Following the U.S. Department of Justice’s investigation into Georgia’s state prisons, the state’s two senators urged the state to swiftly improve conditions in Georgia prisons, which the DOJ found were “unconstitutional.”
U.S. Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, D-Georgia, urged Georgia Department of Corrections Commissioner Tyrone Oliver to promptly address the deeply concerning findings in the DOJ’s report last month on Georgia’s state prison system, which found conditions in Georgia’s prisons “violate the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution.”
The DOJ’s investigation of Georgia’s state-operated prisons found that “the State of Georgia engages in a pattern or practice of violating incarcerated persons’ constitutional rights.”
“We write to urge the State of Georgia and the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) to promptly address the deeply concerning findings contained in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) October 2024 report on its investigation of Georgia prisons,” the senators wrote.
