News and information on important things happening in Georgia’s prison system.
Over the last few weeks in various groups on social media. Extortion and protective custody havecome up, and received tons of comments. This week on our show we discuss how to best deal with these issues, and how you can best help your love one if faced with these issues. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
60,000 inmates, 11,000 staff, and hundreds of thousand stakeholders are touched every day by decision made by an organization that seems to have no leadership. The last 7 months have been a series of disasters like GA DOC has never seen before. And we have SILENCE as a response to every single challenge. As best we understand GDC's data, 1933 inmates have contracted the virus, 70 have died, and 17 remain in hospitals around the state. That, friends, is just the tip of the iceberg. In the first 8 months of 2020, there have been 21 homicides, 19 suicides, multiple riots at GDCP, Ware SP, LASP, Macon SP. And all met with silence. The GA Lawmakers asked GDC leadership to repond to their concerns. CRICKETS Just today, GDC teased us with a tweet regarding "modified visitation." That should go just as well as their "modified quarantines," where inmates who were sick had to go to work details and then after work were locked down for the night. Yeah, this is gonna be a bumpy ride. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Join our special guest Susan Sparks Burns, Cheniera Osbourne, and Kathleen Adams as they discuss mass prison incarceration in Georgia, over sentencing of youth, and covid-19 related deaths in Georgia prisons. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Today’s show was focused on Covid-19 numbers inside the Georgia prison system, and what prison officials are doing, and will be doing to curve this deadly virus that’s already killed 24 inmates. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app