Carrie Teegardin

Carrie Teegardin

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Carrie Teegardin is a reporter and part of the investigative team at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She is a graduate of Duke University and has won numerous national journalism awards. She was a lead reporter on the AJC's award-winning Unprotected series, which prompted Georgia to reform its requirements for senior care homes in 2020. She was a lead reporter on the AJC's Doctors & Sex Abuse national investigation, which was a Pulitzer finalist. She was a lead reporter on the AJC's Borrower Beware series, which won a Gerald Loeb award in 2006. She has written extensively about health care, unfair business practices and the criminal justice system.

Carrie Teegardin staff image

Carrie Teegardin is a reporter and part of the investigative team at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She is a graduate of Duke University and has won numerous national journalism awards. She was a lead reporter on the AJC's award-winning Unprotected series, which prompted Georgia to reform its requirements for senior care homes in 2020. She was a lead reporter on the AJC's Doctors & Sex Abuse national investigation, which was a Pulitzer finalist. She was a lead reporter on the AJC's Borrower Beware series, which won a Gerald Loeb award in 2006. She has written extensively about health care, unfair business practices and the criminal justice system.

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More than $600M to overhaul a prison system in crisis. But it’s just the start

State budget includes money to fix state prison system suffering from violence, massive understaffing and security lapses.

Georgia State Prison Cemetery

Georgia prison homicides soar as lawmakers focus on fixes

January is off to a bloody start in Georgia prisons after setting a new record for homicides last year.

Health care provider bankruptcy may stick rural Georgia with state prisoners’ medical bills

Health care provider bankruptcy may stick rural Georgia with state prisoners’ medical bills

Public ambulance services and hospitals are owed $75 million from the now-bankrupt Wellpath. Some want the state to reimburse them.

Prison project photos

Two found dead after gang violence at Hancock State Prison

Two prisoners are dead in the latest outburst of violence at a Georgia state prison.

Consultants detail depth of Georgia prison crisis; no easy fixes ahead

Recommendations to upgrade facilities and to address staffing shortages will need more spending than Gov. Kemp proposes.

Prison project - Telfair State Prison

Georgia man accused of running con from behind bars

Georgia man accused of running con from behind bars, stealing millions from people whose loved ones were incarcerated

Georgia prison system engages in public deception as crisis mounts inside

Lawmakers, Kemp acknowledge prison crisis, consider millions in fixes

Gov. Brian Kemp acknowledges crisis at Georgia Dept. of Corrections and proposes plan to hire more security officers and fix facilities.

Study committee studying prison system meets in August

Prison reforms get Senate committee backing

Panel recommends higher officer salaries, more capacity and security, and greater mental health services, but stops short of independent oversight.

Georgia Prisons Special Management Unit

Georgia prison system engages in deception as crisis builds

Response to a 2019 prison lawsuit settlement exposes how Georgia Department of Corrections officials block potentially damaging information and present falsified documents.

Ware State Prison

Georgia prisons: A look back at the AJC’s investigation of corruption, dysfunction, criminal rings and violence

Key details from a year-plus investigation of Georgia prisons by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that revealed corruption and negligence within the Department of Corrections.