JACKSON, Ga. - A death at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison in Jackson on Sunday has prompted an investigation. Brandon Burrell died while in custody at the state prison in ...

Georgia Department of Corrections officials confirmed to Channel 2 Action News that Carrell Johnson died in the Jackson State Prison at 7 a.m. on Tuesday morning.

McClenton started working at Jackson State Prison a year and a half ago. Since then, she's developed some tough skin. “You have to have a strong mindset to really work here,” says McClenton.

Gregory McMichael, who was sentenced to life in prison along with his son, Travis McMichael, and their neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan, was initially taken to a state prison in Jackson in August.

Claud "Tex" McIver, sentenced last week to life in prison after being convicted of fatally shooting his wife, will spend the remainder of his days with some of the more notorious convicts in the ...

A hunger strike by 10 inmates at the Georgia Classification & Diagnostic Prison has ended, according to the Department of Corrections. The strike, which sparked a protest at the state capitol ...

Georgia prison officials are “deliberately indifferent" to unchecked deadly violence, widespread drug use, extortion and sexual abuse at state lockups, according to the U.S. Justice Department.

Georgia Department of Corrections officials confirmed to Channel 2 Action News that Carrell Johnson died in the Jackson State Prison at 7 a.m. on Tuesday morning.

Georgia Department of Corrections officials confirmed that Carrell Johnson died in the Jackson State Prison at 7 a.m. on Tuesday morning. They are investigating his death as an apparent homicide.