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Coastal State Prison and • Fifth Largest Corrections System in the Nation Augusta State Medical Prison GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS | PRIVATE PRISON CONTRACTS Overview (ACA) and by the Medical Association of Georgia (MAG) in 2005 as required by contract The Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) has contracts • Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) for emergency with two private companies, The GEO Group, Inc. and Correc- assistance maintained with Wheeler Correctional Facil- tions Corporations of America (CCA), that house 5,376 state of- ity, Jenkins Correctional Facility, and McRae Correctional fenders. Facility. The MOU is also maintained with law enforce- ment, fire departments, and hospitals in Coffee and Bacon • In 1997, the GDC entered into a contract with CCA to build Counties. and operate private prisons in Alamo, Millen and Nicholls • Staffing at the facility: • In 2011, the GDC entered into a contract with the GEO • Command/Command Post - 6 duty officers Group to build and operate a private prison in Milledgeville • SORT members - 18 • At each facility, the Department has a full-time Private Pris- • Training - 1 on Monitor on-site • Transport - 1 • Oversees the facility’s operations to ensure that all • Certified Officers - 235 contract conditions are met • DOC staff (Contract monitor) - 1 • Oversees the facility operates with a continuous focus • Inmate Programs offered: on sanitation, safety and security. • GED, Computers, CDL, Electrical, Masonry, School of • Offenders housed at these facilities work on full-time Christ, Life Principles Program, Canine Program and details and are afforded the opportunity to participate in a various Case Manger facilitated groups mandated by wide variety of educational classes and counseling pro- the state grams • Community Impact • Employs 400 citizens from Coffee and surrounding counties Jenkins Correctional Facility, Millen • Opened in 2012 Corrections Corporation of America • Male, medium security facility BACKGROUND • Maximum population by contract is 1,150 • Full service corrections management provider • Maximum capacity by bed space is 1,186 • Specializes in the design, construction, expansion and man- • Accredited by ACA and Federal PREA certification agement of prisons, jails and detention facilities as well as • MOU for emergency assistance maintained with Wheeler inmate transportation services through its subsidiary comp- Correctional Facility, Coffee Correctional Facility, Rogers nay TransCor America State Prison, Smith State Prison, Coastal State Prison and • Fifth largest corrections system in the nation Augusta State Medical Prison. The MOU is also maintained • Oversees more than 80,000 inmates with law enforcement, fire departments, and hospitals in • Owns more than 60 facilities through the United States Jenkins County. • Partnerships with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, U.S. Mar- • Staffing at the facility: shals Service and Immigration and Custom Enforcement • Command/Command Post - 4 duty officers • SORT members - 11 FACILITIES • Training - 1 • Owns and operates the following three facilities: • Transport - 3 • Certified Officers - 123 Coffee Correctional Facility, Nicholls • DOC staff (Contract monitor) - 1 • Opened in 1998 • Inmate Programs offered: • Male, medium security facility • GED, computers, plumbing, faith-based, second • Maximum population by contract is 2,628 change greyhounds, and bonds of trust (BOTS) • Maximum capacity by bed space is 3,032 programs as well as various Case Manager facilitated • Accredited by the American Correctional Association groups mandated by the state. • Community Impact • First fully-integrated equity real estate investment trust • Employs 207 citizens from Jenkins and surrounding specializing in the design, development, financing, and counties operation of correctional, detention, and community reentry facilities worldwide Wheeler Correctional Facility, Alamo • Owns 98 facilities with 79,000 beds • Opened in 1998 • Oversees 18,000 employees around the globe • Male, medium security facility • Locations of facilities: United States, United Kingdom, • Maximum population by contract is 2,638 Australia and South Africa • Maximum capacity by bed space is 3,102 • First state contract was established in 1987 with California • MOU for emergency assistance maintained with Wheeler Correctional Facility, Jenkins Correctional Facility, and FACILITIES McRae Correctional Facility. The MOU is also maintained • Owns and operates the following facility: with law enforcement, fire departments, and hospitals in Wheeler and surrounding counties. Riverbend Correctional Facility, Milledgeville • Accredited by the ACA and MAG • Opened in December 12, 2011 on state-owned land • Staffing at the facility: • Male, medium security facility • Command/Command Post - 6 duty officers • Maximum population by contract is 1,500 • SORT members - 18 • Maximum capacity by bed space is 1,588 • Training - 2 • Accredited by ACA and MAG • Transport - 8 • Staffing at the facility: • Certified Officers - 235 • Duty officers - 7 • DOC staff (Contract monitor) - 1 • Training - 1 • Inmate Programs offered: • Transport - 2 • GED, CDL, Electrical, Masonry, Plumbing, Horticul- • Correctional Officers - 176 ture, Performance Incentive Credit (PIC) Dorm, Higher • DOC staff (Contract monitor) - 1 Ground, Life Principles Program, Moral Reconation • Inmate Programs offered: Therapy, Thinking For a Change (T4C), Motivation for • GED, Adult Basic Education, Literacy Remedial Change (M4C), Reentry Skills Building, Matrix Early Education, Re-entry, Special Education, T4C Recovery Skills, Family Violence, Matrix Relapse Pre-Release, M4C, MRT, Matrix, PIC program, Prevention, Fatherhood Program, Art Skills, Veterans Computer Technology, HVAC and Administrative Appreciation Dorm, Lifer’s Program, Auburn K9 Office and Support Specialist Program, Georgia Tech Braille Program, Wounded • Community Impact Warriors Knitting Program and guitar lessons • Employs 304 citizens from Baldwin and • Community Impact: surrounding counties • Employs 400 citizens from Wheeler and surrounding • Donates approximately $1M to support charities, counties schools and college scholarships to students in its communities across the country. The GEO Group BACKGROUND • Established in 1984 • The world’s leading provider of correctional, detention and community reentry services 2/2015.
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