Press Releases

Press Releases

The Price of Silence: Why Transparency in Georgia Prisons is Crucial for Accountability

Georgia's prisons suffer from violence and neglect due to a lack of transparency, calling for urgent reforms to ensure accountability and safety...

Public Safety at Risk: How Georgia’s Prison Crisis Threatens Communities

Georgia's prison crisis poses a serious threat to public safety, with rising gang violence and severe staffing shortages spilling into communities...

Time for Reform: How State Legislators Can Fix Georgia’s Prisons

Georgia's prison system is in crisis, facing violence and overcrowding. Urgent reforms are needed to ensure safety and accountability...

Forced to Drink: Blue Water Scandal at Washington Prison

Georgia’s prison system is crumbling, and nowhere is this more evident than in the deteriorating infrastructure at facilities like Washington and Autry State Prisons. Most of these prisons, built over...

Georgia’s Arrendale State Prison: A Grim Reality for Women

Arrendale State Prison, a women’s facility in Georgia, has become a focal point for accusations of neglect, mismanagement, and inhumane treatment...

Justice for Sale: The Ethics of Georgia’s Prison System

Imagine a society where the pursuit of profit collides with our most fundamental rights—those enshrined in the Constitution itself...

Battlefield To Prison: A Soldier’s Fight For Justice

Mario Navarrete, a decorated soldier and Iraq War veteran, faces a life sentence, not for taking a life but for failing to report a crime. After 22 years behind bars...

Broken: The Urgent Need for Reform in Georgia Prisons

Georgia's prisons face a crisis of severe understaffing, leading to rising violence, deteriorating conditions, and urgent calls for reform...

The Crisis of Deception and Mismanagement in Georgia’s Prison System

The Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) is at the center of a growing scandal, marked by deception, systemic failures, and inhumane conditions. Investigations by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) and the...

Prisoners Innovating Their Own Rehabilitation

When you think of rehabilitation in prisons, the first thought might be government-provided programs designed to help incarcerated individuals turn their lives around. But in Georgia and beyond, the reality...