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Coastal State Prison: Garden City: Medium 1389 Adult males Dodge State Prison: Chester: Medium 1236 Adult males Dooly State Prison: Unadilla: Medium 1702 Adult males Emanuel Women's Facility Swainsboro: Medium 415 Adult females Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison [1] Jackson: Special mission 2487 Adult males Hancock State Prison ...
The Fulton County Jail, also referred to as Rice Street, [1] is a prison in Atlanta, Georgia. It was built to hold up to 1,125 prisoners in 1989 but now houses over 3,000. [ 2 ] The US Department of Justice found in 2024 that conditions in the jail were unconstitutionally "inhumane, violent and hazardous".
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the U.S. state of Georgia.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 628 law enforcement agencies employing 26,551 sworn police officers, about 274 for each 100,000 residents.
Fulton County, Georgia, and its sheriff's office violated the constitutional rights of people housed at the county jail, according to a new report released by the Justice Department on Thursday.
The sheriff’s office reported more than 1,000 assaults and 300 stabbings in the jail in 2023, a higher rate of stabbings than New York City jails and more than 27 times the rate of incidents ...
The Justice Department has found that egregious conditions at Georgia’s Fulton County Jail — including pest infestation, malnourishment, a lack of adequate medical care and rampant violence ...
The prison cemetery has 971 burials which are inmates who died while serving time from 1937 to present. Another large government parcel of land is the 10,000 acre Big Hammock Wildlife Management Preserve in the southwest section of the county. The entrance is 12 miles south of Glennville on Hwy 144 at the Ohoopee River Bridge.
During the American Civil War (1861–65), the small village named Andersonville, 9 mi (14 km) north of Americus on the county's northern edge, was selected by Confederate authorities as the site for a prisoner-of-war camp. The Andersonville prison was built in neighboring Macon County, and became the largest such prison in the South. During ...