{ "meta": { "source": "Georgia Prisoners' Speak, open-records requests and the documents agencies released", "note": "Records requested under the Georgia Open Records Act (O.C.G.A. § 50-18-70 et seq.), by Georgia Prisoners' Speak or, where a page says so, by another person or group who shared them with GPS. Documents marked \"as released\" are posted exactly as the agency released them. Files marked \"prepared by GPS\" are GPS's own compilations of those documents, made for convenience; where they differ, the released document governs. A request is published here when GPS cites it or when its records are useful to readers; records about individual deaths are published on GPS's mortality pages, not here.", "generated_at": "2026-10-30T05:40:42+00:00", "documentation": "https://gps.press/records/", "rest": "https://gps.press/wp-json/gps-public-records/v1/requests", "count": 32 }, "data": [ { "ref": "R032595-101926", "url": "https://gps.press/records/r032595-101926/", "title": "Inmate health care contracts: Centurion (medical), MHM (mental health and dental) and CorrectRx (pharmacy)", "agency": "Georgia Department of Corrections", "agency_short": "GDC", "channel": "GDC's Open Records Center (GovQA portal), request type \"GDC Operational Records\"", "requested_by": "Georgia Prisoners' Speak", "shared_with_gps": false, "summary": "We asked the Georgia Department of Corrections for its inmate health care contract with Centurion of Georgia, with every amendment and staffing plan; Centurion's most recent staffing report; and any list of Centurion staff by facility.\n\nGDC released 46 files. They cover three contracts: Centurion's medical contract (effective April 9, 2024, priced in the contract at $240,000,000 a year for 38,000 people at July 2024 rates); the mental health and dental contract held by MHM Correctional Services, which has been owned by Centurion Equity since January 2023; and the CorrectRx pharmacy contract. They also include the earlier Wellpath medical contract. GDC first released the Wellpath contract in place of Centurion's; after we pointed that out, it released the Centurion contract and the missing amendments the next day.\n\nWe are publishing 43 of the 46 files as released. Three files list individual Centurion and MHM employees, one of them with pay rates, and we are not publishing those. From Centurion's staffing workbook, one of the three, we publish the hours by prison, position and month, with no names.", "date_filed": "2026-10-19", "date_last_response": "2026-10-28", "status": "fulfilled", "status_label": "Fulfilled", "status_note": "GDC released 35 files on October 27, 2026 and 11 more on October 28, 2026. Not published by GPS because they list individual employees: Centurion's staffing workbook \"GA-MED Productive hours compared to Matrix Jul25-Dec25\" (it names each employee and gives pay rates), Centurion's medical site contact list, and MHM's dental staff contacts.", "fee_amount": 0, "fee_note": "No fee was charged.", "timeline": [ { "date": "2026-10-19", "event": "Request filed through GDC's Open Records Center. GDC acknowledged it the same day and gave it reference number R032595-101926." }, { "date": "2026-10-20", "event": "GDC said that because of the period and number of items requested it could not respond within the three-business-day period, and asked for 10 days." }, { "date": "2026-10-27", "event": "GDC released 35 files through the portal, with no fee." }, { "date": "2026-10-27", "event": "We wrote back that one file was GDC's earlier contract with Wellpath, not Centurion's, and asked for the Centurion base contract, Centurion Amendments 1, 2 and 4, the exhibits Amendment 3 lists, and MHM Amendments 10 and 12." }, { "date": "2026-10-28", "event": "GDC released 11 more files, including the Centurion base contract, \"the documents stated in your most recent email.\"" } ], "topics": [ "health-care", "contracts", "centurion", "staffing", "mental-health", "gdc" ], "cited_in": [], "published_at": "2026-10-28 18:46:39", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 18:46:39", "document_count": 46, "total_bytes": 302269417 }, { "ref": "R032544-101826", "url": "https://gps.press/records/r032544-101826/", "title": "Drone-detection purchases by the Georgia Department of Corrections, 2017 to 2026", "agency": "Georgia Department of Corrections", "agency_short": "GDC", "channel": "GDC's Open Records Center (GovQA portal), request type \"GDC Operational Records\", record type \"Contracts\"", "requested_by": "Georgia Prisoners' Speak", "shared_with_gps": false, "summary": "We asked the Georgia Department of Corrections for the records of what it has bought to detect drones over its prisons since 2017: the contracts, purchase orders and invoices; the file for a 2020 federal grant that paid for a radar system at Baldwin State Prison; and how the drone-detection money in the Amended FY2025 and FY2026 budgets was spent.\n\nGDC has released 30 purchase orders so far. Twenty-nine of them, issued between February 2022 and November 2025 and totalling $11,905,773.82, buy AeroDefense AirWarden radio-frequency drone detection through Convergint Technologies (billed as DG Investment Intermediate Holdings 2) for 22 state prisons, the Burruss Correctional Training Center and 12 transportable sensors, all under statewide contract 99999-SPD0000172-006. The other, from June 2017, bought a $16,100 drone classification sensor and software licence for Autry State Prison from Unmanned Aerial Specialist LLC.", "date_filed": "2026-10-18", "date_last_response": "2026-10-28", "status": "partial", "status_label": "Partly fulfilled", "status_note": "Item 1 released October 28, 2026: 30 purchase orders. No contracts, quotes, justifications or invoices were included. Items 2 and 3: we asked for cost estimates on October 20, 2026, and are waiting for them.", "fee_amount": 50.82, "fee_note": "GDC estimated three hours of work at $18.49 an hour, $55.47 (its letter printed the total as $55.37), and GPS agreed. On October 28, 2026 GDC invoiced $50.82 for item 1 (no labor charge).", "timeline": [ { "date": "2026-10-18", "event": "Request filed through GDC's Open Records Center. GDC acknowledged it the same day and gave it reference number R032544-101826." }, { "date": "2026-10-20", "event": "GDC said it could not respond within the three-business-day period and asked for 10 days." }, { "date": "2026-10-20", "event": "GDC estimated the cost of item 1 only: three hours at $18.49 an hour to retrieve, review and redact the records." }, { "date": "2026-10-20", "event": "We agreed to pay $55.47 for item 1 and asked for estimates for items 2 and 3." }, { "date": "2026-10-28", "event": "GDC's Office of Legal Services released item 1: 30 purchase orders, shared as a OneDrive folder, described as \"documents responsive to your request one only.\"" }, { "date": "2026-10-28", "event": "GDC invoiced $50.82 for the item 1 records." } ], "topics": [ "drone-detection", "contracts", "purchasing", "security-technology", "gdc" ], "cited_in": [ { "title": "The OWL Sees All: Georgia's $150M Prison Surveillance", "url": "https://gps.press/the-owl-sees-all-georgias-150m-prison-surveillance/" }, { "title": "$150 Million to Watch Them Die: Georgia's OWL Surveillance Goes Live", "url": "https://gps.press/georgia-owl-surveillance-goes-live/" }, { "title": "El BÚHO lo ve todo: la vigilancia carcelaria de $150 millones en Georgia (español)", "url": "https://gps.press/es/the-owl-sees-all-georgias-150m-prison-surveillance-es/" }, { "title": "150 millones de dólares para verlos morir: la vigilancia OWL de Georgia entra en funcionamiento (español)", "url": "https://gps.press/es/georgia-owl-surveillance-goes-live-es/" } ], "published_at": "2026-10-28 18:12:24", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 22:50:06", "document_count": 34, "total_bytes": 3537899 }, { "ref": "PAP-20261017", "url": "https://gps.press/records/pap-20261017/", "title": "Parole Board Performance Incentive Credit charts, FY2013 to FY2025, and its PIC policy page", "agency": "State Board of Pardons and Paroles", "agency_short": "Parole Board", "channel": "Email to the Board's Open Records Officer (openrecords@pap.ga.gov)", "requested_by": "Georgia Prisoners' Speak", "shared_with_gps": false, "summary": "GPS asked the State Board of Pardons and Paroles how many people had their Tentative Parole Month moved earlier because of Performance Incentive Credit (PIC) points in FY2021 to FY2025, and by how many months; how many had points submitted but not applied, and why; the rules for applying PIC; and the source data behind the PIC figures in its annual reports. The Board said it had no records for the first two items and released 11 pages for the rest: bar charts of \"PIC months granted\" by fiscal year from FY2013 (7,195) to FY2025 (30,710), a pie chart for each year from July 2020 to May 2025 breaking down PIC decisions, and the PIC page of its Operations Manual. In the July 2024 to May 2025 chart, of 7,842 people eligible for PIC, 2,871 were awarded all their points, 908 partial points, 2,192 were \"now votes\" with PIC taken into account, 1,238 were awarded no points and 633 had earned none. The manual page says no more than 12 PIC points will be applied, that points never move a Tentative Parole Month below the Parole Eligibility Date, and that the Board may vote \"No PIC\" on any Guidelines case.", "date_filed": "2026-10-17", "date_last_response": "2026-10-22", "status": "fulfilled", "status_label": "Fulfilled", "status_note": "The Board answered every item on October 22, 2026. It said it has no documents responsive to items 1 and 2 (how many Tentative Parole Months were moved earlier by PIC points, by how many months, and cases where points were not applied) and released 11 pages for items 3 and 4.", "fee_amount": 0, "fee_note": "No fee charged: the Board waived search, retrieval and copying fees.", "timeline": [ { "date": "2026-10-17", "event": "Request filed by email with the Board's Open Records Officer." }, { "date": "2026-10-22", "event": "The Board said it had no documents responsive to items 1 and 2, released 11 pages of public records for the remaining items, and waived all fees." } ], "topics": [ "parole", "performance-incentive-credits", "tentative-parole-month", "parole-board" ], "cited_in": [], "published_at": "2026-10-28 20:54:21", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 20:54:21", "document_count": 1, "total_bytes": 209308 }, { "ref": "S000171-100126", "url": "https://gps.press/records/s000171-100126/", "title": "Washington State Prison fire inspection, September 24, 2026: padlocks and slide bolts on cell doors", "agency": "Office of Commissioner of Insurance and Safety Fire, Safety Fire Division", "agency_short": "Fire Marshal", "channel": "OCI open-records portal (GovQA)", "requested_by": "Georgia Prisoners' Speak", "shared_with_gps": false, "summary": "A State Fire Marshal inspection of Washington State Prison in Davisboro on September 24, 2026 (File 26-014544), made after an anonymous complaint. Inspectors escorted by the warden found slide-bolt latches and padlocks on cell doors in housing units F, G, H and I, and rated the prison Non-Compliant on means of egress: padlocks are not permitted on housing-unit doors or any other door in the means of egress. The warden said the padlocks were used because of broken mortise locks. This record has the three-page report and one photograph of a cell door.", "date_filed": "2026-10-01", "date_last_response": "2026-10-09", "status": "partial", "status_label": "Partly fulfilled", "status_note": "OCI released the September 24 report and one photograph on October 9, 2026. As of October 28 it had not answered the request's other items: advance-notice and scheduling records, the two earlier inspection reports, and 2026 records about the prison's doors.", "fee_amount": 0, "fee_note": "No fee charged", "timeline": [ { "date": "2026-10-01", "event": "Request filed through OCI's open-records portal." }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "event": "OCI released the September 24, 2026 inspection report (File 26-014544) and a photograph." } ], "topics": [ "fire-safety", "egress", "washington-state-prison", "state-fire-marshal" ], "cited_in": [], "published_at": "2026-10-28 19:59:05", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 19:59:05", "document_count": 2, "total_bytes": 1760833 }, { "ref": "S000160-092126", "url": "https://gps.press/records/s000160-092126/", "title": "Ware State Prison fire-exit inspection: the September 24, 2026 follow-up report", "agency": "Office of Commissioner of Insurance and Safety Fire, Safety Fire Division", "agency_short": "Fire Marshal", "channel": "OCI open-records portal (GovQA)", "requested_by": "Georgia Prisoners' Speak", "shared_with_gps": false, "summary": "The State Fire Marshal's third inspection of Ware State Prison's fire exits, on September 24, 2026, three months after the first. The warden and GDC's fire chief told the inspector that nothing had been changed on the doors and the barrel bolts had not been removed. Warden James C. Spann said any plan of correction would come from GDC's facilities department. The report again rates the prison Non-Compliant on means of egress, with findings that it says reflect the two earlier inspections. The first two inspections are in request S000148-090126.", "date_filed": "2026-09-21", "date_last_response": "2026-09-30", "status": "partial", "status_label": "Partly fulfilled", "status_note": "OCI released the September 24 report on September 30, 2026. It has not released a GDC plan of correction, scheduling records, or plan-review submissions for replacement locks (items 2 and 3).", "fee_amount": 0, "fee_note": "No fee charged", "timeline": [ { "date": "2026-09-21", "event": "Added to request S000148-090126 at GPS's request after the August report said another follow-up would come in about 30 days; OCI opened it as S000160-092126." }, { "date": "2026-09-30", "event": "OCI released the Follow-Up #2 inspection report (File 26-009306, permit INS26-003833)." } ], "topics": [ "fire-safety", "egress", "ware-state-prison", "state-fire-marshal" ], "cited_in": [], "published_at": "2026-10-28 19:59:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 19:59:00", "document_count": 1, "total_bytes": 35268 }, { "ref": "R031870-091926", "url": "https://gps.press/records/r031870-091926/", "title": "GDC policy index: the Policy and Procedure Access Listing (77 pages, revised June 23, 2025)", "agency": "Georgia Department of Corrections", "agency_short": "GDC", "channel": "GDC Open Records (GovQA portal)", "requested_by": "Georgia Prisoners' Speak", "shared_with_gps": false, "summary": "We asked the Georgia Department of Corrections for its written policies, in force since January 2023, on staff use of social media, personal phones and recording inside facilities.\n\nGDC released its Policy and Procedure Access Listing: the index of its standard operating procedures, showing each policy's number, title and access level, revised June 23, 2025. GDC noted that Level I (white) and Level II (green) policies are on its public website and asked us to name any other policy we wanted. With the index we found what we needed and closed the request.", "date_filed": "2026-09-19", "date_last_response": "2026-10-16", "status": "fulfilled", "status_label": "Fulfilled", "status_note": "Released October 16, 2026; we closed the request the same day.", "fee_amount": 0, "fee_note": "No fee was charged.", "timeline": [ { "date": "2026-09-19", "event": "Request filed through GDC's Open Records Center; GDC acknowledged it the same day." }, { "date": "2026-10-16", "event": "GDC released the Policy and Procedure Access Listing and asked us to specify any document we wanted produced." }, { "date": "2026-10-16", "event": "We told GDC the listing answered our question and closed the request." } ], "topics": [ "policies", "sop", "gdc" ], "cited_in": [], "published_at": "2026-10-28 19:38:49", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 20:10:21", "document_count": 1, "total_bytes": 836480 }, { "ref": "GSFIC-20260916", "url": "https://gps.press/records/gsfic-20260916/", "title": "Dooly and Telfair State Prisons as-built plans: GSFIC's project and storage indexes (request withdrawn)", "agency": "Georgia State Financing and Investment Commission", "agency_short": "GSFIC", "channel": "Email to GSFIC's open-records address (openrecords@gsfic.ga.gov)", "requested_by": "Georgia Prisoners' Speak", "shared_with_gps": false, "summary": "GPS asked GSFIC for an index of the as-built plans it holds for Department of Corrections prisons, and for the as-built plans of Dooly and Telfair State Prisons. GSFIC said it has no index of as-built plan sets, released an index of GSFIC projects, and withheld the plans under O.C.G.A. § 50-18-72(a)(25)(A)(iv), which covers plans that could compromise security if made public. When GPS narrowed the request to records stating each prison's bed or cell count, GSFIC found a Dooly State Prison project it completed in 2005, sent the State Records Center index of its stored boxes and the Center's fee schedule, and estimated the search would cost over $500. GPS withdrew the request on September 23, 2026.", "date_filed": "2026-09-16", "date_last_response": "2026-09-22", "status": "withdrawn", "status_label": "Withdrawn", "status_note": "GPS withdrew the request on September 23, 2026, declining GSFIC's estimate of over $500 to search off-site storage for the 2005 Dooly project records. The as-built plans were withheld under O.C.G.A. § 50-18-72(a)(25)(A)(iv).", "fee_amount": 0, "fee_note": "No fee charged. GSFIC estimated over $500 to retrieve and review off-site boxes; GPS declined and withdrew the request.", "timeline": [ { "date": "2026-09-16", "event": "Request filed by email to GSFIC." }, { "date": "2026-09-17", "event": "GSFIC said it has no index of as-built plan sets and released an index of GSFIC projects, which leaves out projects older than its eBonds system. It withheld the as-built plans under O.C.G.A. § 50-18-72(a)(25)(A)(iv), said older project records are stored at the State Records Center and State Archives, and said it had asked for their indexes." }, { "date": "2026-09-22", "event": "GPS replaced items 2 and 3 with a narrower request: any GSFIC record stating the number of beds or cells built at Dooly and Telfair State Prisons." }, { "date": "2026-09-22", "event": "GSFIC found a Dooly State Prison project it completed in 2005, with its records in off-site storage. It sent the storage index, a list of GSFIC projects and the State Records Center fee schedule, and estimated the search would cost over $500." }, { "date": "2026-09-23", "event": "GPS declined the estimate and asked GSFIC to close the request." } ], "topics": [ "prison-capacity", "dooly-state-prison", "telfair-state-prison", "gsfic", "construction-records" ], "cited_in": [], "published_at": "2026-10-28 20:21:34", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 20:21:34", "document_count": 4, "total_bytes": 3137265 }, { "ref": "R031710-091426", "url": "https://gps.press/records/r031710-091426/", "title": "Restrictive housing: Tier II and Tier III beds at each GDC prison, and how many were filled", "agency": "Georgia Department of Corrections", "agency_short": "GDC", "channel": "GDC Open Records (GovQA portal)", "requested_by": "Georgia Prisoners' Speak", "shared_with_gps": false, "summary": "We asked the Georgia Department of Corrections which facilities run Tier II and Tier III (Special Management Unit) restrictive-housing programs, including the STEP step-down programs, and how many people were assigned to each on one date.\n\nGDC released a one-page table of total, occupied and vacant Tier II and Tier III beds by facility, with the occupancy rate, and its description of the Tier segregation system, which it noted is also on its public website.", "date_filed": "2026-09-14", "date_last_response": "2026-10-05", "status": "fulfilled", "status_label": "Fulfilled", "status_note": "Released October 2, 2026.", "fee_amount": 0, "fee_note": "No fee was charged.", "timeline": [ { "date": "2026-09-14", "event": "Request filed through GDC's Open Records Center; GDC acknowledged it the same day." }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "event": "GDC answered; we explained in plain terms that we were trying to learn what Tier II and Tier III are and where they operate." }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "event": "GDC released the table of Tier II and Tier III beds by facility." }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "event": "GDC added that information on Tier II and Tier III is on its public website, and provided that document. We closed the request." } ], "topics": [ "restrictive-housing", "segregation", "statistics", "gdc" ], "cited_in": [], "published_at": "2026-10-28 19:38:27", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 20:10:30", "document_count": 2, "total_bytes": 602205 }, { "ref": "R031702-091326", "url": "https://gps.press/records/r031702-091326/", "title": "Modular prison buildings: who answered GDC's request for information (ModCorr and Aries Building Systems)", "agency": "Georgia Department of Corrections", "agency_short": "GDC", "channel": "GDC Open Records (GovQA portal)", "requested_by": "Georgia Prisoners' Speak", "shared_with_gps": false, "summary": "GDC's first production on the modular buildings (request R031447-090126) included one company's materials. We asked who responded to the request for information (event 46700-GDC0001150) and how many did.\n\nGDC released the response of a second company, Aries Building Systems: its completed worksheet, organizational background, sample correctional floor plans (redacted), an example facility, GDC's March 17, 2025 request for additional information, and email communications. With ModCorr's materials released earlier, that is two respondents.", "date_filed": "2026-09-13", "date_last_response": "2026-09-16", "status": "fulfilled", "status_label": "Fulfilled", "status_note": "Released September 16, 2026.", "fee_amount": 0, "fee_note": "No fee was charged.", "timeline": [ { "date": "2026-09-13", "event": "Request filed through GDC's Open Records Center; GDC acknowledged it the same day." }, { "date": "2026-09-16", "event": "GDC's response letter and the Aries Building Systems materials released through the portal." } ], "topics": [ "modcorr", "modular-buildings", "procurement", "gdc" ], "cited_in": [], "published_at": "2026-10-28 19:38:45", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 20:10:25", "document_count": 8, "total_bytes": 5166445 }, { "ref": "S000154-091226", "url": "https://gps.press/records/s000154-091226/", "title": "Dooly State Prison: certificates of occupancy (State Fire Marshal)", "agency": "Office of Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner, Safety Fire Division", "agency_short": "OCI", "channel": "OCI Safety Fire Division (Office of Commissioner of Insurance and Safety Fire) (GovQA portal)", "requested_by": "Georgia Prisoners' Speak", "shared_with_gps": false, "summary": "We asked the Office of Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner for Dooly State Prison's certificates of occupancy and occupant loads, all plan reviews, and any re-rating of its capacity or overcrowding variance.\n\nThe Safety Fire Division released Dooly State Prison's 10 certificates of occupancy. It said it found no records for our other items: no plan review, no re-rating or added housing, and no overcrowding variance.", "date_filed": "2026-09-12", "date_last_response": null, "status": "fulfilled", "status_label": "Fulfilled", "status_note": "Released September 2026.", "fee_amount": 0, "fee_note": "No fee was charged.", "timeline": [ { "date": "2026-09-12", "event": "Request filed through the Safety Fire Division's open-records portal." }, { "date": "2026-09-16", "event": "The Safety Fire Division released 10 certificates of occupancy and said it found no records of plan reviews, re-rating or an overcrowding variance." } ], "topics": [ "facilities", "capacity", "fire-safety" ], "cited_in": [], "published_at": "2026-10-28 19:39:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 19:39:00", "document_count": 1, "total_bytes": 194200 }, { "ref": "S000153-091226", "url": "https://gps.press/records/s000153-091226/", "title": "Telfair State Prison: certificates of occupancy (State Fire Marshal)", "agency": "Office of Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner, Safety Fire Division", "agency_short": "OCI", "channel": "OCI Safety Fire Division (Office of Commissioner of Insurance and Safety Fire) (GovQA portal)", "requested_by": "Georgia Prisoners' Speak", "shared_with_gps": false, "summary": "We asked the Office of Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner for Telfair State Prison's construction-era records: plan reviews, certificates of occupancy and occupant loads.\n\nThe Safety Fire Division released Telfair State Prison's certificates of occupancy: 13 certificates in one file. It said it found no records for our other items: it holds no plan review for Telfair.", "date_filed": "2026-09-12", "date_last_response": null, "status": "fulfilled", "status_label": "Fulfilled", "status_note": "Released September 2026.", "fee_amount": 0, "fee_note": "No fee was charged.", "timeline": [ { "date": "2026-09-12", "event": "Request filed through the Safety Fire Division's open-records portal." }, { "date": "2026-09-16", "event": "The Safety Fire Division released 13 certificates of occupancy and said it found no records for our other items (no plan review)." } ], "topics": [ "facilities", "capacity", "fire-safety" ], "cited_in": [], "published_at": "2026-10-28 19:38:56", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 19:38:56", "document_count": 1, "total_bytes": 206243 }, { "ref": "PAP-20260906", "url": "https://gps.press/records/pap-20260906/", "title": "Parole Board rulemaking records for the 2005 and 2007 Parole Decision Guidelines amendments", "agency": "State Board of Pardons and Paroles", "agency_short": "Parole Board", "channel": "Email to the Board's Open Records Officer (openrecords@pap.ga.gov)", "requested_by": "Georgia Prisoners' Speak", "shared_with_gps": false, "summary": "GPS asked the State Board of Pardons and Paroles for the rulemaking records of its 2005 and 2007 amendments to Rule 475-3-.05 (Parole Consideration), for the three-year study behind the 2008 Parole Decision Guidelines described in its FY2008 annual report, and for its copy of a Fulton County Superior Court order on its \"90% policy.\" The Board released ten files on September 28, 2026 and said it found no records of the study. The 2005 notice of intent says the 90% policy \"is subject to legal challenge that requires the Board to cease using it\" and proposes a new Crime Severity Level VIII, with guidelines recommendations of 90%, 75% or 65% of the prison sentence depending on the offender's Parole Success Score. The 2007 notice says the new guidelines \"represent a three-year study and analysis of risk factors utilized in granting clemency,\" and a December 7, 2007 page of clemency projections estimates 16,850 additional releases from 2008 to 2012 under a simulation model that assumes 70% compliance with the guidelines.", "date_filed": "2026-09-06", "date_last_response": "2026-10-05", "status": "fulfilled", "status_label": "Fulfilled", "status_note": "The Board released records for items 1, 2 and 4 on September 28, 2026, in ten files, all posted here as released. On October 5 it said it has no other responsive records, including for item 3: staff found no records of the three-year study, which predates current staff.", "fee_amount": 100.1, "fee_note": "Estimated $89.59; invoiced $100.10 (administrative fee only, no copying fee)", "timeline": [ { "date": "2026-09-06", "event": "Request filed by email with the Board's Open Records Officer." }, { "date": "2026-09-11", "event": "The Board estimated a fee of $89.59: $84.59 for two hours of search and retrieval (no charge for the first 15 minutes) and $5.00 to copy about 50 pages. GPS agreed the same day." }, { "date": "2026-09-28", "event": "The Board released records for items 4, 2 and 1 in ten emails and invoiced $100.10 ($50.05 an hour for two hours and 15 minutes, with no charge for the first 15 minutes; no copying fee). It said a response on item 3 would follow." }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "event": "GPS accepted the $100.10 fee." }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "event": "The Board said it has no additional responsive records, including for item 3. Asked whether the study existed elsewhere, it said staff found no such records, that the study predates current staff, and that the Board has no other data on it." } ], "topics": [ "parole", "parole-decision-guidelines", "rulemaking", "90-percent-policy", "parole-board" ], "cited_in": [], "published_at": "2026-10-28 20:54:16", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 22:09:04", "document_count": 10, "total_bytes": 111990369 }, { "ref": "2027-OPN-00071", "url": "https://gps.press/records/2027-opn-00071/", "title": "ModCorr and the March 2025 modular-buildings registry event: DOAS's answers and its 2007 agreement with GSFIC", "agency": "Georgia Department of Administrative Services", "agency_short": "DOAS", "channel": "Email to DOAS Records Management (records.management@doas.ga.gov)", "requested_by": "Georgia Prisoners' Speak", "shared_with_gps": false, "summary": "GPS asked the Department of Administrative Services (DOAS) for its records on Georgia Procurement Registry event 46700-GDC0001150, \"Modular Correctional Buildings,\" and on any award to ModCorr LLC. DOAS gave the event's audit history (posted March 4, 2025, end date moved from March 11 to March 12, marked reviewed March 13) and said it holds no records of a sole-source award or waiver, of an award notice naming ModCorr or MaxMod, or of a statewide or piggyback contract for modular correctional buildings. It released state supplier-system screens showing ModCorr LLC's bidder profile was created March 5, 2025, and the December 2007 Intergovernmental Services Agreement under which GSFIC procures construction projects whose contracts it signs \"as prescribed by prevailing GSFIC requirements for such procurements.\"", "date_filed": "2026-09-02", "date_last_response": "2026-09-16", "status": "fulfilled", "status_label": "Fulfilled", "status_note": "DOAS closed the request on September 16, 2026, writing that its email \"constitutes the entire response.\" It had no records for items 2 and 4, or for item 3 as to ModCorr and MaxMod. It pointed GPS to the Georgia Procurement Registry for the event's attachments, to the Department of Corrections for the responses to the request for information, and to the Department of Public Health for its contract with SLSCO Ltd. (Agreement # 40500-019-25255228).", "fee_amount": 0, "fee_note": "No fee charged", "timeline": [ { "date": "2026-09-02", "event": "Request filed by email to DOAS Records Management." }, { "date": "2026-09-03", "event": "DOAS gave a preliminary response as request 2027-OPN-00071: the event's attachments can be downloaded from the Georgia Procurement Registry; responses to the request for information are held by the Department of Corrections; no award notice for ModCorr or MaxMod; the Department of Public Health has a contract with SLSCO Ltd.; no statewide or piggyback contract. Other items pending." }, { "date": "2026-09-10", "event": "DOAS released the event audit history and three supplier-system screenshots for ModCorr LLC and SLSCO Ltd." }, { "date": "2026-09-16", "event": "Final response: no records of any sole-source award, emergency procurement or waiver (item 2), and the 2007 DOAS-GSFIC Intergovernmental Services Agreement for item 6." } ], "topics": [ "modcorr", "modular-prison-buildings", "procurement", "doas", "gsfic" ], "cited_in": [], "published_at": "2026-10-28 20:21:38", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 20:21:38", "document_count": 4, "total_bytes": 736823 }, { "ref": "R031471-090226", "url": "https://gps.press/records/r031471-090226/", "title": "Active inmates by facility and security level, September 23, 2026", "agency": "Georgia Department of Corrections", "agency_short": "GDC", "channel": "GDC Open Records (GovQA portal)", "requested_by": "Georgia Prisoners' Speak", "shared_with_gps": false, "summary": "We asked the Georgia Department of Corrections to run its Security Count Report again, brought current, for its state prisons and other facilities.\n\nInstead of a report per facility, GDC offered an automated report at lower cost. It released one spreadsheet, \"Active Inmates By Facility By Security Level\" as of September 23, 2026. GDC noted: \"Where there is no supervision level indicated, the numbers reflect probationers or parolees in a bed.\"", "date_filed": "2026-09-02", "date_last_response": "2026-10-13", "status": "fulfilled", "status_label": "Fulfilled", "status_note": "Released September 24, 2026.", "fee_amount": 70, "fee_note": "Two hours at $40 an hour, less the first quarter hour: $70, paid.", "timeline": [ { "date": "2026-09-02", "event": "Request filed through GDC's Open Records Center; GDC acknowledged it the same day." }, { "date": "2026-09-22", "event": "GDC looked for an automated report, so it would not have to capture each facility's screen one at a time, at lower cost." }, { "date": "2026-09-23", "event": "We agreed to $70 for the automated report (two hours at $40, less the first quarter hour)." }, { "date": "2026-09-24", "event": "GDC released the spreadsheet, noting that where no supervision level is shown, the numbers are probationers or parolees in a bed." }, { "date": "2026-10-13", "event": "GDC recorded our $70 payment." } ], "topics": [ "population", "security-classification", "statistics", "gdc" ], "cited_in": [], "published_at": "2026-10-28 19:38:24", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 20:10:55", "document_count": 1, "total_bytes": 12172 }, { "ref": "S000148-090126", "url": "https://gps.press/records/s000148-090126/", "title": "Ware State Prison fire-exit inspections: the June 23 and August 24, 2026 reports, photos and emails", "agency": "Office of Commissioner of Insurance and Safety Fire, Safety Fire Division", "agency_short": "Fire Marshal", "channel": "OCI open-records portal (GovQA)", "requested_by": "Georgia Prisoners' Speak", "shared_with_gps": false, "summary": "The State Fire Marshal's Office inspected Ware State Prison in Waycross on June 23, 2026 after a complaint about locked fire exits, and again on August 24 after a second anonymous complaint. Both reports rate the prison Non-Compliant on \"means of egress of approved type.\" The June report found barrel bolts on the fire-exit doors of every housing building except Building I; prison staff said the bolts were used because people inside pop the key locks. The August follow-up found the bolts still in place and additional sliding barrel bolts on the dorm buildings' main entrance and exit doors. This record has both reports, the 11 photographs the inspectors took (released as HEIC files, with JPEG copies for viewing), and three emails OCI released on October 8 showing it sent the June report to Ware's warden and GDC's fire chief on June 26, 2026.", "date_filed": "2026-09-01", "date_last_response": "2026-10-08", "status": "partial", "status_label": "Partly fulfilled", "status_note": "OCI released the two inspection reports and the photographs on September 2, 2026, and three emails on October 8 that it said were \"inadvertently left off the original production.\" Item 4 (other GDC prisons with egress violations since January 2024) has not been answered. The September 24 follow-up inspection is in the related request S000160-092126.", "fee_amount": 0, "fee_note": "No fee charged", "timeline": [ { "date": "2026-09-01", "event": "Request filed through OCI's open-records portal." }, { "date": "2026-09-02", "event": "OCI released the June 23 and August 24 inspection reports (File 26-009306) and 11 photographs." }, { "date": "2026-09-21", "event": "GPS asked OCI to add the next follow-up inspection to this request; OCI opened it as S000160-092126." }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "event": "OCI released three emails to Ware's warden and GDC's fire chief, saying they were \"inadvertently left off the original production.\"" } ], "topics": [ "fire-safety", "egress", "ware-state-prison", "state-fire-marshal" ], "cited_in": [], "published_at": "2026-10-28 19:56:42", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 19:56:42", "document_count": 22, "total_bytes": 41807595 }, { "ref": "R031447-090126", "url": "https://gps.press/records/r031447-090126/", "title": "Modular prison buildings (ModCorr): GDC's request-for-information file and ModCorr's response", "agency": "Georgia Department of Corrections", "agency_short": "GDC", "channel": "GDC Open Records (GovQA portal)", "requested_by": "Georgia Prisoners' Speak", "shared_with_gps": false, "summary": "We asked the Georgia Department of Corrections for its records on the ModCorr modular housing units at Dodge, Lee, Montgomery and Hays State Prisons and the medical infirmary at Johnson State Prison: the contract and payments, the solicitation file for Georgia Procurement Registry event 46700-GDC0001150 (\"Modular Correctional Buildings\", a request for information open March 4 to 12, 2025), the vendor responses, and any justification for the purchase.\n\nGDC answered the next day. It said it has no contract or payment records because the Georgia State Financing and Investment Commission (GSFIC) handled the purchase. It released the request-for-information file (drafts and final, the question worksheets, and the supplier questions and answers) and ModCorr's response materials: company brochure, project team, product specification sheets, component testing, and redacted floor plans and drawings.", "date_filed": "2026-09-01", "date_last_response": "2026-09-02", "status": "fulfilled", "status_label": "Fulfilled", "status_note": "Released September 2, 2026. Contract and payment records: GDC said GSFIC holds them.", "fee_amount": 0, "fee_note": "No fee was charged.", "timeline": [ { "date": "2026-09-01", "event": "Request filed through GDC's Open Records Center; GDC acknowledged it the same day." }, { "date": "2026-09-02", "event": "GDC's response letter: no contract or payment records at GDC, because GSFIC handled the purchase; the solicitation file and ModCorr's response materials released through the portal." } ], "topics": [ "modcorr", "modular-buildings", "procurement", "contracts", "gdc" ], "cited_in": [], "published_at": "2026-10-28 19:38:40", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 20:10:40", "document_count": 22, "total_bytes": 15882758 }, { "ref": "ORR-2026-786", "url": "https://gps.press/records/orr-2026-786/", "title": "Legionella records for Wilcox and Autry State Prisons: two DPH outbreak reports released, the rest withheld", "agency": "Georgia Department of Public Health", "agency_short": "DPH", "channel": "DPH open-records portal (JustFOIA)", "requested_by": "Georgia Prisoners' Speak", "shared_with_gps": false, "summary": "GPS asked the Georgia Department of Public Health for Legionella sampling results, laboratory reports, environmental assessments, outbreak-investigation records and correspondence with the Department of Corrections for Wilcox State Prison (from 2023) and Autry State Prison (from 2021). DPH said the records are confidential as \"information requested or collected as part of an outbreak or cluster investigation\" (its letter cites \"Ga. Rules and Reg. 511-2-1.03\") and released two redacted one-page outbreak reports: the interim report of one investigation, which it said is ongoing, and the final report of another. Outbreak 202403783 names Wilcox State Prison as the exposure location: waterborne Legionella, exposure on November 9, 2023, illness on November 16, 2023, reported to the state on December 1, 2023. Outbreak 20213040 is a waterborne Legionella outbreak at a \"Prison/Jail\" in Mitchell County, reported July 1, 2021, with the first illness on June 5, 2021; its exposure-location line is blank. On both reports the numbers of people ill, laboratory-confirmed and hospitalized are shown as asterisks, which the reports say means a number between 1 and 5 withheld to protect patient identity.", "date_filed": "2026-08-31", "date_last_response": "2026-09-10", "status": "partial", "status_label": "Partly fulfilled", "status_note": "DPH closed the request on September 10, 2026. It released the two outbreak reports and treated the rest as confidential outbreak-investigation information: no sampling results, laboratory reports, environmental assessments or DPH correspondence with the Department of Corrections were released.", "fee_amount": 0, "fee_note": "No fee charged", "timeline": [ { "date": "2026-08-31", "event": "Request filed through DPH's open-records portal." }, { "date": "2026-09-01", "event": "DPH acknowledged the request (ORR-2026-786) and said it expected to give a timeframe by September 4." }, { "date": "2026-09-04", "event": "DPH said it was working on the request and estimated production in one week." }, { "date": "2026-09-10", "event": "DPH closed the request. It released two redacted outbreak reports and a letter saying the other records are confidential as outbreak-investigation information." } ], "topics": [ "legionella", "water", "wilcox-state-prison", "autry-state-prison", "public-health" ], "cited_in": [], "published_at": "2026-10-28 20:21:58", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 20:21:58", "document_count": 3, "total_bytes": 258795 }, { "ref": "R031380-082926", "url": "https://gps.press/records/r031380-082926/", "title": "GDC's audit schedules: ACA accreditation, PREA and internal audits, fiscal 2022 to 2026", "agency": "Georgia Department of Corrections", "agency_short": "GDC", "channel": "GDC Open Records (GovQA portal)", "requested_by": "Georgia Prisoners' Speak", "shared_with_gps": false, "summary": "We asked the Georgia Department of Corrections for the annual external audit schedules and Executive Reports required by its SOP 103.62, its register of American Correctional Association (ACA) accreditation audits with scores and dates, and related records.\n\nGDC released the schedules it could locate, noting that audit records are kept five years: the FY2022 ACA mock and accreditation audit schedule, the FY2022 PREA audit schedule, internal audit calendars for FY2022, FY2024 and FY2025, the FY2023 combined calendar by facility, the FY2026 combined audit calendar, and a spreadsheet prepared for this request. GDC said more records were under review.", "date_filed": "2026-08-29", "date_last_response": "2026-09-16", "status": "partial", "status_label": "Partly fulfilled", "status_note": "Partly released September 10, 2026. GDC said further records would be uploaded after review.", "fee_amount": 39.91, "fee_note": "One hour at $39.91 for one item, accepted September 8, 2026.", "timeline": [ { "date": "2026-08-29", "event": "Request filed through GDC's Open Records Center; GDC acknowledged it the same day." }, { "date": "2026-09-02", "event": "GDC said its compliance division was gathering the records for items 1 to 3." }, { "date": "2026-09-08", "event": "GDC estimated one hour at $39.91 for one item; we accepted and asked it to proceed, with electronic delivery." }, { "date": "2026-09-10", "event": "GDC said audit records and reports are kept five years and uploaded the schedules it could locate." }, { "date": "2026-09-16", "event": "GDC said it would upload more records once it had reviewed them." } ], "topics": [ "aca-accreditation", "audits", "prea", "gdc" ], "cited_in": [], "published_at": "2026-10-28 19:38:53", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 20:10:16", "document_count": 8, "total_bytes": 1601289 }, { "ref": "GSFIC-20260828", "url": "https://gps.press/records/gsfic-20260828/", "title": "ModCorr modular prison buildings: GSFIC's five contracts, payments to July 2026, and how ModCorr was selected", "agency": "Georgia State Financing and Investment Commission", "agency_short": "GSFIC", "channel": "Email to GSFIC's open-records address (openrecords@gsfic.ga.gov)", "requested_by": "Georgia Prisoners' Speak", "shared_with_gps": false, "summary": "GPS asked the Georgia State Financing and Investment Commission (GSFIC) for its records on modular correctional buildings supplied by ModCorr LLC to Georgia Department of Corrections prisons. GSFIC released its five Design-Build-Install agreements with ModCorr: GDC-171A to 171D, dated April 25, 2025, each $20,173,811 for two 63-bed MaxMod housing units at Hays, Lee, Montgomery and Dodge State Prisons, and GDC-172, dated June 4, 2025, $4,890,000 for a medically intensive infirmary at Johnson State Prison. Its payments spreadsheet lists 42 paid ModCorr invoices totaling $89,762,212.23, received from June 27, 2025 to July 28, 2026; the five contracts total $85,585,244. GSFIC said it did not conduct the procurement behind Georgia Procurement Registry event 46700-GDC0001150, and its procurement summary says GSFIC reviewed the two responses to the Department of Corrections' request for information, from Aries and ModCorr, and recommended a direct purchase from ModCorr.", "date_filed": "2026-08-28", "date_last_response": "2026-09-22", "status": "fulfilled", "status_label": "Fulfilled", "status_note": "GSFIC released the contracts and the budget act on September 2, 2026, the payments spreadsheet on September 11 and the procurement summary on September 17. For item 3 it said it holds no records of the registry event because it did not run that procurement. GPS later asked for change orders to the five agreements, then declined GSFIC's $100 estimate for them and closed the request on September 22, 2026.", "fee_amount": 0, "fee_note": "No fee charged. GSFIC estimated $105 to pull the individual payment applications; GPS took the free payments spreadsheet instead. A later $100 estimate for change-order records was declined.", "timeline": [ { "date": "2026-08-28", "event": "Request filed by email to GSFIC." }, { "date": "2026-09-02", "event": "GSFIC released the five executed ModCorr agreements and the Amended FY2025 budget act (HB 67), saying projects GDC-171A to 171D were funded by HB 67, Item 968, and GDC-172 by the FY2026 budget (HB 68, line item 380.46). It said it did not conduct the registry procurement and estimated $105 to retrieve the remaining documents." }, { "date": "2026-09-02", "event": "GPS approved the $105 estimate." }, { "date": "2026-09-11", "event": "GSFIC sent a spreadsheet of all payments to ModCorr and offered the individual payment applications for the $105. GPS took the spreadsheet in their place, so no fee was incurred." }, { "date": "2026-09-13", "event": "GPS asked for any change orders or amendments to the five agreements." }, { "date": "2026-09-16", "event": "GPS asked for GSFIC's records showing how ModCorr was selected for the five projects." }, { "date": "2026-09-17", "event": "GSFIC released a two-page procurement summary, \"Note for Selection of Modular Units.\"" }, { "date": "2026-09-22", "event": "GSFIC estimated $100 to retrieve the change-order records. GPS declined the same day and closed the request." } ], "topics": [ "modcorr", "modular-prison-buildings", "procurement", "gsfic", "contracts" ], "cited_in": [], "published_at": "2026-10-28 20:21:23", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 20:21:23", "document_count": 8, "total_bytes": 11769035 }, { "ref": "R031231-082426", "url": "https://gps.press/records/r031231-082426/", "title": "GDC all-staff roster, August 2026", "agency": "Georgia Department of Corrections", "agency_short": "GDC", "channel": "GDC Open Records (GovQA portal)", "requested_by": "Georgia Prisoners' Speak", "shared_with_gps": false, "summary": "GDC's staff roster as of late August 2026: about 7,400 employees, each with name, job title and work location. The request asked for the existing system report GDC had produced before, and GDC released it as a 133-page PDF four days after the request, with no fee.", "date_filed": "2026-08-24", "date_last_response": "2026-08-28", "status": "fulfilled", "status_label": "Fulfilled", "status_note": "", "fee_amount": 0, "fee_note": "No fee charged", "timeline": [ { "date": "2026-08-24", "event": "Request filed through GDC's open-records portal." }, { "date": "2026-08-28", "event": "GDC released the roster (133 pages) through the portal." } ], "topics": [ "personnel", "staffing", "roster", "gdc" ], "cited_in": [], "published_at": "2026-10-28 20:07:40", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 20:07:40", "document_count": 1, "total_bytes": 1267204 }, { "ref": "PAP-20260804", "url": "https://gps.press/records/pap-20260804/", "title": "Parole Board annual reports, FY1977 to FY2000", "agency": "State Board of Pardons and Paroles", "agency_short": "Parole Board", "channel": "Email to the Board's Open Records Officer (openrecords@pap.ga.gov)", "requested_by": "Georgia Prisoners' Speak", "shared_with_gps": false, "summary": "GPS asked the State Board of Pardons and Paroles for its annual reports for fiscal years 1977 through 2000. The Board said it holds the reports for 1989 to 1994 and 1996 to 2000 but not for 1995 or 1977 to 1988, and on September 1, 2026 it emailed the 11 reports it holds (437 pages), all posted here. The FY1991 report shows the parolee population growing from 3,216 in FY1982 to 23,302 in FY1991, about equal to the inmate population of 23,005, and the FY1993 report says Governor Miller ended the Georgia Emergency Release Program on December 31, 1992. The FY2000 report says the Board's 90-percent policy had been applied in more than 5,600 decisions since January 1998, and that on March 28, 2000 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Board could apply its eight-year interval between parole reviews to life-sentenced inmates whose crimes came before the rule.", "date_filed": "2026-08-04", "date_last_response": "2026-09-01", "status": "fulfilled", "status_label": "Fulfilled", "status_note": "The Board released all 11 reports it holds on September 1, 2026. It said it does not have the reports for FY1977 to FY1988 or FY1995 and suggested the State Archives.", "fee_amount": 118.79, "fee_note": "Estimated $120.19 ($75.09 search and retrieval, $45.10 to copy 451 pages); invoiced $118.79 ($75.09 and $43.70 for 437 pages)", "timeline": [ { "date": "2026-08-04", "event": "Request filed by email with the Board's Open Records Officer." }, { "date": "2026-08-07", "event": "The Board said a manual search was needed and estimated an administrative fee of $25.03 for a 30-minute search, plus 10 cents a page for copies." }, { "date": "2026-08-13", "event": "The Board said it has annual reports for 1989 to 1994 and 1996 to 2000 but not for 1995 or 1977 to 1988, suggested the State Archives for those years, and revised its estimate to $120.19: $75.09 for one hour of search and retrieval (no charge for the first 15 minutes) and $45.10 to copy 451 pages. GPS agreed the same day." }, { "date": "2026-09-01", "event": "The Board set the fee at $118.79 ($75.09 plus $43.70 for 437 pages) and emailed the 11 reports in seven messages." }, { "date": "2026-09-07", "event": "GPS confirmed it had received all 11 reports and said a check for $118.79 would be mailed." } ], "topics": [ "parole", "parole-board", "annual-reports", "parole-statistics" ], "cited_in": [], "published_at": "2026-10-28 20:54:07", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 20:54:07", "document_count": 11, "total_bytes": 123516993 }, { "ref": "R030687-080126", "url": "https://gps.press/records/r030687-080126/", "title": "Deputy Warden Dennis Turner: employment history and disciplinary records, 2022 to 2026", "agency": "Georgia Department of Corrections", "agency_short": "GDC", "channel": "GDC Open Records (GovQA portal)", "requested_by": "Georgia Prisoners' Speak", "shared_with_gps": false, "summary": "Records about Dennis J. Turner, a deputy warden now at Central State Prison, from January 2022 on: his assignment history, discipline, suspensions, complaints, investigations and use-of-force reports. GDC released his employment history (correctional officer at Calhoun State Prison in 2011, deputy warden at the Special Management Unit from October 2023, and at Central State Prison from August 2025) and his disciplinary documents. They show a suspension with pay pending investigation in February 2025, a proposed seven-day suspension without pay in July 2025, a suspension with pay pending an Office of Professional Standards investigation from April 1, 2026, and a seven-day suspension without pay proposed on July 2, 2026 and upheld by the Disciplinary Panel on July 20, 2026. GDC said investigative files and complaints filed as inmate grievances are confidential, and estimated fees for searching the rest.", "date_filed": "2026-08-01", "date_last_response": "2026-08-19", "status": "partial", "status_label": "Partly fulfilled", "status_note": "GDC released the employment history and the disciplinary documents it found without reviewing the full personnel file. It said Office of Professional Standards investigative files are not subject to release and inmate grievances are confidential under O.C.G.A. § 42-5-36, and it estimated fees for reviewing the personnel file, which it said runs over 600 pages, and the 14 incident reports that mention use of force and name him. The request did not go forward on those items.", "fee_amount": 0, "fee_note": "No fee charged for the records released. GDC estimated $113.75 (3.5 hours at $32.50) for the use-of-force reports alone.", "timeline": [ { "date": "2026-08-01", "event": "Request filed through GDC's open-records portal." }, { "date": "2026-08-06", "event": "GDC asked which items the date range \"January 1, 2022 to the present\" applied to; the request was clarified the same day and again on August 11." }, { "date": "2026-08-13", "event": "GDC released the employment and assignment history (item 1)." }, { "date": "2026-08-19", "event": "GDC answered item by item: disciplinary documents uploaded after about 15 minutes of review and redaction; investigative files and grievances withheld as confidential; fee estimates for the remaining items." }, { "date": "2026-08-20", "event": "The request did not proceed on the items that carried fees." } ], "topics": [ "personnel", "discipline", "central-state-prison", "gdc" ], "cited_in": [], "published_at": "2026-10-28 20:07:36", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 20:07:36", "document_count": 3, "total_bytes": 3712463 }, { "ref": "R030073-070126", "url": "https://gps.press/records/r030073-070126/", "title": "GDC's food-service contract with Aramark, with its amendments and renewal", "agency": "Georgia Department of Corrections", "agency_short": "GDC", "channel": "GDC Open Records (Charles Hodges, Attorney Four, Legal Services) (GovQA portal)", "requested_by": "Georgia Prisoners' Speak", "shared_with_gps": false, "summary": "We asked the Georgia Department of Corrections for its current food-service contracts with Aramark Correctional Services and Trinity Services Group, and the list of facilities each runs.\n\nGDC released eight files: the executed Aramark correctional food service contract (solicitation GDC0000990, 213 pages), Amendments 1 (menu changes effective September 1, 2022), 2 (staff dining transition), 4 (menu modifications), 5 (change of date for Smith State Prison) and 7 (addition of the Metro Reinvestment Center), Aramark's contract Renewal 1, and Amendment 13 (Renewal 9) to contract 46700-019-GDC0000624.", "date_filed": "2026-07-01", "date_last_response": "2026-07-14", "status": "fulfilled", "status_label": "Fulfilled", "status_note": "Released July 14, 2026.", "fee_amount": 0, "fee_note": "No fee was charged.", "timeline": [ { "date": "2026-07-01", "event": "Request filed through GDC's Open Records Center; GDC acknowledged it the same day." }, { "date": "2026-07-07", "event": "GDC said it could take up to ten days to provide information and that it would give any cost before going ahead." }, { "date": "2026-07-14", "event": "GDC released the eight files through the portal." } ], "topics": [ "food", "contracts", "aramark", "gdc" ], "cited_in": [], "published_at": "2026-10-28 19:38:35", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 19:38:35", "document_count": 8, "total_bytes": 30286184 }, { "ref": "2026-OPN-00310", "url": "https://gps.press/records/2026-opn-00310/", "title": "Liability claims paid on behalf of the Department of Corrections, July 2017 to July 2026", "agency": "Georgia Department of Administrative Services", "agency_short": "DOAS", "channel": "Email to DOAS Records Management (records.management@doas.ga.gov)", "requested_by": "Georgia Prisoners' Speak", "shared_with_gps": false, "summary": "GPS asked the Department of Administrative Services' Risk Management Services for a report of every liability claim paid, by settlement or judgment, on behalf of the Georgia Department of Corrections since July 1, 2017. DOAS released a spreadsheet of 264 claims and 333 payment lines totaling $50,629,498.03, with checks dated July 7, 2017 to July 1, 2026. For each payment it gives the claim number, the claimant's name, the amount, the payment type (bodily injury, personal injury, attorney fees, refunds), the check date, the prison or office involved, and the incident date.", "date_filed": "2026-06-29", "date_last_response": "2026-07-09", "status": "fulfilled", "status_label": "Fulfilled", "status_note": "DOAS released the spreadsheet on July 9, 2026, ten days after the request. It names about 255 individual claimants, most of them people who were held in GDC prisons, so GPS publishes it here without the names; every other column is unchanged. The original spreadsheet is withheld from this page.", "fee_amount": 0, "fee_note": "No fee charged", "timeline": [ { "date": "2026-06-29", "event": "Request filed by email to DOAS Records Management." }, { "date": "2026-07-09", "event": "DOAS released the spreadsheet as request 2026-OPN-00310." } ], "topics": [ "settlements", "liability-claims", "doas", "risk-management", "department-of-corrections" ], "cited_in": [], "published_at": "2026-10-28 20:21:43", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 20:21:43", "document_count": 1, "total_bytes": 34898 }, { "ref": "R029790-061926", "url": "https://gps.press/records/r029790-061926/", "title": "Food-service managers' pay: do bonuses depend on the food budget?", "agency": "Georgia Department of Corrections", "agency_short": "GDC", "channel": "GDC Open Records (GovQA portal)", "requested_by": "Georgia Prisoners' Speak", "shared_with_gps": false, "summary": "We asked the Georgia Department of Corrections for any policy that pays food-service managers bonuses or incentives, including for spending less on food, the position descriptions for those jobs, and any such payments since fiscal 2019.\n\nGDC said it identified no documents on performance-based pay, bonuses or merit pay for these positions, and pointed to its salary policies (SOP 104.29, Salary Regulations, and 104.71.19, Conditional Pay Supplements) on its website. It released the state job descriptions for Senior Manager, Food Services and Food Service Specialist Supervisor, the Georgia Correctional Industries food-service organization chart, and the state Food-Farm job code catalog with salary ranges (May 2026).", "date_filed": "2026-06-19", "date_last_response": "2026-09-10", "status": "fulfilled", "status_label": "Fulfilled", "status_note": "GDC answered on August 31, 2026. For one item (chains of command at the facilities) it asked us to name a time frame before estimating the cost.", "fee_amount": 0, "fee_note": "No fee was charged.", "timeline": [ { "date": "2026-06-19", "event": "Request filed through GDC's Open Records Center; GDC acknowledged it the same day." }, { "date": "2026-07-09", "event": "GDC said identifying the records was taking longer than expected." }, { "date": "2026-08-31", "event": "GDC answered item by item: no documents on performance-based pay or bonuses; position descriptions released; it pointed to its salary policies on its website." }, { "date": "2026-09-10", "event": "For the remaining item GDC said it would have to obtain chains of command for each facility, and asked for a time frame before giving a cost estimate." } ], "topics": [ "food", "pay", "policies", "gdc", "gci" ], "cited_in": [], "published_at": "2026-10-28 19:38:31", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 20:10:05", "document_count": 4, "total_bytes": 297244 }, { "ref": "R029786-061826", "url": "https://gps.press/records/r029786-061826/", "title": "GDC's men's and women's menus, standardized recipes and nutrient analysis, 2025 to 2026", "agency": "Georgia Department of Corrections", "agency_short": "GDC", "channel": "GDC Open Records (GovQA portal)", "requested_by": "Georgia Prisoners' Speak", "shared_with_gps": false, "summary": "What GDC says it serves: the 28-day regular menus for men's and women's prisons (May 2026), the standardized recipe card for every menu item with its portion size, serving-size sheets for both menus, and the average daily nutrients for the regular and therapeutic diets (June 2025). GDC first estimated $1,320.00 for the full set of recipes. The request was narrowed, and GDC released the menus and nutrient sheet on July 29, 2026 and 12 recipe cards plus a product label on September 10, invoicing $255.75. On October 21, 2026, GDC's General Counsel emailed the complete recipe sets for the men's and women's menus (the two sets are the same 109 cards) and the serving-size sheets.", "date_filed": "2026-06-18", "date_last_response": "2026-10-21", "status": "fulfilled", "status_label": "Fulfilled", "status_note": "All of the requested records have been released: the menus and nutrient sheet (July 29), 12 recipe cards (September 10), and the complete recipe sets and serving-size sheets (October 21, 2026).", "fee_amount": 255.75, "fee_note": "GDC first estimated $1,320.00 for the full set (July 9, 2026). After the request was narrowed it estimated 8 hours at $33.00 an hour (August 31) and invoiced $255.75 on September 10, the first quarter hour free.", "timeline": [ { "date": "2026-06-18", "event": "Request filed through GDC's open-records portal." }, { "date": "2026-07-09", "event": "GDC estimated $1,320.00 to produce the recipes for both menus." }, { "date": "2026-07-20", "event": "The request was narrowed; GDC confirmed its nutritionist could produce the records." }, { "date": "2026-07-29", "event": "GDC released the May 2026 men's and women's regular menus and the June 2025 average daily nutrients sheet." }, { "date": "2026-08-31", "event": "GDC estimated 12 recipes (3 pages each) and one pre-portioned item at 8 hours, $33.00 an hour; the estimate was accepted." }, { "date": "2026-09-10", "event": "GDC released the 12 recipe cards and a beef patty product label, and issued invoice INV26-R029786-1 for $255.75." }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "event": "Call with GDC's General Counsel about the remaining recipes." }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "event": "GDC's General Counsel emailed the recipe cards for the men's and women's menus and the serving-size sheets for both." } ], "topics": [ "food", "menus", "recipes", "nutrition", "gdc" ], "cited_in": [], "published_at": "2026-10-28 20:07:45", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 20:07:45", "document_count": 22, "total_bytes": 36988417 }, { "ref": "DPH-20260601", "url": "https://gps.press/records/dph-20260601/", "title": "Valdosta State Prison food service: inspection records for both Aramark kitchens, 2020 to 2026", "agency": "Georgia Department of Public Health", "agency_short": "DPH", "channel": "Email to the Lowndes County Environmental Health office (DPH South Health District)", "requested_by": "Georgia Prisoners' Speak", "shared_with_gps": false, "summary": "GPS asked DPH for food-service inspection reports, scores and related correspondence for Valdosta State Prison from January 2020, and the current food-service permits. DPH's South Health District released the records on June 3, 2026, as two scanned files, one for the \"Aramark Corrections Primary\" kitchen and one for the \"Aramark Corrections Annex\" (permit FSP-092-000984, issued to Aramark Corrections on September 13, 2022). The Annex file has 13 routine inspections from May 21, 2020 to May 1, 2026, scored from 85 to 100, with B grades (85 and 86) in May and November 2024. Inspectors cited live roaches or a roach infestation at nine of the 13 inspections, from March 2021 on, and the May 2024, May 2025 and November 2025 reports describe a \"major roach infestation.\" The file also has a September 16, 2021 email from the prison's deputy warden of administration to the inspector setting out a pest-control plan of action. The Primary kitchen file includes DPH's record of a May 2025 complaint about food service at the prison; GPS removed the complainant's name.", "date_filed": "2026-06-01", "date_last_response": "2026-06-03", "status": "fulfilled", "status_label": "Fulfilled", "status_note": "DPH's South Health District released the permit and inspection records by email on June 3, 2026.", "fee_amount": 0, "fee_note": "No fee charged", "timeline": [ { "date": "2026-06-01", "event": "Request emailed to the Lowndes County Environmental Health office." }, { "date": "2026-06-03", "event": "DPH's South Health District released the food-service permits and inspection reports as two scanned files, saying the blank pages are the backs of printed pages." } ], "topics": [ "food-service", "health-inspections", "valdosta-state-prison", "aramark", "pests" ], "cited_in": [], "published_at": "2026-10-28 20:21:50", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 20:21:50", "document_count": 2, "total_bytes": 9110725 }, { "ref": "R026183-011226", "url": "https://gps.press/records/r026183-011226/", "title": "Washington State Prison duty roster and shift post rosters, January 9 and 10, 2026", "agency": "Georgia Department of Corrections", "agency_short": "GDC", "channel": "GDC Open Records Center (GovQA portal)", "requested_by": "FAIR Georgia", "shared_with_gps": true, "summary": "FAIR Georgia asked the Georgia Department of Corrections for all incident reports at Washington State Prison from January 7 to 12, 2026, the prison's current duty roster, and its shift rosters for January 9 to 12. GDC released three files on January 15, 2026: the prison's staff roster dated January 12, 2026 (each employee's name and job title), and the post rosters for Shift 2B on January 9 and January 10. Each post roster lists the prison's 69 security posts and the officer assigned to each; most posts have no officer assigned. GDC said it had no incident reports for January 7 to 12 because none had been completed yet, and it did not release rosters for January 11 or 12. FAIR Georgia shared these records with Georgia Prisoners' Speak.", "date_filed": "2026-01-12", "date_last_response": "2026-01-15", "status": "partial", "status_label": "Partly fulfilled", "status_note": "GDC's portal marks this request \"Full Release.\" It released the staff roster and the Shift 2B post rosters for January 9 and 10. It said no incident reports for January 7 to 12 had been completed, so it had none to release, and that a new request could be filed later. Rosters for January 11 and 12, and for the other shifts, were not released. FAIR Georgia asked GDC on January 15 why the other rosters were missing and which shift the two rosters cover; the portal record shows no answer.", "fee_amount": 0, "fee_note": "No fee charged.", "timeline": [ { "date": "2026-01-12", "event": "FAIR Georgia filed the request through the GDC Open Records Center portal. GDC acknowledged it the same morning." }, { "date": "2026-01-15", "event": "GDC's Legal Services released the staff roster and the January 9 and 10 post rosters, and said no incident reports for January 7 to 12 had been completed." }, { "date": "2026-01-15", "event": "FAIR Georgia asked why the remaining rosters were not included and whether the two post rosters cover a day shift or a night shift." } ], "topics": [], "cited_in": [ { "title": "They Knew: Empty Posts, Broken Locks, and Georgia's Deadliest Prison Week", "url": "https://gps.press/they-knew-empty-posts-broken-locks-and-georgias-deadliest-prison-week/" }, { "title": "Nowhere to Put Him: How Georgia's Bed Math Killed a Man Thirty Days From Home", "url": "https://gps.press/nowhere-to-put-him-how-georgias-bed-math-killed-a-man-thirty-days-from-home/" } ], "published_at": "2026-10-28 22:27:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 22:28:18", "document_count": 4, "total_bytes": 634313 }, { "ref": "R024774-102425", "url": "https://gps.press/records/r024774-102425/", "title": "GDC commissary: master product list, statewide contract, and the November 2025 price change", "agency": "Georgia Department of Corrections", "agency_short": "GDC", "channel": "GDC Open Records (GovQA portal)", "requested_by": "Georgia Prisoners' Speak", "shared_with_gps": false, "summary": "We asked the Georgia Department of Corrections for its master commissary list as of November 1, 2025, with each item's wholesale cost and the price charged to people in prison, and for any records of the price changes that took effect then.\n\nGDC released three files four days later: the Commissary Master Product List dated November 1, 2025, the statewide commissary contract effective November 1, 2025 (174 pages), and its internal notice of the commissary price update effective November 3, 2025.", "date_filed": "2025-10-24", "date_last_response": "2025-10-28", "status": "fulfilled", "status_label": "Fulfilled", "status_note": "Released October 28, 2025.", "fee_amount": 0, "fee_note": "No fee was charged.", "timeline": [ { "date": "2025-10-24", "event": "Request filed through GDC's Open Records Center; GDC acknowledged it the same day." }, { "date": "2025-10-28", "event": "GDC released the three files through the portal." } ], "topics": [ "commissary", "prices", "contracts", "gdc" ], "cited_in": [], "published_at": "2026-10-28 19:38:07", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 20:10:35", "document_count": 3, "total_bytes": 7964456 }, { "ref": "R024615-101925", "url": "https://gps.press/records/r024615-101925/", "title": "Security Count Reports, October 2025: people at each GDC facility by custody level", "agency": "Georgia Department of Corrections", "agency_short": "GDC", "channel": "GDC Open Records (GovQA portal)", "requested_by": "Georgia Prisoners' Speak", "shared_with_gps": false, "summary": "We asked the Georgia Department of Corrections for the current count of people at each facility by security classification (minimum, medium, close), and which facilities hold close-security people.\n\nGDC ran its Security Count Report for each facility: 74 one-page reports, each giving Minimum, Medium, Close, No Security Classification and the facility total.", "date_filed": "2025-10-19", "date_last_response": "2025-12-17", "status": "fulfilled", "status_label": "Fulfilled", "status_note": "Released October 27, 2025.", "fee_amount": 112.5, "fee_note": "GDC estimated three hours at $37.50 an hour; we paid $112.50.", "timeline": [ { "date": "2025-10-19", "event": "Request filed through GDC's Open Records Center; GDC acknowledged it the same day." }, { "date": "2025-10-21", "event": "GDC estimated the cost at about $112.50: three hours at $37.50, the hourly rate of the lowest-paid employee who can do the work." }, { "date": "2025-10-21", "event": "We agreed to pay." }, { "date": "2025-10-27", "event": "GDC uploaded the reports to the portal." }, { "date": "2025-12-17", "event": "GDC confirmed our payment of $112.50." } ], "topics": [ "population", "security-classification", "statistics", "gdc" ], "cited_in": [], "published_at": "2026-10-28 19:38:19", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 20:10:11", "document_count": 74, "total_bytes": 8914076 }, { "ref": "R019866-032125", "url": "https://gps.press/records/r019866-032125/", "title": "Inmate Welfare Fund and commissary money: GDC's $88,944 estimate, and the commissary contract it released", "agency": "Georgia Department of Corrections", "agency_short": "GDC", "channel": "GDC Open Records (GovQA portal)", "requested_by": "Georgia Prisoners' Speak", "shared_with_gps": false, "summary": "We asked the Georgia Department of Corrections for the money flowing into and out of the Inmate Welfare Fund and similar accounts (commissary, package, phone and fee revenue, and how it was spent) for fiscal years 2020 to 2024, and for its contracts with commissary vendors.\n\nGDC estimated that retrieving the financial records would take three to six months of a full-time employee's time, about $88,944 for retrieval alone, before any review. We dropped those items and asked only for the commissary contracts. GDC released the statewide commissary contract (fiscal 2015, with attachments), Amendment 14 (Renewal 10), and a commissary master product list.", "date_filed": "2025-03-21", "date_last_response": "2025-03-26", "status": "fulfilled", "status_label": "Fulfilled", "status_note": "Items 4 (commissary contracts) released March 26, 2025. Items 1 to 3 (fund income and spending) not pursued because of GDC's estimate.", "fee_amount": 0, "fee_note": "No fee for the contracts. GDC estimated about $88,944 (retrieval only, at $37.06 an hour) for the financial records we dropped.", "timeline": [ { "date": "2025-03-21", "event": "Request filed through GDC's Open Records Center; GDC acknowledged it the same day." }, { "date": "2025-03-26", "event": "GDC estimated that retrieving the fund records would take three to six months of one person's full-time work at $37.06 an hour: about $88,944 for retrieval alone, not counting review." }, { "date": "2025-03-26", "event": "We dropped items 1 to 3 because of the cost and asked GDC to go ahead with item 4, the commissary contracts." }, { "date": "2025-03-26", "event": "GDC released the item 4 records through the portal." } ], "topics": [ "commissary", "inmate-welfare-fund", "contracts", "fees", "gdc" ], "cited_in": [], "published_at": "2026-10-28 19:38:15", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 20:10:48", "document_count": 3, "total_bytes": 5936605 }, { "ref": "GCI0001044-shared", "url": "https://gps.press/records/gci0001044-shared/", "title": "Georgia Correctional Industries \"Spent Hen Removal\" contract award, 2025 (event GCI0001044)", "agency": "Georgia Correctional Industries", "agency_short": "GCI", "channel": "Records shared with GPS by the requester, October 28, 2026", "requested_by": "a member of the public", "shared_with_gps": true, "summary": "Georgia Correctional Industries' 2025 solicitation to remove spent hens (event GCI0001044), as released to a member of the public who shared the records with GPS. The notice of award, posted July 22, 2025, awards an open contract to Wimpey Poultry Company Inc. with an estimated amount of $90,851.35; the other bidder, T & A Thompson Services LLC, is listed as \"Not Low Bid.\" The bid tabulation shows 79,000 units at $1.15 each from Wimpey ($90,850.00) against $2.28 each from Thompson, plus a one-unit emergency line ($1.35 and $2.35).", "date_filed": null, "date_last_response": null, "status": "fulfilled", "status_label": "Fulfilled", "status_note": "These are the records the requester received. GPS does not know whether the request asked for anything more.", "fee_amount": null, "fee_note": null, "timeline": [ { "date": "2025-07-18", "event": "Solicitation GCI0001044 closed." }, { "date": "2025-07-22", "event": "Notice of award posted: Wimpey Poultry Company Inc." }, { "date": "2026-10-28", "event": "The requester shared the notice of award and the bid tabulation with GPS." } ], "topics": [ "food", "gci", "procurement", "poultry" ], "cited_in": [], "published_at": "2026-10-28 20:09:39", "updated_at": "2026-10-28 20:11:16", "document_count": 2, "total_bytes": 809468 } ] }