Contraband Interdiction Actions in FY 2015:
• In conjunction with the Office of Professional Development, the agency deployed the first Advanced Perimeter Security Training. The training was developed to enhance security around the perimeter of state prisons
and reinforce recent changes to policies regarding the detention of civilian personnel, use of deadly force, and
escape.
• Contraband within the walls of our prisons, led to criminal enterprises. Therefore to stop these enterprises
from forming and expanding, the agency initiated a partnership with the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency
(DEA) to compare GDC information with other law enforcement databases throughout the country to identify
crime patterns and inmates involved in continuous criminal enterprises.
• Installation of contraband interdiction netting at Baldwin and Dodge State Prisons as well as Augusta Medical
State Prison. Design of additional netting for Wilcox, Dooly and Central State Prisons was conducted.
• Financial Investigations Unit within the Office of Professional Standards blocked a total of 412 contraband
debit cards.
For more information on the agency’s efforts to stop the introduction of contraband into our facilities, please take
a moment to review our interactive special edition.
Through Body Scanner
-uses low dose x-rays, much like at
airports
-scan takes 7 seconds (strip search
can take up to 15 minutes)
-Detect weapons & drugs inside or
outside the body
Cell Sense Device
For the past few years, the agency has been in the process of “hardening” the infrastructure of our facilities. This
process began in March 2013, brought on by the changing, more violent prison population and aging facilities.
In FY 2015, the agency completed the hardening of all Level V (close security) state prisons and began with the
hardening process in the state’s six large medium security state prisons: Autry, Washington, Calhoun, Dooly, Wilcox, and Johnson State Prisons. Hundreds of hardened recreation pens at Georgia, Ware, Valdosta, Telfair, Hays,
Smith, Macon, and Hancock State Prisons as well as the Georgia Diagnostic & Classification Prison’s Special
Management Unit and Burruss Correctional Training Center were constructed. In addition, Risk Reduction Services established procedures to deliver programming to offenders within the Tier Segregation System at Hays,
Valdosta, Telfair, Ware, Smith, Macon, Hancock, Georgia State Prisons and Augusta State Medical Prison.
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Report FY 2015