BALDWIN STATE PRISON
Facility Information
- Original Design Capacity
- 600 (at 130% capacity)
- Bed Capacity
- 925 beds
- Current Population
- 780
Why design capacity matters:
Adding beds to a prison does not increase medical facilities, educational programs, kitchen capacity, counseling services, or recreation areas. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Plata that severe overcrowding beyond design capacity violates the 8th Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.
Read: Brown v. Plata - A Legal Roadmap for Georgia's Prison Crisis →
Read: Brown v. Plata - A Legal Roadmap for Georgia's Prison Crisis →
- Address
- 140 Laying Farm Road, Hardwick, GA 31034
- Mailing Address
- P.O. Box 1480, Hardwick, GA 31034
- County
- Baldwin County
- Opened
- 1976
- Operator
- GDC (Georgia Dept. of Corrections)
- Warden
- Teketa Jester
- Phone
- (478) 445-6472
- Fax
- (478) 445-6507
- Staff
- Deputy Warden Security: Rodney Gardner
- Deputy Warden Security: Brandon Rowland
- Deputy Warden C&T: Jeffrey Farmer
- Deputy Warden Admin: Jessica Reaves
About
Baldwin State Prison in Hardwick/Milledgeville is a medium-security facility for adult male felons that grew out of the former Georgia Women’s Correctional Institution. Built in 1976, it was converted to house only men after a major sexual-abuse scandal in the early 1990s involving hundreds of women and multiple prosecutions of staff. Today Baldwin operates as part of the Middle Georgia prison complex, with a mix of cell and dormitory housing and an adjoining boot-camp unit, and continues to face chronic staffing and violence concerns like the rest of the system.
Mortality Statistics
57 deaths documented at this facility from 2020 to present.
Deaths by Year
- 2026: 5
- 2025: 6
- 2024: 12
- 2023: 12
- 2022: 9
- 2021: 9
- 2020: 4