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Valdosta State Prison is a Georgia Department of Corrections state prison for men located in Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia. [ 1 ] The facility first opened in 1959, and has a maximum capacity of 1312 inmates held at close security level.
Smith State Prison: Glennville: Close 1570 Adult males S.M.U. Special Management Unit at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison [1] Jackson: Special management unit 192 Adult males Telfair State Prison: Helena: Close 1410 Adult males Valdosta State Prison & Annex: Valdosta: Close 1184 Adult males Walker State Prison Rock Spring ...
Aug. 25—VALDOSTA — On Friday, Aug. 11, Sheila Grantham of Jesup talked by phone with her son, Kristopher Clayton Sweat, a 32-year-old inmate at Valdosta State Prison. He assured her he was all ...
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.
Sep. 25—VALDOSTA — Four former supervisory and deputy correctional officers at Valdosta State Prison in Valdosta were sentenced recently in federal court in the Middle District of Georgia for ...
May 2—VALDOSTA — Five Valdosta State Prison officers were among the 150 suspects arrested during a probe into a multi-state criminal operation involving contraband in Georgia prisons. All five ...
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. Despite a published capacity of 1,530, [2] the facility housed approximately 1,900 inmates, [3] with a wide range of security levels from Minimum to Close. The last warden was Trevonza Bobbitt.
Aug. 9—VALDOSTA — Two inmates were killed in suspected homicides in two consecutive days at Valdosta State Prison this summer, corrections authorities said this week. Lance Lumpkin died June ...