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The Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, commonly known as Cop City, is a police and fire department training campus under construction in the South River Forest area of DeKalb County near Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Much of the land included in the plans was formerly part of the Old Atlanta Prison Farm, which was abandoned in 1995.
Opened. 1902. Managed by. Federal Bureau of Prisons. 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.
January 12, 2010. (2010-01-12) –. July 15, 2016. (2016-07-15) I (Almost) Got Away with It is an American television documentary series on Investigation Discovery. It debuted in 2010, [1][2] ending after eight seasons, in 2016. The series profiles true stories of people who have committed crimes, and have avoided arrest or capture, but ...
A prison farm (also known as a penal farm) is a large correctional facility where penal labor convicts are forced to work — legally or illegally — on a farm (in the wide sense of a productive unit), usually for manual labor, largely in the open air, such as in agriculture, logging, quarrying, and mining. In the United States, such forced ...
Dekalb County was created in 1822, from portions of Henry, Fayette, and Gwinnett Counties, and Decatur was created as its county seat the following year. [5] As part of the land lottery, Archibald Holland received a grant for District 14, Land Lot 82: an area of 202.5 acres near the present-day Coca-Cola headquarters.
State (s) Georgia. Sidney Dorsey (born February 23, 1940) is an American former law enforcement officer who served as sheriff of DeKalb County, Georgia from 1996 to 2000. Dorsey was the first African American to serve as sheriff of DeKalb County. When Dorsey lost a 2000 runoff election to challenger Derwin Brown, he arranged Brown's murder.
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 new state-of-the-art, 515-bed, disciplinary barrack, which cost $67.8 million ($110 million in 2023 dollars), became operational in September 2002. It was built about a mile north of the original USDB at Fort Leavenworth. The new 51 acres (210,000 m2) site is enclosed by two separate 14-foot (4.3 m) high fences.