Prison Town
a deep dive into one prison in South Georgia, in a county that has three
In the midst of a federal investigation into Georgia's prisons for civil rights violations, we decided to use one prison in South Georgia as a case study. The things we found are chilling. An 88-year-old man is shot while he’s sleeping. Another man is murdered one county over. A woman is found dead in a mobile home park. And somehow they all link back to the same prison, illuminating many of the complex problems that plague our criminal justice system. This reporting is from the Center for Collaborative Journalism and The Georgia Virtue.
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Evey Wilson Wetherbee
Evey is a journalist and Emmy-nominated filmmaker based in Georgia.
She recently directed and produced an investigative documentary about a water pollution issue called Saving Juliette. The film screened at festivals and won multiple awards, including the Best Short Documentary at the 2022 American Conservation Film Festival. She was a finalist for the Livingston Award in local reporting for this work and is now a Professor of Practice in Journalism at Mercer’s Center for Collaborative Journalism.
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Jessica Szilagyi
Jessica Szilagyi is Publisher of The Georgia Virtue News. She focuses primarily on state and local politics as well as issues in law enforcement and corrections She has a background in Political Science with a focus in local government and has a Master of Public Administration.
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