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Jail Name:
D. Ray James CI
Jail Type:
Private Prison
State:
Georgia
County:
CHARLTON
City:
FOLKSTON
Source:
bop.gov
Description:
D. Ray James Correctional Institution is a private prison located in Folkston, Charlton County, Georgia, owned and operated by the GEO Group under contract with the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the U.S. Marshals Service.[1] The facility first opened in 1998 for Georgia state inmates. In 2010, after an expansion, the 1800 existing Georgia inmates were moved to other state prisons, replaced with as many as 2507 federal immigration detainees.[2][3] In August 2016, Justice Department officials announced that the FBOP would be phasing out its use of contracted facilities, on the grounds that private prisons provided less safe and less effective services with no substantial cost savings. The agency expects to allow current contracts on its thirteen remaining private facilities to expire.[4] D. Ray James is one of those facilities. Canadian activist Marc Emery was held at D. Ray James in 2010/2011 as a "deportable alien
Opened:
1998
Security Class:
medium
Source URL:
Website URL:
Address:
3262 HIGHWAY 252 EAST
Zip Code:
31537
Location:
3262 GA-252 Folkston, Georgia
Email:
general@bop.gov
Phone 1:
912-496-6242
Fax 1:
912-496-7806
Fax 2:
912-496-6255
Imate Gender:
Male Offenders
Population:
2067
Capacity:
2847
Bop Region:
Southeast Region
Inmate Mail 1:
INMATE NAME & REGISTER NUMBER D. RAY JAMES CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION P.O. BOX 2000 FOLKSTON, GA 31537
Freight Non Usps Parcels 1:
STAFF NAME D. RAY JAMES CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION ATTN: WAREHOUSE HIGHWAY 252 EAST FOLKSTON, GA 31537
Staff Mail:
STAFF NAME D. RAY JAMES CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION HIGHWAY 252 EAST FOLKSTON, GA 31537
3262 HIGHWAY 252 EAST, 31537, FOLKSTON, Georgia
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