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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.
In 1990, Hill murdered another inmate with a nail-studded board at Lee State Prison in Leesburg, Georgia. Hill was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death by lethal injection for his second murder. [21] On January 27, 2015, Hill was executed by lethal injection at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Georgia.
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 ...
The Baldwin State Prison, previously the Baldwin Correctional Institution and the Georgia Women's Correctional Institution (GWCI), is a prison located in Milledgeville, Georgia, United States, [1] with a Hardwick postal address. [2] The prison has a capacity of 900. [3]
Riverbend Correctional Facility (RBCF) is a privately operated, medium-security prison for men, owned and operated by the GEO Group under contract with the Georgia Department of Corrections. The facility was built in 2011 in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia. [1] The maximum capacity of the prison is 1588 inmates. [2]
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.
The 2010 Georgia prison strike was a prison strike involving prisoners at 7 prisons in the U.S. state of Georgia. The strike, organized by the prisoners using contraband cell phones , began on December 9 and ended on December 15.