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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.
Jimmy Autry State Prison: Pelham: Medium 1712 Adult males Johnson State Prison: Wrightsville: Medium 1612 Adult males Lee State Prison Leesburg: Medium 762 Adult males Long Unit: Ludowici: Medium 212 Adult males Macon State Prison: Oglethorpe: Close 1762 Adult males Montgomery State Prison Mount Vernon: Medium 418 Adult males Phillips State ...
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.
A Georgia prison guard died Sunday after he was attacked by an inmate, state officials said. Correctional officer Robert Clark, 42, died at a hospital after an inmate assaulted him with a homemade ...
An incarcerated man who shot and killed a 24-year-old woman working in the prison’s kitchen before turning ... early Sunday morning in the kitchen of Smith State Prison in rural southeast Georgia.
“Our goal is to give every person in the program the tools and support needed to land a good job,” said Joe Argo, who will manage the initiative for the state labor department.
In 1990, Hill murdered another inmate with a nail-studded board at Lee State Prison in Leesburg, Georgia. Hill was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death by lethal injection for his second murder. [21] On January 27, 2015, Hill was executed by lethal injection at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Georgia.
In 2011 the State of Georgia closed the prison. The women were moved to Lee Arrendale State Prison and Pulaski State Prison. Georgia DOC officials declined to state when the agency began moving the prisoners or when the move had been completed, citing security concerns. The inmates and employees had been cleared out of the prison by April 30, 2011.