This week GPS published five new articles on idleness, drugs, gangs, and despair inside Georgia prisons, and sent 270 emails on advocates’ behalf.
Featured story
The Flame — May 23, 2026
Forced into running phone scam operations by gang members inside Georgia prisons, this man reveals how state negligence and corruption enabled hundreds of thousands in fraud — from addiction to coercion to resistance.
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Articles published
The Only Family Left — May 30, 2026
How the state manufactured the vacuum its gangs now fill, from Commissioner Wayne Garner’s 1996 purge to today’s TAC-squad raids, and the body count it refuses to publish.
The Existential Vacuum — May 28, 2026
Georgia’s prisons have built an emptiness so total that despair, violence, and addiction are the only things left to fill it.
Zombie Dorms — May 25, 2026
A single soup buys hours of oblivion on K2, meth and fentanyl kill, and the state logs overdoses as “natural” — then stops releasing causes of death at all.
Nothing to Do — May 24, 2026
One television serves dozens of people and almost no one has work or class. Georgia removed the programs that once kept people occupied.
Emails sent on your behalf
270 emails went out this period:
- 262 advocacy emails to legislators
- 8 welcome emails to new advocates
New advocates
7 new advocates joined this week.
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