“The plan — utilizing inmates as informants inside Georgia’s most dangerous prisons, supplying them with cell phones to provide intelligence — was ‘the most dangerous thing you could do,’ said a former Valdosta State Prison warden. Within four months of its implementation at Valdosta State, one informant nearly lost his life while the prison captain who supplied him with cell phones, despite objecting to the policy, would eventually lose his job because of it.“

Atlanta Journal Constitution

October 31, 2018