# Our Vision for Georgia > GPS Reform Agenda Our Vision for Georgia Georgia's criminal justice system is broken at every level — from wrongful convictions to warehoused prisoners to a corrections budget that corrects no… **Published**: 2026-04-04 **Source**: https://gps.press/our-vision/ **Author**: TellMyStory --- GPS Reform Agenda # Our Vision for Georgia Georgia's criminal justice system is broken at every level — from wrongful convictions to warehoused prisoners to a corrections budget that corrects nothing. GPS is building two comprehensive campaigns to fix it. Active Campaign ## End the Warehouse Transform Georgia's Prisons from Punishment to Rehabilitation Georgia spends $1.8 billion per year on its prison system and $52 per person on rehabilitation — fourteen cents a day. The state invests 46 dollars in surveillance for every 1 dollar in programming. The DOJ has declared the system unconstitutional. Facilities operate at 216% of design capacity. And 333 people died in custody in 2024 alone. End the Warehouse is GPS's plan to change this through two connected tracks: federal litigation to force population reduction to constitutional levels, and evidence-based rehabilitation to build the programming Georgia has never provided. The evidence from California, Texas, Maine, and South Carolina proves this works — and 90% of voters across party lines support it. 216%Overcrowding $52Rehab/Person/Yr 46:1Surveillance Ratio 333Deaths in 2024 90%Voter Support [Read the Full Plan →](/end-the-warehouse/) ### Supporting Research & Investigations - [Mission Failure: $1.8 Billion on Prisons, $52 on Rehabilitation](/mission-failure-georgia-spends-1-8-billion-on-prisons-and-52-per-person-on-rehabilitation/) - [Who Is Responsible for Georgia Prison Violence?](/who-is-responsible-for-georgia-prison-violence/) - [Guthrie v. Evans: 13 Years of Reform, Erased Overnight](/guthrie-v-evans-13-years-of-reform-erased-overnight/) - [80% of Voters Want Prison Reform](/80-percent-of-voters-want-prison-reform/) Active Campaign ## Vision 2027 Post-Conviction Justice Reform Georgia's post-conviction system traps people in prison even when evidence proves they should be free. A 4-year habeas corpus deadline — the strictest in the nation — bars people from presenting new evidence of innocence. Ineffective counsel rules punish the wrongly convicted for their lawyers' failures. And Georgia has no Conviction Integrity Unit to review questionable convictions. The most striking part: **the legislature doesn't need to create new rights — it needs to enforce the laws it already passed.** Two powerful Georgia statutes — one dating to 1863 — contain safeguards that courts have systematically gutted. [The Sleeping Giants](/the-sleeping-giants/) documents how judicial narrowing turned the legislature's own protections into dead letters, and how three model bills can wake them up. Vision 2027 targets the 2027 Georgia legislative session with these three bills. With a new Governor taking office in January 2027 and all 180 House seats up for election in 2026, the political window for reform is open. 3Model Bills 8,028Parole-Eligible Lifers 4 yrHabeas Deadline 0Conviction Integrity Units 2027Target Session [Read the Full Plan →](/vision2027/) These campaigns are not competing priorities. They are two halves of a comprehensive reform agenda. Vision 2027 frees people who shouldn't be there. End the Warehouse transforms what happens to those who are. Same coalition. Same Advocate Network. Same political window. Same public mandate. ## Join the Fight Georgia's prison system will not reform itself. It has proven this over 50 years. Change requires public pressure — your pressure. [Become an Advocate](/become-an-advocate/) [Take Action Now](/act/) [Share Your Story](https://tellmystory.gps.press) Georgia Prisoners' Speak | 501(c)(3) Nonprofit | [accountability@gps.press](mailto:accountability@gps.press) ![GPS](https://gps.press/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/gps-logo-full-dark.png)