GPS research documents a hidden drug crisis in Georgia prisons: overdose deaths surged 2,350%, GDC misclassified 44 deaths, and the state’s own employees fuel the pipeline.
Drug overdose deaths in Georgia prisons surged 2,350% while GDC concealed at least 44 deaths through systematic misclassification. A new GPS report documents the crisis.
Georgia spends $1.62B on corrections yet drugs flow freely through all 38 state prisons. At least 49 people died from overdoses in 2019–2022, and GDC misclassified at least 44 of those deaths.
