VALDOSTA STATE PRISON
Facility Information
- Original Design Capacity
- 500 (at 220% capacity)
- Bed Capacity
- 1,312 beds
- Current Population
- 1,098
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
- 3259 Val Tech Road, Valdosta, GA 31603
- Mailing Address
- P.O. Box 5368, Valdosta, GA 31603
- County
- Lowndes County
- Operator
- GDC (Georgia Dept. of Corrections)
- Warden
- Curtis Carter
- Phone
- (229) 333-7900
- Fax
- (229) 333-5387
- Staff
- Deputy Warden Security: Charlie Marcus
- Deputy Warden Security: Delisha Bryant
- Deputy Warden C&T: Heather Davis
- Deputy Warden Admin: Len Gibson
About
Valdosta State Prison in Lowndes County is a close-security men’s prison with an attached annex, originally opened in 1959 and later renovated. The main facility includes 10 general-population units, multiple mental-health units, isolation and acute-care beds, and a Crisis Stabilization Unit, while the annex adds several open dorms including a residential substance-abuse unit. In recent years Valdosta has become one of the deadliest prisons in Georgia, with multiple homicides, severe staffing shortages, and repeated federal prosecutions of officers for brutality and cover-ups.
Mortality Statistics
57 deaths documented at this facility from 2020 to present.
Deaths by Year
- 2026: 0
- 2025: 12
- 2024: 17
- 2023: 9
- 2022: 7
- 2021: 4
- 2020: 8