A Georgia prison guard locked people up for a living, but now he's accused of locking welfare workers in their building over ...

The underlying incident occurred late last week at the Georgia Department of Family and Child Services (DFCS) offices on ...

Four former supervisory and corrections officers at a state prison in south Georgia have been sentenced for their parts in the assault of a handcuffed inmate. According to court documents, 30-year-old ...

A Georgia corrections officer was allegedly caught smuggling almost $30,000 into a Georgia prison to an inmate she was romantically involved with. According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the ...

A south Georgia state senator is leaving his elected office for a state job while Georgia’s prison chief is stepping down. State Sen. Dean Burke, a Bainbridge Republican will step down from his Senate ...

ATLANTA - Gov. Brian P. Kemp, alongside the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC), announced Monday the commencement of a thorough assessment of the state’s corrections system. This initiative seeks ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - The Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) is responding to a Department of Justice investigation (DOJ) that called out 17 Georgia prisons for having ‘unconstitutional’ ...

ATLANTA — The man put in place to clean up Georgia’s corrections system is talking only with Channel 2 Action News about drugs, weapons, and corruption going on behind prison walls. Channel 2 ...

JACKSON COUNTY, Ga. — A man who killed two Georgia corrections officers during an escape from a prison transport bus about five years ago was found dead in his cell on Sunday. According to WSB-TV, ...

TATTNALL COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC/Gray News) - Officials say a correctional officer at a Georgia prison is dead after he was attacked by an inmate with a homemade weapon, WTOC reports. Correctional Officer ...