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 …
Christian Krauch survived three weeks of torture at Macon State Prison while staff failed to conduct required counts 168 times, yet the security chief was promoted and no arrests were made. Christian Krauch was tortured for three weeks at Macon State Prison in June 2024, hidden under a bunk while staff failed to conduct required …
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 …
Despite federal findings that Georgia prisons violate the Constitution through 'deliberate indifference' to lethal violence, the state continues spending $1.6 billion on new construction while refusing to implement nine proven reforms that could prevent predictable homicides. Georgia's prison homicides are outpacing last year's totals, with June 2025 being the deadliest month so far—a predictable outcome …
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 prison system systematically violates the Constitution by subjecting incarcerated people to violence, medical neglect, and inhumane conditions that federal courts have ruled constitute illegal extra punishment beyond lawful liberty deprivation. Federal courts established that ‘persons are sent to prison as punishment, not for punishment,’ meaning anything beyond loss of liberty becomes illegal extra punishment …