Georgia lawmakers approved legislation late Friday that would give innocent people who were convicted and sent to prison money for the time they spent behind bars, while also ...

Georgia legislators clocked out unusually early Friday night, leaving behind stacks of unfinished bills, many of them torn into pieces for the ceremonial throwing of confetti that marks the final ...

A revived attempt to fix Georgia’s inefficient system for compensating people wrongfully convicted of crimes almost died.

The bill passed with bipartisan support, despite potential implications for high-profile cases like those involving President ...

The Georgia Senate approved a bill Friday that allows criminal defendants to recoup their legal costs if the prosecuting ...

Georgia lawmakers passed a bill that would change how wrongfully convicted people are compensated. But that measure got ...