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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 prison holds the state execution chamber. The execution equipment was moved to the prison in June 1980, with the first execution in the facility occurring on December 15, 1983. The prison houses the male death row (UDS, "under death sentence"), while female death row inmates reside in Arrendale State Prison.
Ware State Prison is a Georgia Department of Corrections state prison for men located in Waycross, Ware County, Georgia. The facility first opened in 1990, and has a maximum capacity of 1546 inmates. History. In 2013, the prison was involved in a series of lawsuits related to an attack on an inmate.
April 18, 2024 at 11:09 AM. A Black inmate at a Georgia jail accused a corrections officer of choking him with a leg restraint and making a racist comment while three other officers watched ...
Georgia State Prison was the main maximum-security facility in the US state of Georgia for the Georgia Department of Corrections. It was located in unincorporated Tattnall County . [1] First opened in 1938, the prison housed some of the most dangerous inmates in the state's history, and it was the site of Georgia's death row until 1980.
June 1, 2024 at 7:00 PM. On any given night, about 16,500 people are held in Ohio's 89 jails and jailers book about 300,000 people each year - though some of them may be booked in multiple times ...
April 24, 2024 at 12:23 PM. SANDERSVILLE, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia prison guard shot and killed a prisoner she had helped escort to a hospital for treatment after he snatched another guard's pepper ...
To protect Georgians by operating secure facilities and providing opportunities for offender rehabilitation. The Georgia Department of Corrections ( GDC) is an agency of the U.S. state of Georgia operating state prisons. The agency is headquartered in Forsyth, on the former campus of Tift College .