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Note: To view the latest breaking news, please click the button at the top of the menu to the left. If the button is not present, it is because there has been no breaking news published yet this week. PDC becomes Transitional Center Swainsboro Probation Detention Center will now become the Emanuel- Swainsboro Transitional Center. The conversion is underway and June 30 has been targeted as the date to be operational and at full capacity of 216 beds. There are no anticipated staff changes. Transitional Centers, also sometimes called "work release centers," serve as a halfway house for selected inmates who are nearing their release from prison. Inmates are carefully screened to help ensure that only quality individuals are selected. Transitional Centers gives individuals, referred to as "residents" the opportunity to re-enter society in a structured, supervised setting. The Georgia Department of Corrections has operated transitional centers for over 30 years, and Emanuel-Swainsboro will become the tenth center in the system. The nearest centers to Emanuel County are currently in Albany, Savannah and Macon. Residents, after completing four weeks of counseling and life skill programs, are required to find and hold regular employment in the community. From their salaries they pay state and federal taxes, room and board back to the State, and whatever fines and restitution that have been imposed by the court. The residents save the rest in their accounts and take that with them upon release. Typically the residents stay at the Center for approximately 7 to 9 months. Approximately 350 inmates are released from Georgia prisons back to our communities each week. Correctional Officers are at the center 24 hours a day, seven days a week, accounting for each and every resident for every hour of the day. Any resident who cannot abide by the strict rules of the center is returned to prison. Residents know that attending a transitional center is a privilege, not a right, and very few want to lose the privilege As the fifth largest prison system in the United States, the department is responsible for supervising over 60,000 state prisoners and 140,000 probationers. The Department of Corrections is the largest law enforcement agency in the state with nearly 15,000 employees.
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