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News Articles: prison

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Georgia prisons chief pitches spending hikes for staffing, infrastructure needs

State prisons chief Tyrone Oliver asked Georgia lawmakers Monday for $10.4 million to hire an additional 330 correctional officers during this fiscal year to staff a prisons system the U.S. Justice Department harshly criticized in an audit last fall.

January 28, 2025
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  • Dave Williams

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  • News

State prisons chief pitches case for funding boost

Georgia Department of Corrections officials began laying the groundwork Wednesday for an infusion of state funding to beef up staffing, replace aging infrastructure, and improve inmate health care.

November 14, 2024
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By:
  • Dave Williams
Guests and incarcerated men sit alongside each other at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility's first-ever film festival on Oct. 24.

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  • Arts & Life

Inside this maximum security prison, a film festival proves 'a little bit healing'

The Sing Sing maximum security prison in New York held its first-ever film festival recently, with incarcerated men invited to judge the five entries.

November 12, 2024
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By:
  • Marc Rivers and
  • Sarah Handel
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon arrives at a press conference outside a federal correctional institution on July 1, 2024 in Danbury, Conn.

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  • Law

Steve Bannon feels 'empowered' after four months in federal prison

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon was back to hosting his daily podcast "War Room" just hours after his release from federal prison.

October 29, 2024
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  • Ryan Lucas
GPB News NPR

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  • Law

'Cheat Code to Life': Jailhouse lawyers help incarcerated people — and themselves, too

A new trove of letters and oral histories is shining a light on the successes and challenges of jailhouse lawyers: people in prison who help themselves and others navigate the legal system.

October 16, 2024
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  • Carrie Johnson
 Lewisburg federal penitentiary in central Pennsylvania.

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  • National

DOJ watchdog: federal prison not doing enough to prevent inmate suicides

Lewisburg federal prison, a facility located in central Pennsylvania where thousands of inmates often pass through on their way to other federal institutions, was found to have problems with addressing mental health risks, healthcare quality, leaking infrastructure and employee conduct.

September 26, 2024
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  • Jaclyn Diaz

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  • News

GPB evening headlines for August 16, 2024

Cobb County Schools bans 13 more books from its libraries. 

Mpox is detected in a Georgia Prison.

Usher, citing neck injury, reschedules Atlanta shows for December.

August 16, 2024
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  • GPB News Radio
Tiana Hill

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  • News

Formerly incarcerated Georgia women speak about pregnancy behind bars

Women from Georgia spoke about their experiences being pregnant and giving birth while incarcerated at Sen. Jon Ossoff’s  Atlanta hearing of the Senate Committee on Human Rights.

August 15, 2024
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  • Sarah Kallis
Lawsuit presser

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  • News

A Georgia inmate died from heat exposure. Left with questions, his family is suing the state

According to the complaint, prison staff were warned that morning about the heat and told not to leave inmates outside too long, or without water.

July 26, 2024
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
wellpath vs ga hearing

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  • Health Care

Georgia prisons will soon have a new healthcare provider after contract was brought into question

This is the second time health care provider Wellpath’s lawsuit has been dismissed. 

June 26, 2024
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
A sign outside Smith State Prison in Glennville, Ga.

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  • News

A Georgia inmate used a gun to kill a prison kitchen worker before killing himself, officials say

Officials say an inmate used a gun to kill a kitchen worker at a Georgia prison before fatally shooting himself. The Georgia Department of Corrections says it's investigating the killing early Sunday at Smith State Prison. Few details were released, including how the inmate obtained a firearm.

June 17, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Picture of an inmate's hand holding onto the bar of a jail cell.

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  • Politics

U.S. House passes McBath’s prison oversight bill

Legislation establishing oversight of the federal prison system sponsored by U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Marietta, has cleared the U.S. House of Representatives. 

May 23, 2024
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By:
  • Dave Williams
Jeffery Christian, right, speaks at a press conference in Chicago, on May 7. Christian and dozens of others claim they were sexually abused as children while incarcerated at Illinois juvenile detention centers, as part of a lawsuit recounting decades of allegations of systemic child abuse.

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  • National

Youth detention facilities face increased scrutiny amid a wave of abuse lawsuits

A new lawsuit alleges widespread sexual abuse of juveniles took place over decades at Illinois youth detention facilities. Similar lawsuits have been filed this year in other states.

May 17, 2024
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By:
  • Meg Anderson
Washington State Prison in Davisboro is one of two prisons in Georgia completely without air conditioning. Georgia is one of about a dozen states, all in the South or Southwest, without completely climate controlled prison systems.

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  • News

Guard kills Georgia inmate at hospital after he overpowered other officer, investigators say

Authorities say a Georgia prison guard shot and killed a prisoner she had escorted to a hospital for treatment after he snatched another guard's pepper spray and used it to overpower him.

April 24, 2024
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  • Associated Press
David Cassady

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  • Law

Georgia man charged with making bombs from inside prison, mailing to federal addresses in DC, Alaska

A federal indictment against David Cassady alleges that he devised and deposited bombs in 2020 from Georgia State Prison in Tattnall County. Cassady, 55, is already serving a life sentence for a different crime.

April 09, 2024
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  • Benjamin Payne
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