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Cell phone video shot inside a Georgia prison shows a dead prisoner slumped over a railing. Inmates said he was there for hours because no officer is on duty in their part of the prison.

Nerissa Wright says by the time the body of her son DonTavis Mintz came home to Macon from Ware State Prison, she only knew him by a single tooth.

11Alive’s investigative team, The Reveal, has uncovered information showing the federal government has likely launched an investigation into Georgia’s prison system. The probe follows a request from a civil rights organization last year which outlined deteriorating prison conditions and staffing shortages putting inmates and officers in danger. Former corrections officers sat down with The Reveal to explain why they believe the systematic problems at the facility lead to the dangerous 202...