COFFEE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY
Facility Information
- Original Design Capacity
- 1,524 (at 178% capacity)
- Bed Capacity
- 2,628 beds
- Current Population
- 2,717
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
- 1153 North Liberty Street, Nicholls, GA 31554
- Mailing Address
- P.O. Box 650, Nicholls, GA 31554
- County
- Coffee County
- Opened
- 1998
- Operator
- Unknown
- Warden
- Sidney Carter
- Phone
- (912) 345-5058
- Fax
- (912) 345-5086
- Staff
- Asst. Warden Security: Kamala Grant
- Asst. Warden Programs: Ricky Stone
- Chief of Security: Joaquin Lemon
- Chief of Unit Management: Phil Hall
- Business Manager: Teresa Todd
- State Monitor: Lonnie Pritchett
About
Private prison operated by CoreCivic
Mortality Statistics
24 deaths documented at this facility from 2020 to present.
Deaths by Year
- 2026: 0
- 2025: 2
- 2024: 3
- 2023: 2
- 2022: 7
- 2021: 5
- 2020: 5