Prison Phone Scams Are Adding Years to Georgia Sentences
Two Calhoun State Prison men got 26 more years in federal prison for a jury-duty phone scam. What the calls cost victims, and the men who made them.
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Two men at Calhoun State Prison ran a jury-duty scam on contraband phones. They got 26 years and 8 months stacked on top of their Georgia sentences. https://gps.press/prison-phone-scams-are-adding-years-to-georgia-sentences/
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Two men at Calhoun State Prison used contraband cellphones to pose as police and tell strangers they'd missed jury duty. The U.S. Attorney's Office documented more than $464,920 in losses across 119 victims, and said the true number is likely much higher. Both men were sentenced to federal time that doesn't begin until their Georgia sentences end: 200 months for one, 120 for the other.
This script has come out of Georgia prisons for years, from Autry to Calhoun. GDC's own Digital Forensics Unit processed 17,991 cellphones in fiscal year 2025. If Georgia allowed registered, monitored phones, a scam could be caught on tape instead of a year later in another state. Should Georgia change that policy?
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Two men at Calhoun State Prison posed as police on contraband phones, telling strangers they'd missed jury duty. The U.S. Attorney's Office counted more than $464,920 in losses across 119 victims and said the real number is likely higher. Both were sentenced to federal time stacked after their Georgia sentences: 200 months and 120 months. GDC's Digital Forensics Unit processed 17,991 cellphones in fiscal year 2025. Read the full investigation at the link in our bio.
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A federal judge in Albany sentenced two men held at Calhoun State Prison to 200 and 120 months for a jury-duty phone scam run on contraband cellphones. Because the sentences run consecutively to their Georgia terms, and the federal system has no parole, that is 26 years and 8 months added after their current sentences end. The U.S. Attorney's Office documented more than $464,920 in losses across 119 victims and said the true count is likely higher.
The same script has surfaced from Georgia prisons for years, including at Autry State Prison. GDC's Digital Forensics Unit processed 17,991 cellphones in fiscal year 2025. Georgia's policy question is whether registered, monitored phones inside would let scams be caught on tape rather than prosecuted years later in another state. GPS examines the evidence and what other states do.