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Baldwin State Prison: Hardwick: Close 981 Adult males Burruss Correctional Training Center: Forsyth: Medium 708 Adult & juvenile males Calhoun State Prison: Morgan: Medium 1639 Adult males Central State Prison: Macon: Medium 1153 Adult males Coastal State Prison: Garden City: Medium 1389 Adult males Dodge State Prison: Chester: Medium 1236 ...
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.
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.
Women under the sentence of death are housed at the Arrendale State Prison. [11] The site of execution was moved from the Georgia State Prison to GDCP in June 1980, and a new electric chair was installed in place of the previous one, which was moved to a display at the Georgia State Prison. On December 15, 1983, the first execution at GDCP ...
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 Baldwin County jury acquitted another prison guard. The state dropped charges against the other accused parties. [7] In 1992 Mary Esposito, a native of Waycross, Georgia and the first female warden of an all-male prison in Georgia, took over as the warden of Baldwin State; she had been transferred from the Burruss Correctional Training Center ...
A state investigation into a sprawling contraband scheme inside the prison resulted in the arrest and firing of the prison's warden, Brian Adams, in February 2023. He was charged with racketeering ...
Pages in category "Women's prisons in Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .