Starved and Silenced: The Hidden Crisis Inside Georgia Prisons

“My son went in weighing 180 pounds. Now he looks like he belongs in a concentration camp.”

Across Georgia’s prisons, men and women are wasting away — surviving on a few spoonfuls of grits, bologna, and moldy air. The Department of Corrections calls it efficiency. We call it **cruelty by design.**

Starvation, disease, and violence are the price of Georgia’s broken prison food system — a system that profits from suffering and punishes the hungry.