Every harm this series documented flows from one choice: Georgia warehouses people instead of preparing them to return. There is a proven alternative — normalization — that is humane, far cheaper, and may be legally required. The finale of End the Warehouse, and the blueprint out.
On or about June 1, Georgia switches on OWL — the first centralized real-time prison-surveillance hub in American corrections. GPS asks the question the state won’t answer: how does watching reduce a single stabbing, overdose, or suicide, when $150 million bought the eye and $805,000 was left for the classrooms?
Georgia stripped its prisons of work, family, and purpose — and left the gangs as the only institution supplying all three. An investigation into how the state manufactured the vacuum its gangs now fill, from Commissioner Wayne Garner’s 1996 purge to today’s TAC-squad raids, and the body count it refuses to publish.
There is a sentence in the Official Code of Georgia that decides, in advance, that no one injured in a Georgia prison can be compensated as a victim of crime. Part 3 of the GPS series Who Are the Victims documents the statute that erases them — and the three provisions that would have to change.
Georgia has commanded its prison system to separate dangerous inmates since 1897, and the legislature declared every person’s right to be safe from gang violence — yet the state enforces neither. The fix isn’t a new law. It’s finishing the one already on the books.
A sixth statewide lockdown began after deadly gang violence at Ware State Prison. Georgia Prisoners’ Speak has demanded gang separation for fifteen months — a reform that costs almost nothing and that Texas, Arizona, and California proved cuts violence. Georgia keeps choosing the body count instead.
Christian Krauch was tortured for three weeks under a bunk at Macon State Prison while GDC filed 168 paper counts saying he was accounted for. He survived. Part 2 of the GPS series Who Are the Victims documents what Georgia does to the people who enter its prisons as victims first — and the federal record now in place.
On January 5, 2026, Nicole Boynton walked free after twenty-three years inside. Georgia’s Survivor Justice Act recognized her as a victim — twenty-three years too late. The science says she is not alone. A new GPS series asks who else qualifies as a victim under Georgia law, and why the state has chosen to look away.
In less than three months, Warden Kendric Jackson transferred 87 lifers out of Calhoun State Prison — 79% to close-security facilities. GPS data reveals a systematic population swap: stable, long-term inmates shipped to Level 5 prisons while younger short-timers arrive from those same facilities. No other medium-security prison in Georgia is doing anything close to this.
Georgia’s prison phone crackdown spent years failing to stop $1.5 million in scams at a single prison — before and after MAS arrived. The $50M blocking system is deaf by design. Georgia already has the hardware, the law, and the precedent to monitor instead. The Commissioner needs to make one decision.