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Attorneys and representatives for correctional health care provider, Wellpath, and for the state attended a hearing over the lawsuit at the Fulton County Superior Court on Monday, June 24, 2024. The new health care provider for Georgia prisons will start July 1.

Georgia prisons will soon have a new healthcare provider after contract was brought into question

Sofi Gratas, Georgia Public Broadcasting
June 28, 2024
Evey Wilson Wetherbee (left) and Jessica Szilagyi, the reporters behind the podcast “Prison Town,” which examines issues within the Georgia Department of Corrections by telling the story of Smith State Prison in southeast Georgia.

New podcast with ties to Macon explores corruption, murder connected to Smith State Prison

Caleb Slinkard
April 4, 2023

Mom searches for answers after son is killed at Central State Prison

Evey Wilson Wetherbee
March 29, 2022
Georgia Department of Corrections cadets and trainers before the 2010 ribbon cutting for the department's training facility and offices in Forsyth. A labor strike of the incarcerated would come about month later. GDC lost over 2,000 correctional officers in the following year.

What’s behind the understaffing at Georgia prisons? Ask the staff

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
January 26, 2022
Nerissa Wright's son, Dontavis Mintz, died for reasons she still doesn't know in Ware State Prison near Waycross. The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating the Georgia Department of Corrections largely because of such deaths.

A mother’s son died in Georgia prison. The Department of Justice wonders if understaffing is why

Grant Blankenship, Georgia Public Broadcasting
November 19, 2021
Kareemah Hanifa during her September 2021 testimony to a committee of Georgia legislators concerned with violence in the state's prisons. Hanifa began serving a life sentence when she was a teenager.

Why the investigation into Georgia prisons matters

CCJ in partnership with Georgia Public Broadcasting, The Telegraph and 13WMAZ will be reporting on this in the coming months.
Debbie Blankenship, Center for Collaborative Journalism
November 19, 2021
Built in 1976 to house Le Chateau Great Steaks, this building at 2460 Riverside Drive was a Bennigan's Tavern in the '80s and '90s. Enterprise will put a truck rental location on the site.

Planned inmate re-entry house might be too close to private school property

Macon-Bibb P&Z also approves new use for the old Bennigan's restaurant on Riverside Drive
Liz Fabian, Civic Journalism Senior Fellow
July 12, 2021

A woman’s place is in the kitchen for inmates at the Bibb County Jail

Samantha Max, Report for America corps member
February 22, 2019
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