Georgia Department
of Corrections

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ADDRESS:
3178 MT ZION CHURCH ROAD
POST OFFICE BOX 648
PELHAM, GA 31779
PHONE:(229) 294-2940 / FAX: (229) 294-6559
POPULATION:ADULT MALE FELONS
CONSTRUCTED: 1992
CAPACITY:1703
OPENED:1992
SECURITY LEVEL:MEDIUM
RENOVATED: 1998

VISITATION DAYS/HOURS:

DAYS: Saturdays, Sundays, and State Holidays

HOURS: 9:00AM TO 3:00PM

MISSION:

Ensure public safety and effectively house offenders while operating a safe and secure Facility. Also, house general population medium security inmates due to their sentence, Offense or behavior. Has a capacity for housing 650 Level Two Mental Health Inmates, 196 In-House Transitional Unit is a functional part of the facility and a 42 bed Accommodated Living Unit. Host facility for Bainbridge PSATC.

HOUSING:

One building with four separate open bunk dormitories. Each dormitory consist of 38 Double bunks. Six buildings with two living units containing 96 beds each. Three living units in these buildings have triple bunks on the bottom range only. One other building consists of 86 beds for segregation and 47 beds for isolation and protective custody.

WORK DETAILS

Department of Transportation, Southwest Hospital, Autry Grounds & Maintenance, Cities of Cairo & Wigham, a 60-man Correctional Industries Boot Plant detail and a 10-man unit Fire Station.

• CORRECTIONAL INDUSTRIES
• FIRE STATION
• TACTICAL SQUAD
• CERT TEAM
• SINGLE CELLS
• MINIMUM
• MEDIUM
• OPEN DORMITORY

PROGRAMS:

• Academic: GED, ABE, Literacy Remedial Education
• Counseling: Pre-Release, Anger Management, Life Skills, Lifer's Group, Depression, Victim Impact, Family Violence, Health Awareness, Corrective Thinking I & II, Alcohol Anonymous (AA), Narcotics Anonymous (NA), M4C
• Recreation: General Recreation, Leisure Skills
• Religious Activities: Various Worship Services, Bible Study, & Inmate Choir
• Vocational/OJT:Footwear Manufacturing, Food Preparation, Barbering, Laundry, Painting, Sanitation, Library Aide and Horticulture

DIRECTIONS:

I-75S to Exit 99, GA-FLA Pkwy/GA 300 to Cordele. Go right on Hwy 300 to first Traffic light in Albany and then turn right on Hwy 19 South to Mitchell County. Just past mile marker nine, turn left onto Mt. Zion Church Road. Autry State Prison is approximately one mile on the right.