Tyrone Oliver

The Swing Space That Wasn’t: 524 New Beds, a Border-Wall Family, and No Contract Georgia Will Show

Georgia’s General Assembly appropriated $86 million for modular prison units sold as temporary “swing space.” GDC now calls them 524 permanent beds. The builder is owned by the Galveston family behind one of America’s largest border-wall contractors. Update, September 2: the state has since produced five executed contracts with ModCorr LLC totalling $85,585,244, signed April 25, 2025. The solicitation behind them is still unaccounted for.

The Crisis Georgia’s Prison Leaders Call ‘Propaganda’

The DOJ found Georgia’s prisons unconstitutional. The state’s own consultant called it an emergency. A federal judge asked whether the department considers itself above the law. Georgia’s corrections leaders had a different word for the crisis: propaganda.

$150 Million to Watch Them Die: Georgia’s OWL Surveillance Goes Live

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?

Two Thin Gloves: Georgia Prison Took Ronald Allen’s Hands

Ronald Allen asked for insulated gloves before handling frozen beef patties at GDCP. He got two pairs of disposable ones. Eight weeks of medical neglect later — a doctor who never examined him — Allen lost his dominant hand. His lawsuit names 12 defendants including Commissioner Oliver.