Incarcerated in GA During COVID-19? We Want Your Story to be Heard. In Your Own Words.
COVID-19 has killed people in prisons and jails at three times the already alarming rate...
Read MorePhotojournalist Jailed During Last Year’s Protests Sues City of Atlanta and APD
On June 1, 2020, during ongoing protests for Black lives in the wake of the…
READ MORE >Watch: Legislative Hearing on the Deadly Crisis in the GA Dept. of Corrections
“It is imperative that lawmakers, and the general public, demand the same transparency and accountability from the leaders of our prison system that we would from any other branch of government that we entrust with people’s lives.”
READ MORE >Thursday, Sept 23: GA House Committee Hearing on Crisis in GA Prisons
On Tuesday, September 14, the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division announced a sweeping…
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Judge Grants Injunction to Halt Solitary Confinement
Today, United States District Court Judge William M. Ray, II issued a preliminary injunction ordering the Sheriff of Fulton County to take immediate steps to remedy unconstitutional conditions and solitary confinement for women at the South Fulton Jail in Union City.
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