Anthony A. Alaimo, the senior judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia whose rulings led to sweeping prison reforms in Georgia, died Wednesday in Brunswick at age 89.

“He was the greatest judge from that greatest generation, and we just won’t see someone like him forever,” said U.S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood, a former Alaimo law clerk who now sits in his old chambers in Brunswick.

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