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Federal Penitentiary Atlanta 1920 postcard. The Federal Correctional Institution, Atlanta (FCI Atlanta) is a low-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Atlanta, Georgia. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice.
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.
Until 2009, the Georgia Department of Corrections headquarters was in the James H. "Sloppy" Floyd Veterans Memorial Building in Atlanta. [2] [3] In 2006, Governor Sonny Perdue announced that the agency planned to move its headquarters to Tift College by 2009. [4] [5] The state estimated that the relocation would bring around 400 jobs to Forsyth ...
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 ...
At USP Atlanta from 1910 to 1920 and from 1936 to 1946. Founder of the Morello crime family in New York City, convicted of counterfeiting in 1910; returned to prison in 1936 for racketeering; suspect in numerous Mafia-related murders. [2] [3] Jimmy Burke: Unlisted* Released from custody in 1978 after serving 6 years.
Authorities are searching for a gunman who fatally shot an officer early Tuesday morning outside the suburban Atlanta correctional facility where he worked, officials said.
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]
At least 360 employees of Georgia's state prison system have been arrested on accusations of smuggling contraband into prisons since 2018, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, with 25 more ...