The shadows cast by Georgia's prison system grow longer and more ominous with each passing day.
The Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) is at the center of a growing scandal, marked by deception, systemic failures, and inhumane conditions. Investigations by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) have laid bare an institution that has repeatedly misled lawmakers, courts, and the public while allowing violence and neglect to …
As an extreme component of creating extreme conditions for inmates, dereliction of duty is the most direct. When officers intentionally engage in conduct that causes direct harm such as failing to ensure everyone has access to food, health care, protection, wellness, and an environment conducive to rehabilitation they are directly causing hunger, starvation, illness, and …
A correctional institution can be a clean, sterile, almost institution-like place that has aesthetics that lend themselves to clinical functions such as rehabilitation, reconciliation, restitution, and even retribution. Let’s face it, the true punishment is in the boredom. But when indifference guides the aesthetics the building becomes uninhabitable, unhealthy, dangerous, and promotes inhumane treatment and …