Georgia Department
of Corrections

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ADDRESS:
97 KEVIN LANE
POST OFFICE BOX 98
ROCK SPRINGS, GA 30739
PHONE: (706) 764-3600 / FAX: (706) 764-3613
POPULATION: ADULT MALE FELONS
CONSTRUCTED: 1972
CAPACITY: 444
OPENED: 1972
SECURITY LEVEL: MEDIUM
RENOVATED: 2000

VISITATION DAYS / HOURS:

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

MISSION:

The Department of Corrections creates a safer Georgia by effectively managing offenders and providing opportunities for positive change.

HOUSING:

Consists of 12 open dormitories, 10 housing from 50 to 74 offenders with one housing nine incentive offenders. Eight offenders are housed at the Fire Hall.

WORK DETAILS

• CORRECTIONAL INDUSTRIES
• OPEN DORMITORY
• RESIDENTIAL SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT
• FIRE STATION
• SINGLE CELLS
• MEDIUM
• FAITH/CHARACTER PRISON

PROGRAMS:

• Academic: General Education Diploma, Adult Basic Education, Literacy Remedial
• Counseling: Motivation For Change, MRT, T4C, Matrix, F&CB
• Recreation: General Recreation/Wellness Walk
• Religious Activities: Various Worship Services, Bible Study
• Vocational/OJT: Food Preparation, Building Maintenance, Mechanics, Laundry, Warehousing, Custodial Maintenance, Metal Fabrication, Baker, Cooking, Barber, Outside Maintenance and Outside Grounds

DIRECTIONS:

Take I-75N to Exit 320, Resaca/Lafayette. Turn left onto Hwy 136 and travel for 6.6 miles. Turn right at the stop sign, continuing on Hwy 136 west, through the Villanow Community for 14.5 miles. Turn right at the stop sign onto Hwy 151 and travel for 1.8 miles. Turn left onto Hwy 95 north and travel 7.7 miles to the red light at Hwy 27 in Rock Spring. Turn left onto Hwy 27 south and travel for 1.2 miles to Guy Williams Road just past Northwestern Technical College and across from Grace Baptist Church. Turn right onto Guy Williams Road and travel 1.1 mile. Turn right at the stop sign onto Straight Gut Road and travel for .5 miles to Walker State Prison entrance at Kevin Lane. Turn left onto Kevin Lane, and then left at the second drive in front of the Prison's Fire Station to the A-Unit Bunker Entrance. (Walker State Prison is 39 miles from I-75)