MACON STATE PRISON
Facility Information
- Capacity
- 1,762 beds
- Current Population
- 1,774
- Address
- 2728 Hwy 49 South, Oglethorpe, GA 31068
- Mailing Address
- P.O. Box 426, Oglethorpe, GA 31068
- County
- Macon County
- Opened
- 1994
- Operator
- GDC (Georgia Dept. of Corrections)
- Warden
- Gregory Sampson
- Phone
- (478) 472-3400
- Fax
- (478) 472-3524
- Staff
- Assistant Warden: Delvin Peoples
- Deputy Warden Security: Derrick McDaniel
- Deputy Warden Security: Nancy Lawson
- Deputy Warden C&T: Curtis Jeffries
- Deputy Warden Admin: Deserre Jones
About
Macon State Prison in Oglethorpe is a large close-security men’s facility built in 1993 and opened in 1994 on roughly 300 acres. It houses some of the system’s highest-risk prisoners in multiple cellblock buildings, including double-bunked general population, isolation and segregation units, and a 10-bed medical infirmary. The prison offers GED, adult basic education, limited vocational and substance-abuse programs, and religious services, but has been the site of severe violence, large-scale fights, and repeated allegations of staff brutality and corruption.
Mortality Statistics
81 deaths documented at this facility from 2020 to present.
Deaths by Year
- 2025: 22
- 2024: 20
- 2023: 7
- 2022: 12
- 2021: 4
- 2020: 16