Law & Justice Students Visit Correction Facility

 

Last week Centennial’s Law & Justice Program participated in a field trip to Georgia’s Diagnostic State Prison. (GDCP) is a Georgia Department of Corrections prison for men in unincorporated Butts County, Georgia, near Jackson. The prison, the largest in the state, consists of eight cellblocks containing both double-bunked and single-bunked cells. There are also eight dormitories and a medical unit. The prison conducts diagnostic processing for the state correctional system, houses (2500) male offenders, houses inmates under death sentence (UDS), and carries out state ordered executions by lethal injection. The prison complex also contains a special management unit that houses some of the most aggressive and dangerous prisoners in the correctional system.

 

With armed officers by our side, we were able to visit two cell blocks, the execution chamber, have a question and answer session with two currently incarcerated inmates (one for theft-by-receiving and the other for trafficking methamphetamine), and a panel discussion with the Deputy Wardens and the Warden. The students received compliments regarding their ability to answer Law and Justice related questions and for representing Centennial in a positive light.