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Metro State Prison, previously the Metro Correctional Institution, [1] is an American former Georgia Department of Corrections prison for women in unincorporated southern DeKalb County, Georgia, [2] near Atlanta. [1] [3] Female death row inmates (UDS, "under death sentence") were held in the Metro State Prison. [4] The prison had room for 779 ...
The area of DeKalb county was acquired by the state of Georgia as a result of the 1821 Treaty of Indian Springs with a faction of the Muscogee (Creek). DeKalb County, formed in 1822 from Henry, Gwinnett and Fayette counties, took its name from Baron Johann de Kalb (1721–1780), a Bavarian-born former officer in the French Army, who fought for the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary ...
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.
English: This is a locator map showing DeKalb County in Georgia. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006: Source:
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 Old Atlanta Prison Farm is an abandoned, city-owned prison complex in southwest DeKalb County in the U.S. state of Georgia. From approximately 1920 to 1990, the farm was worked by prisoners to produce food for the region's prison system. [1] [2] There are limited historical records detailing the operation of the farm, especially after 1965. [2]
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.
This map shows the incorporated and unincorporated areas in DeKalb County, Georgia, highlighting Decatur in red. It was created with a custom script with US Census Bureau data and modified with Inkscape. Date: 19 September 2007: Source: My own work, based on public domain information. Based on similar map concepts by Ixnayonthetimmay: Author ...