Attorney Frank Hogue conjures the pressure of a juror on a death penalty trial. District Attorney Wright Barksdale reframes our understanding of security. Former warden Jose Morales allows us inside Georgia’s most lockdown facility before death row. New information is revealed about the third murder.
This is a limited series podcast from Evey Wilson Wetherbee and Jessica Szilagyi. In the midst of a federal investigation into Georgia’s prisons for civil rights violations, they decided to use one prison in South Georgia as a case study. The things they found are chilling. An 88-year-old man is shot while he’s sleeping. Another man is murdered one county over. A woman is found dead in a mobile home park. And somehow they all link back to the same prison, illuminating many of the complex problems that plague Georgia’s criminal justice system. This reporting is from Mercer’s Center for Collaborative Journalism and The Georgia Virtue.
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