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The GDC has its offices in Gibson Hall, located in the State Offices South at Tift College in Forsyth, Georgia. [1]Until 2009, the Georgia Department of Corrections headquarters was in the James H. "Sloppy" Floyd Veterans Memorial Building in Atlanta.
The Georgia Department of Corrections operates prisons, transitional centers, probation detention centers, and substance use disorder treatment facilities. In addition, state inmates are also housed at private and county correctional facilities.
An investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published two weeks ago uncovered more than 425 cases in which Georgia Department of Corrections employees have been arrested since 2018 for ...
The Georgia Department of Corrections was “extremely disappointed” to learn about the federal accusations about the system, spokesperson Joan Heath said. Correctional staffing, violence and ...
Metro State Prison, previously the Metro Correctional Institution, [1] is an American former Georgia Department of Corrections prison for women in unincorporated southern DeKalb County, Georgia, [2] near Atlanta. [1] [3] Female death row inmates (UDS, "under death sentence") were held in the Metro State Prison. [4] The prison had room for 779 ...
The Georgia Department of Corrections stopped reporting causes of death for people in its custody this spring, in response to requests from GPB and other media outlets.
Georgia State Prison was the main maximum-security facility in the US state of Georgia for the Georgia Department of Corrections. It was located in unincorporated Tattnall County . [ 1 ] First opened in 1938, the prison housed some of the most dangerous inmates in the state's history, and it was the site of Georgia's death row until 1980.
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".