JENKINS FACILITY
Facility Information
- Original Design Capacity
- 1,150 (at 101% capacity)
- Bed Capacity
- 1,186 beds
- Current Population
- 1,156
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
- 3404 Kent Farm Drive, Millen, GA 30442
- County
- Jenkins County
- Opened
- 2012
- Operator
- Unknown
- Warden
- Terrance Dickerson
- Phone
- (478) 982-6300
- Fax
- (478) 982-6299
- Staff
- Asst. Warden Security: Eddie Johnson
- Chief of Security: Latonia Brown
- Chief of Unit Management: Jay Maythern
- Business Manager: Jason Schmidt
- State Monitor: Edwina Johnson
About
Private prison operated by CoreCivic
Mortality Statistics
18 deaths documented at this facility from 2020 to present.
Deaths by Year
- 2026: 0
- 2025: 2
- 2024: 2
- 2023: 0
- 2022: 3
- 2021: 5
- 2020: 6