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The Swing Space That Wasn’t: 524 New Beds, a Border-Wall Family, and No Contract Georgia Will Show

Georgia’s General Assembly appropriated $86 million for modular prison units sold as temporary “swing space.” GDC now calls them 524 permanent beds. The builder is owned by the Galveston family behind one of America’s largest border-wall contractors. Update, September 2: the state has since produced five executed contracts with ModCorr LLC totalling $85,585,244, signed April 25, 2025. The solicitation behind them is still unaccounted for.

Georgia’s Family-Package Monopoly | GPS

Georgia ended direct family packages and funneled families to one vendor: Union Supply. Single T-shirts at $4.55–$9.25 plus shipping and tax, packed by incarcerated women at Arrendale — and the state has never disclosed its cut.

GCI: Georgia’s $326M No-Bid, $0-Wage Corp | GPS

Georgia Correctional Industries took $325.7M from GDC over eight years — a mandatory, no-bid “preferred source” running farms and factories on $0 wages. Its books don’t show the food split, its workforce is also its consumer, and the law wrote it that way.