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Share: Georgia Keeps Buying Cell Locks. Its Prisons Keep Using Padlocks.
State fire inspectors found padlocks and slide bolts on cell doors in four housing units at Washington State Prison in September. Georgia has been buying new locks for more than a decade.
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Who Builds the File Five Members Vote On?
Five Board members vote on Georgia parole cases, but staff compute the crime severity level, the risk score and the case summary. One internal unit audits that work and publishes no results.
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End the Warehouse
Transform Prisons to Rehabilitation
$1.8B on prisons, $52/person on rehab. Two tracks: litigation to reduce overcrowding + evidence-based programs that actually work.
Read the Plan → Active CampaignVision 2027
Post-Conviction Justice Reform
Three model bills for the 2027 legislature: restore habeas corpus, fix ineffective counsel, create Conviction Integrity Units. The legislature doesn't need new laws — it needs to enforce two dormant statutes it already passed.
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