If an employee, volunteer, visitor, or offender in our facilities is found to have or be transporting contraband, they are arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Updated July 14, 2021. He had 3 months to go and we were counting down. Thank you! MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Macon-Bibb Coroner Leon Jones has confirmed an inmate from Central State Prison was killed by another inmate. He refused breakfast the day he died and was checked multiple times that morning as part of being on suicide watch. text: "Promote your event", Mintz, a 24-year-old serving a life sentence, had been working with aprison reform activist group, the Human and Civil Rights Coalition of Georgia. Cause not reported. 2021 Press Releases. When he was 16, he and a 20-year-old friend broke into a Macon home, robbed the owner and took him hostage. While she identified as a transgender woman, she was being held at prison for men. In 2020-21 alone, more than 40 inmates. What is clear is that the prison system in Georgia is broken, even by our countrys benighted standards. Death of inmate probed at Baldwin State Prison She has a background in Political Science with a focus in local government and has a Master of Public Administration from the University of Georgia. WRIGHT: Can write on the tablet, back and forth communicating - or he was calling. A few hours later, she said, prison staff called with the same message but added that the cause of his death was undetermined and that itwouldtake weeks for a toxicology screento comeback and a cause ruling made. Georgia prison took days to discover dead inmate in his bunk Prison guards stood by and let a person die in front of their eyes. The warden at the time of Mitchells death, who also was named in the lawsuit filed by Shanies and the ACLU, declined to comment. Data journalist Jennifer Peebles contributed to this report. Prisons across the state are operating with as little as one-quarter of the necessary staffing now. Each report describes the agency, its staff and budget, information about inmates, and important occurrences during the year. The Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) has one of the largest prison systems in the U.S. and is responsible for supervising nearly 52,000 state prisoners.