Status open Phone +1 478-627-2000 Opened 1994 | Security class medium Capacity 1,702 | |
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Location 1412 Plunket Road
Unadilla, Georgia Managed by Georgia Department of Corrections Address 1412 Plunket Rd, Unadilla, GA 31091, USA Similar Pulaski County Correctio, Dodge State Prison, Houston County Detention, Dooly County Sheriff's, Hawkinsv County‑5 | ||
The Dooly State Prison (also DSP) is a medium security state prison facility for adult males at Unadilla in the U.S. state of Georgia. The complex began its construction in 1993 and opened in 1994. The facility houses inmates who are not suitable for a county prison due to their offense or physical limitations. The prison has a vegetable farm for shipping to state facilities. Dooly State Prison is mainly for Sex Offender Release Site. The facility is hosted to the McEver Probation Detention Center.
Contents
Habitation
The maximum housing capacity is 1702. It consists of nine living units of which the bottom range are 24 triple cells (72 beds), and the top range are doubled-bunked cells 120 beds per cell (240 beds), and one open living unit with four separate living areas, which contain 368 beds. There is one block that contains 71 beds, the isolation/segregation Unit. The Fast Track Unit is double bunked and houses 256 beds.
Controversies
In February of 2014 A Dooly State Prison inmate filed a federal lawsuit alleging prison officials denied him kosher foods used to celebrate the Jewish Passover holiday. The inmate, Mitchell Lavern Ludy was convicted of murder in Clayton County Superior Court in 2006 and is serving a life sentence. Ludy, who claims to have been raised a Jew, alleges he is a victim of religious persecution and mental and emotional distress, according to the lawsuit, filed February 21, 2014 in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia.None of these observational requirements of Passover poses a threat to the security of Dooly State Prison, nor do they impose any substantial financial burden on the prison’s administration,' Ludy said in his handwritten complaint. 'There are no reasonable alternative means of religious exercise open to me to observe Passover.' Ludy alleges he told prison officials previously he wanted to observe the Passover holiday so arrangements could be made to substitute his food. Prison officials told Ludy he couldn’t observe the holiday because of the location in the prison where he’s being held, according to the court filing. He alleges a memo was distributed saying Muslims housed in the same area could observe their holy month. Ludy sought an injunction to allow him to observe Passover, $1.6 million in compensatory damages in addition to punitive damages and reimbursement for Passover meals. In May of 2016, has signed an agreement to settle the case for $200.
Hancock was one of nine Georgia state prisons implicated in an FBI sting operation announced in February 2016. The agency indicted 47 correction officers who'd agreed to deliver illegal drugs while in uniform. These charges were "part of a larger public corruption investigation into Georgia Correctional Facilities".