Georgia Operates World’s Highest Incarceration Rate While Criminalizing Poverty Through Systematic Wealth Extraction
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 …