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Georgia Department of Corrections The Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) is an agency of the U.S. state of Georgia operating state prisons. The agency is headquartered in Forsyth, on the former campus of Tift College. Headquarters The GDC has its offices in Gibson Hall, lo ...
state prison for men located on 210 Long Bridge Road,
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Telfair County, Georgia Telfair County is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 16,500. The largest city and county seat is McRae-Helena. In 2009, researchers from the Fernbank Museum of Nat ...
, United States. The facility opened in 1992 and currently has a capacity of 1420 prisoners. Between August and October 2012, two inmates and a corrections officer named Larry Stell were fatally stabbed in the facility. Telfair was awarded Facility of the Year by Georgia Department of Corrections Commissioner Brian Owens in 2014. Telfair State was one of 7 prisons whose inmates participated in the
2010 Georgia prison strike The 2010 Georgia prison strike was a prison strike involving prisoners at 7 prisons in the U.S. state of Georgia. The strike, organized by the prisoners using contraband cell phones, began on December 9 and ended on December 15. It was reported ...
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Notable inmates

* Wayne Williams, believed by police to be responsible for at least 23 of the 30
Atlanta murders of 1979–1981 The Atlanta murders of 1979–1981, sometimes called the Atlanta child murders, was a series of murders committed in Atlanta, Georgia, between July 1979 and May 1981. Over the two-year period, at least 28 children, adolescents, and adults were k ...
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Aeman Presley Aeman Lovel Presley (born 1980) is an American serial killer who killed four people over four months in 2014, in Georgia's DeKalb and Fulton Counties. Presley fully admitted his guilt, and as a result of a plea agreement, he was given several te ...
, serial killer responsible for four murders.


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{{State prisons in Georgia Prisons in Georgia (U.S. state) Buildings and structures in Telfair County, Georgia 1992 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)