The Quiet Purge: Calhoun Edition

…Footnotes GPS Offender Database, 302,343 offender records and 88,180 change records tracked February–April 2026[↩] GPS Offender Database, February–April 2026[↩] GPS Open Records Request, October 27, 2025, https://gps.press/georgia-prison-security-levels-2025/[↩] GPS, “The Classification…

$307.6M Verdict Against Prison Healthcare Giant Corizon

A federal jury awarded $307.6 million to a former Michigan prisoner whose healthcare contractor denied him a colostomy reversal surgery to save money. The verdict in Jackson v. Corizon Health puts the entire for-profit prison healthcare industry on notice — including companies operating in Georgia.

Who Is Responsible for Georgia Prison Violence?

Empty correctional officer guard station with abandoned clipboard and radio in a brightly lit Georgia prison hallway, symbolizing the staffing crisis

Georgia corrections officials blame younger, more violent inmates for the prison violence crisis. The evidence — from the DOJ, academic research, and Georgia’s own data — tells a very different story. Five systemic failures explain the violence. The inmates didn’t create any of them.

Blackstone Is Dead: Georgia Abandoned American Justice

Crumbling marble courthouse pillar inscribed with JUSTICE, with broken golden scales of justice lying at its base and prison bars in the background, bathed in warm light

Georgia’s Chief Justice admits the post-conviction system is “broken.” But the IAC trap is just one lock on the door. Combined with the unconstitutional 4-year habeas deadline, no right to counsel, and restricted legal access, Georgia has built a machine that keeps thousands — including an estimated 2,600 to 5,275 innocent people — locked inside its deadliest prisons.

The Six Who Disappeared: Georgia’s Prison Death Cover-Up

GDC’s own statistics report 301 people died while serving state sentences in 2025. But the official mortality name list contains only 295 names. When GPS asked who the six missing people were, GDC responded with bureaucratic doublespeak — and a bill.

The Reform That Worked — and the Governor Who Killed It

Georgia already solved its prison crisis once. Governor Deal’s reforms cut the prison population 6%, saved $264 million, and didn’t increase crime. Then Governor Kemp reversed course, adding $700 million in spending while every outcome worsened. The math is on legislators’ desks. Will they choose what works?

The Death of Habeas Corpus Is Killing Innocent People

Georgia's restriction on Habeas Corpus electively kills the 830 year writ

For 830 years, habeas corpus protected the innocent from unlawful imprisonment—until Georgia destroyed it. The 2004 four-year deadline traps wrongfully convicted people in a prison system that killed 100+ by homicide in 2024. The Great Writ is dead. The innocent are dying with it.

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