Hays State Prison

The Swing Space That Wasn’t: 524 New Beds, a Border-Wall Family, and No Contract Georgia Will Show

Georgia’s General Assembly appropriated $86 million for modular prison units sold as temporary “swing space.” GDC now calls them 524 permanent beds. The builder is owned by the Galveston family behind one of America’s largest border-wall contractors. Update, September 2: the state has since produced five executed contracts with ModCorr LLC totalling $85,585,244, signed April 25, 2025. The solicitation behind them is still unaccounted for.

Blood on Blood: Georgia Statewide Prison Lockdown

Blood on Blood - Statewide Georgia prison lockdown from coordinated gang violence April 2026

On April 1, 2026, coordinated Blood-on-Blood gang violence erupted across Georgia’s prison system. At least 12 prisons locked down, life flights dispatched to two facilities, stabbings at five. GPS has demanded gang separation for months. Arizona cut violence 50%. Georgia still refuses.