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 ...

ATLANTA — A continuing investigation with the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) and the FBI's Safe Street Gang Task Force revealed an alleged multi-state criminal enterprise that sent contraband ...

As the Georgia Department of Corrections has seen record numbers of deaths from homicides, suicides and drug overdoses since 2020, it has tightened its grip on information about its prisons. Two such ...

A day after a food service employee was shot and killed at Georgia's Smith State Prison, Gov. Brian Kemp announced an in-depth assessment of the state's Department of Corrections system. The governor ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Georgia Department of Corrections says Ofc. Brandon Jewell and his K9 partner, Sissy, were involved in a car accident. Officials said the accident resulted in the tragic loss of K9 Sissy, who was ...