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| Georgia Prisons Face Crisis of Inmate Violence |
| By atlantaprogressivenews.com- Gloria Tatum |
| Published: 04/15/2014 |
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(APN) ATLANTA -- The Southern Center for Human Right (SCHR) and State Sen. Vincent Fort (D-Atlanta) held a legislative hearing, on Thursday, April 10, 2014, at the State Capitol, on the increase of violence and violent deaths in the Georgia prison system. "Several years ago we noticed that we were receiving... ever-growing reports of trauma and violence in the Georgia prison system. Nearly every day we get letters and telephone calls from people who have been assaulted, beaten, and even raped in our State prisons," Sara Geraghty, Senior Attorney for the Southern Center for Human Rights, testified at the hearing. From 2010 to the present, at least 32 prisoners have been killed in Georgia prisons; also, prisoners killed one one correctional officer during the same period. To put it in perspective, in 2012 alone, Georgia had more homicides in its State prisons then many states had in the last ten years, according to statistics from SCHR. Read More. |
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