The Georgia Department of Corrections wants to charge the Chattanooga Times Free Press for records related to Hays State Prison in Pennville. 

The newspaper reported the DOC is seeking $16,772 in an editorial that ran on Sunday. The newspaper has been reporting on four inmate deaths there in six weeks.

The editorial states, "our readers — who are taxpayers and voters — deserve to know what went wrong at Hays State….on a larger scale, the public has the right to know how its government is functioning — or not.