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
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 — 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
June 26, 2026
The four-year habeas deadline buries wrongful-conviction claims unheard.
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
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
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
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.
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
The documents, studies, and public records behind GPS’s reporting — searchable, sourced, and free to explore.
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