TREUTLEN PROBATION DETENTION CENTER
Facility Information
- Address
- 401 Cascade Circle, Soperton, GA 30457
- Phone
- (912) 529-6760
- Fax
- (912) 529-6968
- Mailing Address
- P.O. Box 707, Soperton, GA 30457
- County
- Treutlen County
- Operator
- GDC (Georgia Dept. of Corrections)
Leadership & Accountability (as of 2025 records)
Officials currently holding positional authority at this facility, with deaths attributed to GPS-tracked records during their leadership tenure. Inclusion reflects role-based accountability, not legal findings of personal culpability. Death counts shown as facility / career.
| Role | Name | Since | Deaths this facility / career |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superintendent (facility lead) | Scott, Elizabeth | 2025-01-01 | — / — |
| CORRECTIONAL ASST. SUPT (facility deputy) | Metz, Brad A | 2023-01-01 | 1 / 1 |
About
Treutlen Probation Detention Center operates with limited public scrutiny, but as a GDC facility it sits within a system grappling with severe understaffing, crumbling infrastructure, chronic underfeeding, and pervasive sexual violence — patterns documented by Georgia Prisoners' Speak across the state.
Mortality Statistics
1 deaths documented at this facility from 2020 to present.
Deaths by Year
- 2026: 0
- 2025: 0
- 2024: 1
- 2023: 0
- 2022: 0
- 2021: 0
- 2020: 0
Food Safety Inspections
No inspection records are on file with the Georgia Department of Public Health for this facility. GPS has filed an open records request asking where these records are maintained.
What the score doesn't measure. DPH grades kitchen compliance on inspection day — food storage, temperatures, pest control. It does not grade whether today's trays are clean. GPS reporting has found broken dishwashers at most Georgia state prisons we've documented; trays go out wet, stacked, and visibly moldy — including at facilities with recent scores near 100.
Who inspects. Most Georgia state prisons sit in rural counties — often with fewer than 20,000 people, several with fewer than 10,000. The environmental health inspector lives in that community and often knows the kitchen staff personally. Rural inspection regimes don't have the structural independence you'd expect in a city-sized health department. Read the scores accordingly.
Read the investigation: “Dunked, Stacked and Served: Why Georgia Prison Trays Are Making People Sick”
Analysis written on July 12, 2026.
The Treutlen Probation Detention Center, a small GDC facility in Soperton, Georgia, houses individuals detained for probation violations. Superintendent Elizabeth Scott leads a leadership team that includes Assistant Superintendent Brad Metz, Chief of Security Ronald Walker, and business manager Stephanie Foskey. Public information about day-to-day conditions inside the facility is virtually nonexistent; no recent inspections, lawsuits, or media reports have surfaced that focus specifically on Treutlen. Yet it operates as a node within a correctional system that Georgia Prisoners' Speak (GPS) has extensively documented to be in a state of structural crisis.
A Facility Within a System in Crisis
GPS's investigative reporting has established that core failures across the Georgia Department of Corrections — from staffing collapse to food-service contamination — are not isolated to high-profile prisons but are systemic. Every GDC facility, regardless of size or security level, is shaped by these realities.
Officer vacancies statewide have run between 49% and 60% for years, with more than four out of five new hires leaving within their first year. The U.S. Department of Justice concluded in October 2024 that understaffing has allowed gangs to effectively control multiple facilities, and a 2024 consultant report corroborated that finding. Meanwhile, GPS has documented that the state spends roughly $1.69 per person per day on food — under 60 cents per meal — and that broken dishwashers, roach and rodent infestations, and meals served on contaminated trays persist even at kitchens with passing health inspection scores. A 2026 investigation by The Marshall Project independently confirmed rats in kitchens, insects in food, and visible malnutrition across Georgia facilities. Coupled with infrastructure failures such as inoperative locks and surveillance systems in aging buildings, these conditions create a force multiplier for violence, classification breakdowns, and mortality that GPS has tracked at the facility level.
Sexual violence, too, is systemic: the DOJ found it “rampant,” and fewer than 8% of hundreds of allegations in 2022 were substantiated. Georgia has never submitted a PREA certification of full compliance. These patterns do not depend on whether a particular facility has made headlines; they describe the environment in which every GDC unit, including Treutlen, operates.
What Is Known of Treutlen Specifically
Public records yield little beyond the leadership chart. GPS's mortality database records one death associated with the facility; no further details about the circumstances are available. The center has not been the subject of federal civil rights litigation or high-profile media coverage, and GPS's quantitative retrieval found no linked health inspections or active lawsuits. That absence of spotlight does not equate to an absence of risk — it simply means that the same systemic pressures documented exhaustively at larger prisons likely permeate here without external oversight.
To the extent that incarcerated people held at Treutlen experience the consequences of GDC's staffing shortages, food inadequacies, or infrastructure decay, those accounts have not yet been gathered at a volume that meets GPS's publication threshold. The facility remains a blind spot on an otherwise well-lit map of crisis.
Sources
This analysis draws on systemic findings from Georgia Prisoners' Speak's investigative reporting, which synthesizes federal DOJ findings, consultant assessments, GDC budget data, and inmate and family accounts collected across the state. Facility-specific metadata and the single tracked death are drawn from GPS’s internal facility and mortality databases.