conditions of confinement

When Nobody Comes: Surviving Georgia’s Prisons

Nine contributors describe what daily survival requires inside Georgia custody: boots worn into the shower, lunch carried back from breakfast, a fire alarm ringing into an empty post, and medication missed behind a locked door. Much of what keeps people alive is done by other prisoners.

There’s Nothing Wrong with the Water

A corroded, rust-stained institutional faucet drips discolored water beside aging exposed pipes in a decaying state facility.

Georgia’s public-health agency confirmed Legionella in a South Georgia prison’s water. Thirty days later, the corrections department told the men living there — in writing — that no outbreak existed. The contamination, and the antibiotics, followed them to the next prison.