HAYS STATE PRISON
Facility Information
- Original Design Capacity
- 1,100
- Bed Capacity
- 1,101 beds
- Current Population
- 1,095
- Address
- 777 Underwood Road, Trion, GA 30753
- Mailing Address
- P.O. Box 668, Trion, GA 30753
- County
- Chattooga County
- Operator
- GDC (Georgia Dept. of Corrections)
- Warden
- Joshua Jones
- Phone
- (706) 857-0400
- Fax
- (706) 857-0624
- Staff
- Deputy Warden Security: Christopher McAlister
- Deputy Warden Security: Gabriel IIa
- Deputy Warden C&T: Alisa Hammock
- Deputy Warden Admin: Jonathan Swinford
About
Hays State Prison in Trion is a close-security men’s facility that the Department describes as housing some of the state’s “most challenging offenders.” Opened in 1990, it includes several general-population dorms, a Fast Track unit, multiple Tier II special-management dorms, an outside fire station and infirmary, and large numbers of Level-II mental-health beds. Hays has been the site of numerous homicides and assaults, and has been repeatedly cited for failures in lock security, staffing, and protection of prisoners in so-called protective custody.
Mortality Statistics
34 deaths documented at this facility from 2020 to present.
Deaths by Year
- 2026: 1
- 2025: 5
- 2024: 9
- 2023: 5
- 2022: 8
- 2021: 3
- 2020: 3