Gov. Brian Kemp's plans for 2025 include hiring hundreds of new correctional officers and launching an extensive renovation program of Georgia's prisons.

Legislators are seeking solutions to a wide range of problems plaguing prisons that have sparked a federal investigation. Among them: a sharp increase in prisoner deaths; high rates of employee turnover and arrests for criminal activity;

What happens at the Georgia state capitol in the coming months will have a lot to do with what happens in Georgia’s state prisons for years to come.