WHEELER CORRECTIONAL FACILITY
Facility Information
- Capacity
- 2,874 beds
- Current Population
- 2,798
- Address
- 195 North Broad Street, Alamo, GA 30411
- Mailing Address
- P.O. Box 466, Alamo, GA 30411
- County
- Wheeler County
- Opened
- 1998
- Operator
- CoreCivic
- Warden
- Shawn Gillis
- Phone
- (912) 568-1731
- Fax
- (912) 568-1710
- Staff
- Asst. Warden Security: Donovan Hamilton
- Asst. Warden Programs: Heather Kersey
- Chief of Security: Darriel Royal
- Chief Unit Manager: Tina Guzman
- Asst. Chief of Security: Karen Shepard
- Business Mgr: Gale Sexton
- State Monitor: Vashti Brown
About
Wheeler Correctional Facility has a capacity of 2,874 inmates and was constructed and opened in 1998. The facility is privately operated by CoreCivic under contract with the Georgia Department of Corrections and is one of the two largest prisons in the state. Originally built to house 1,000-1,700 inmates, the facility doubled in size around 2010 and currently houses approximately 2,500 inmates. Housing consists of eight main units with a mix of configurations: three cellblocks with three pods each housing 80-88 inmates, three dormitory-style units with six pods housing approximately 48 inmates each, three dormitory-style units with seven pods housing 64-84 inmates, and two segregation units totaling 178 beds. The facility includes single cells, intensive therapeutic housing, and a CERT Team.
Mortality Statistics
41 deaths documented at this facility from 2020 to present.
Deaths by Year
- 2025: 4
- 2024: 7
- 2023: 6
- 2022: 2
- 2021: 4
- 2020: 18