GA Prisons Padlock Our Cells. Will We Die in a Fire? Let’s Ask a Lockpicker.

GA Prisons Padlock Our Cells. Will We Die in a Fire? Let’s Ask a Lockpicker.

In October 2024, the Department of Justice published the long-awaited findings of its investigation(s) into violence inside Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prisons, including one detail that those of us incarcerated here have been talking about for at least 10 or 20 years: A lot of the locks on the doors here are broken. Rather than fix them, GDC puts padlocks on the doors. GDC is not supposed to do that. “This practice exposes incarcera…