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Athens-Clarke County Correctional Institution Overview

Athens-Clarke County Correctional Institution is operated by the Athens-Clarke County Corrections Department under Georgia Department of Corrections standards and contract arrangements. It is located on County Farm Road, not at the Lexington Road jail. The GDC facility page identifies the institution as a medium-security adult male felon facility constructed and opened in 1987. The county contact page lists the Corrections Department office at 2825 County Farm Road with weekday office hours.

This facility should not be described as a booking jail. A person arrested in Clarke County normally starts at the Athens-Clarke County Jail and may appear on the sheriff's current prisoner listing after the roster delay. After conviction and sentence, a person may move into GDC custody, a county correctional institution, or another prison or transition facility. At that point, the GDC locator becomes the proper search channel, while the sheriff roster may no longer show the person.

The official Athens-Clarke County Corrections Department page shows the department contact point and connects the local institution to GDC and PREA information.

The department page is useful for facility contact, but inmate location searches for sentenced offenders should still begin with the Georgia Department of Corrections search system.

Athens-Clarke County Correctional Institution Population

Two official sources give different but useful capacity measures for Athens-Clarke County Correctional Institution. The GDC facility page lists capacity as 112 and describes three dormitories totaling 110 beds, four isolation or segregation cells, and one infirmary bed. The 2025 GDC-hosted PREA audit lists designed capacity as 200, current population as 170, and average daily population as 171 for the prior 12 months. The same PREA audit lists seven housing units, minimum and medium custody levels, and no youthful inmates.

Both sets of numbers should be read by source and context. The GDC facility page appears to present a facility profile capacity and housing layout. The PREA audit reports a broader designed-capacity and audit-day operating population. The audit was conducted on site April 9-10, 2025, with a final report dated June 17, 2025, and it found 45 PREA standards met and 0 not met.

The ACCGov PREA page also gives local reporting contacts and allegation summaries for Athens-Clarke County Corrections.

PREA information is not an inmate-search tool, but it helps distinguish the correctional institution's sentenced-offender operating profile from the sheriff's pretrial jail roster.

Athens-Clarke County Correctional Institution Lookup

The correct search system for Athens-Clarke County Correctional Institution is GDC Find an Offender, not the sheriff's current jail roster. GDC says its search service finds offenders currently in a GDC facility and that photographs display automatically if available. The search can use name fields, GDC ID number, case number, conviction county, most recent institution, physical descriptors, sentence-status filters, and active or inactive record scope.

The GDC offender-search screenshot shows the statewide search channel used for sentenced Georgia offenders.

Use the search result to confirm whether the most recent institution is Clarke County CI, Clarke County Jail, another GDC prison, a transition center, or a release status. GDC also warns that users should verify facts through written correspondence with its Inmate Records and Information office before treating data as complete.

1. Open GDC Find an Offender and accept the disclaimer before the query form.
2. Search by last name and first name, or use GDC ID number or case number if known.
3. Use Most Recent Institution or Conviction County filters when the name is common.
4. Check active and inactive records if the person may have been released or transferred.
5. Call the institution for facility-specific visit or custody questions after confirming the GDC record.

Athens-Clarke County Correctional Institution Contact

Contact routing matters because the correctional institution and the sheriff jail use different numbers. Jail custody and new bookings route to the Athens-Clarke County Jail at 706-613-3270. Sentenced correctional-institution questions route to the Corrections Department office line at 706-613-3400. The PREA audit uses 2825 County Farm Road, Athens, GA 30605, while the ACCGov contact page displays 2825 County Farm Rd., Athens, GA 30601.

Athens-Clarke County Correctional Institution Visits

Visitation at Athens-Clarke County Correctional Institution is an in-person correctional-institution schedule, not JailATM public video visitation. The official Corrections visitation page says offenders may be visited on Sundays and county holidays from 8:30 AM to 2:30 PM. Visitors must be on the approved visitation list, sign in with picture identification, and comply with search and contraband rules before entry.

The official Corrections visitation page screenshot shows the Sunday and county-holiday schedule plus visitor rules for the institution.

The schedule does not guarantee entry by itself. Approval status, valid picture ID, dress and conduct rules, and facility security screening control whether the visit proceeds. Attorneys may visit by making special arrangements at least 24 hours in advance.

Athens-Clarke County Correctional Institution Rules

Visitors should expect prison-style approval and screening. The Corrections visitation rules require picture identification, no more than four visitors per offender at one time, and restrictions on personal property. Visitors must leave personal property in the vehicle. The rules prohibit weapons, drugs, contraband, food, drinks, tobacco, phones, cameras, and electronics. Minors must be with an adult.

These rules reflect the sentenced-offender setting. The institution has minimum and medium custody populations, adult male offenders, seven housing units under the PREA audit, and staff and volunteers who work within a controlled correctional campus. A visit can be denied even during posted hours if the visitor is not approved, lacks proper identification, brings prohibited items, or fails facility screening.

County correctional institution

A local facility that houses sentenced state offenders under GDC rules or contract structures.

Minimum custody

A lower security classification for offenders who meet specific behavior and risk standards.

Medium custody

A more controlled setting for sentenced offenders who need closer supervision than minimum custody.

PREA

The Prison Rape Elimination Act, a federal law tied to correctional safety standards and audits.

Athens-Clarke County Correctional Institution Mail

The research file did not locate a correctional-institution-specific public fee table for commissary, deposits, or mail handling comparable to the Athens-Clarke County Jail's JailATM and Pay Tel pages. Do not apply jail account caps or JailATM public-video rules to this institution unless the Corrections Department confirms those rules for the sentenced facility. The safer route is to verify current mail, package, phone, and money procedures with the Corrections Department office after confirming the offender through GDC.

GDC systems can identify the institution and offender record, but local staff control facility-specific visit, mail, property, and security instructions. Written questions about GDC offender information can also be directed through the GDC Inmate Records and Information path listed in the statewide disclaimer, but immediate facility logistics belong with the institution.

Athens-Clarke County Correctional Institution Intake

Intake at Athens-Clarke County Correctional Institution is not street-arrest booking. The person generally reaches this facility after a criminal case has moved through conviction and sentencing or after GDC assignment to a county correctional institution. That means the public record trail may start with the jail roster and court docket, then shift to GDC offender records after the sentence and transfer.

When someone disappears from the sheriff current prisoner listing, it does not prove release. The person may have bonded out, transferred to another county, moved to a GDC facility, or shifted into a county correctional institution or transition setting. For people who may still be in local jail custody before sentencing, the Clarke County jail inmate records page explains the sheriff roster and seven-day booking report path.

Athens-Clarke County Correctional Institution Context

ACCGov announced in May 2026 that Charles Mason became Warden and Corrections Department Director. The release said the department operates both the Correctional Institution and the Diversion Center. That helps place the institution inside the broader Athens-Clarke corrections system, separate from the sheriff-operated jail but still local to the county's Lexington Road and County Farm Road corrections cluster.

The 2025 PREA audit provides an unusually detailed snapshot of operations: 44 staff with inmate contact, 2 contractors, 27 volunteers, seven housing units, minimum and medium custody, and adult men age 18 and older. Those details are more useful than a generic prison label because they show why the institution page needs GDC lookup, approved-list visitation, and facility contact rather than jail booking guidance.