Three men were reported killed at Macon State Prison from October 21 to 23. GDC has acknowledged one of them, Juld Carter. A week later it locked down more than two dozen prisons, Macon among them, and described a fight at Hays where nobody died. Here’s what the state has said, and what people inside describe.
GDC has confirmed that a woman held at Pulaski State Prison died of complications of tuberculosis. Families had been warning since October 13. Here’s what the state has said, what families report from McRae and Pulaski, and what GDC’s own TB policy requires.
State fire inspectors found padlocks and slide bolts on cell doors in four housing units at Washington State Prison in September. Broken locks, the warden said. Georgia has been buying new ones for more than a decade, and this year it set aside another $84,596,895.
“He’s on Tier” means a loved one is in Georgia’s prison segregation system. Here’s how Tier I, Tier II, the Special Management Unit and the STEP step-down work under GDC’s own policies, how people get in and out, and the bed counts GDC gave GPS in October 2026.
Georgia paid $85,585,244 for 524 modular prison beds. Asked how the vendor was chosen, GDC, DOAS and GSFIC each said the record wasn’t theirs. Then GSFIC sent two undated pages: it read GDC’s information request and “made a direct selection.”
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.
Georgia now reimburses rural county jails when more than 20 percent of their capacity is filled by people charged with delivering contraband to state prisons. Two sheriffs are in open revolt over the cost. Every dollar the state spends chases the supply chain it can see from a patrol car.
State fire inspectors found barrel bolts on every fire exit at Ware State Prison in June and told GDC to remove them. In August they found the bolts still there, new ones on the dorm doors, empty control rooms and staff without keys. Inside Georgia’s prisons, the same hardware is on the cell doors.
Arthur Wimbush was killed at Phillips State Prison thirty days from release. The Chief of Security says every segregation bed was full, so there was nowhere to put a man who needed protecting. The medical examiner certified homicide. Georgia’s bed math is the mechanism.
Georgia’s own death investigators recorded what happened to four men at Washington State Prison. A man locked alone in a shower stall to cool down. A cell unchecked for fourteen hours. A tray at 10:19 nobody rose for. In each case the response to a medical crisis was a placement, not treatment.