Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a blistering, just-released report years in the making, the federal Department of Justice describes Georgia’s prison system as ...

WASHINGTON – The Georgia Department of Corrections houses inmates in “horrific and unsafe conditions” in violation of the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, a Justice ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - The Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) is responding to a Department of Justice investigation (DOJ) that called out 17 Georgia prisons for having ‘unconstitutional’ ...

Gov. Brian Kemp and the Georgia Department of Corrections asked state lawmakers Tuesday for $372 million to improve a prison system the Justice Department criticized last fall in a scathing report.

MACON COUNTY, Ga. — The Georgia Department of Corrections announced that a pair of people were arrested in an attempt to sneak contraband into the Macon State Prison, according to a release. According ...

Georgia prison officials are "deliberately indifferent" to unchecked deadly violence, widespread drug use, extortion and sexual abuse at state lockups, the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday, ...

GEORGIA (WTOC) - The Department of Justice says the current state of Georgia’s prisons is unconstitutional. In a newly-released report, the federal government says the state fails to protect ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Fighting that broke out at a Georgia state prison over the weekend left three inmates dead and injured a corrections officer and 13 more inmates, the Georgia Department of Corrections ...

ATLANTA - Two Georgia inmates have died in custody in the past week, the Department of Corrections confirmed. Phillips State Prison inmate Brandon Mincey, who was serving 10 years on a 2021 aggravated ...

DAVISBORO, Ga. (AP) — Three inmates were killed and a corrections officer and several other inmates were injured when a fight broke out Sunday at a state prison in Georgia, according to local police.

Carrie Proffitt protests in 2023 across from the Georgia Governor’s Mansion with photos of her son who took his own life in a Georgia Department of Corrections prison. Grant Blankenship GPB In a ...