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In 1990, Hill murdered another inmate with a nail-studded board at Lee State Prison in Leesburg, Georgia. Hill was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death by lethal injection for his second murder. [21] On January 27, 2015, Hill was executed by lethal injection at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Georgia.
Central State Prison: Macon: Medium 1153 Adult males Coastal State Prison: Garden City: Medium 1389 Adult males Dodge State Prison: Chester: Medium 1236 Adult males Dooly State Prison: Unadilla: Medium 1702 Adult males Emanuel Women's Facility Swainsboro: Medium 415 Adult females Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison [1] Jackson ...
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.
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.
The center of population of Georgia is located 9 miles (14 km) northeast of Jackson near the Butts County/Newton County line. [ 9 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 6.3 square miles (16.2 km 2 ), of which 6.2 square miles (16.1 km 2 ) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km 2 ), or 0.50%, is water.
Wheeler Correctional Facility is a medium-security prison for men, owned and operated by CoreCivic under contract with the Georgia Department of Corrections. It was built in 1998 in Alamo , Wheeler County, Georgia , [ 2 ] with a maximum capacity of 2874 inmates.
Jimmy Autry State Prison is a state prison located in Mitchell County, near Pelham, Georgia. [1] It was constructed in 1992 and opened in 1993. Autry houses close security inmates who, due to their offense or behavior, would not be safe in the general prison population. Sex offender treatment is compulsory.
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.