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The GDC has its offices in Gibson Hall, located in the State Offices South at Tift College in Forsyth, Georgia. [1]Until 2009, the Georgia Department of Corrections headquarters was in the James H. "Sloppy" Floyd Veterans Memorial Building in Atlanta.
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.
The Burruss Correctional Training Center is a medium security level prison located in Forsyth, Georgia in Monroe County. It opened in 1986, and consists of four buildings. The prison provides work and rehabilitation programs for general population inmates. The facility houses adult male felons and juveniles. It is named after Al Burruss.
Tift College was a private liberal arts women's college located in Forsyth, Georgia. Founded in 1849, the college ceased operations in 1987, after being merged with Mercer University in nearby Macon, Georgia. The campus facilities have been adapted for use as the headquarters of the Georgia Department of Corrections.
Following Reconstruction, the 12 years after the Civil War, Forsyth County was home to about 12,000 residents, including a relatively small but growing population of Black people, dozens of whom ...
In 1912, Forsyth County was home to about 12,000 residents, including 1,098 Black people scattered throughout the county. But that September, an 18-year-old white woman named Mae Crow was brutally ...
Forsyth City Hall. The Georgia Department of Corrections has moved into the former Tift College site in 2010. [24] [25] Burruss Correctional Training Center is located in Forsyth next to the Georgia Public Safety Training Center. [26] Forsyth's first African American mayor, John Howard, served from 2011 to 2015.
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