Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
To protect Georgians by operating secure facilities and providing opportunities for offender rehabilitation. The Georgia Department of Corrections ( GDC) is an agency of the U.S. state of Georgia operating state prisons. The agency is headquartered in Forsyth, on the former campus of Tift College .
The United States Penitentiary, Atlanta ( USP 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 facility also has a detention center for pretrial and holdover inmates, and a satellite prison ...
Metro State Prison, previously the Metro Correctional Institution, [1] is a 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 prisoners.
Opened in 1969, [3] Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison ( GDCP) is a Georgia Department of Corrections prison for men in unincorporated Butts County, Georgia, [4] near Jackson. [5] The prison holds the state execution chamber. The execution equipment was moved to the prison in June 1980, with the first execution in the facility ...
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.
Washington State Prison. Wheeler Correctional Facility. Wilcox State Prison. Categories: Prisons in the United States by state. Government buildings in Georgia (U.S. state) Government of Georgia (U.S. state) Penal system in Georgia (U.S. state) Hidden category:
918. Opened. 1990. Managed by. Georgia Department of Corrections. Phillips State Prison is a Georgia Department of Corrections state medium-security prison for men located in Buford, Gwinnett County, Georgia. [1] Current capacity of the facility is 918 inmates.