Justice Department finds Georgia is ‘deliberately indifferent’ to unchecked abuses at its prisons

Justice Department Finds Georgia Officials Have ‘Lost Control’ of State Prisons

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Oct. 1 released a 90-plus page comprehensive findings report revealing systemic, unconstitutional conditions in Georgia’s state prisons that create unsafe conditions for inmates, staff, and the public. After a statewide investigation, the DOJ concluded that the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) had failed to protect incarcerated individuals from severe violence and sexual abuse, fostering an environm…

Justice Department calls Georgia prisons ‘inhumane,’ gangs, extortion rampant

Georgia’s state prisons are plagued with deadly violence, extortion, drug use and sexual abuse, according to a new report from the Justice Department. Attorneys for the federal government are now telling the state to take immediate steps to fix the problem or be sued.  Investigators described the conditions in Georgia’s prisons as horrific and inhumane. “People Georgia holds in its prisons people are assaulted, stabbed, raped and killed or left …

Federal probe finds deplorable conditions inside Georgia prisons

ATLANTA – Georgia’s prison system is violating inmates’ constitutional rights by failing to protect them from widespread violence, the U.S. Justice Department announced Tuesday. The agency released a 94-page report following a multi-year investigation that originally focused on whether the state was adequately protecting LGBT inmates from sexual abused and expanded to cover all inmates incarcerated at medium- and close-security prisons. “Our find

DOJ: Georgia prisons beset by systematic violence, chaos

Federal investigators accuse Georgia of allowing frequent, pervasive violence in its prisons

Georgia prisons 'horrific and unsafe' with homicides rampant: Justice Department

Georgia prisons feature in “horrific and unsafe conditions” that violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual DOJ alleged Tuesday.

DOJ finds Georgia is 'deliberately indifferent' to unchecked abuses at its prisons

The U.S. Justice Department says Georgia's state prison systems are 'deliberately indifferent' to unchecked deadly violence, widespread drug use, extortion and sexual abuse at state lockups.