Commissioner Tyrone Oliver told lawmakers the state’s prison population grew to more than 50,600 offenders by September 2025, up from about 48,000 in 2023.

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Thirty people believed to be members or associates of the gang Sex Money Murder (SMM) have been indicted in the Southern District of Georgia on multiple violent and financial crime ...

ATLANTA — A group of Georgia prison inmates — including an imprisoned rapper — have been sentenced in Ohio for running a phone scam from behind bars that targeted registered sex offenders across the ...

ATLANTA — Top Georgia lawmakers acknowledged during this year’s legislative session that costly steps were needed to deal with a prison system operating in crisis mode, and they acted accordingly. The ...

ZANESVILLE, Ohio — A judge sentenced the final Georgia prison inmate in a fraud scheme that targeted registered sex offenders across the country. Marquis Conner pleaded guilty to the case that was ...

Suspects, including some prison employees, get to walk free after cases were dismissed at Calhoun State Prison In 2020, the Georgia Department of Corrections announced that two of its officers had ...

Michael Brown Jr. fled a traffic stop and mistakenly ran onto the grounds of Georgia's most secure prison, leading to his capture by state prison K9 units. Deputies discovered a pound of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The news arrived in fragments. A young woman’s body, discovered in a Georgia prison cell. The family notified that she had already ...