The U.S. Department of Justice accused prisons across Georgia of “inhumane” and unconstitutional conditions.
On Tuesday, the Department of Justice published a report on the current conditions of Georgia prisons saying that they “violate” the Constitution’s Eighth Amendment.
“Our findings report lays bare the horrific and inhumane conditions that people are confined to inside Georgia’s state prison system,” Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said in a press release. “Our statewide investigation exposes long-standing, systemic violations stemming from complete indifference and disregard to the safety and security of people Georgia holds in its prisons.”
“People are assaulted stabbed, raped and killed or left to languish inside facilities that are woefully understaffed. Inmates are maimed and tortured, relegated to an existence of fear, filth and not so benign neglect. These dangerous conditions not only harm the people Georgia incarcerates—it places prison employees and the broader community at risk,” Clarke added.
The report from the Department of Justice includes 93 …