The 2023 investigations

Part 1: Inside job: Hundreds of prison employees aided contraband schemes

Jessica’s story: A correction officer’s fall (sidebar)

Interview with GDC Commissioner Tyrone Oliver (sidebar)

Part 2: Overdose: Inmate drug deaths soar at state prisons

Locked up but not stopped: Prisoners run drug-trafficking networks

Part 3: Violence, suicides mount in Georgia’s woefully understaffed prisons

Death toll sets new records amid staffing crisis at Georgia prisons (sidebar)

Part 4: From the inside: Criminal kingpins operate from behind bars

Georgia prison system clamps down on information that could expose critical problems (sidebar)

Latest coverage of Georgia prisons

Jan. 7, 2025: Lawmakers, Kemp acknowledge prison crisis, consider millions in fixes

Dec. 13, 2024: Prison reforms get Senate committee backing

Dec. 12, 2024: Georgia prison system engages in deception as crisis builds

Nov. 4, 2024: Ex-guard sentenced for sex with inmates at Georgia’s largest women’s prison

Oct. 12, 2024: Rare murders of women come to light as Georgia prisons set homicide record

Oct. 12, 2024: Death behind bars: Here’s how Georgia prisoners are being killed

Oct. 11, 2024: Georgia prison guards convicted in contraband trial

Oct. 4, 2024: Georgia preps for fight as fed expose horrific prison conditions

Oct. 1, 2024: DOJ finds Georgia prisons in chaos, state ‘indifferent’ to unsafe conditions

Aug. 21, 2024: Feds charge 23 in prison-based Georgia drug ring aided by drones

Aug. 16, 2024: Five ways the Georgia prison crisis puts everyone at risk

Aug. 15, 2024: South Georgia prison becomes deadlier amid corruption, extreme staffing shortage

Aug. 15, 2024: Deaths at record level in Georgia state prisons as crisis deepens

July 12, 2024: For some Georgia correctional officers, inmates are their weapons

June 21, 2024: Georgia district attorney warns prison conditions threaten public safety

June 17, 2024: Gov. Brian Kemp hires consultants to examine troubled Georgia state prison system

June 17, 2024: Kitchen worker shot at Ga. prison had personal relationship with inmate who killed her

May 29, 2024: Lawsuit accuses prison system of violating law to replace healthcare provider

May 28, 2024: Georgia correctional officer charged with murder in death of state prison inmate

May 23, 2024: Georgia officials won’t release information on how prisoners are dying

May 10, 2024: Two high-ranking GA prison employees accused in sex cases

May 1, 2024: Seven Georgia officers accused in contraband scheme run by Valdosta inmate

April 22, 2024: Frustrated federal judge imposes fines, monitor on Georgia prison

March 20, 2024: Prisoner stabs warden at Telfair State Prison

March 15, 2024: Lawmakers eye a remake of the Georgia prison system

March 10, 2024: Two high-ranking Ga. prison employees accused in sex cases

Feb. 16, 2024: Georgia prison medical provider cites millions in extra costs due to violence

Feb. 9, 2024: Lawmakers call for action on crisis in Georgia’s state prisons

Feb. 1, 2024: Georgia prisoner died after being left for hours in smoke-filled cell

Feb. 1, 2024: Prison system failures cost Georgia taxpayers millions

Jan. 18, 2024: Nearly half of Georgia corrections officers’ positions vacant

Jan. 5, 2024: Georgia inmate who stole $11 million from behind bars gets 11-year federal prison sentence

OPINION PIECES

Dec. 18, 2024: TORPY AT LARGE: Inhumanity rules at Georgia’s prisons. But does anyone care?

Nov. 13, 2024: OPINION: As an ER doctor, I see it all in the prison-hospital-prison pipeline

Sept. 10, 2024: OPINION: Georgia needs better prison oversight and accountability

Aug. 30, 2024: EDITORIAL: Making Georgia’s prisons safer for workers, inmates and communities

Aug 27, 2024: OPINION: How a Georgia prison inmate would change the system

Aug. 25, 2024: VISUAL EDITORIAL: Special Editorial Series: Georgia’s prison system is in crisis