Status open Phone +1 229-868-7778 Opened 2000 | Security class low security Capacity 2,275 | |
Location 1000 Jim Hammock Drive
McRae-Helena, Georgia Managed by Corrections Corporation of America Address 1000 Jim Hammock Dr, McRae, GA 31055, USA Similar Wheeler Correctio Facility, Telfair State Prison, Dr Joan D Roy - MD, Departme Juvenile Justice, McRae‑H Elementary School | ||
McRae Correctional Institution is a privately managed, low-security prison for men, owned and operated by the Corrections Corporation of America since 2000 under contract with the Federal Bureau of Prisons for federal prisoners.
The maximum capacity of the prison is 2275. It stands in McRae-Helena, Telfair County, Georgia.
In 2014 Azadeh N. Shahshahani of the ACLU of Georgia reported that McRae and another private federal prison in Georgia showed "a record of violations of constitutional and Bureau of Prisons standards governing the medical treatment of prisoners" and other issues.
In August 2016, Justice Department officials announced that the FBOP would be phasing out its use of contracted facilities, on the grounds that private prisons provided less safe and less effective services with no substantial cost savings. The agency expects to allow current contracts on its thirteen remaining private facilities to expire.