Georgia prison homicides on the rise, already approaching last year's total

Homicides in Georgia prisons at the six month mark this year are outpacing last year, which was one of the deadliest years on record.

In just the first six months of this year, the Georgia Department of Corrections is investigating 42 deaths as possible homicides — already nearly two-thirds of the 66 suspected prison homicides the agency investigated in all of last year.

In June alone, nine incarcerated people, including Dominique Cole, were killed in Georgia prisons.

Two months before he would have walked free, Cole was killed by another prisoner at Wilcox State Prison, the warden told Cole’s sister, Jessica Nicholson. Someone would call her with more details, the warden promised.

The call never came.

Cole had been serving time for over two years for probation violation.

The Georg