Georgia families are spending hundreds each month on commissary, phone calls, and visitation just to keep their loved ones alive. These firsthand testimonies reveal the hidden human cost of Georgia’s predatory prison economy.
The Georgia Department of Corrections’ own numbers show how medium-security prisons are now functioning like high-security facilities. This table—based on October 27, 2025 data—exposes systemic classification drift that’s fueling Georgia’s deadly prison crisis.