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Macon State Prison is located in Macon County, southwest of Oglethorpe, Georgia on approximately 300 acres (1.2 km 2). It was constructed in 1993 and opened in 1994. It is a close security prison, meaning it is a very high security prison. The prison houses inmates deemed the highest potential security risks by the Department of Corrections.
Designated NHS. October 16, 1970. The Andersonville National Historic Site, located near Andersonville, Georgia, preserves the former Andersonville Prison (also known as Camp Sumter), a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the final fourteen months of the American Civil War. Most of the site lies in southwestern Macon County, adjacent to the ...
Macon State Prison: Oglethorpe: Close 1762 Adult males Montgomery State Prison Mount Vernon: Medium 418 Adult males Phillips State Prison: Buford: Close 925 Adult males Pulaski State Prison: Hawkinsville: Medium 1211 Adult females Rogers State Prison: Reidsville: Medium 1391 Adult males Rutledge State Prison Columbus: Medium 640 Adult males ...
Ellen Craft (1826–1891) and William Craft (September 25, 1824 – January 29, 1900) were American abolitionists who were born into slavery in Macon, Georgia. They escaped to the Northern United States in December 1848 by traveling by train and steamboat, arriving in Philadelphia on Christmas Day. Ellen crossed the boundaries of race, class ...
Authorities in Georgia have caught an Oregon man who escaped from a correctional facility nearly 30 years ago. Steven Craig Johnson, 70, escaped from Mill Creek Correctional Facility in Salem ...
maconbibb.us. Macon (/ ˈmeɪkən / MAY-kən), officially Macon–Bibb County, is a consolidated city-county in Georgia, United States. Situated near the fall line of the Ocmulgee River, it is 85 miles (137 km) southeast of Atlanta and near the state's geographic center—hence its nickname "The Heart of Georgia". Macon's population was 157,346 ...
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.
In 1822 the state chartered Bibb County, and the following year the town of Macon was founded. The Creek National Council struggled to end such land cessions by making them a capital offense. But in 1825, Chief McIntosh and his paternal cousin, Georgia Governor George Troup, negotiated an agreement with the US.