The inmated, serving a sentence for murder escaped from a Georgia Department of Corrections transport van after assaulting a ...

In a blistering, just-released report years in the making, the federal Department of Justice describes Georgia’s prison system as anarchic and operating with little regard for the constitutional ...

The 34-count indictment filed in Chatham County Superior Court alleges the defendants, identified as members of the Bloods street gang, attacked multiple victims.

ATLANTA - Two Georgia inmates have died in custody in the past week, the Department of Corrections confirmed. Phillips State Prison inmate Brandon Mincey, who was serving 10 years on a 2021 aggravated ...

Georgia prison officials are "deliberately indifferent" to unchecked deadly violence, widespread drug use, extortion and sexual abuse at state lockups, the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday, ...

WASHINGTON – The Georgia Department of Corrections houses inmates in “horrific and unsafe conditions” in violation of the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, a Justice ...

At one facility, the body of an inmate, possibly strangled in his cell, was so decomposed that the coroner concluded he had been dead for two days without being discovered. By Glenn Thrush Reporting ...

MACON COUNTY, Ga. — The Georgia Department of Corrections announced that a pair of people were arrested in an attempt to sneak contraband into the Macon State Prison, according to a release. According ...

A social worker falsely accused of giving contraband to an incarcerated client facing the death penalty has been paid $750,000 to end her federal lawsuit against the Georgia Department of Corrections ...

The arrests created headlines throughout Georgia and even beyond. Two young female correctional officers showed up for their shifts at Calhoun State Prison in South Georgia with suspicious-looking Hot ...

Virgil Delano Presnell Jr. was convicted in August 1976 on charges including malice murder, kidnapping and rape and was sentenced to die, but remains unexecuted (Georgia Department of Corrections) ...

ATLANTA — A former Georgia Department of Corrections employee was arrested for criminal attempt to commit a felony sexual assault and unauthorized trading with inmates without the consent of the ...