All of the Georgia Department of Corrections' facilities around the state have been placed on lockdown after "altercation" at ...

All Georgia Department of Corrections facilities are on lockdown after an "altercation" at Dooly State Prison on Thursday.

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 ...

Two inmates in the custody of the Georgia Department of Corrections have died within days of each other at the same facility.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a blistering, just-released report years in the making, the federal Department of Justice describes Georgia’s prison system as ...

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 ...

Georgia Department of Corrections officials began laying the groundwork Wednesday for an infusion of state funding to beef up staffing, replace aging infrastructure, and improve inmate health care.

Gov. Brian Kemp and the Georgia Department of Corrections asked state lawmakers Tuesday for $372 million to improve a prison system the Justice Department criticized last fall in a scathing report.

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