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Dodge State Prison
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Dodge State Prison is a state prison located in Dodge County, Georgia. Rated capacity: 1,236. Reported population: 1,228. Security level: Medium. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
Dodge State Prison is a Georgia Department of Corrections state medium-security prison for men located in Chester, Dodge County, Georgia. Current capacity of the facility is 1236 inmates. Dodge was one of nine Georgia state prisons implicated in an FBI sting operation announced in February 2016. The agency indicted 47 correction officers from multiple facilities who'd agreed to deliver illegal drugs while in uniform. These charges were "part of a larger public corruption investigation into Georgia Correctional Facilities".
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Capacity
1,236
Current population
1,228
Occupancy
99%
Year opened
1983
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1983
Region
Georgia
Security level
Medium
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 5/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · Privately operated under contract
This facility scores 5. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 3 points above national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersData completeness
74%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries
- HIFLD dataset query
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- Georgia Department of Corrections â Locations — State of Georgia
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q28446234)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Dodge State Prison. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/dodge-state-prison
"Dodge State Prison." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/dodge-state-prison.
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