Georgia Department of Corrections

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ADDRESS:
ROUTE 2, UPPER RIVER ROAD
POST OFFICE BOX 839
HAWKINSVILLE, GA 31036
PHONE: (478) 783-6000 / FAX: (478) 783-6008
POPULATION: ADULT FEMALE FELONS
CONSTRUCTED: 1994
CAPACITY:1223
OPENED:1994
SECURITY LEVEL:MEDIUM
RENOVATED: 1998

VISITATION DAYS / HOURS:

HOURS: 9:00AM TO 3:00PM
DAYS: Saturdays, Sundays, and State Holidays

MISSION:

Ensure public safety and effectively house offenders while operating a safe and secure facility. In addition: house female offenders of all security levels; maintain a residential therapeutic substance abuse program; support a Correctional Industries garment plant; house Level II outpatient Mental Health offenders; and house a Faith and Character Based Living Unit. Host facility for Bleckley PDC.

HOUSING:

Consists of four buildings with 48 double rooms to house up to 96 per building; two buildings with double and triple rooms to house up to 120 per building, one building has single and double rooms and houses up to 106 offenders; eight of those rooms are handicap-accessible rooms. One building houses up to 30 isolation/segregation cells for up to 43 offenders along with an intake unit, which houses 58. Two buildings consist of 96 double-bunked rooms up to 192 per building.

WORK DETAILS

Correctional Industries Garment Plant, Grounds Maintenance, Custodial, Laundry, Orderlies, Paint Detail, General Maintenance, Food Service, County-Wide Detail, Vehicle Maintenance, Warehouse, and Trash Detail.

• MINIMUM
• MEDIUM
• CORRECTIONAL INDUSTRIES
• CERT TEAM

PROGRAMS:

• Academic: GED, ABE, Literacy and Title I
• Counseling: Parenting, Family Violence, Behavior Stabilization, TOPPSTEP, Confronting Self, SOPP, Reasoning & Rehabilitation, T4C, Children's Center, AA/NA, RSAT, M4C, and P4L
• Recreation: General Recreation
• Religious Activities: Various Worship Services, Bible Study, Choir, Islamic Studies and Kairos
• Vocational/OJT: Education, Vocation, Chaplaincy, Law, Library & Recreation Aides, Cosmetology, Culinary Arts, Office Practices, Food Service, Horticulture, Laundry, Grounds-keeping, Custodial & Vehicle Maintenance, Plumbing, Garment Worker and Graphic Arts

DIRECTIONS:

Take I-75 south to Exit 135. Take US-341 to Hawkinsville. Cross the Ocmulgee River Bridge and travel ¼ mile. Turn left onto SR-26 and travel ½ mile. Turn left onto Upper River Road. Pulaski State Prison is two miles on the left, use the second driveway.