The Human Cost of Georgia’s Prison Extortion
Families reveal the crushing financial burden behind Georgia’s prison commissary and phone pricing.
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Georgia's prisons extract wealth from the poorest families while prisoners earn $0/hour. One family: $320/month commissary, $250 calls, $1000 per visit. The state profits while families ration groceries. https://gps.press/the-human-cost-of-georgias-prison-extortion/
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Across Georgia, families sacrifice everything to keep incarcerated loved ones alive. They're spending $320 monthly on commissary, working extra shifts on $11/hour wages, and rationing their own groceries—all while GDC profits from 400-900% markups and pays prisoners $0/hour. These families have become the state's second budget, subsidizing a system that deliberately creates scarcity to extract wealth from those who can least afford it.
How is this different from extortion? https://gps.press/the-human-cost-of-georgias-prison-extortion/
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Georgia families are quietly carrying a crushing financial burden most people never see. Working extra shifts on $11/hour wages, rationing groceries, going into debt—all to keep incarcerated loved ones fed and connected. Meanwhile, GDC profits from 400-900% commissary markups while paying prisoners $0/hour. This isn't a broken system. It's extortion by design, extracting wealth from the poorest communities to subsidize a multibillion-dollar state agency.
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New GPS investigation reveals how Georgia's prison system functions as a wealth extraction machine targeting the state's most vulnerable families. While prisoners earn $0/hour, families spend hundreds monthly on commissary items marked up 400-900%, phone calls, and visitation costs—essentially serving as the Department of Corrections' second budget.
This isn't system failure. It's deliberate policy that criminalizes poverty at every stage and reinforces generational economic hardship long after release. When families can't pay, survival inside becomes dangerous, fueling underground economies and violence. https://gps.press/the-human-cost-of-georgias-prison-extortion/