The Georgia Department of Corrections is closing Rivers State Prison in Milledgeville. The 11-hundred bed facility will shut down by October. Inmates will be sent to prisons across the state. Most of the 260 employees will be offered jobs at other facilities nearby. The prison, built in 1937, was originally part of Central State Hospital. Meanwhile, prison officials say they plan to add 3,000 beds this year across the state to accommodate Georgia’s growing prison population. Nearly 60,000 inmates are incarcerated in Georgia.
