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Johnson State Prison Release Paths

Johnson State Prison is a Georgia Department of Corrections facility, not a county jail. GDC describes it as medium security for adult male felons. A person leaving it may reach the maximum release date, receive parole, move through a conditional release or detainer, transfer elsewhere, or enter a registry and supervision path required by the sentence and conviction.

The first public record is therefore GDC Find an Offender. Parole decisions belong to the State Board of Pardons and Paroles. Community supervision belongs to the Georgia Department of Community Supervision. Georgia VINE can supply participating custody-status alerts. Those sources must be read together when the question is not merely where the person is housed, but whether the person actually left state custody and what follows.

Confirm Johnson State Prison Release

The GDC Find an Offender page is the proper starting point. GDC says the tool finds offenders currently in a GDC facility and warns that photos may display automatically. A prior state offender who does not appear should not be assumed discharged without checking identity, court, parole, and written records.

1. Open the GDC entry page and proceed to the official query form.
2. Search with a GDC ID or case number when available; otherwise use the full name.
3. Compare identifying, offense, sentence, status, and facility information.
4. Distinguish Maximum Release Date from Tentative Parole Month.
5. Check the Board’s parolee database if parole release is indicated.
6. Use DCS for current community supervision and VINE for participating alerts.
7. Request written verification when the public result is incomplete or unclear.

The Johnson County release records hub compares this state route with the sheriff and court path for a county-jail release.

Johnson Prison Release Date Terms

GDC defines Maximum Release Date, or MRD, as the date the sentence imposed by the judge would be fully served. The State Board defines Tentative Parole Month, or TPM, as the month when it expects to complete final review and may set a release date. MRD reflects sentence completion. TPM reflects a parole process that can still change.

Good conduct, misconduct, program completion, parole review, detainers, and eligible credits can affect the path. GDC’s Performance Incentive Credit program permits eligible offenders to collect up to 12 points and potentially receive one to 12 months off a TPM or MRD. Exclusions include several sentence and offense categories, so the public should not apply that range to every Johnson State Prison offender.

Georgia work-incentive rules also allow credit for satisfactory approved activity and recommendations that may advance a tentative parole date. Poor conduct can postpone or cancel a TPM. A projected date should always be checked again close to the anticipated release.

MRD

The date the full judicial sentence would be served.

TPM

A tentative month for final parole review, not a final release date.

Parole

Conditional community release before the sentence fully expires.

Discharge

Completion of the applicable sentence or custody obligation.

Johnson State Prison Contact Records

The official facility listing gives the physical address, phone, fax, and mailing route below. Facility staff can address institutional routing, but formal state records should use the relevant GDC or Parole Board records office rather than a broad request to the prison.

For offender verification, GDC directs written correspondence to Inmate Records and Information, P.O. Box 1529, Forsyth, GA 31029. The GDC open-records portal is the formal records route. GDC lists three business days for an initial response, non-medical copies at $0.10 each, and possible search or redaction charges at the hourly rate of the lowest-paid qualified employee.

Some institutional, investigation, intelligence, medical, mental-health, personal, and security-sensitive material is exempt. Ask for a narrow release, sentence, facility, or discharge record and include the person’s full name, GDC ID, case number, and relevant date range.

Johnson Prison Parole and Supervision

The State Board of Pardons and Paroles controls parole decisions. Its public resources separate the Inmate TPM Lookup, used before a possible parole release, from the Parolee Database, used for someone already on parole. The Board may grant, deny, advance, delay, or withdraw parole action. A public monthly Board meeting is not an individual offender hearing or decision forum.

For a released person living in Johnson County under state community supervision, the local operational office is DCS in East Dublin. The Dublin Field Office serves Johnson, Laurens, Treutlen, Twiggs, and the Dublin Circuit. It is located at 164 A Lovett Farm Road, East Dublin, GA 31027; phone 478-275-6637; hours Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

A parole release record and a supervision record answer different questions. The first shows the Board’s custody decision. The second addresses reporting and current community status. Probation originates in a court sentence, while parole follows a prison sentence and Board action.

Johnson State Prison Facility Facts

GDC lists Johnson State Prison as a medium-security prison for adult male felons with a capacity of 1,612. It opened in 1992 after construction in 1991 and was renovated in 2001 and 2002. These are facility facts, not a count of people released or currently present.

The prison includes RSAT centers, mental-health levels II and III, geriatric and wheelchair units, supportive living, general population units, a faith and character dorm, and work details for Johnson County and the Department of Transportation. Education, treatment, counseling, recreation, religious, and vocational programs are also listed. Those details may affect placement and reentry preparation, but they do not determine an individual release date.

View the official GDC Johnson State Prison profile.

The official profile is the source for facility type, capacity, programs, contacts, and the distinctive release-site designation.

Johnson Prison Release Site History

Johnson State Prison’s opening date and long-standing Wrightsville location create an unusual records problem: official directories place the state prison and Johnson County Jail at the same street address. They remain separate custody systems. A sheriff booking does not become a GDC record unless a sentence or transfer places the person in state custody.

GDC also calls Johnson State Prison a “Release site for Sex Offenders.” That local designation makes the Georgia Sex Offender Registry relevant for a subset of releases. It does not imply that every resident or every released person must register. Search the registry only when the conviction carries a registration duty.

A registrant’s public registry entry, parole status, and GDC discharge record each serve distinct purposes. The registry is not a general list of Johnson State Prison releases. For other former prisoners, GDC, the Parole Board, DCS, court records, and VINE remain the proper channels.

Johnson Prison Visits Before Release

The GDC facility profile lists visitation on Saturdays, Sundays, and state holidays from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Segregation visitation is listed for Wednesdays only, and visits must be scheduled at least 48 hours in advance through the stated facility contact. These rules concern visits, not pickup or release scheduling.

Families should not infer an exit time from a visitation change or a projected date. Confirm the current facility first, then check GDC and parole status. The prison can address local institutional questions, while the Board controls parole decisions and GDC records provide the formal state data trail.

Note: A scheduled visit disappearing from the calendar is not proof of release; transfer, restriction, or administrative change may explain it.

Johnson Prison Detainer Releases

A release from GDC can be conditional on another authority’s hold. The Parole Board explains that detainers may come from local authorities, another state, federal authorities, or the military, and a person may be paroled to that detainer. In that event, state prison custody ends while confinement continues elsewhere.

Use BOP only for a federal prison trail and ICE’s locator only when the case identifies civil immigration custody. No Johnson County-specific ICE facility or contract was found. A local sheriff news reference to immigration reporting does not establish that Johnson State Prison or Johnson County Jail serves as an ICE detention site.

Ask GDC or the Board whether release was to the community, DCS supervision, or a named detainer. Then use the receiving agency’s locator or records office. That sequence prevents the phrase “released from Johnson State Prison” from being mistaken for unrestricted physical freedom.