Georgia’s four-year habeas deadline costs taxpayers $105,000+ per year per wrongfully imprisoned person. Every recent Georgia exoneration exceeded the deadline. Major states impose no such limit.
Families of people in prison pay nearly $350 billion a year. Women and Black families bear the heaviest burden. This report explains how the system works.
GPS analysis maps the legal strategy behind the largest court-ordered prison population reduction in U.S. history and identifies direct parallels to Georgia’s current prison crisis.
The Supreme Court ordered California to cut its prison population by 46,000 because crowding killed people. Georgia faces similar problems today.
Thousands of prison deaths go uncounted. Georgia mislabeled at least 44. Only one state reports death data fully. Here’s what families need to know.
Studies say about 2,500 innocent people are locked up in Georgia prisons. Since 1989, only 51 have been cleared — losing 610 years combined.
Georgia’s prison sorting system is broken. 142 people killed in 6 years. Half of guard jobs empty. The DOJ calls it among the worst it has ever seen.
Private prison healthcare contractors are linked to death rates 18-58% higher than government-run facilities. Three major companies filed bankruptcy to dodge over $1 billion in malpractice liability.
Private companies run prison health care and profit by cutting care. Death rates are up to 58% higher. Here’s what families need to know.
Georgia prisons charge families $0.90 for ramen worth $0.20 and $4.00 for pain pills worth $0.40. A GPS investigation reveals a system that takes $8-15 million a year from families.