Lori Benoit News Today

Wellpath provided health care to Georgia prisoners but said that extreme violence drove up costs. Now it claims that GDC abruptly chose another provid

The GDC says that correctional officer Lloyd Hopkins was "party to" the murder and assault of inmate Roderick Hayes at Augusta State Medical Prison.

Amplifying Atlanta

Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada

Authorities say a Georgia prison guard shot and killed a prisoner she had escorted to a hospital for treatment after he snatched another guard’s pepper spray and used it to

Authorities say a Georgia prison guard shot and killed a prisoner she had escorted to a hospital for treatment after he snatched another guard’s pepper spray and used it to

A Georgia prison guard shot and killed a prisoner she had helped escort to a hospital for treatment after he snatched another guard's pepper spray and used it to overpower him, authorities said Wednesday.

Authorities say a Georgia prison guard shot and killed a prisoner she had escorted to a hospital for treatment after he snatched another guard's pepper spray and used it to overpower him.

Pye, 59, was put to death by way of lethal injection in Georgia on Wednesday evening after all of his legal efforts, including a request for stay of execution by the US Supreme Court, were exhausted.

ATLANTA — Cellphone contraband is a growing problem in prisons around the county and Georgia officials are looking for ways to crackdown on the pipeline of phones ending up in