A federal judge scolded the Georgia Department of Corrections’ persistent failure to comply with court orders and questioned ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Justice Department says it has reasonable cause to believe that Georgia violates the Eighth Amendment by failing to ...

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, joined by attorney Liza Park and Je'vion Benham's mother, says the young man's death inside a Valdosta State Prison was "foreseeable and preventable." ...

ATLANTA - Gov. Brian P. Kemp, alongside the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC), announced Monday the commencement of a thorough assessment of the state’s corrections system. This initiative seeks ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - The Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) is responding to a Department of Justice investigation (DOJ) that called out 17 Georgia prisons for having ‘unconstitutional’ ...

ATLANTA(AP) — Fighting that broke out at a Georgia state prison over the weekend left three inmates dead and injured a corrections officer and 13 more inmates, the Georgia Department of Corrections ...

DAVISBORO, Ga. (AP) — Three inmates were killed and a corrections officer and several other inmates were injured when a fight broke out Sunday at a state prison in Georgia, according to local police.