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Research and data translated into advocacy-ready language with specific talking points, sample messaging, and action steps you can take right now to push for change.
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Brown v. Plata: The Legal Blueprint Advocates Need to Challenge Prison Overcrowding in Georgia
Brown v. Plata provides the legal blueprint for challenging unconstitutional prison overcrowding. This advocacy guide shows how to use its precedent to fight for Georgia prison reform.
Innocent People in Georgia Prisons: An Advocacy Toolkit on the Scope and Scale of Wrongful Conviction
An estimated 2,500 innocent people are imprisoned in Georgia. This advocacy toolkit provides data-backed talking points, key quotes, and strategic guidance for using wrongful conviction research in legislative testimony, media, and coalition building.
Broken by Design: How Georgia's Classification Failures Are Killing People in Prison
Georgia's broken classification system is placing people in the wrong facilities — and people are dying. 142 homicides between 2018-2023. Here's how advocates can use this research.
Prison Healthcare Is a Death Sentence: How Privatization, Cost-Cutting, and Legal Barriers Are Killing People Behind Bars
Private prison healthcare contractors produce death rates 18-58% higher than government facilities. This GPS analysis arms advocates with the data to fight back.
Lead Poisoning Drove America's Crime Epidemic — and the State Punished the Victims: An Advocacy Guide
The government poisoned children with lead for decades, then imprisoned them for the neurological consequences. This advocacy guide turns the lead-crime evidence into tools for reform.
DOJ Finds Georgia Prisons Violate the Constitution: An Advocacy Guide to the Federal Investigation
The DOJ found Georgia violates the Eighth Amendment. 142 people killed, 50%+ officer vacancies, over 27,000 weapons recovered. Here's how advocates can use this landmark report.
DOJ Finds Georgia Prisons Violate the Constitution: An Advocacy Guide to the Federal Investigation
The DOJ found Georgia prisons violate the Constitution. 142 people killed in six years, 50%+ staff vacancy rates, and zero compliant sexual abuse investigations. Here's how advocates can use this landmark report.
Families as the Hidden Tax Base: How $350 Billion in Incarceration Costs Are Shifted to Families — An Advocacy Toolkit
Families pay nearly $350 billion annually to support incarcerated loved ones — almost four times what taxpayers spend on prisons. This advocacy toolkit provides the data, talking points, and strategies to fight the Family Tax.
Prison Deaths Are Being Hidden: How Data Gaps, Misclassification, and Accountability Failures Conceal a Mortality Crisis
GPS analysis reveals 5,000+ uncounted prison deaths nationally, 44 misclassified deaths in Georgia, and a federal reporting system in collapse. Here's how advocates can use this research.
Drugs in Georgia's Prisons: An Advocacy Guide to the Crisis the State Wants Hidden
GPS research documents a hidden drug crisis in Georgia prisons: overdose deaths surged 2,350%, GDC misclassified 44 deaths, and the state's own employees fuel the pipeline.
Conviction Integrity Units: How Advocates Can Push Georgia to Address Its Wrongful Conviction Crisis
Georgia has only 3 Conviction Integrity Units for 159 counties. Here's how advocates can use this research to push for statewide reform.
Prison Labor & Wage Exploitation in Georgia: An Advocacy Toolkit for Reform
Georgia pays incarcerated workers nothing while extracting hundreds of millions in labor value. This advocacy toolkit gives reform advocates the data, talking points, and strategies to demand change.
Georgia's Prison Commissary Extraction Machine: An Advocacy Guide to Fighting Exploitative Pricing
GPS investigation documents a two-tier commissary markup scheme extracting $8-15 million annually from Georgia's incarcerated families. Advocacy guide with talking points, key quotes, and strategies.
Georgia's Incarceration Crisis by the Numbers: An Advocacy Toolkit for Reform
Georgia incarcerates 53,000 people while parole grants plummet 42%. This advocacy toolkit arms reformers with data, talking points, and strategies to fight back.
Georgia's Prison Infrastructure Crisis: An Advocacy Toolkit for Reform
Georgia's own officials document a prison infrastructure catastrophe: broken locks enabling violence, facilities at double capacity, and 80% staff vacancy rates. Here's how advocates can use this evidence.
The Healthcare Crisis Killing People in Georgia Prisons: A Research-Backed Advocacy Toolkit
The DOJ calls Georgia's prison healthcare "abhorrent" and "unconstitutional." 330 people died in 2024. This toolkit gives advocates the data and strategy to demand change.
Georgia's Probation Crisis by the Numbers: An Advocacy Toolkit for the Nation's Largest Felony Probation System
Georgia operates the nation's largest felony probation system with 191,000 people under supervision — marked by 2x-8x racial disparities and fiscal waste. This toolkit arms advocates with data for reform.
Georgia's Prison Staffing Crisis by the Numbers: An Advocacy Toolkit
Nearly 50% of Georgia's corrections officer positions are vacant. The DOJ confirms this leaves people unsupervised. Here's how advocates can use this data to demand change.
Georgia's Prison Spending Surge: A $500 Million Escalation That Ignores the People Inside
Georgia's prison budget surged 44%—nearly $500 million—since FY2022, yet incarcerated people still face $5 medical co-pays, forced unpaid labor, and $10M+ in annual fee extraction.
Georgia Senate Committee Confirms What Advocates Have Said for Years: Prisons Are Dangerously Understaffed, Crumbling, and Failing People Inside
Georgia's own Senate study committee confirms a 47% security vacancy rate, crumbling infrastructure, and preventable deaths. Here's how advocates can use this report.
Racial Disparities in Georgia's Criminal Justice System: An Advocacy Toolkit for Reform
Black Georgians are 31% of the population but 61% of state prisoners. This research compilation documents racial disparity at every stage of Georgia's criminal justice system — and gives advocates the data to demand change.
Georgia's Parole Board Released Fewer People Than Any Year in Recent History — Here's What Advocates Need to Know
Georgia's Parole Board released 42% fewer people in FY24 than five years ago. Life-sentenced individuals now serve 29.2 years on average. The Board's own data makes the case for reform.
Georgia Spends $1.8 Billion on Corrections While Expanding Private Prisons and Surveillance — Not People
Georgia's $1.8 billion corrections budget reveals the state's priorities: $13.4M for surveillance technology, 263 new private prison beds, and just $150,000 for rehabilitation programming.
System-Wide Assessment of Georgia Department of Corrections: What Advocates Need to Know
The state's own independent assessment confirms Georgia's prisons are in crisis: emergency staffing at 20 prisons, 82.7% officer attrition, broken locks, and only 7% of PREA cases substantiated.
Georgia's Own Assessment Confirms System-Wide Crisis: 20 Prisons Unsafe, 82.7% Staff Turnover in First Year
Georgia's own state-commissioned assessment confirms a system-wide prison crisis: 20 facilities unsafe, 82.7% officer turnover, failing infrastructure, and a 38% drop in parole releases.
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