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News Articles: Georgia Department of Corrections

Matthew Boyd sits with his fiancée, Amanda Hollowood, who has helped care for him since he was released from prison in December 2020.

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Reentry programs to help former prisoners obtain health care are often underused

More than 600,000 people are released from prisons every year, many with costly health conditions but no medications, medical records, a health care provider, or insurance.

March 08, 2023
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  • Renuka Rayasam
Georgia State Prison

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Georgia corrections prepares to spend $600M to replace older prisons

Georgia’s prison system could undergo a radical change with Gov. Brian Kemp’s proposal to spend $600 million to open two new prisons that would replace four outdated correctional facilities with the aim to make prisons safer and cut costs.

January 19, 2022
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  • Stanley Dunlap
Kristen Clarke US DOJ

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The justice department is investigating Georgia prisons: What is it looking for?

The DOJ will investigate whether “the state of Georgia adequately protects prisoners” in medium and high-level security prisons “from physical harm at the hands of other prisoners as required by the 8th Amendment.”

December 07, 2021
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  • Caleb Slinkard
Nerissa Wright's son, Dontavis Mintz, died for reasons she still doesn't know while jailed at Ware State Prison near Waycross. The US Department of Justice is investigating the Georgia Department of Corrections largely because of such deaths.

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A mother's son died in Georgia prison. The Department of Justice wonders if understaffing is why

The U.S. Department of Justice wants to know if understaffing in Georgia prisons is deadly. And a Georgia mother has questions about how — and why — her convicted son died at 24, just six years into his life sentence.

 

November 17, 2021
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship

GPB Midday Headlines For Friday June 29, 2018

GBI Warns Of Deadly New Street Drug Found During Autopsies Savannah Names New Police Chief 4th Inmate Dies In Custody This Week

June 29, 2018
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  • Drew Dawson
Ricky Dubose and Donnie Russell Rowe are being sought in the shooting of two corrections officers (photo Georgia Department of Corrections)

Inmates Shoot And Kill Corrections Officers

Inmates Ricky Dubose, 24 and Donnie Russell Rowe, 43 shot and killed two state corrections officers during a bus transport Tuesday morning in Putnam...

June 13, 2017
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  • Josephine Bennett
GPB News NPR

Georgia Prisons On Lockdown Due To Gang Violence

The Georgia Department of Corrections says several prisons are under lockdown because rising tensions between inmate gangs and the death of a prisoner...

July 06, 2016
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  • Bradley George

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