Georgia Prisoners' Speak Public Data

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Add it to any MCP client that supports remote servers.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "georgia-prisoners-speak-public-data": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://data.gps.press/mcp"
    }
  }
}

26 tools

• get_population_snapshot

  Latest GDC population snapshot (the weekly 'Friday report'): `total_in_gdc_custody` (every GDC bed type, including probation detention centers and RSAT), the jail backlog, and the facility-type components. The total is the ONLY population figure; the components are…

• get_system_statistics

  Headline statistics for the Georgia prison system: population, mortality, demographics, facility counts, releases and health measures, with the update date and data source GPS assembled them from.

• list_facilities

  List Georgia prison facilities with location, operator, security level, capacity, population, warden and latest food-safety score. Optional filters are applied to the public list after it is fetched: facility_type (e.g. 'State Prison', 'Transitional Center', 'County…

• get_facility_staff_roster

  Staff headcount and list for one GDC facility, from a GDC-produced roster. Answers "how many staff work at X", "how many officers work there", "list the staff at X". `slug` is the facility slug, e.g. 'dooly-state-prison' (use list_facilities to find it)…

• get_facility

  One facility's full public record plus its most recent state health inspection, if GPS has one. `slug` is the facility's gps.press slug, e.g. 'macon-state-prison'. Use list_facilities to find it.

• get_parole_statistics

  Georgia parole decisions by year — the series GPS assembled from the State Board of Pardons and Paroles' own annual reports, with the metric definitions and the instruments note that says how they were built. `metric` (exact name from the `metrics` list, e.g…

• get_ocga_section

  Full text of a section of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated from GPS's public mirror. `section` is the bare citation without the 'O.C.G.A. §' prefix, e.g. '9-14-42', '42-5-2', '17-9-4'.

• get_mortality_data

  Deaths in GDC custody since 2020 — yearly and monthly counts, cause-of- death breakdown, deaths by facility, facility type, security level and age. With no arguments this returns the whole published document plus a list of its sections. `section` returns one section…

• get_settlements_data

  What Georgia has paid to settle prison death and injury claims — the 'What Georgia Pays' analysis of state settlement records, returned as the published markdown.

• get_contraband_incidents

  Incidents from GDC's own published contraband arrest reports (2010-present, ~1,600 incidents, including reports that survive only in the Internet Archive; page: gps.press/contraband-data/): one row per incident with GDC's wording verbatim, the people as GDC categorised…

• get_contraband_summary

  Summaries of GDC's published contraband arrest reports. `by` = year | facility | actor-category | role | item-category | stats. Optional facility slug / year filters (not for stats). Counts arrests as GDC reported them; GDC's own running tally is not used because it is…

• get_facebook_posts

  What people on Facebook are saying about Georgia's prisons: public posts in the Ga. Prisons Exposed group and comments on GPS's own Facebook posts that GPS kept (families, formerly incarcerated people, former officers, advocates), newest first, each with its author…

• get_health_staffing

  Medical staffing in Georgia's prisons under the Department of Corrections' contract with Centurion of Georgia LLC: the hours the contract's staffing matrix requires vs the hours Centurion reports working, by prison, job and month, July-December 2025, plus the workbook's…

• get_public_records

  Open-records requests Georgia Prisoners' Speak made to Georgia agencies under the Georgia Open Records Act, published with every document the agency released, so a cited source can be checked. Without ref: the list of published requests (reference, title, agency, dates…

• search_public_records

  Full-text search INSIDE the documents Georgia agencies released to Georgia Prisoners' Speak under the Georgia Open Records Act and GPS has published at https://gps.press/records/ (contracts, purchase orders, price lists, inspection reports, policies, staffing matrices…

• list_historical_series

  GPS Historical Data (page: gps.press/historical-data/): the catalog of yearly series on Georgia's prisons, 1925-present. Each series is ONE publisher's measure (GDC and Board of Corrections annual reports, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the State Board of Pardons and…

• get_historical_series

  One GPS Historical Data series by year: every value with the source's own label, the source (publisher, title, page, URL) and the exact quote it was checked against, plus the series' definition BREAKS (never read one trend across a break). Get slugs from…

• search_historical_data

  Find GPS Historical Data series and dated rule changes by words, e.g. "homicide", "parole", "life", "AIDS", "population", "90%".

• get_historical_events

  Dated changes to Georgia parole and sentencing rules and the court rulings on them, 1908-present (the 1979 guidelines grid, the 1994-95 Sentence Reform Act, the 1998 90% policy, the 2005 Fulton order voiding it, the 2006 and 2008 changes, HB 1176 in 2012), each with its…

• search_quotes

  Search GPS's published quote collection — statements from incarcerated people, families, officials and staff that GPS has already published. `attribution_type` is 'named' or 'anonymous'. `category` is one of the published categories (call with no arguments and read…

• get_length_of_stay

  How long people actually serve in Georgia, by offense and year: average sentence, years served, percentage of sentence served, share released on parole, and the lifer figures — plus the trend summary. `offense` is a case-insensitive substring of GDC's offense name…

• get_drug_admissions

  Admissions to Georgia prisons on drug offenses for the latest published report year, broken down by sex, age band and related measures.

• search_site

  Search gps.press — articles, data pages, research library topics and facility pages — and get back ranked titles, URLs and summaries. This reads the public /find/ results page. GPS publishes no JSON search API, so results are parsed out of the rendered page; treat…

• get_gps_guide

  GPS's orientation file for AI clients (llms.txt) — READ THIS FIRST. Carries the things the data tools cannot: which figure to lead with when two are defensible, how to label budget figures, the exact date of the DOJ findings report, and the claims GPS has publicly…

• get_page

  Read any gps.press page as clean Markdown. Every page on the site has a Markdown twin at the same URL with `.md` appended; this fetches it. Accepts a full URL, a path, or a bare slug — '/vision2027/', 'vision2027', and the full https URL all work, with or without…

• list_intelligence

  List GPS intelligence briefings — per-facility and per-issue analyses. `kind` filters to 'facility' or 'issue'; `contains` filters on the slug. Read any of them in full with get_page(), e.g. get_page('intelligence/facility/dooly-state-prison'). Both kinds are…

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