AUGUSTA STATE MEDICAL PRISON
Facility Information
- Capacity
- 1,326 beds
- Address
- 3001 Gordon Hwy, Grovetown, GA 30813
- County
- Richmond County
- Operator
- GDC (Georgia Dept. of Corrections)
- Warden
- Deshawn Jones
- Phone
- (706) 855-4700
- Fax
- (706) 869-7933
- Staff
- Deputy Warden Security: Latasha Harris
- Deputy Warden Security: Orbey Harmon
- Deputy Warden Security: Michael Paschal
- Deputy Warden C&T: Barbra Colon
- Deputy Warden Admin: VACANT
Special Designations
- Medical Hub
- Mental Health Services
About
Augusta State Medical Prison in Grovetown is the state’s flagship close-security medical facility, providing level-V specialty medical and mental-health care for seriously ill and high-acuity incarcerated people from across the system. Built in 1982 and opened in 1983, it combines general housing units with an on-site hospital that includes acute-care, long-term-care, crisis, and pre-/post-operative beds. It primarily houses men but can receive women for medical treatment, and it has been repeatedly cited in reporting for understaffing, high mortality, and serious quality-of-care concerns.
Mortality Statistics
351 deaths documented at this facility from 2020 to present.
Deaths by Year
- 2025: 39
- 2024: 65
- 2023: 64
- 2022: 65
- 2021: 57
- 2020: 61