The Classification Crisis: How Four Medium Security Prisons are Killing People
Georgia prison classification crisis: overcrowded medium security facilities dangerously mix violent and vulnerable inmates, creating deadly conditions.
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Four Georgia medium security prisons secretly house 28-30% close security inmates—creating death traps with homicide rates 4-5 times higher than properly classified facilities. https://gps.press/the-classification-crisis-how-four-medium-security-prisons-are-killing...
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Georgia Department of Corrections has quietly transformed four medium security prisons into de facto close security facilities, housing dangerous inmates at rates 10 times higher than other facilities. The result: homicide rates 4-5 times higher than properly classified prisons. Dooly, Wilcox, Calhoun, and Washington state prisons now house 28-30% close security inmates in facilities not designed or staffed for this population. The DOJ found these practices violate the Constitution, yet GDC continues the dangerous experiment. How many more people must die before Georgia fixes this classification crisis? https://gps.press/the-classification-crisis-how-four-medium-security-prisons-are-killing-people/
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Georgia's Department of Corrections has created death traps by secretly housing close security inmates in medium security facilities. Four prisons—Dooly, Wilcox, Calhoun, and Washington—now house 28-30% close security populations, compared to 0-3% at other medium facilities. The result is predictable: homicide rates 4-5 times higher than properly classified prisons. Between 2023-2024, 58 people died at these four facilities, with 68% under age 50. The DOJ found these practices unconstitutional, yet GDC refuses to fix the crisis.
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Georgia's Department of Corrections has created a constitutional crisis through deliberate misclassification of inmates. Four medium security facilities now house close security populations at rates 10 times higher than comparable facilities—a practice the DOJ found violates the Eighth Amendment. The policy results in homicide rates 4-5 times higher than properly classified facilities and has led to 58 deaths in two years, with most victims under age 50. This represents a fundamental failure of correctional administration that endangers lives and exposes the state to significant liability. https://gps.press/the-classification-crisis-how-four-medium-security-prisons-are-killing-people/