NCJ Number
141118
Date Published
1989
Length
30 pages
Annotation
This report presents statistics and information on the activities and management of the Georgia Department of Corrections for fiscal year 1989.
Abstract
Reacting to projections of a burgeoning prison population in the 1990's and beyond, plans were made and $41 million appropriated in fiscal year 1989 to construct a new 800-bed, medium-security prison in Washington County and a 200-bed, boot camp prison in Treutlen County. Put on a fast- track schedule to add 200 beds each to their existing facilities were Coastal Correctional Institution, the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center in Jackson, the Georgia Women's Correctional Institution in Hardwick, Central Correctional Institution in Macon, Lowndes Correctional Institution, and Ware Correctional Institution. Also, a new facility for women in Milan was built to house 150 inmates. From just over $34 per day per inmate in 1988, the cost of incarceration increased to at least $40 per day per inmate in fiscal year 1989. The efforts to make the offender pay for supervision or rehabilitation outside the prison setting were expanded and enhanced in fiscal year 1989. Statistics presented in this report address admissions, departures, and escapes; admissions to prison; average daily population; costs per inmate day; facilities list; felony admissions; correctional industries; misdemeanant admissions; organizational chart; probation; profile of inmates in prison; and programmatic costs per inmate.