Georgia’s punishing probation system

...a STUDY LOOKING AT GEORGIA’S RURAL JAILS found that the vast majority of jail admissions are for nonviolent offenses, including probation violations, drug p


Nonviolent offenses, probation violations leading jail admissions in rural Georgia jails

Local jails across Georgia on any given day are strained with challenges that have caused problems across the criminal justice system.


Report: Most people in rural Georgia jails there for low-level crimes

Researchers from the University of Georgia Rural Jails Research Hub 


Coronavirus in rural America (Part LXXVII): Georgia's rural jails respond to the pandemic

This blog post was written by Amairini Sanchez (PhD student) and Sarah Shannon (Associate Professor) and was published in the Legal Ruralism blog site. It describes the measures that rural jails in Georgia have taken during the coronavirus pandemic.

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UGA Researchers Seek To Reduce Rural Jailing Rates

Researchers will work with local jurisdictions to find out the reason that rural incarceration rates have been on the rise.