ATLANTA — Georgia prisons set a record for inmate suicides last year, with 39 men and one woman taking their own lives, an analysis by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution shows.
The AJC also found that inmate killings continued at high rates, with 30 homicides in 2022, the same number as in each of the previous two years.
The figures are yet another indication of how staff shortages, lax oversight and corruption have plagued the Georgia Department of Corrections in recent years, allowing gang violence to escalate and creating lapses in the care and treatment of inmates with mental health issues.
