Georgia Prisoners' Speak Public Data

Latest GDC population snapshot (the weekly 'Friday report'): `total_in_gdc_custody` (every GDC bed type, including probation detention centers and RSAT), the jail backlog, and the facility-type components. The total is the ONLY population figure; the components are parts of it, not alternative totals.

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Headline statistics for the Georgia prison system: population, mortality, demographics, facility counts, releases and health measures, with the update date and data source GPS assembled them from.

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List Georgia prison facilities with location, operator, security level, capacity, population, warden and latest food-safety score. Optional filters are applied to the public list after it is fetched: facility_type (e.g. 'State Prison', 'Transitional Center', 'County Prison'), county, name_contains, and active_only. Responses are paged: `limit` (default 25) and `offset`; `next_offset` says where the rest begins.

Staff headcount and list for one GDC facility, from a GDC-produced roster. Answers "how many staff work at X", "how many officers work there", "list the staff at X". `slug` is the facility slug, e.g. 'dooly-state-prison' (use list_facilities to find it). `title` optionally filters by job title. GDC abbreviates heavily: correctional officers appear as "Correctional Ofc", clerical staff as "Admin Support" or "Admin Assistant". Try both the plain word and the abbreviation. ALWAYS report the `observed` date alongside any figure from this tool. A roster is a single-day observation, not a statement about who works there today. A zero for a role is a finding about the roster rather than missing data: the roster holds no nursing, physician or dental titles anywhere in GDC, which is consistent with medical staffing being contracted rather than directly employed. Do not assert that reason as established fact.

One facility's full public record plus its most recent state health inspection, if GPS has one. `slug` is the facility's gps.press slug, e.g. 'macon-state-prison'. Use list_facilities to find it.

Georgia parole decisions by year — the series GPS assembled from the State Board of Pardons and Paroles' own annual reports, with the metric definitions and the instruments note that says how they were built. `metric` (exact name from the `metrics` list, e.g. 'cases_considered'), `from_year` / `to_year` (fiscal years) filter the series. Paged: `limit` (default 100 rows) and `offset`.

Full text of a section of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated from GPS's public mirror. `section` is the bare citation without the 'O.C.G.A. §' prefix, e.g. '9-14-42', '42-5-2', '17-9-4'.

Deaths in GDC custody since 2020 — yearly and monthly counts, cause-of- death breakdown, deaths by facility, facility type, security level and age. With no arguments this returns the whole published document plus a list of its sections. `section` returns one section by name (e.g. 'YEARLY STATISTICS', 'DEATHS BY FACILITY'); `year` filters the yearly and monthly lines to that year; `facility_contains` filters the by-facility ranking AND returns that facility's cause-of-death breakdown. Filters are matched against the published lines, which is why the matching lines are returned verbatim rather than re-tabulated.

What Georgia has paid to settle prison death and injury claims — the 'What Georgia Pays' analysis of state settlement records, returned as the published markdown.

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Incidents from GDC's own published contraband arrest reports (2010-present, ~1,600 incidents, including reports that survive only in the Internet Archive; page: gps.press/contraband-data/): one row per incident with GDC's wording verbatim, the people as GDC categorised them (staff / officer / contract staff / visitor / civilian), the items, whether an arrest was reported, and the GDC source URL. Filters: facility slug (e.g. dooly-state-prison), year, actor_category (staff | visitor | civilian | officer | gdc_staff | contract_staff), item_category (cellphone, tobacco, marijuana, methamphetamine, ...), arrest_made (yes|no|unstated), q (text match). Structured rows name staff, officers and contract staff as GDC printed them; other people appear by category and role only. The narrative is GDC's own text. Rows are long (a few thousand characters each): per_page defaults to 5 and is capped at 20; use `page` to continue and the filters to narrow. `total` is the number of matches.

Summaries of GDC's published contraband arrest reports. `by` = year | facility | actor-category | role | item-category | stats. Optional facility slug / year filters (not for stats). Counts arrests as GDC reported them; GDC's own running tally is not used because it is not a consistent series across copies of the same report.

What people on Facebook are saying about Georgia's prisons: public posts in the Ga. Prisons Exposed group and comments on GPS's own Facebook posts that GPS kept (families, formerly incarcerated people, former officers, advocates), newest first, each with its author, date, link and label: 'first-hand or inside account' (something specific that happened, seen or lived by the author or told by someone inside), 'opinion', 'idea for change', or 'news retold'. Filters: q (words), facility (a prison name, e.g. "Telfair"), days (default 30, max 365), label (account | opinion | idea | news), limit (default 10, max 60). `counts` gives items and people per label for the whole match. These are the authors' own views and accounts, never GPS findings: attribute and link every quote. Names of people in custody and GDC numbers are removed before the data leaves GPS.

GPS Historical Data (page: gps.press/historical-data/): the catalog of yearly series on Georgia's prisons, 1925-present. Each series is ONE publisher's measure (GDC and Board of Corrections annual reports, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, DOJ, the AJC, UCLA Law Behind Bars, the GPS mortality registry) with its definition, coverage and caveats. Topics: deaths, homicides, suicides, violence, use_of_force, weapons, parole, time_served, lifers, population, capacity, budget, escapes, staffing. Never splice two publishers' series into one trend.

One GPS Historical Data series by year: every value with the source's own label, the source (publisher, title, page, URL) and the exact quote it was checked against, plus the series' definition BREAKS (never read one trend across a break). Get slugs from list_historical_series, e.g. deaths-bjs-state-prisons, homicides-gdc-via-doj, los-pct-released-on-parole-gdc, population-yearend-gdc-series, deaths-gps-registry (live). CSV: add ?format=csv to the REST URL. Values are paged (`limit` default 25, `offset`); narrow with from_year/to_year/category/subgroup.

Find GPS Historical Data series and dated rule changes by words, e.g. "homicide", "parole", "life", "AIDS", "population", "90%".

Dated changes to Georgia parole and sentencing rules and the court rulings on them, 1908-present (the 1979 guidelines grid, the 1994-95 Sentence Reform Act, the 1998 90% policy, the 2005 Fulton order voiding it, the 2006 and 2008 changes, HB 1176 in 2012), each with its source and quote. topic = parole | sentencing | court.

Search GPS's published quote collection — statements from incarcerated people, families, officials and staff that GPS has already published. `attribution_type` is 'named' or 'anonymous'. `category` is one of the published categories (call with no arguments and read the results, or see gps.press). Paginated: page starts at 1, per_page caps at 100.

How long people actually serve in Georgia, by offense and year: average sentence, years served, percentage of sentence served, share released on parole, and the lifer figures — plus the trend summary. `offense` is a case-insensitive substring of GDC's offense name (e.g. 'murder', 'burglary', 'drug'; also the four-digit offense code). With no `offense` the all-crimes series is returned. `year` is the calendar year of release (e.g. '2023'). Both filter on this server. Rows are newest year first and paged: `limit` (default 30) and `offset`; `matched_offenses` lists what `offense` matched. `summary_only` returns just the summary block.

Admissions to Georgia prisons on drug offenses for the latest published report year, broken down by sex, age band and related measures.

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Search gps.press — articles, data pages, research library topics and facility pages — and get back ranked titles, URLs and summaries. This reads the public /find/ results page. GPS publishes no JSON search API, so results are parsed out of the rendered page; treat the ranking as the site's own and follow each result's URL before citing it.

GPS's orientation file for AI clients (llms.txt) — READ THIS FIRST. Carries the things the data tools cannot: which figure to lead with when two are defensible, how to label budget figures, the exact date of the DOJ findings report, and the claims GPS has publicly corrected and will not repeat. Roughly 2,000 words. The datasets give you accurate numbers. This is what keeps the sentence around the number accurate too.

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Read any gps.press page as clean Markdown. Every page on the site has a Markdown twin at the same URL with `.md` appended; this fetches it. Accepts a full URL, a path, or a bare slug — '/vision2027/', 'vision2027', and the full https URL all work, with or without '.md'. Covers articles, data pages, campaign pages and the intelligence briefings (intelligence/facility/{slug}, intelligence/issue/{slug}). Long pages are truncated; use `offset` and `limit` to page through one. Pair with search_site() to find a page, then read it here rather than guessing its contents.

List GPS intelligence briefings — per-facility and per-issue analyses. `kind` filters to 'facility' or 'issue'; `contains` filters on the slug. Read any of them in full with get_page(), e.g. get_page('intelligence/facility/dooly-state-prison'). Both kinds are discovered from GPS's public intelligence index pages; if the issue hub cannot be read, `issues_note` says so in the payload.