Who Are the Victims: Victims Still

168 counts. 3 weeks of torture. Georgia's paperwork said every inmate was accounted for while Christian Krauch was dying under a bunk. The state then promoted the facility's Chief of Security. https://gps.press/who-are-the-victims-victims-still/

For three weeks in June 2024, Christian Krauch was beaten, stabbed, burned, and run through with a machete inside a Georgia state prison. During that time, staff submitted 168 counts reporting every inmate accounted for. When he was finally found, surgeons amputated his right hand and right leg. He had multiple brain bleeds. Two months later, Georgia promoted the Chief of Security at the facility where it happened. The U.S. Department of Justice has formally found Georgia's prisons 'deliberately indifferent' to constitutional violations across 24 facilities. GPS tracks 1,797 deaths in GDC custody since 2020 — 333 in 2024 alone. The state's Office of Victim Services has never issued a public statement addressing any of it. The full investigation is at the link below. What does it mean that the state recognizes some people as victims — but only until the moment it incarcerates them? https://gps.press/who-are-the-victims-victims-still/

For three weeks, Christian Krauch was tortured inside a Georgia state prison while staff submitted 168 counts reporting everyone accounted for. He lost his right hand, his right leg, and his memory. The state released him on his exact sentence end date with no money, no insurance, and no medical transition plan. Georgia then promoted the Chief of Security at the facility where it happened. The DOJ found the state 'deliberately indifferent' to constitutional violations across 24 prisons. GPS has tracked 1,797 deaths in GDC custody since 2020. The state has said nothing. Read the full investigation at the link in our bio: https://gps.press/who-are-the-victims-victims-still/ #GeorgiaPrisons #PrisonReform #CriminalJustice #GeorgiaDOC #PrisonViolence #AccountabilityJournalism #InvestigativeJournalism #GeorgiaPrisonerSpeak #EighthAmendment #DOJFindings #PrisonDeaths #MaconStatePrison

The U.S. Department of Justice concluded in October 2024 that the State of Georgia is 'deliberately indifferent' to Eighth Amendment violations across 24 of its prisons. That is not editorial language — it is the specific constitutional standard established in Estelle v. Gamble and Farmer v. Brennan, requiring a finding that the state knows of the harm, has the institutional capacity to act, and has chosen not to. Georgia's public response was that the DOJ had 'overstated' the issues. No commissioner was removed. No facility was closed. No consent decree followed. Georgia Prisoners' Speak has independently tracked 1,797 deaths in GDC custody since 2020, including 333 in 2024 — the deadliest year on record. Our latest investigation documents what 'deliberate indifference' looks like at the individual level: a man tortured for three weeks while 168 official counts reported normalcy, a man who lost both hands to frostbite after being ordered into a commercial freezer with food-service gloves, and a state that has structurally defined the category of 'victim' to exclude anyone it has already incarcerated. The legal architecture that makes that exclusion explicit is the subject of Part 3 of this series. https://gps.press/who-are-the-victims-victims-still/