Georgia Spends $1.5 Billion a Year on Prisons. People Leave Worse Than When They Went In.
Georgia spends $1.48 billion on prisons but just $172,000 on job training. The DOJ says people leave worse than when they went in.
Prison Budget
The OWL Sees All: Georgia’s $150M Prison Surveillance
Georgia is building the first centralized prison surveillance command center in American corrections — the OWL Unit — integrating cameras, drones, body cams, health records, and cell phone interdiction into one hub. The $150M+ system has no public oversight, no privacy analysis, and no equivalent in any other state. GPS investigates.