COLWELL PROBATION DETENTION CENTER
Facility Information
- Address
- 189 Beasley Street, Blairsville, GA 30512
- County
- Union County
- Operator
- GDC (Georgia Dept. of Corrections)
- Warden
- Darryl Cody
- Phone
- (706) 745-3610
- Fax
- (706) 745-7131
- Staff
- Assistant Superintendent: Jennifer DeFillipes
- Chief of Security: Douglas Fortenberry
Food Safety Inspections
No inspection records are on file with the Georgia Department of Public Health for this facility. GPS has filed an open records request asking where these records are maintained.
What the score doesn't measure. DPH grades kitchen compliance on inspection day — food storage, temperatures, pest control. It does not grade whether today's trays are clean. GPS reporting has found broken dishwashers at most Georgia state prisons we've documented; trays go out wet, stacked, and visibly moldy — including at facilities with recent scores near 100.
Who inspects. Most Georgia state prisons sit in rural counties — often with fewer than 20,000 people, several with fewer than 10,000. The environmental health inspector lives in that community and often knows the kitchen staff personally. Rural inspection regimes don't have the structural independence you'd expect in a city-sized health department. Read the scores accordingly.
Read the investigation: “Dunked, Stacked and Served: Why Georgia Prison Trays Are Making People Sick”