# GPS This Week — May 30–Jun 13, 2026 > ← All issuesOver the past two weeks GPS published 14 articles — including the finale of End the Warehouse and an investigation into Legionella in a South Georgia prison's water — mailed 50 firsthand s… **Published**: 2026-06-14 **Source**: https://gps.press/newsletter/2026-06-14/ **Author**: GPS Staff --- [← All issues](https://gps.press/newsletter/#past-issues) Over the past two weeks GPS published 14 articles — including the finale of *End the Warehouse* and an investigation into Legionella in a South Georgia prison's water — mailed 50 firsthand stories to legislators, and sent 623 emails on your behalf. ## Featured story [There's Nothing Wrong with the Water](https://gps.press/theres-nothing-wrong-with-the-water/) Georgia's public-health agency confirmed Legionella in a South Georgia prison's water. Thirty days later, the corrections department told the men living there — in writing — that no outbreak existed. The contamination, and the antibiotics, followed them to the next prison. Have a story from inside? Share it through Tell My Story at [gps.press/tell-my-story](https://gps.press/tell-my-story/) — and refer a loved one inside who has one to tell. ## Articles published - [There's Nothing Wrong with the Water](https://gps.press/theres-nothing-wrong-with-the-water/) — Jun 7 Legionella confirmed in a prison's water; corrections told the men no outbreak existed. - [The Giant I Still Have to Face](https://gps.press/the-giant-i-still-have-to-face/) — Jun 7 A firsthand account of pursuing a challenge to a void count in an indictment. - [The Case for Bringing TEDx Into Georgia's Prisons](https://gps.press/the-case-for-bringing-tedx-into-georgias-prisons/) — Jun 7 A public-speaking and leadership program that builds leaders and costs the state nothing. - [Flying Into the Sun](https://gps.press/flying-into-the-sun/) — Jun 5 Seeing the sunset again after a year without it from a cell window. - [Life Without God](https://gps.press/life-without-god/) — Jun 5 A firsthand reflection on faith and stability inside. - [Blue Duck](https://gps.press/blue-duck/) — Jun 5 A moment of prison life at Georgia State Prison in the mid-1990s. - [A Plea for Justice: One Prisoner's Story](https://gps.press/a-plea-for-justice-one-prisoners-story/) — Jun 5 A man describes being held in violation of the law and seeking relief. - [Spiders On The Inside](https://gps.press/spiders-on-the-inside/) — Jun 5 Surviving brown recluse bites and the medical response inside. - [Reopen the Doors — Normalization](https://gps.press/reopen-the-doors-normalization/) — Jun 5 The finale of End the Warehouse and a blueprint out. - [The Last Thread](https://gps.press/the-last-thread/) — Jun 3 An investigation into how the state severs family contact by design. - [Social Death](https://gps.press/social-death/) — May 31 The despair the state manufactures by policy, refuses to treat, and declines to count. - [Officer Flowers](https://gps.press/officer-flowers/) — May 30 A firsthand account of lockdown conditions at Georgia State Prison in 1994. - [$150 Million to Watch Them Die: Georgia's OWL Surveillance Goes Live](https://gps.press/georgia-owl-surveillance-goes-live/) — May 30 The first centralized real-time prison-surveillance hub in American corrections. - [The Only Family Left](https://gps.press/the-only-family-left/) — May 30 How the state manufactured the vacuum its gangs now fill. ## Mailings this period 3 advocacy letters (all certified). We put 50 firsthand stories from inside directly into Georgia legislators' hands this period — real accounts mailed as Tell My Story postcards, each carrying a pull-quote and a QR code to the full story, so lawmakers can't look away from what's happening in their prisons. Have a story that belongs in a legislator's hands? Share it at [gps.press/tellmystory](https://gps.press/tellmystory). ## Emails sent on your behalf 623 emails sent this period: Legislative: 598 Advocacy: 14 Open Records Requests: 11 ## New advocates 10 new advocates joined this period. ## Explore GPS Two corners of GPS worth a look: [GPS Quote Bank](https://gps.press/quote-bank/) A searchable archive of voices from inside and around Georgia's prisons — the words behind the reporting, sourced and citable. [GDC Policy Library](https://gps.press/GDC-Policy-Library/) Every GDC standard operating procedure GPS could obtain, organized and searchable — see the rules the system is supposed to follow. — The GPS Team — accountability@gps.press [Subscribe to GPS This Week](https://gps.press/newsletter/#signup)