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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Four Georgia medium security prisons are secretly housing 28-30% close security inmates—10 times the normal rate—creating deadly conditions that have produced 4-5 times more homicides than properly classified facilities. GPS analysis of GDC population data reveals four medium security prisons have been quietly transformed into de facto close security facilities, housing 455-545 close security inmates …
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 …