RIVERBEND CORRECTIONAL AND REHABILITATION FACILITY
Facility Information
- Original Design Capacity
- 1,500 (at 101% capacity)
- Bed Capacity
- 1,588 beds
- Current Population
- 1,508
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
- 196 Laying Farm Road, Milledgeville, GA 31061
- County
- Baldwin County
- Opened
- 2011
- Operator
- Unknown
- Warden
- Angela Phams
- Phone
- (478) 414-2300
- Fax
- (478) 414-2402
- Staff
- Asst. Warden Security: James Watson
- Asst. Warden Programs: Vanessa Butts-Hawkins
- Chief of Security: Ronnie Richardson
- Business Manager: Regenia Womble
- State Monitor: Sonja Brown
About
The facility, located in Milledgeville, Georgia, houses adult male felons with a capacity of 1,588 inmates. It was built and opened in 2011 as a privately operated prison managed by the GEO Group under contract with the Georgia Department of Corrections. The facility houses medium and minimum custody inmates in a mix of dormitory-style housing and two-man cells across six housing units, plus a lockdown unit with segregation and isolation beds.
Mortality Statistics
10 deaths documented at this facility from 2020 to present.
Deaths by Year
- 2026: 0
- 2025: 0
- 2024: 2
- 2023: 1
- 2022: 0
- 2021: 4
- 2020: 3