Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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.
The court ordered the Georgia Department of Corrections to carry out the execution on a date between November 19–26, 2015. Commissioner Homer Bryson has set the date for Thursday, November 19, at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson at 7 p.m. Johnson was convicted in 1998 for the murder of Angela Sizemore and executed ...
Georgia Department of Corrections 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 ]
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.
The Georgia Department of Corrections in a statement said it's investigating the deaths at Smith State Prison in rural southeast Georgia. The agency provided few immediate details, including how ...
Jimmy Autry State Prison is a state prison located in Mitchell County, near Pelham, Georgia. [1] It was constructed in 1992 and opened in 1993. Autry houses close security inmates who, due to their offense or behavior, would not be safe in the general prison population. Sex offender treatment is compulsory.
Rogers State Prison is a Georgia Department of Corrections state medium-security prison for men located in unincorporated Tattnall County, Georgia, [1] near Reidsville. [2] Currently, the operational capacity of the facility is 1391 inmates and its warden is Brian Chambers. [3]