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The Baldwin State Prison, previously the Baldwin Correctional Institution and the Georgia Women's Correctional Institution (GWCI), is a prison located in Milledgeville, Georgia, United States, [1] with a Hardwick postal address. [2] The prison has a capacity of 900. [3]
Hardwick is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Baldwin County, Georgia, United States. The population was 3,513 at the 2020 census, [2] down from 5,135 in 2000, at which time it was listed as Midway-Hardwick. It is laid out around Central State Hospital. It is part of the Milledgeville Micropolitan Statistical Area ...
Baldwin State Prison: Hardwick: Close 981 Adult males Burruss Correctional Training Center: Forsyth: Medium 708 Adult & juvenile males Calhoun State Prison: Morgan: Medium 1639 Adult males Central State Prison: Macon: Medium 1153 Adult males Coastal State Prison: Garden City: Medium 1389 Adult males Dodge State Prison: Chester: Medium 1236 ...
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.
600. Opened. 1950. Closed. 2011. Managed by. Georgia Department of Corrections. Men's State Prison was a Georgia Department of Corrections prison for men in Milledgeville, Georgia, near Hardwick. [1] [2] [3] The facility closed in 2011.
Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186 (1986), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld, in a 5–4 ruling, the constitutionality of a Georgia sodomy law criminalizing oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults, in this case with respect to homosexual sodomy, though the law did not differentiate between homosexual and heterosexual sodomy. [1]
Bostick State Prison. Coordinates: 33°02′31″N 83°13′11″W. Bostick State Prison is a former prison located in Hardwick in Baldwin County, Georgia. It was constructed in the 1950s and converted to a prison in 1987. [1] It closed in May 2010.
Opened in 1969, [3] Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison (GDCP) is a Georgia Department of Corrections prison for men in unincorporated Butts County, Georgia, [4] near Jackson. [5] 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 ...