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What’s Really Behind Georgia’s Prison Crisis?

Georgia poured $2.4 billion in new money into its prisons since 2021 — on top of $12.2 billion spent since 2020 — and bought the deadliest years in the system’s history. Follow the money to see who really built the crisis, and why firing one commissioner fixes nothing.

Two Commanders Say Georgia Hides Its Prison Staffing Crisis

A large, mostly empty staff parking lot outside a state prison with a guard tower and razor-wire perimeter fence, illustrating the correctional-officer staffing collapse.

Two former GDC commanders — a CERT commander pushed out after a sworn warning, and a deputy warden of security who quit rather than comply — independently say Georgia hides its prison staffing collapse by manipulating the numbers it reports to the public.