Carrie Teegardin

3 weeks ago | gazettextra.com | Carrie Teegardin |Danny Robbins

ATLANTA - Top Georgia lawmakers acknowledged during this year's legislative session that costly steps were needed to deal with a prison system operating in crisis mode, and they acted accordingly. The state House and Senate approved most of what Gov. Brian Kemp asked for in a special request for the prison system and incorporated some of their own ideas, too. The result: $434 million in new funding for the Georgia Department of Corrections for the current fiscal year.

3 weeks ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Carrie Teegardin |Danny Robbins

ATLANTA - Top Georgia lawmakers acknowledged during this year's legislative session that costly steps were needed to deal with a prison system operating in crisis mode, and they acted accordingly. The state House and Senate approved most of what Gov. Brian Kemp asked for in a special request for the prison system and incorporated some of their own ideas, too. The result: $434 million in new funding for the Georgia Department of Corrections for the current fiscal year.

3 weeks ago | arcamax.com | Carrie Teegardin |Danny Robbins

ATLANTA — Top Georgia lawmakers acknowledged during this year’s legislative session that costly steps were needed to deal with a prison system operating in crisis mode, and they acted accordingly. The state House and Senate approved most of what Gov. Brian Kemp asked for in a special request for the prison system and incorporated some of their own ideas, too. The result: $434 million in new funding for the Georgia Department of Corrections for the current fiscal year.

3 weeks ago | ajc.com | Carrie Teegardin |Danny Robbins

Top Georgia lawmakers acknowledged during this year’s legislative session that costly steps were needed to deal with a prison system operating in crisis mode, and they acted accordingly. The state House and Senate approved most of what Gov. Brian Kemp asked for in a special request for the prison system and incorporated some of their own ideas, too. The result: $434 million in new funding for the Georgia Department of Corrections for the current fiscal year.

Feb 14, 2025 | miamiherald.com | Carrie Teegardin |Danny Robbins

ATLANTA - As state legislators work to craft complex and costly plans to fix Georgia's troubled prison system, they may face an extra challenge: Conditions inside the wire appear to be getting even worse. Thirteen prison deaths fromJan. 1 to Feb. 4 are being investigated as homicides, prison officials told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.