Mass incarceration was not a response to crime—it was a political project. From the War on Drugs to Iran–Contra, the federal government made deliberate choices that devastated communities. Georgia inherited this framework and intensified it. This is the history we must confront.
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.
