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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.
Federal Correctional Institution, Atlanta; Location: Atlanta, Georgia: Coordinates: Status: Operational: Security class: Admin/Low/Minimum/High/Max [1] Low-security FCI with [3+] detention centre[s] (administrative, pre-trial and with additional detention center unit[s]), [2] and also a adjacent minimum security camp for males
Until 2009, the Georgia Department of Corrections headquarters was in the James H. "Sloppy" Floyd Veterans Memorial Building in Atlanta. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 2006, Governor Sonny Perdue announced that the agency planned to move its headquarters to Tift College by 2009.
The original Fulton County Jail was constructed in 1904 on Pryor Street in downtown Atlanta with a capacity of 400 people. [5] The current facility was built in 1989 at 901 Rice Street. [6] A former Fulton County jailer was remanded to prison himself in 2012 on charges of accepting bribes of more than $26,000 to distribute drugs inside the jail ...
Arthur Kill Correctional Facility: In use (2007) Staten Island, New York: Prison Secure DHS/ ICE 1 (2007) Atlanta Field Office (Atlanta District Holding Room) In use (2009) Atlanta, Georgia: Immigration office Secure DHS/ ICE: ICE 66 (2007) Atlanta Pretrial Detention Center: In use (2007) Atlanta, Georgia: Prison Secure DHS/ ICE
The former inmate says the rape of female inmates was “rampant, routine, and widespread” at Cherokee County Adult Detention Center, according to the federal lawsuit.
Charles D. Hudson Transitional Center is a Georgia Department of Corrections work release facility located in LaGrange, Georgia. Opened in 2003, the center houses 155 adult male offenders. Residents in the work release program are given the opportunity to obtain employment in the community and address reentry-related needs prior to release.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., with others, was arrested at an Atlanta sit-in on October 19, 1960. While the others were released, King was held regarding a previous traffic case and was transferred to the Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Georgia on October 22, where he was a prisoner until October 29; pressure from soon-to-be president John F. Kennedy, and the entire Kennedy family, saw King ...