Atlanta, Georgia

Georgia has an incarceration rate of 970 per 100,000 people (including prisons, jails, immigration detention, and juvenile justice facilities), meaning that it locks up a higher percentage of its people than many wealthy democracies do.
Each year, at least 236,000 different people are booked into local jails in Georgia.
Since 1978, the rate of incarceration for Black people in Georgia Black incarceration rate has increased 79 percent. In 2017, Black people were incarcerated at 2.7 times the rate of white people.
Georgia is currently No 1. in the nation for the number of persons under supervision, whether that is in prison, jail, parole, or probation.

The Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice estimates that 13 percent of juvenile offenders are incarcerated in some type of secure facility.
While many states have made legislative changes to raise the age of juvenile court jurisdiction to 18, five states (Georgia, Michigan, Missouri, Texas and Wisconsin) still automatically prosecute 17-year-olds as adults and all states allow children charged with certain offenses to be prosecuted in adult courts.
Twenty-five years ago, Georgia created the most punitive juvenile justice system in the nation, one in which children as young as 13-years-old can be convicted as adults and sentenced to decades in prison.

Since 1980, the number of women in jail in Georgia has increased 1,107%, and the number of women in prison has increased 600%.
The number of women in Georgia’s jails has increased more than 23-fold, from 227 in 1970 to 5,228 in 2015.
The number of women in Georgia’s prisons has increased more than sevenfold, from 497 to 1978 to 3,779 in 2017.

Nearly 1,700 Georgians died by gun violence in 2019, an average of more than four people every day. Suicides were 56% of the gun deaths and homicides were 41%.
Georgia had the 15th highest gun death rate in the country in 2019.
In Georgia, the overall gun death rate has consistently increased over the last seven years, increasing by 25% from 2013 to 2019. Both the firearm suicide and homicide rate has increased similarly over the last seven years, with few exceptions.

Nearly 1,700 Georgians died by gun violence in 2019, an average of more than four people every day. Suicides were 56% of the gun deaths and homicides were 41%.
Georgia had the 15th highest gun death rate in the country in 2019.
In Georgia, the overall gun death rate has consistently increased over the last seven years, increasing by 25% from 2013 to 2019. Both the firearm suicide and homicide rate has increased similarly over the last seven years, with few exceptions.

There are more than 200,000 people in nearly 200,000 Georgia children have been separated from a parent due to incarceration. 189,000 kids, or about 8 percent of the state's child population, have had a parent in jail or prison at some point in their childhood.
Georgia, which has an incarceration rate 32 percent higher than the national average, has taken several steps in the past few years to help ease the transition from prison to society and help former incarcerated individuals gain employment— with a goal to help provide stability for their children.
60 percent of incarcerated individuals in Georgia are parents, and a number of these parents have been incarcerated more than once.