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.

An Athens area man, who has been in and out of jail during the past two decades, was sentenced Tuesday to 22 years in a federal prison.

When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials transferred 278 inmates convicted of murder and dozens more serving time fo ...

A former Georgia prison officer was sentenced to more than seven years in prison Monday after being found guilty of ...

Two inmates died on Thursday at the Hancock State Prison, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. The GDC ...

The GDC confirmed to Channel 2 Action News on Friday the altercation between the inmates occurred on Jan. 30 and said that it ...

A Dooly State Prison inmate is dead, Dooly County Coroner Brett Walls said. Walls said that a 58-year-old man was found dead ...

HANCOCK COUNTY, GA — A deadly altercation at the state prison in Hancock County appears to be gang-related. Joan Heath with the Department of Corrections tells WSB Radio that one prisoner died as a ...

Two inmates died on Thursday at the Hancock State Prison, according to a news release from the Georgia Department of ...

Coroner Dontrelle Andrews said that both men were found dead after separate fights in the prison around 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, but the GDC said one was uninjured.