ADULT MALE FELONS CAPACITY: 615 CONSTRUCTED: 1972 OPENED: 1972 SECURITY LEVEL: MEDIUM RENOVATED: 2000
MISSION: Houses medium security general population inmates and provides labor for Correctional Industries Metal Fabrication Plant and contract details for other state agencies.
HOUSING: Consist of eleven open dormitories, ten housing from 50 to 74 inmates, one housing nine inmate fireman. There are eight isolation and eight double-bunked segregation cells.
WORK DETAILS: Catoosa County (2), City of Fort Oglethorpe, City of LaFayette, City of Ringgold, Walker County (3), and Grounds Maintenance.
DIRECTIONS: From Atlanta: Turn right off I-75 North at Resaca/LaFayette Exit #320. Turn left onto Hwy. 136 and travel for 6.6 miles. Turn right at the stop sign, continuing on Hwy. #136 West, through the Villanow Community for 14.5 miles. Turn right at the stop sign onto Hwy. 151 and travel for 1.8 miles. Turn left onto Hwy. #95 North and travel 7.7 miles to the red light at Hwy. 27 in Rock Spring. Turn left onto Hwy. 27 South and travel for 1.2 miles to Guy Williams Road just past Northwestern Technical College and across from Grace Baptist Church. Turn right onto Guy Williams Road and travel for 1.1 miles. Turn right at the stop sign onto Straight Gut Road and travel for .5 miles to the Walker State Prison entrance at Kevin Lane. Turn left onto Kevin Lane, then turn left at the second drive in front of the Walker State Prison Fire Station to the A-Unit Bunker Entrance. (Walker State Prison is 39 miles from I-75, and travel time is approximately 40 minutes.)