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Hancock State Prison is a Georgia Department of Corrections state prison for men located in Hancock County, Georgia. [2] The facility opened in 1991 and currently has a capacity of 1191 prisoners. In 2010, Hancock state prison participated in the 2010 Georgia prison strike using contraband cell phones.
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 ...
High Desert State Prison (HDSP) is a high-security state prison that houses level IV inmates located in Leavitt in Lassen County, California. [2] [3] Opened in 1995, it has a capacity of 2,324 persons. As of July 31, 2022, High Desert was incarcerating people at 78.4% of its design capacity, with 1,823 occupants. [4]
It is one of three prisons in the county; the other two are state prisons located in the county seat of Susanville. In 2007 half the adults in Susanville worked in one of the three facilities; together the three prisons hold approximately 11,000 inmates. [2] Prisons are the major employers in the area since the timber industry declined.
The town of Susanville — where local officials say they face economic devastation if they lose more than 1,000 prison jobs — sued the state last year, and a Lassen County judge issued a ...
Hancock County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 17,620. [1] Its county seat is Carthage, [2] and its largest city is Hamilton. The county is composed of rural towns with many farmers. Hancock County is part of the Fort Madison-Keokuk, IA-IL-MO Micropolitan Statistical Area.
The Legislative Analyst’s Office has recommended closing a total of five state prisons by 2025, and that doing so would save the state $1.5 billion per year. Prison employees in Susanville who ...
Lassen County has a concentration of prisons, which employ half of the adult population of Susanville. [6] The state facilities prisons were severely overcrowded until 2012, when legislation was passed requiring reduction in prison populations. Many facilities are still above design capacity, increasing risk to correction officers and inmates.