Morning, y’all! It’s me, Tyler. I wrote A.M. ATL for a couple years until our bosses decided we needed even more initials in the newsletter and hired A.J.

I now write The Win Column , a weekly sports funfest, which you should definitely check out. But in the meantime, I’m filling in here for a couple of days.

So let’s, uh … let’s get to it.

Last year was one of the deadliest ever inside Georgia prisons.

It’s still getting worse.

“We’re really just creating vast populations of people who are losing hope,” Atteeyah Hollie, deputy director of the Southern Center for Human Rights, told the AJC’s Chaya Tong . “They are being housed in unsafe places without people to protect them, and it just naturally breeds a level of death that we are seeing at this point.”

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