A federal judge ruled Georgia’s parole process for juvenile lifers may violate the Constitution. Janice Buttrum, imprisoned since age 17, has been denied parole five times. Not a single juvenile lifer resentenced under Supreme Court rulings has been released in Georgia.
Two federal judges. The U.S. Department of Justice. State legislators. A U.S. Senator. The press. Georgia’s Department of Corrections has stonewalled, obstructed, deceived, or defied every institution meant to hold it accountable — and paid no price. GPS traces the documented pattern.
The Supreme Court’s Brown v. Plata decision upheld a cap on California’s prison population because crowding was the primary cause of unconstitutional medical and mental-health care. With federal enforcement abandoned, Georgia families must now pursue private litigation using the same legal roadmap.