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Rutledge State Prison Columbus: Medium 640 Adult males Smith State Prison: Glennville: Close 1570 Adult males S.M.U. Special Management Unit at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison [1] Jackson: Special management unit 192 Adult males Telfair State Prison: Helena: Close 1410 Adult males Valdosta State Prison & Annex: Valdosta ...
Hancock State Prison is a Georgia Department of Corrections state prison for men located in Hancock County, Georgia. [2] The facility opened in 1991 and currently has a capacity of 1191 prisoners. In 2010, Hancock state prison participated in the 2010 Georgia prison strike using contraband cell phones. The goal was to improve safety in Georgia ...
The Fulton County Jail, also referred to as Rice Street, [1] is a prison in Atlanta, Georgia. It was built to hold up to 1,125 prisoners in 1989 but now houses over 3,000. [2] The US Department of Justice found in 2024 that conditions in the jail were unconstitutionally "inhumane, violent and hazardous". [3]
The State of Georgia passed a rewritten death penalty law in 1973. In 1976 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Georgia death penalty was constitutional. [19] In June 1980 the site of execution was moved to GDCP, and a new electric chair was installed in place of the original one. The original chair was put on display at the Georgia State Prison.
The Burruss Correctional Training Center is a medium security level prison located in Forsyth, Georgia in Monroe County. It opened in 1986, and consists of four buildings. The prison provides work and rehabilitation programs for general population inmates. The facility houses adult male felons and juveniles. It is named after Al Burruss.
The Federal Correctional Institution, Jesup (FCI Jesup) is a medium-security United States federal prison housing male inmates in Jesup, Georgia. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a United States Department of Justice division. It has two adjacent satellite facilities: a low-security facility and a minimum-security prison camp ...
Pulaski State Prison (PSP) is a Georgia Department of Corrections prison for women located in Hawkinsville, Georgia. It has thirteen buildings with forty eight double bunk rooms. It has thirteen buildings with forty eight double bunk rooms.
Wheeler Correctional Facility is a medium-security prison for men, owned and operated by CoreCivic under contract with the Georgia Department of Corrections. It was built in 1998 in Alamo, Wheeler County, Georgia, [2] with a maximum capacity of 2874 inmates. [3]