MACON STATE PRISON
Facility Information
- Original Design Capacity
- 750 (at 235% capacity)
- Bed Capacity
- 1,762 beds
- Current Population
- 1,762
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
- 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
- Delvin Peoples
- Phone
- (478) 472-3400
- Fax
- (478) 472-3524
- Staff
- 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
87 deaths documented at this facility from 2020 to present.
Deaths by Year
- 2026: 4
- 2025: 24
- 2024: 20
- 2023: 7
- 2022: 12
- 2021: 4
- 2020: 16