Brown v. Plata provides the legal blueprint for challenging unconstitutional prison overcrowding. This advocacy guide shows how to use its precedent to fight for Georgia prison reform.
GPS analysis reveals 5,000+ uncounted prison deaths nationally, 44 misclassified deaths in Georgia, and a federal reporting system in collapse. Here’s how advocates can use this research.
Private prison healthcare contractors produce death rates 18-58% higher than government facilities. This GPS analysis arms advocates with the data to fight back.
GPS investigation documents a two-tier commissary markup scheme extracting $8-15 million annually from Georgia’s incarcerated families. Advocacy guide with talking points, key quotes, and strategies.
Georgia’s $1.8 billion corrections budget reveals the state’s priorities: $13.4M for surveillance technology, 263 new private prison beds, and just $150,000 for rehabilitation programming.
Georgia’s own state-commissioned assessment confirms emergency-level failures across staffing, infrastructure, healthcare, education, and sexual safety in 34 state prisons housing 49,000 people.
The state’s own independent assessment confirms Georgia’s prisons are in crisis: emergency staffing at 20 prisons, 82.7% officer attrition, broken locks, and only 7% of PREA cases substantiated.
