Georgia prisons

The Poverty-to-Prison Pipeline: How Georgia Criminalizes Being Poor

Georgia has the world’s highest incarceration rate – achieved by systematically criminalizing poverty through cash bail, court fines, and predatory fees.

Boys from Georgia’s poorest families face 20x higher incarceration rates than those from middle and upper-class households.

Normalization: The Principle That Changes Everything

Georgia’s prisons aren’t broken—they’re illegal. Learn how the normalization model can end unconstitutional punishment and rebuild safety, dignity, and justice.

Georgia’s prisons aren’t “broken” — they’re illegal.

The Constitution says the punishment is the loss of liberty, not starvation, violence, neglect, or death.
Yet every day, Georgia piles on punishments no judge ever ordered.

Every other developed nation treats prison as a place for rehabilitation.
Georgia treats it as a dumping ground for suffering.

Normalization is how we realign Georgia with the law, with humanity, and with public safety.

Georgia now faces a choice:
continue running prisons that violate the Constitution, or adopt the normalization model that every safe, sane society already follows.

One path breeds violence.
The other creates redemption.
Only one is legal.

Why Georgia Must Create a Liberty Interest in Parole

Georgia’s parole system is broken because people have no enforceable right to release — even when they do everything asked of them. Creating a liberty interest in parole would finally bring fairness, transparency, and real hope to thousands of families across our state.

Georgia Prison Security Levels

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.