The DOJ found Georgia prisons violate the Constitution. 142 people killed in six years, 50%+ staff vacancy rates, and zero compliant sexual abuse investigations. Here’s how advocates can use this landmark report.
Families of people in prison pay nearly $350 billion a year. Women and Black families bear the heaviest burden. This report explains how the system works.
…Report of the Senate Supporting Safety and Welfare of All Individuals in Department of Corrections Study Committee (SR 570) — Senate Office of Policy and Legislative Analysis. Georgia Senate Office…
DOJ finds Georgia violates the constitutional rights of nearly 50,000 incarcerated people: 142 killed in six years, guard posts half-empty, and zero sexual abuse investigations met federal standards.
A family guide to Georgia’s December 2024 prison system report: what broken locks, staff shortages, and doubled gang populations mean for your loved one’s safety and programs.
Georgia already solved its prison crisis once. Governor Deal’s reforms cut the prison population 6%, saved $264 million, and didn’t increase crime. Then Governor Kemp reversed course, adding $700 million in spending while every outcome worsened. The math is on legislators’ desks. Will they choose what works?
GPS investigates Pulaski State Prison under Warden Wendy Jackson, tracing how an untested leader inherited a facility scarred by decades of lethal medical neglect, gang violence, sexual assault, and federal findings of unconstitutional conditions — and what families are reporting now.
Over 2,400 years ago, Plato described prisoners chained in a cave, mistaking shadows for reality. His allegory speaks directly to the experience of incarceration — and reveals why education is the most powerful path to transformation, both for individuals behind bars and for society as a whole.
Christian Krauch was tortured for three weeks at Macon State Prison in June 2024 — bound, stabbed, burned, and left under a bunk while GDC submitted 168 phantom inmate counts. He lost his right hand and leg to amputation. The state said nothing. No arrests were made.
For 830 years, habeas corpus protected the innocent from unlawful imprisonment—until Georgia destroyed it. The 2004 four-year deadline traps wrongfully convicted people in a prison system that killed 100+ by homicide in 2024. The Great Writ is dead. The innocent are dying with it.