ADULT MALE FELONS CAPACITY: 1365/192 BOOT CAMP CONSTRUCTED: 1989 OPENED: 1990 SECURITY LEVEL: CLOSE RENOVATED:
MISSION: Houses inmates with behavioral problems that cannot bed addressed at other prisons. A prison boot camp and general population unit is attached outside the perimeter fence. The prison operates a Correctional Industries Mattress Plant and Optical Manufacturing Unit.
HOUSING: Consists of a general population unit with 680 beds, intensive therapeutic program and return to population unit with 109 beds, Hays Annex general population unit with 400 beds, boot camp unit with 192 beds, medical unit with nine beds and a maximum security, isolation and segregation unit with 176 beds.
WORK DETAILS: All outside details are supported by Camp Hays Boot Camp inmates. These details include the Department of Transportation, Chattooga, Walker, Catoosa and Bartow Counties. The Cities of Trion, Summerville, Lafayette, Cartersville, and Rome have grounds details.
DIRECTIONS: From Atlanta: I-75 North to Exit 306 (Adairsville/Summerville Exit). Left onto Highway 140 West for approximately 19 miles (highway dead-ends into Highway 27). Turn Right onto Highway 27 North for approximately 14 miles to Summerville city limits. Continue through Summerville for approximately five miles. Entrance to prison is on the right immediately past Pennville Elementary School.