Georgia's prison system recorded over 100 homicides in 2024—nearly triple the previous year—while refusing to implement gang segregation policies that other states have proven reduce violence by more than 50 percent. Gang violence has killed more than 100 people in Georgia prisons in 2024, including Jimmy Trammell who died 72 hours before his release, yet …
Sheqweetta Vaughan, a 32-year-old mother battling postpartum depression, was found dead and decomposing in her cell at Lee Arrendale State Prison in July 2025, highlighting systemic neglect in Georgia's women's prison system. Sheqweetta Vaughan's death at Lee Arrendale State Prison represents another preventable tragedy in Georgia's failing correctional system. Her case underscores how the state's …
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 …