Georgia Correctional Industries

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.

The 2,900-Calorie Menu That 53 Cents Can’t Buy

A Georgia legislator assured a constituent that state prisons serve a 2,900-calorie, dietitian-designed menu meeting “American Dietary Association” guidelines. There is no American Dietary Association, and the State’s own budget prices prison food at 66 cents a meal. (Corrected October 21, 2026.)