Georgia’s Chief Justice admits the post-conviction system is “broken.” But the IAC trap is just one lock on the door. Combined with the unconstitutional 4-year habeas deadline, no right to counsel, and restricted legal access, Georgia has built a machine that keeps thousands — including an estimated 2,600 to 5,275 innocent people — locked inside its deadliest prisons.
An estimated 2,500 innocent people are imprisoned in Georgia. This advocacy toolkit provides data-backed talking points, key quotes, and strategic guidance for using wrongful conviction research in legislative testimony, media, and coalition building.
Georgia’s 4-year habeas deadline traps innocent people in prison. Every recent exoneration took far longer. The law may violate the Constitution.
An estimated 2,500 innocent people are imprisoned in Georgia. A GPS analysis documents 610 years of wrongful imprisonment, systemic racial disparities, and the state failures driving wrongful convictions.
An estimated 2,500 innocent people are imprisoned in Georgia. With 51 documented exonerations and a new $75,000/year compensation law, the fiscal and human costs demand legislative action.
Studies say about 2,500 innocent people are locked up in Georgia prisons. Since 1989, only 51 have been cleared — losing 610 years combined.
For 830 years, habeas corpus protected the innocent from unlawful imprisonment—until Georgia destroyed it. The 2004 four-year deadline traps wrongfully convicted people in a prison system that killed 100+ by homicide in 2024. The Great Writ is dead. The innocent are dying with it.