Despite adding $700 million to corrections spending, Georgia's prison homicides exploded from 8 annually to over 100 in 2024, while evidence from multiple states shows strategic decarceration actually reduces crime. The U.S. Department of Justice found Georgia's prisons violate the Eighth Amendment through gang control, inadequate medical care, and failure to protect from violence—conditions that …
Georgia's 2004 law imposing a four-year deadline for habeas corpus petitions violates the U.S. Constitution and traps potentially innocent people in a prison system where over 100 homicides occurred in 2024 alone. In 2004, Georgia became one of the most restrictive states in the nation by imposing a four-year deadline for felony habeas corpus petitions—the …
A federal judge's rebuke of Georgia's prison commissioner exposes a systematic pattern of defiance toward courts, DOJ, and lawmakers that has coincided with record prison deaths. U.S. District Judge Tilman E. 'Tripp' Self III summoned GDC Commissioner Tyrone Oliver to explain why his department ignored a court order—the latest in a documented pattern of institutional …
Christian Krauch was tortured for three weeks at Macon State Prison in June 2024, requiring double amputation, yet Georgia made no arrests and promoted the facility's security chief—exemplifying the systemic failures DOJ found unconstitutional. In June 2024, Christian Krauch was tortured for three weeks inside Macon State Prison—bound, stabbed, burned, and left to die under …
Georgia has identified 315 gangs controlling 31% of its prison population but refuses to implement separation and exit programs that dramatically reduced violence in Texas, Arizona, and California. Georgia's prisons are controlled by gangs that dictate housing, food access, and bed assignments while the state prosecutes gang members but refuses to implement the housing-based separation …
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 …