Georgia treats family contact — the strongest predictor of going straight — as a privilege to ration and revoke: phone lists capped at twenty, visitation lists changeable only in May and November. An investigation into the connection the state severs by design, and the cheap fix it refuses.
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?
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.
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