McRAE WOMEN’S FACILITY
Facility Information
- Original Design Capacity
- 1,978
- Bed Capacity
- 2,275 beds
- Current Population
- 1,195
- Address
- 112 Jim Hammock Drive, McRae-Helena, GA 31005
- Mailing Address
- P.O. Box 55478, McRae-Helena, GA 31005
- County
- Telfair County
- Operator
- GDC (Georgia Dept. of Corrections)
- Warden
- Jody Yancey
- Phone
- (229) 212-5100
- Fax
- (229) 212-5202
- Staff
- Special Assistant: Melvin Butts
- Deputy Warden Security: Shameka Lilliott
- Deputy Warden Admin: Heather Dykes
About
McRae Women’s Facility in McRae-Helena is a new close-security women’s state prison repurposed from a former large federal facility. With a design capacity of more than 2,200 beds, it is intended to relieve overcrowding at Arrendale and Pulaski by consolidating a significant portion of Georgia’s female population in one high-capacity site. The facility is being brought online in phases, with a mission focused on close-custody control, basic education, and limited vocational and reentry programming, while critics warn it risks replicating existing patterns of understaffing and violence at an even larger scale.
Mortality Statistics
1 deaths documented at this facility from 2020 to present.
Deaths by Year
- 2026: 0
- 2025: 1
- 2024: 0
- 2023: 0
- 2022: 0
- 2021: 0
- 2020: 0