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Georgia Prisons Now Hold Over 10,000 Lifers as Parole Crisis Deepens

In the Department of Justice report summarizing its years-long investigations into the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC), it noted that…

May 6, 2025

Georgia’s Death Penalty Reform Bill Has an Odd View on Life Sentences

Georgia is on the brink of reforming its death penalty law for intellectually disabled defendants, a move being heralded as…

April 18, 2025

Georgia Suggests Making Sex Offender Registry Removal More Confusing

Georgia is weighing legislation that would make it more difficult for people on the state's sex offender registry (SOR) to…

March 27, 2025

No One Prepares You for the Sex Offender Registry Phone Scams

In April 2024 I picked up a call from an unknown number at the grocery store where I work. The…

February 5, 2025

Parole Violations Didn’t Always Mean Prison. They Sent Us Somewhere Else.

Ben* is about to parole out of Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) custody. His approved release address is with his…

January 6, 2025

TN Prisons Don’t Expedite Early Release. What If It’s an Emergency?

Douglas Richmond’s case for early release from prison is relatively straightforward. He’s served six years on a first-time, nonviolent conviction,…

December 26, 2024

In Final Meeting, GA Prisons Senate Committee Votes for the Status Quo

Brought into existence to tell us whether Georgia's notoriously unsafe prison system is unsafe, a state Senate study committee has…

December 16, 2024

Confronting GA’s Practice of Housing Trans Women in Men’s Prisons

[Read Part 1 of this series here] One of the first things that happens upon entry into the Georgia Department…

October 31, 2024

Enough With the Sex Offender Registry

Law enforcement has done a good job of portraying recidivism as a kind of unfortunate tendency some people just can't…

October 23, 2024

GA Parole-Eligible Lifers Are Headed to the Private Prison Aftercare Industry

Of the 51,284 people currently incarcerated in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prisons, 7,937 people are serving life with parole.…

October 18, 2024