Dooly State Prison

Dooly State Prison
Location 1412 Plunket Road
Unadilla, Georgia
Status open
Security class medium
Capacity 1702
Opened 1994
Managed by Georgia Department of Corrections

The Dooly State Prison (also DSP) is a medium security state prison facility for adult males at Unadilla in the U.S. state of Georgia. The complex began its construction in 1993 and opened in 1994. The facility houses inmates who are not suitable for a county prison due to their offense or physical limitations. The prison has a vegetable farm for shipping to state facilities. Dooly State Prison is mainly a Sex Offender Release Site. The facility is hosted to the McEver Probation Detention Center.

Habitation

The maximum housing capacity is 1702. It consists of nine living units of which the bottom range are 24 triple cells (72 beds), and the top range are doubled-bunked cells 120 beds per cell (240 beds), and one open living unit with four separate living areas, which contain 368 beds. There is one block that contains 71 beds, the isolation/segregation Unit. The Fast Track Unit is double bunked and houses 256 beds.[1][2]

Hancock was one of nine Georgia state prisons implicated in an FBI sting operation announced in February 2016. The agency indicted 47 correction officers who'd agreed to deliver illegal drugs while in uniform. These charges were "part of a larger public corruption investigation into Georgia Correctional Facilities".[3]

References

  1. ↑ "|| Georgia Department of Corrections ||". dcor.state.ga.us. Retrieved 2014-05-23.
  2. ↑ "Google Maps". google.com. Retrieved 2014-05-23.
  3. ↑ "47 Georgia Correctional Officers Arrested in Drug Conspiracy". WSAV. 11 Feb 2016. Retrieved 28 July 2016.

Coordinates: 32°16′51″N 83°43′01″W / 32.280768°N 83.716926°W / 32.280768; -83.716926

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