# Georgia Prisoners' Speak Public Data (remote · data.gps.press)

Read-only public data on Georgia's prisons: population, facilities, deaths, contraband, statutes.

- Trust score: 79/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +2
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-03

## Components

- remote · `data.gps.press`: 79/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/press-gps-gps-public-data/data.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/press-gps-gps-public-data/data)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://data.gps.press/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-10-03.

- **Endpoint Security**: 74/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 66/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 3263 tokens (~148/item across 22 items; 22 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 90/100
  - Stability observed for 27 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 67/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 0% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 22 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 23 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the Georgia Prisoners' Speak Public Data MCP server?

Georgia Prisoners' Speak Public Data is a hosted endpoint at https://data.gps.press/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http press-gps-gps-public-data 'https://data.gps.press/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "press-gps-gps-public-data": {
      "url": "https://data.gps.press/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "press-gps-gps-public-data": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://data.gps.press/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.press-gps-gps-public-data]
url = "https://data.gps.press/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "press-gps-gps-public-data": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://data.gps.press/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add press-gps-gps-public-data --url 'https://data.gps.press/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  press-gps-gps-public-data:
    url: "https://data.gps.press/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "press-gps-gps-public-data": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://data.gps.press/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add press-gps-gps-public-data -t streamable-http -u 'https://data.gps.press/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "press-gps-gps-public-data": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://data.gps.press/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-10-02 (score 79, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 83 to 87. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 25 days of observed history at the previous scan, 26 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-30 (score 78, 0)

- [security] Tool “get_contraband_incidents” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “get_historical_series” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “get_length_of_stay” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “get_parole_statistics” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “list_facilities” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “list_intelligence” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 133 → 148
- [cosmetic] “get_historical_series” added an optional parameter “limit”
- [cosmetic] “get_historical_series” added an optional parameter “offset”
- [cosmetic] “get_length_of_stay” added an optional parameter “limit”
- [cosmetic] “get_length_of_stay” added an optional parameter “offset”
- [cosmetic] “get_parole_statistics” added an optional parameter “from_year”
- [cosmetic] “get_parole_statistics” added an optional parameter “limit”
- [cosmetic] “get_parole_statistics” added an optional parameter “metric”
- [cosmetic] “get_parole_statistics” added an optional parameter “offset”
- [cosmetic] “get_parole_statistics” added an optional parameter “to_year”
- [cosmetic] “list_facilities” added an optional parameter “limit”
- [cosmetic] “list_facilities” added an optional parameter “offset”

### 2026-09-29 (score 78, 0)

- [functional regression] Schema quality: 2426 → 2942
- [functional] Schema quality: excellent → good
- [functional] New tool “get_historical_events”
- [functional] New tool “get_historical_series”
- [functional] New tool “list_historical_series”
- [functional] New tool “search_historical_data”

### 2026-09-28 (score 78, 0)

- [functional] We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server

### 2026-09-27 (score 78, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 67 to 70. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 20 days of observed history at the previous scan, 21 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-25 (score 77, +1)

- [functional] We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server

### 2026-09-24 (score 76, 0)

- [security] Tool “get_contraband_incidents” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads

### 2026-09-23 (score 76, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 53 to 57. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 16 days of observed history at the previous scan, 17 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

## MCP tools (22)

### `get_population_snapshot` (~79 tokens)

Get population snapshot

Latest GDC population snapshot (the weekly 'Friday report'):
    `total_in_gdc_custody` (every GDC bed type, including probation detention
    centers and RSAT), the jail backlog, and the facility-type components.

    The total is the ONLY population figure; the components are parts of it,
    not alternative totals.

### `get_system_statistics` (~46 tokens)

Get system statistics

Headline statistics for the Georgia prison system: population,
    mortality, demographics, facility counts, releases and health measures,
    with the update date and data source GPS assembled them from.

### `list_facilities` (~153 tokens)

List facilities

List Georgia prison facilities with location, operator, security level,
    capacity, population, warden and latest food-safety score.

    Optional filters are applied to the public list after it is fetched:
    facility_type (e.g. 'State Prison', 'Transitional Center', 'County
    Prison'), county, name_contains, and active_only. Responses are paged:
    `limit` (default 25) and `offset`; `next_offset` says where the rest begins.

Input parameters:

- `active_only` (boolean)
- `county` (string)
- `facility_type` (string)
- `limit` (integer)
- `name_contains` (string)
- `offset` (integer)

### `get_facility_staff_roster` (~255 tokens)

Get facility staff roster

Staff headcount and list for one GDC facility, from a GDC-produced roster.

    Answers "how many staff work at X", "how many officers work there", "list the
    staff at X". `slug` is the facility slug, e.g. 'dooly-state-prison' (use
    list_facilities to find it).

    `title` optionally filters by job title. GDC abbreviates heavily: correctional
    officers appear as "Correctional Ofc", clerical staff as "Admin Support" or
    "Admin Assistant". Try both the plain word and the abbreviation.

    ALWAYS report the `observed` date alongside any figure from this tool. A roster
    is a single-day observation, not a statement about who works there today.

    A zero for a role is a finding about the roster rather than missing data: the
    roster holds no nursing, physician or dental titles anywhere in GDC, which is
    consistent with medical staffing being contracted rather than directly employed.
    Do not assert that reason as established fact.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)
- `slug` (string, required)
- `title` (string)

### `get_facility` (~69 tokens)

Get facility

One facility's full public record plus its most recent state health
    inspection, if GPS has one.

    `slug` is the facility's gps.press slug, e.g. 'macon-state-prison'. Use
    list_facilities to find it.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required)

### `get_parole_statistics` (~149 tokens)

Get parole statistics

Georgia parole decisions by year — the series GPS assembled from the
    State Board of Pardons and Paroles' own annual reports, with the metric
    definitions and the instruments note that says how they were built.

    `metric` (exact name from the `metrics` list, e.g. 'cases_considered'),
    `from_year` / `to_year` (fiscal years) filter the series. Paged: `limit`
    (default 100 rows) and `offset`.

Input parameters:

- `from_year` (integer)
- `limit` (integer)
- `metric` (string)
- `offset` (integer)
- `to_year` (integer)

### `get_ocga_section` (~83 tokens)

Get ocga section

Full text of a section of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated from
    GPS's public mirror.

    `section` is the bare citation without the 'O.C.G.A. §' prefix, e.g.
    '9-14-42', '42-5-2', '17-9-4'.

Input parameters:

- `section` (string, required)

### `get_mortality_data` (~179 tokens)

Get mortality data

Deaths in GDC custody since 2020 — yearly and monthly counts, cause-of-
    death breakdown, deaths by facility, facility type, security level and age.

    With no arguments this returns the whole published document plus a list of
    its sections. `section` returns one section by name (e.g. 'YEARLY
    STATISTICS', 'DEATHS BY FACILITY'); `year` filters the yearly and monthly
    lines to that year; `facility_contains` filters the by-facility ranking AND returns that facility's cause-of-death breakdown.
    Filters are matched against the published lines, which is why the matching
    lines are returned verbatim rather than re-tabulated.

Input parameters:

- `facility_contains` (string)
- `section` (string)
- `year` (string)

### `get_settlements_data` (~45 tokens)

Get settlements data

What Georgia has paid to settle prison death and injury claims — the
    'What Georgia Pays' analysis of state settlement records, returned as the
    published markdown.

### `get_contraband_incidents` (~317 tokens)

Get contraband incidents

Incidents from GDC's own published contraband arrest reports (2010-present, ~1,600 incidents,
    including reports that survive only in the Internet Archive; page: gps.press/contraband-data/):
    one row per incident with GDC's wording verbatim, the people as GDC categorised them
    (staff / officer / contract staff / visitor / civilian), the items, whether an arrest was
    reported, and the GDC source URL. Filters: facility slug (e.g. dooly-state-prison), year,
    actor_category (staff | visitor | civilian | officer | gdc_staff | contract_staff),
    item_category (cellphone, tobacco, marijuana, methamphetamine, ...), arrest_made (yes|no|unstated),
    q (text match). Structured rows name staff, officers and contract staff as GDC printed them; other people appear by category and role only. The narrative is GDC's own text.
    Rows are long (a few thousand characters each): per_page defaults to 5 and is capped at 20;
    use `page` to continue and the filters to narrow. `total` is the number of matches.

Input parameters:

- `actor_category` (string)
- `arrest_made` (string)
- `facility` (string)
- `item_category` (string)
- `page` (integer)
- `per_page` (integer)
- `q` (string)
- `year` (integer)

### `get_contraband_summary` (~109 tokens)

Get contraband summary

Summaries of GDC's published contraband arrest reports. `by` = year | facility |
    actor-category | role | item-category | stats. Optional facility slug / year filters (not for
    stats). Counts arrests as GDC reported them; GDC's own running tally is not used because it is
    not a consistent series across copies of the same report.

Input parameters:

- `by` (string)
- `facility` (string)
- `year` (integer)

### `list_historical_series` (~159 tokens)

List historical series

GPS Historical Data (page: gps.press/historical-data/): the catalog of yearly series on Georgia's
    prisons, 1925-present. Each series is ONE publisher's measure (GDC and Board of Corrections annual
    reports, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, DOJ, the AJC, UCLA
    Law Behind Bars, the GPS mortality registry) with its definition, coverage and caveats. Topics:
    deaths, homicides, suicides, violence, use_of_force, weapons, parole, time_served, lifers, population,
    capacity, budget, escapes, staffing. Never splice two publishers' series into one trend.

Input parameters:

- `topic` (string)

### `get_historical_series` (~211 tokens)

Get historical series

One GPS Historical Data series by year: every value with the source's own label, the source
    (publisher, title, page, URL) and the exact quote it was checked against, plus the series'
    definition BREAKS (never read one trend across a break). Get slugs from list_historical_series,
    e.g. deaths-bjs-state-prisons, homicides-gdc-via-doj, los-pct-released-on-parole-gdc,
    population-yearend-gdc-series, deaths-gps-registry (live). CSV: add ?format=csv to the REST URL.
    Values are paged (`limit` default 25, `offset`); narrow with from_year/to_year/category/subgroup.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string)
- `from_year` (integer)
- `limit` (integer)
- `offset` (integer)
- `slug` (string, required)
- `subgroup` (string)
- `to_year` (integer)

### `search_historical_data` (~56 tokens)

Search historical data

Find GPS Historical Data series and dated rule changes by words, e.g. "homicide", "parole",
    "life", "AIDS", "population", "90%".

Input parameters:

- `q` (string, required)

### `get_historical_events` (~130 tokens)

Get historical events

Dated changes to Georgia parole and sentencing rules and the court rulings on them, 1908-present
    (the 1979 guidelines grid, the 1994-95 Sentence Reform Act, the 1998 90% policy, the 2005 Fulton
    order voiding it, the 2006 and 2008 changes, HB 1176 in 2012), each with its source and quote.
    topic = parole | sentencing | court.

Input parameters:

- `from_year` (integer)
- `to_year` (integer)
- `topic` (string)

### `search_quotes` (~128 tokens)

Search quotes

Search GPS's published quote collection — statements from incarcerated
    people, families, officials and staff that GPS has already published.

    `attribution_type` is 'named' or 'anonymous'. `category` is one of the
    published categories (call with no arguments and read the results, or see
    gps.press). Paginated: page starts at 1, per_page caps at 100.

Input parameters:

- `attribution_type` (string)
- `category` (string)
- `page` (integer)
- `per_page` (integer)
- `search` (string)

### `get_length_of_stay` (~218 tokens)

Get length of stay

How long people actually serve in Georgia, by offense and year: average
    sentence, years served, percentage of sentence served, share released on
    parole, and the lifer figures — plus the trend summary.

    `offense` is a case-insensitive substring of GDC's offense name (e.g. 'murder',
    'burglary', 'drug'; also the four-digit offense code). With no `offense` the
    all-crimes series is returned. `year` is the calendar year of release (e.g.
    '2023'). Both filter on this server. Rows are newest year first and paged:
    `limit` (default 30) and `offset`; `matched_offenses` lists what `offense`
    matched. `summary_only` returns just the summary block.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)
- `offense` (string)
- `offset` (integer)
- `summary_only` (boolean)
- `year` (string)

### `get_drug_admissions` (~38 tokens)

Get drug admissions

Admissions to Georgia prisons on drug offenses for the latest published
    report year, broken down by sex, age band and related measures.

### `search_site` (~99 tokens)

Search site

Search gps.press — articles, data pages, research library topics and
    facility pages — and get back ranked titles, URLs and summaries.

    This reads the public /find/ results page. GPS publishes no JSON search
    API, so results are parsed out of the rendered page; treat the ranking as
    the site's own and follow each result's URL before citing it.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)
- `query` (string, required)

### `get_gps_guide` (~109 tokens)

Get gps guide

GPS's orientation file for AI clients (llms.txt) — READ THIS FIRST.

    Carries the things the data tools cannot: which figure to lead with when two are
    defensible, how to label budget figures, the exact date of the DOJ findings report,
    and the claims GPS has publicly corrected and will not repeat. Roughly 2,000 words.

    The datasets give you accurate numbers. This is what keeps the sentence around the
    number accurate too.

### `get_page` (~176 tokens)

Get page

Read any gps.press page as clean Markdown.

    Every page on the site has a Markdown twin at the same URL with `.md` appended;
    this fetches it. Accepts a full URL, a path, or a bare slug — '/vision2027/',
    'vision2027', and the full https URL all work, with or without '.md'.

    Covers articles, data pages, campaign pages and the intelligence briefings
    (intelligence/facility/{slug}, intelligence/issue/{slug}).

    Long pages are truncated; use `offset` and `limit` to page through one. Pair with
    search_site() to find a page, then read it here rather than guessing its contents.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)
- `offset` (integer)
- `path` (string, required)

### `list_intelligence` (~124 tokens)

List intelligence

List GPS intelligence briefings — per-facility and per-issue analyses.

    `kind` filters to 'facility' or 'issue'; `contains` filters on the slug.
    Read any of them in full with get_page(), e.g.
    get_page('intelligence/facility/dooly-state-prison').

    Both kinds are discovered from GPS's public intelligence index pages; if the issue
    hub cannot be read, `issues_note` says so in the payload.

Input parameters:

- `contains` (string)
- `kind` (string)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/press-gps-gps-public-data/data#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-03: 79
- 2026-10-02: 79
- 2026-10-01: 78
- 2026-09-30: 78
- 2026-09-29: 78
- 2026-09-28: 78
- 2026-09-27: 78
- 2026-09-26: 77
- 2026-09-25: 77
- 2026-09-24: 76
- 2026-09-23: 76
- 2026-09-22: 75
- 2026-09-21: 75
- 2026-09-20: 75
- 2026-09-19: 74
- 2026-09-18: 74
- 2026-09-17: 73
- 2026-09-16: 73
- 2026-09-15: 72
- 2026-09-14: 72
- 2026-09-13: 71
- 2026-09-12: 71
- 2026-09-11: 70
- 2026-09-10: 70
- 2026-09-09: 69
- 2026-09-08: 69
- 2026-09-07: 68
- 2026-09-06: 68

## Common questions

### What is the Georgia Prisoners' Speak Public Data MCP server?

Georgia Prisoners' Speak Public Data is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as press.gps/gps-public-data. Read-only public data on Georgia's prisons: population, facilities, deaths, contraband, statutes. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://data.gps.press/mcp).

### Is the Georgia Prisoners' Speak Public Data MCP server safe to use?

Georgia Prisoners' Speak Public Data scores 79 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Georgia Prisoners' Speak Public Data MCP server expose?

Georgia Prisoners' Speak Public Data exposes 22 tools: get_population_snapshot, get_system_statistics, list_facilities, get_facility_staff_roster, get_facility, and 17 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 2,932 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Georgia Prisoners' Speak Public Data MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Georgia Prisoners' Speak Public Data without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the Georgia Prisoners' Speak Public Data MCP server still maintained?

Georgia Prisoners' Speak Public Data is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 3 October 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://data.gps.press/mcp
- Website: https://gps.press/how-to-use-gps-data-with-ai-tools/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/press-gps-gps-public-data/data.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/press-gps-gps-public-data/data.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/press-gps-gps-public-data/data