Dozens of new state laws have gone into effect Tuesday but the legislation likely to take center stage on the campaign trail ...

A former Fulton County jail guard has been indicted on federal civil rights charges. Prosecutors say she used her Taser ...

According to the sheriff’s office, correction deputies at the Bibb County Law Enforcement Center were told by an inmate that another inmate had collapsed and was unresponsive in ...

Update: An unprecedented number of Georgia inmates in 2022 have taken their own lives. In the first 11 months of this year, 34 inmates died by suicide, bringing the total since 2018 to 150. The ...

One of four Georgia inmates who escaped last month is still on the loose. This comes after the third was caught on Sunday. The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office announced that they found 37-year-old ...

Two inmates from Georgia's Baldwin State Prison are armed and on the run after one of them shot and killed two Georgia State Correctional Officers on a bus, June 13, 2017.

When inmates die: Georgia’s jails fail mentally ill Dozens of jail deaths tied to mental illness, and many are preventable. ‘She literally beat herself to death right in front of them.’ ...

First of 4 Georgia inmates captured since escaping jail more than a week ago Two other inmates, Joey Fournier, 52, and Johnifer Dernard Barnwell, 37, remain on the run. Fournier is accused of murder.

BUTTS COUNTY, Ga. — If you call for fire services in one of 35 counties in Georgia, specially trained prison inmates may be the first to respond. Amid a historic shortage of firefighters ...

BUTTS COUNTY, Ga. — If you call for fire services in one of 35 counties in Georgia, specially trained prison inmates may be the first to respond. Amid a historic shortage of firefighters ...