Georgia is constructing OWL, a first-in-nation centralized surveillance command center monitoring all 36 state prisons, despite no evidence that $150+ million in technology investments will reduce violence that killed 100+ people in 2024. Georgia Department of Corrections is building OWL (Overwatch & Logistic Unit Command Center), an unprecedented real-time surveillance system integrating cameras, cell phone …
Georgia's prison system reported 301 deaths in 2025 but refuses to identify six of the deceased without charging journalists hourly fees, part of a documented pattern of manipulating mortality data. The Georgia Department of Corrections published two contradictory official documents in January 2026: one stating 301 people died while serving state sentences in 2025, the …
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 promoted Wendy Jackson, whose only experience was running a 235-bed minimum-security facility, to lead Pulaski State Prison — a 1,200-inmate women’s prison with a history of 22 deaths under one doctor, gang violence, and constitutional violations. Wendy Jackson jumped from running a 235-bed minimum-security transitional center to leading Georgia’s most troubled women’s prison, where …
Open records reveal Washington State Prison operated with just five officers covering 69 security posts when four inmates died in January 2026’s deadliest prison violence, while officials failed to file incident reports and a coroner claims no knowledge of deaths he publicly confirmed. Shift rosters obtained through open records show Washington State Prison had only …
Georgia increased its prison budget by $700 million over four years, yet homicides rose from 8-9 annually to 100 in 2024, staffing remains 50-76% vacant, and the system was declared unconstitutional by the DOJ. Between FY 2022 and FY 2026, Georgia added $700 million to its corrections budget—the fastest spending growth in agency history—yet prison …
With DOJ civil rights enforcement abandoned, Georgia prisoners and families can use the Brown v. Plata Supreme Court precedent to force court-ordered population reductions by proving prisons operate at 200-300% of design capacity. The 2011 Supreme Court case Brown v. Plata established that federal courts must intervene when overcrowding is the primary cause of constitutional …
Despite investing over $600 million in corrections and commissioning reports documenting catastrophic failures, Georgia's correctional officer staffing has fallen to a 15-year low while the prison population reaches a 15-year high. Governor Brian Kemp commissioned independent investigations that found Georgia's prisons operating at less than 50% staffing with constitutional violations, then invested over $600 million …
Georgia’s current prison crisis—with record deaths and collapsed parole—directly results from deliberate federal War on Drugs policies that criminalized communities while tolerating CIA-linked drug trafficking. Mass incarceration emerged from documented federal policy decisions during the War on Drugs era, including tolerance of CIA-linked drug trafficking abroad while criminalizing affected communities at home. Georgia’s adoption of …