The Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison houses Georgia's death row inmates, otherwise known as inmates under death sentence or UDS inmates. It is also home to the death chamber, where inmates are executed via lethal injection. Most recently, Mark McClain.

The prison opened in 1968 in Jackson, Georgia and has a capacity for 1785 maximum security or UDS inmates. It is the largest prison in the state of Georgia. It serves as the diagnostic center or processing center for the Georgia Department of Corrections.

This is also where Troy Anthony Davis is housed, a death row inmate who has maintained his innocence since his conviction in 1991. After his conviction, a vast majority of the prosecutions witnesses recanted their testimonies and further evidence supporting the theory that someone else committed the crime surfaced. This past August, the Supreme Court ordered a hearing in Troy Davis' case.





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