In 2015, Diamond filed a lawsuit over the Georgia Department of Corrections' "freeze-frame" policies for transgender inmates, which only allowed inmates to continue treatment they received before their sentence and prevented them from beginning new treatments. Diamond, who was diagnosed with gender dy...
The state of Georgia is equipped with over six hundred (600) law enforcement agencies The Georgia Department of Corre
However, if the judge finds that such probation should not be imposed, he or she shall sentence the defendant to imprisonment; provided, further, that upon a defendant's being incarcerated on a conviction for such first offense, the Department of Corrections shall provide counseling to such ...
Monica had been with the Georgia Department of Corrections since October 2009 and Billue since July 2007. How the two inmates managed to reach and overpower the guards remains under investigation, Sills said. "They were inside the caged area of the bus," he said. "How they got through the...
if an inmate commits a disciplinary infraction, the state may require them to pay a $100 administrative fee. Before a friend or family member sends money to the inmate, they need to know the incarcerated person's full name,Georgia Department of Corrections(GDC) ID number, and current location...
The federal charges could carry the possibility of the death penalty, while the maximum sentence for the state charges is life in prison without parole. National Biden gives life in prison to 37 of 40 federal death row inmates so Trump can’t have them executed ...
"that the provision 'would seem to be wholly unnecessary in a free government, since it is scarcely possible that any department of such a government should authorize or justify such atrocious conduct.'" And Cooley, in his book, Constitutional Limitations, said the Court, "apparently in a stru...
Previously, courts had found Gissendaner had plotted the stabbing death of her husband by her boyfriend, Gregory Owen, who will be up for parole in eight years after accepting a life sentence and testifying against her. Gissendaner would have been only the 16th woman put to death nationwide sin...
Gissendaner's lawyers also urged the parole board to subpoena some other corrections employees so they can testify without fear of retaliation. Although department rules allow employees to speak to lawyers for capital clemency proceedings, the reality is less clear, Gissendaner's lawyers...
Inmate Kelly Gissendaner was executed early Wednesday morning for the 1997 death of her husband, the Georgia Department of Corrections said.