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Hays State Prison is a Georgia Department of Corrections state prison for men located at 777 Underwood Drive in Trion, Chattooga County, Georgia. [1] The facility opened in 1990 and currently has a capacity of 1683 prisoners.
Hays State Prison: Trion: Close 1100 Adult males Helms Facility Atlanta: Special mission 67 Adult males & adult females Jimmy Autry State Prison: Pelham: Medium 1712 Adult males Johnson State Prison: Wrightsville: Medium 1612 Adult males Lee State Prison Leesburg: Medium 762 Adult males Long Unit: Ludowici: Medium 212 Adult males Macon State ...
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.
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A Georgia correctional officer is dead after officials say he was attacked by an inmate. Officer Robert Clark, 42, was working in his first year as a correctional officer at Smith State Prison in ...
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Transferred to the federal prison on Alcatraz Island in 1934 by Atlanta Correctional Officer James D. Stephens. Leader of the Chicago Outfit, which smuggled and bootlegged liquor during Prohibition in the 1920s; convicted of tax evasion in 1931. [5] [6] Vincent Papa: Unlisted* Murdered at USP Atlanta in 1977.
The agency's statement said inmate Jaydrekus Hart fatally shot a food service worker in the prison's kitchen at about 4:30 a.m. Sunday, then used the gun to kill himself.