Stephen Michael Bunte pleaded guilty to enticement of a minor and receipt of child sexual abuse material. The case reached Georgia through an international trafficking investigation, and a federal judge imposed 15 years in prison plus 15 years of supervision.

A woman went to the Tuscaloosa County Jail seeking bond information. Investigators say detention deputy Thomas Dorsey offered help, arranged an off-site meeting, and sexually assaulted her. He faces three charges and is presumed innocent.

The GBI announced three felony charges against David Jackson in January. A fresh public-record check found no later announced disposition, showing how quickly jail-accountability cases can disappear from public view.

A federal judge has ordered the Bureau of Prisons to immediately restore a collective-bargaining agreement covering roughly 30,000 employees while litigation continues, finding the union is likely to succeed on its Administrative Procedure Act claim.

Federal prosecutors say FCI Aliceville officer Felix Sylvester Wilder sexually assaulted seven incarcerated women while on duty. DOJ records show at least four other officers at the Alabama federal prison were sentenced in separate sexual-abuse cases between 2018 and 2024.

Georgia families can escalate unresolved care and safety concerns to the GDC Ombudsman, but the incarcerated person's grievance deadlines keep running on a separate track.

A new published Eleventh Circuit opinion affirmed the denial of Nicholas Tate’s federal habeas petition, rejecting claims involving counsel, mitigation evidence, and prosecutorial theories at sentencing.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to delay a rare federal receivership over Arizona prison medical and mental health care, clearing the way for an outside receiver to assume authority on October 19 after 14 years of litigation.

GPS’s intelligence database places Arrendale and Pulaski at the top of Georgia’s prison-retaliation event counts. GDC policy, meanwhile, requires grievances, health complaints, disability accommodations, tracking logs, and management review that should leave an auditable trail.

Georgia’s own prison data shows 143 people serving life sentences were released in 2025, more than double the prior year. But the average person who got out had already spent 31.05 years behind bars.