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Byline: Christian Boone CONTINUING COVERAGE STATE PRISONS ALTO Corrections officials Wednesday denied entry to seven state representatives probing allegedly inhumane conditions at Georgias largest womens prison. Its just another example, [...]

Byline: Christian Boone TOP LOCAL STORY STATE PRISONS& The middle-aged prisoner, 17 years into a life sentence at Baldwin State, said he fears each day may be his last. Youre [...]

Byline: Christian Boone 'The virus has hit the prison. All I can do is pray.' Mozel Anderson, a 78-year-old inmate at Pulaski State Women's Prison, shared her fears in a [...]

Byline: Christian Boone There was no plan for dealing with the threat of the coronavirus at Autry State Prison, said its former health services administrator, Julia 'Judy' Hendricks. Even after [...]

Byline: Christian Boone She wasn't supposed to be working in the unit where sick inmates were quarantined as COVID-19 began spreading through the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta. 'She wanted [...]

Byline: Christian Boone An inmate at Lee State Prison in southwest Georgia started feeling sick over the weekend with symptoms consistent with the disease caused by the coronavirus. He remains [...]

Byline: Christian Boone Her face was beet red. She was wheezing, struggling to breathe. The 38-year-old woman -- an inmate at Metro Transitional Center -- had been experiencing stomach discomfort [...]

Byline: Christian Boone An internal email obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reveals the Atlanta federal penitentiary was scrambling to find hand sanitizer more than a week after the coronavirus brought [...]

Byline: Christian Boone COVID-19 continues to spread in Georgia's jails and prisons. The disease caused by the novel coronavirus is present in eight of the state's prisons. Twenty-two people -- [...]

Byline: Christian Boone Sgt. Michael Bongiovanni, a veteran of nearly two decades with the Gwinnett County Police Department, was not just a supervisor to young officer Robert McDonald. He was [...]

Byline: Christian Boone Wednesday was to be Jimmy Meders' last night sleeping on death row, his home for the past 30 years. In less than 24 hours, he was scheduled [...]

Byline: Christian Boone Former Henry County police Officer David Rose moved one step closer to a trial Wednesday in pleading not guilty to a five-count indictment stemming from his role [...]

Byline: Christian Boone Contrasting versions of what transpired during the final seconds of Anthony Hill's life, and what motivated the police officer who ended it, were presented to jurors Thursday, [...]

Byline: Christian Boone Could past trauma -- perhaps something witnessed during two combat tours in Iraq -- have led former Atlanta police officer Matthew Johns to assault an unarmed, compliant [...]

Byline: Christian Boone Former Henry County police officer David Rose was aware of the risk when, at the last minute, he changed his mind and rejected a plea deal that [...]

Byline: Christian Boone Dressed in prison scrubs, Melody Farris made her first court appearance Friday afternoon on charges she shot and killed her husband, an attorney, then burned his body. [...]

Byline: Christian Boone A former DeKalb County Police Officer of the Year faces possible prison time following his indictment Thursday on two felony charges stemming from a 2017 incident with [...]

Byline: Christian Boone Georgia executed Scotty Morrow on Thursday night for the 1994 murders of two women, marking the state's first execution this year. The 52-year-old Gainesville man was pronounced [...]

Byline: Christian Boone A former Henry County police officer's surprising, last-minute decision to reject a plea deal that would have kept him out of prison for allegedly assaulting a former [...]

Byline: Christian Boone, Bill Rankin The decision by Cobb County's top prosecutor not to seek the death penalty for Justin Ross Harris brought an instant and deeply split verdict in [...]

Byline: Christian Boone Convicted Centennial Olympic Park bomber Eric Rudolph writes that he has begun a hunger strike, claiming prison officials have singled him out for 'special treatment' because he [...]