Find Gwinnett Comprehensive Correctional Complex Residents

Gwinnett Complex Overview

The county Department of Corrections complex page describes the Gwinnett Comprehensive Correctional Complex as an 800-bed facility on Hi Hope Road in Lawrenceville. The county says it opened in September 2002 and includes full-time incarceration beds as well as a Work Release Program. This makes it a different custody setting from Gwinnett County Jail, where recent arrests and pretrial detainees are searched through JAIL View.

The complex contains 512 beds for medium and minimum-security state and county inmates sentenced to full-time incarceration. Those inmates are assigned to supervised work crews that supplement county labor, including janitorial and landscaping services at the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center, landscaping along Ronald Reagan Parkway, and work at county buildings, roads, and parks. The same complex includes 288 Work Release Program beds for criminal offenders and parents who have failed to pay court-ordered child support.

The county corrections complex capture below is the source for the 800-bed total, the split between full-time incarceration and work release, and the historical development of the facility.

That distinction is central: the complex handles sentenced and program custody, while the sheriff's jail handles most new arrest bookings.

Gwinnett Complex Population

Published county figures give the complex a clear bed structure. The county describes 800 total beds, with 512 full-time incarceration beds and 288 Work Release Program beds. The full-time incarceration section houses medium and minimum-security state and county sentenced inmates. Work Release residents leave for approved work and return when not working. Work Alternative participants are different: they report in the morning, perform community-service work, and return home at the end of the work day. They should not be counted as overnight detention beds.

Gwinnett Complex Lookup

There is no research-supported claim that the Gwinnett Comprehensive Correctional Complex has the same public roster as the sheriff's JAIL View site. Use GDC Find an Offender when the person is a state-sentenced offender assigned to the GDC-listed Gwinnett County Correctional Institution on the same campus. Use the county Department of Corrections phone number for county-sentenced residents, work-release residents, or Work Alternative program questions. Use JAIL View only when the person may still be in the sheriff-run pretrial jail after arrest.

1. Decide whether the person is a new arrestee, a county-sentenced resident, a state-sentenced offender, or a work-release resident.
2. For a new arrest, search the sheriff's JAIL View roster first.
3. For a state offender, search GDC by name, ID or case number, age, and other identifying details.
4. For county work release or Work Alternative status, call the county Department of Corrections facility contact.
5. Use open-records channels when an official record copy is needed rather than a basic custody check.

Gwinnett Complex Contact

The county and GDC sources use both Hi Hope Road and High Hope Road spelling for the corrections campus. The county's Comprehensive Correctional Complex page uses Hi Hope Road for the county complex, while the GDC institution page uses High Hope Road for its listing. Use the address tied to the agency source being contacted, and call before travel because the captured source did not publish a general public lobby schedule.

Gwinnett Complex Visits

The county corrections operations research did not provide a general family visitation schedule for the Gwinnett Comprehensive Correctional Complex. It did document specific visit-related and court-related processes: video court, compassionate visits, funeral leave visits, and attorney visits are set up through the counseling department. Since Work Release residents have job schedules and full-time incarcerated inmates have facility work assignments, social visits should be confirmed directly with staff before any travel or schedule assumption.

Gwinnett Complex Money

The county operations research gives a documented fee table for Work Release and Work Alternative. Work Release residents pay an administrative fee and a daily fee, and they may also owe court-ordered fines, probation fees, and child-support payments. Work Alternative participants pay a separate administrative and daily fee. The county Fiscal Management function handles inmate accounts and these program fees. The source did not provide a family commissary deposit vendor or a mail-scanning vendor for this complex.

Gwinnett Complex Intake

Intake at the Gwinnett Comprehensive Correctional Complex is program and sentence based. A Work Release resident is part-time incarcerated, keeps approved employment, goes to work during the day, and stays at the facility when not working. Full-time incarcerated inmates live and work within and around the facility. Work Alternative participants report in the morning for community-service tasks and return home at the end of the work day. Those categories should not be described as the same type of custody.

Work release

A custody program where approved residents work in the community and return to the facility when not working.

Work alternative

A program where participants report for community-service work but do not remain in custody overnight.

Full-time incarceration

Sentenced custody in which inmates live at the facility and work in or around county operations.

Caseworker

A staff member who helps with employment, probation coordination, and program navigation.

About Gwinnett Complex

The county gives a long local history for corrections on Hi Hope Road. In 1973, the Public Works Camp had two dormitories and housed 112 inmates. In 1984, it became the Correctional Institution and added beds. In 1985, federal-court pressure to reduce county jail overcrowding led the institution to house pretrial detainees in modular units until the new detention center opened. In 1992, the old jail was converted into a Diversion Center. The current complex opened in 2002.

Current operations include work crews, offender counseling, vocational training, law-library access, religious services, food service, and security screening. The county page lists Re-entry Skills, Motivation for Change, Problem Solving, welding, HVAC, building maintenance, computer science, Substance Abuse, Anger Management, Family Violence, and Victim Impact programming. Food service follows health and correctional standards, and the captured operations page reported an A - 100 percent kitchen inspection rating.