Additional Information

  • CONSTRUCTED: 1998
  • CAPACITY: 2628
  • OPENED: 1998
  • EXPANDED: 2009
  • SECURITY LEVEL: MEDIUM

VISITATION DAYS / HOURS:

  • HOURS: 9:00AM TO 3:00PM
  • DAYS: Alternated Visitation Days (Saturday M-Z; Sundays A-L); State Holidays

MISSION:

Ensure public safety and effectively house offenders while operating a safe and secure facility. Also operate an efficient, adult male, medium security institution, to provide a safe, secure humane environment for the offenders in which rehabilitation is a primary goal and to provide an atmosphere and opportunities for successful reintegration into society through use of discipline, constructive classification, education, employment training and social programs.

HOUSING:

Consists of 8 buildings (five open dorms and three two-man cells dorms) and one segregation/isolation unit.

WORK DETAILS:

Georgia Department of Transportation and Georgia State Patrol Post 36

  • SPECIAL MANAGEMENT UNIT
  • INTENSIVE THERAPEUTIC
  • OPEN DORMITORY
  • MEDIUM
  • TACTICAL SQUAD
  • SINGLE CELLS

PROGRAMS:

  • Academic: Adult Basic Education, General Education Diploma, Literacy Remedial
  • Counseling: Motivation For Change, Family Violence, Matrix Early Recovery, Matrix Relapse Prevention, Moral Reconation Therapy, Thinking for Change, Re-Entry Skills Building, Mental Health Intensive Program
  • Recreation: General Recreation Activities
  • Religious Activities: Various Faith-Based Programs and the Life Principles Community Program
  • Vocational/OJT: Masonry, Carpentry, Computer, Horticulture, Commercial Driving

DIRECTIONS FROM ATLANTA:

Take I-75S to Exit 78 at Sycamore/Ocilla. Take GA Hwy 32 East to Nicholls. Once in Nicholls, turn left at the only traffic light onto North Liberty Street. Coffee Correctional is approximately one mile on the left.

OR

Take US 16S to Dublin, GA; 441 South to Douglas, GA; 32 East to Nicholas, GA; Left on North Liberty Street.