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Georgia State Prison
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Georgia State Prison is a state prison located in Tattnall County, Georgia. Rated capacity: 1,530. Reported population: 1,454. Security level: Maximum. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
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. 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, the facility housed approximately 1,900 inmates, with a wide range of security levels from Minimum to Close. The last warden was Trevonza Bobbitt.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
1,530
Current population
1,454
Occupancy
95%
Year opened
1938
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed
Opened
1938
Region
Georgia
Security level
Maximum
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.
Notable inmates
H. Rap Brown1943–2025 · human rights defenderJamil Abdullah al-Amin (born Hubert Gerold Brown; October 4, 1943 â November 23, 2025) was an African-American activist who served as the fifth chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s.
Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
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
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q14686633)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Georgia State Prison. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/georgia-state-prison
"Georgia State Prison." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/georgia-state-prison.
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