# GPS This Week — June 13–27, 2026 > ← All issuesGreetings: This week is about the gap between what a conviction is supposed to mean and what Georgia's system actually delivers. Georgia gives death row prisoners lawyers and unlimited tim… **Published**: 2026-06-28 **Source**: https://gps.press/newsletter/2026-06-28/ **Author**: GPS Staff --- [← All issues](https://gps.press/newsletter/#past-issues) Greetings: This week is about the gap between what a conviction is supposed to mean and what Georgia's system actually delivers. Georgia gives death row prisoners lawyers and unlimited time to challenge a conviction. Everyone else gets four years, no attorney, and rationed law-library access to teach themselves a profession that takes seven years to learn — a deadline that buries wrongful-conviction claims unheard. The state built decades of convictions on hair and fiber methods now known to be unreliable. It funds a meal at about 53 cents while citing a dietary standard that doesn't exist. One in seven adults in Georgia is a felon. We don't ask anyone to take our word for it. This period we put 50 firsthand stories directly into legislators' hands, each carrying a QR code to the full record. The receipts were always the point. | | | --- | | **5** articles · **50** stories to legislators · **695** emails · **7** new advocates | ## Featured story [**Buried Alive: The Four-Year Deadline That Killed Habeas Corpus in Georgia**](https://gps.press/buried-alive-the-four-year-deadline-that-killed-habeas-corpus-in-georgia/) Georgia exempted death row prisoners from its four-year habeas deadline — the one group it gives lawyers and unlimited time. Everyone else gets four years, no attorney, and rationed law-library access to teach themselves a profession that takes seven years to learn. The deadline doesn't reject wrongful-conviction claims. It buries them unheard. Have a story from inside Georgia's prisons? 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 [**Buried Alive: The Four-Year Deadline That Killed Habeas Corpus in Georgia**](https://gps.press/buried-alive-the-four-year-deadline-that-killed-habeas-corpus-in-georgia/) June 26, 2026 The four-year habeas deadline buries wrongful-conviction claims unheard. [**The Felon Train: How Georgia Turns Citizens into Convicts**](https://gps.press/the-felon-train-how-georgia-turns-citizens-into-convicts/) June 23, 2026 One in seven adults in Georgia is a felon — a system built to keep prisons full. [**The 2,900-Calorie Menu That 53 Cents Can't Buy**](https://gps.press/the-2900-calorie-menu-that-53-cents-cant-buy/) June 18, 2026 The State's budget funds about 53 cents a meal — and there is no American Dietary Association. [**The Crime Lab: How Georgia Built Convictions on Junk Science — and Who Paid for It**](https://gps.press/the-crime-lab-how-georgia-built-convictions-on-junk-science-and-who-paid-for-it/) June 17, 2026 Georgia's crime lab built convictions on hair and fiber methods now known to be unreliable. [**The Receipts Were Always the Point**](https://gps.press/the-receipts-were-always-the-point/) June 16, 2026 Documentation, not courage alone, ended past injustices — the entire record now given freely to the world. ## Mailings this period 1 advocacy letter mailed. 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, delivered as physical mail lawmakers can't look away from. 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 695 emails sent this period: - Legislative: 688 - Advocacy: 7 ## New advocates 7 new subscribers joined this period. ## Explore GPS Two corners of GPS worth a look: [**Research Library**](https://gps.press/research-library/) The documents, studies, and public records behind GPS's reporting — searchable, sourced, and free to explore. [**End the Warehouse**](https://gps.press/end-the-warehouse/) GPS's case that Georgia runs warehouse prisons — built for storage, not rehabilitation — and what it would take to change that. — The GPS Team — accountability@gps.press [Subscribe to GPS This Week](https://gps.press/newsletter/#signup)