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Name Year closed Bostick State Prison: 2010 Georgia State Prison: 2022 Homerville State Prison 2009 Men's State Prison: 2011 Metro State Prison: 2011 Milan State Prison 2008 Rivers State Prison 2008 Scott State Prison 2009 Thomas County Prison 2017 Troup County Correctional Institution 2017 Wayne State Prison 2008
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.
Women under the sentence of death are housed at the Arrendale State Prison. [11] The site of execution was moved from the Georgia State Prison to GDCP in June 1980, and a new electric chair was installed in place of the previous one, which was moved to a display at the Georgia State Prison. On December 15, 1983, the first execution at GDCP ...
Lee Arrendale State Prison of the Georgia Department of Corrections is a women's prison located in Raoul, [1] unincorporated Habersham County, Georgia, near Alto, [2] and in proximity to Gainesville. [3] It houses the state death row for women. [4] It became exclusively a women's prison in early 2005.
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.
Georgia prisons remain understaffed and overwhelmed by violence and deaths, according to statistics presented to state lawmakers Wednesday. A total of 981 people have died in Georgia prisons since ...
May 2—VALDOSTA — Five Valdosta State Prison officers were among the 150 suspects arrested during a probe into a multi-state criminal operation involving contraband in Georgia prisons.
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