advocacy-toolkit Archives

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.