdowns
- Allowing gangs to fill the vacuum left by absent staff
- Medical neglect
- Forced criminality through zero wages and inflated commissary pricing
- Policies that worsen violence under the guise of “security”
Access to Images, Graphics & Documents
Upon request, GPS can provide:
- Facility photos (where available)
- Charts and graphics (violence, deaths, staffing, etc.)
- Public records PDFs
- Verified statements
- Incident timelines
- Full investigative summaries
If you need images for publication, please specify orientation (16:9, portrait, square) and we will supply the correct format.
Press Releases & Additional Resources
Browse official GPS statements and updates:
Press Release Archive →For broader context, GPS monitors ongoing reporting across Georgia and national outlets. Our curated news tracker highlights the latest stories on violence, corruption, deaths, lawsuits, reforms, and systemic failures inside GDC facilities.
Latest News Coverage →Reuse & Sharing Policy
GPS encourages the responsible reuse of our reporting, data, and investigative materials under the following conditions:
Credit the Source
Please include: “Originally published by Georgia Prisoners’ Speak (https://gps.press). Used with permission.”
Do Not Alter Factual Content
Edits for clarity, length, formatting, or style are acceptable. However, the facts, figures, and investigative findings must remain accurate and intact.
No Use for Harmful or Punitive Narratives
Our reporting may not be used to support anti-prisoner rhetoric, political fear-mongering, misleading interpretations, or narratives that justify cruelty, negligence, or misinformation. GPS content may only be used for transparency, reform, advocacy, education, or legitimate journalism.
Notification of Reprints
If you republish, quote extensively, or adapt GPS content, please notify us via our contact form, Facebook Messenger, or media@gps.press.
No Commercial Use Without Permission
GPS content may not be sold, paywalled, or used for commercial distribution without written permission.
Our Commitment
GPS’s mission is to make information about Georgia’s prison crisis accessible to everyone. If sharing our work helps expose the truth, protect lives, or inform the public, you have our blessing.
Corrections & Clarifications
GPS maintains strict standards for accuracy and documentation. If you believe any material requires correction, please email media@gps.press. Corrections are reviewed and published within 48 hours.
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