DOOLY STATE PRISON
Facility Information
- Original Design Capacity
- 750 (at 213% capacity)
- Bed Capacity
- 1,702 beds
- Current Population
- 1,594
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.
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- Address
- 1412 Plunkett Road, Unadilla, GA 31091
- Mailing Address
- P.O. Box 750, Unadilla, GA 31091
- County
- Dooly County
- Opened
- 1994
- Operator
- GDC (Georgia Dept. of Corrections)
- Warden
- Mark Agbaosi
- Phone
- (478) 627-2000
- Fax
- (478) 627-2140
- Staff
- Deputy Warden Security: Lee Major
- Deputy Warden Security: Charles Hudson
- Deputy Warden C&T: Mable Chaney
- Deputy Warden Admin: Nequeva Nicholson
About
Dooly State Prison in Unadilla is a large medium-security facility often used for men who cannot be housed in county prisons, including many sex-offense and medically limited populations. Constructed in 1993 and opened in 1994, it consists of nine main housing units with triple-bunked and double-bunked cells, an open living unit, and an isolation/segregation block, along with a Fast Track unit. Dooly offers GED, basic education, limited vocational and religious programming, but is now notorious for extreme violence, gang control, frequent medical emergencies, and chronic officer vacancies.
Mortality Statistics
49 deaths documented at this facility from 2020 to present.
Deaths by Year
- 2026: 1
- 2025: 10
- 2024: 12
- 2023: 9
- 2022: 5
- 2021: 4
- 2020: 8