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The world’s largest indoor pickleball facility in Macon

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Macon Mayor Lester Miller ponders creating new police force, reacts to recent jail break

Crime, blight, housing, economic development, tourism and a guitar-shaped beacon for travelers featured in the monthly Ask Mayor Miller talk.

 

November 02, 2023
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  • Liz Fabian
A security camera is mounted on the side of a building overlooking an intersection in midtown Manhattan, Wednesday, July 31, 2013 in New York. In the background is a billboard of a human eye.

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Facial recognition technology jailed a man for days. His lawsuit joins others from Black plaintiffs

A Georgia man says authorities wrongly arrested him based on a match generated by facial recognition technology. Randal Quran Reid says he spent six days in a Georgia jail before officials corrected their mistake.

September 25, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Fulton County Jail sign is pictured here

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Fulton County sheriff faces pushback over plans to outsource inmates to jails as far as Mississippi

Fulton County’s sheriff is defending his plan to send hundreds of detainees to jails in South Georgia and out of state to relieve chronic jail overcrowding.

September 22, 2023
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  • Donna Lowry
Sen. Jon Ossoff

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Sen. Jon Ossoff asks Attorney General for investigation into Clayton County jail

Georgia U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff shared on Wednesday that he is calling for Attorney General Merrick Garland to launch a Department of Justice investigation on Clayton County's jail examining the mistreatment of inmates

September 15, 2023
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  • Ambria Burton
Chatham County Detention Center

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Chatham sheriff resumes jailing for misdemeanor crimes in return to pre-COVID policy

Sheriff John Wilcher ended a three-year policy that kept most misdemeanor offenders out of jail.

May 16, 2023
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  • Jake Shore
Evey Wilson Weatherbee (left) and Jessica Szilagyi are the hosts of the podcast "Prison Town."

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A new podcast looks at problems in Georgia's prison system by focusing on one troubled facility

A new podcast sheds light on problems in the Georgia Department of Corrections by looking closely at one facility: Smith State Prison in Tattnall County. 

May 10, 2023
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  • Peter Biello
The former Georgia State Prison in Tattnall County.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Georgia's prisons under scrutiny after two deaths

Thursday on Political Rewind: Two recent horrific prison deaths have shed light on the conditions in Georgia's prisons and jails. Our special panel breaks down the latest, as well as dire problems in our institutions over the past few years.

April 27, 2023
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  • Bill Nigut and
  • Chase McGee
An inmate lies in a single cell at the Harris County jail in 2014, in Houston. A new report highlights how badly the federal government is tracking reports of deaths in law enforcement in the U.S.

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  • Law

Deaths in custody are a crisis, but data on them is a black hole, a new report says

A new report indicates that the federal government severely undercounts people who died while being transported, detained or arrested by law enforcement and those who died while incarcerated.

February 23, 2023
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
When he was in prison, Lee Reed was in agonizing back pain. His doctors there told him he needed back surgery, but because he was so close to his release date, they said he'd have to get it done on the outside. Reed saw that surgery as his ticket to being able to get a job and effectively reenter society.

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Red and blue states look to Medicaid to improve the health of people leaving prison

People leaving jail or prison are at extremely high risk of hospitalization and death, and policymakers from deep blue California to solidly red Utah think bringing Medicaid behind bars could help.

February 23, 2023
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  • Ryan Levi and
  • Dan Gorenstein
Former Penn State President Graham Spanier walks from the Dauphin County Courthouse in Harrisburg, Pa., after a hearing on Wednesday. A judge said Spanier must report to jail on July 9 to begin serving at least two months for endangering the welfare of children.

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Ex-Penn State President Will Serve Jail Time In The Jerry Sandusky Child Abuse Scandal

Graham Spanier must report to a Pennsylvania jail in July to serve at least two months behind bars. He must also serve two months of house arrest.

May 27, 2021
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Harold Melton

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  • Law

Lawmakers Brief: Right To Speedy Trials Could ‘Overwhelm’ Court System, Ga. Chief Justice Warns

Georgia’s court system could face an “avalanche of demands” that would “overwhelm” it following the yearlong shutdown because of the pandemic.

March 16, 2021
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By:
  • Donna Lowry
Motorcade pulls into Macon Memorial Park for Bibb-County Deputies Private Funeral

COVID-19 Leads To Private Funeral For Bibb Deputy, But Sheriff Promises 'More Fitting Tribute'

A pack of four Bibb County sheriff’s deputies on motorcycles led the body of a fallen colleague into Macon Memorial Park Cemetery late Wednesday morning...

March 26, 2020
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By:
  • Liz Fabian
A razor blade is used to divide the contents of a five-dollar vile of crack, a smokable, purified form of cocaine, at a crack house in the South Bronx section of New York in 1989.

Police 'Crack Testing' Offer Makes Social Media Waves

An offer by a southwest Georgia police chief to test the purity of street drugs is making waves on social media.

January 02, 2019
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
A slave named Ellick still haunts the Lawrenceville jail cell where he was condemned to death for killing a man in self-defense

Georgia Ghosts: A Slave Who Sings For His Lost Love

In honor of Halloween, we’re introducing you to some of Georgia’s most memorable ghosts.

October 31, 2018
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By:
  • Rickey Bevington and
  • Sophia Saliby

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