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Macon State Prison is located in Macon County, southwest of Oglethorpe, Georgia on approximately 300 acres (1.2 km 2). It was constructed in 1993 and opened in 1994. It is a close security prison, meaning it is a very high security prison. The prison houses inmates deemed the highest potential security risks by the Department of Corrections. [1]
Jimmy Autry State Prison: Pelham: Medium 1712 Adult males Johnson State Prison: Wrightsville: Medium 1612 Adult males Lee State Prison Leesburg: Medium 762 Adult males Long Unit: Ludowici: Medium 212 Adult males Macon State Prison: Oglethorpe: Close 1762 Adult males Montgomery State Prison Mount Vernon: Medium 418 Adult males Phillips State ...
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 occurring on December 15, 1983. [6] The prison houses the male death row (UDS, "under death sentence"), [7] while female death row inmates reside in Arrendale State Prison. [8]
Four guards at the Central State Prison in Macon were arrested last week on charges of violating their oath as public officers and providing false statements, according to the Bibb County Sheriff ...
For example, 25% of the high school equivalency diplomas awarded in Georgia every year go to state prison inmates, said Jay Sanders, the department’s assistant commissioner of inmate services.
A federal court jury in Macon ruled Monday in favor of the defendant in a lawsuit filed by a state prison inmate who claimed a corrections officer beat him.
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 inmate at Macon State Prison was later convicted in a prison drug-smuggling case of brokering a deal for a kilo of meth. Inmate on social media tried smuggling drugs into GA prison disguised ...