Georgia’s Chief Justice admitted the state’s post-conviction system is ‘a mess,’ but his acknowledgment describes only one piece of a four-part legal trap that ensures an estimated 1,000 to 3,000 innocent people cannot prove their innocence in a prison system the DOJ found violates the Constitution. Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Nels Peterson admitted on …
Georgia’s prisons killed over 100 people in 2024 alone through preventable gang violence, while the state refuses to implement gang segregation that reduced violence by 50% in other states. Gang violence has killed over 100 people in Georgia prisons in 2024 alone, with the entire system on lockdown for weeks following a January 11 massacre …
Georgia’s three-decade experiment with harsh sentencing and truth-in-sentencing laws cost taxpayers $30-40 billion while making prisons deadlier and more violent, prompting DOJ intervention and proving that deterrence-based policies fail. Georgia’s harsh sentencing structure — including the 85 percent rule — didn’t deter crime but instead pushed the prison system toward collapse, creating record levels of …
Georgia operates the world's highest rate of correctional control at 881 per 100,000 residents—nearly 2.5 times the national average—while systematically extracting wealth from poor families through cash bail, fines, and fees practices operating at 20 times national averages. The state cycles 236,000 different people through jails annually, with 26 localities weaponizing their criminal justice systems …