Dodge State Prison Explained

Prison Name:Dodge State Prison
Location:2971 Old Bethel Church Road
Chester, Georgia
Status:open
Classification:medium
Capacity:1236
Opened:1983; expanded 1989
Managed By:Georgia Department of Corrections

not to be confused with the Dodge Correctional Institution near Waupun, Wisconsin

Dodge State Prison is a Georgia Department of Corrections state medium-security prison for men located in Chester, Dodge County, Georgia.[1] Current capacity of the facility is 1236 inmates.

Dodge was one of nine Georgia state prisons implicated in an FBI sting operation announced in February 2016. The agency indicted 47 correction officers who'd agreed to deliver illegal drugs while in uniform. These charges were "part of a larger public corruption investigation into Georgia Correctional Facilities".[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dodge State Prison. Georgia Department of Correction. 28 July 2016.
  2. News: 47 Georgia Correctional Officers Arrested in Drug Conspiracy. 28 July 2016. WSAV. 11 Feb 2016. 3 October 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161003180035/http://wsav.com/2016/02/11/46-georgia-correctional-officers-arrested-in-drug-conspiracy/. dead.