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Athens News Matters: Georgia Department of Corrections Undergoes Lengthy Civil Rights Investigation

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The US Department of Justice is almost six months into what is expected to be a year-long Civil Rights investigation of the Georgia Department of Corrections. From the start, understaffing at the state’s prisons has been looked at as a possible symptom of a greater dysfunction. But just how understaffed are Georgia’s correctional facilities? And when did problems start to arise?

As GPB’s Grant Blankenship reports it’s been a long time coming.

Grant came to public media after a career spent in newspaper photojournalism. As an all platform journalist he seeks to wed the values of public radio storytelling and the best of photojournalism online.
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