Locate Phillips State Prison Offenders

Phillips State Prison Overview

The GDC Phillips State Prison page lists the facility at 2989 West Rock Quarry Road in Buford. GDC describes Phillips State Prison as a state prison for adult male felons, with a special mission to house offenders who have had management problems at other prisons or centers and those who could pose a risk if housed elsewhere. GDC also states that Phillips provides all mental-health service levels, including Level IV and crisis stabilization.

Phillips State Prison is the host facility for Atlanta Medical Center and Phillips Transitional Center. It should not be searched through Gwinnett County JAIL View except when a person was still in sheriff jail custody before transfer. Once a sentenced person is assigned to Phillips, the GDC offender query is the official public lookup route.

The GDC facility page below is the source for the prison's capacity, visitation hours, housing, special mission, and program details.

Use the state facility page for prison-specific rules and the GDC locator for current offender status.

Phillips State Prison Population

GDC lists Phillips State Prison capacity as 918. The facility serves sentenced adult male felons and includes special-management, mental-health, isolation, segregation, CERT, tactical, and canine-unit functions. Housing is described as 10 living units, each with two dormitories. Seven and a half units have two-man cells, while the remaining space combines two single-man cells. GDC also lists 100 isolation or segregation cells.

The prison's special mission affects how a custody result should be read. A Phillips assignment may reflect management history, mental-health service needs, special housing, or another GDC operational reason rather than a simple tie to the county where the conviction occurred. A Gwinnett arrest can start in local jail custody, but a Phillips result is state custody. The locator may show the current prison assignment, while court and sentence records explain the conviction path that led there.

Phillips State Prison Lookup

The correct locator is GDC Find an Offender. Georgia.gov says users can search by name, ID or case number, age, and other identifying information. GDC warns that photos display automatically if available, that it makes no warranty as to completeness or accuracy, and that transfer dates are not provided for security reasons.

1. Open the GDC offender query and read the disclaimer.
2. Search by full name, then broaden with the first four letters of the last name if needed.
3. Add ID, case number, age, or other identifiers for common names.
4. Check the current incarceration location to confirm Phillips State Prison.
5. Use written verification with GDC Inmate Records and Information when an official confirmation is needed.

Phillips State Prison Contact

Use the GDC facility contact for prison-specific custody, visitation, and mail questions. The research did not capture a public lobby schedule outside GDC's visitation window, so call before travel for non-visit business or records routing.

Phillips State Prison Visits

GDC lists Phillips State Prison visitation hours as 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM on Saturdays, Sundays, and state holidays. State prison visits generally require approval, identification, dress-code compliance, and facility scheduling rules. Because GDC visitation rules can change by custody level, housing status, emergency order, or discipline status, confirm the approval and schedule before travel.

Phillips Prison Mail and Money

The research did not capture a Phillips-specific commissary fee table or mail format. Use GDC's current statewide resources for contacting an offender and sending money to an offender. Do not use the Gwinnett County Jail's JailATM postcard scanning address for a person assigned to Phillips State Prison, because that system belongs to the sheriff jail.

Phillips State Prison Programs

GDC lists education, treatment, faith, reentry, and vocational programs at Phillips State Prison. Education includes GED, adult basic education, special education, literacy, and remedial work. Counseling and treatment programs include Motivation for Change, Thinking for a Change, Moral Reconation Therapy, lifers groups, family violence, reentry, AA/NA, Matrix relapse and early recovery, mental-health groups, faith and character, hospice care, and Truett McConnell University programming.

Vocational and on-the-job training options make the facility distinctly local to Phillips. GDC lists auto body, auto mechanics, welding, small engine, barbering, woodworking, food preparation, printing, building or custodial maintenance, career clerk, library clerk, and laundry. Work details include outside grounds, Georgia Correctional Industries, and details serving surrounding cities and counties.

Those work-detail and program lists are useful because they show why Phillips State Prison is more than a custody address in a locator result. They do not replace offender-specific records, but they help explain the prison's role inside Georgia's system. When a person is listed at Phillips, mail, money, visitation, records, and status questions should be routed through GDC and the facility phone instead of the sheriff jail, the county work-release complex, or federal locator tools.

The program mix also explains why visit and phone questions may depend on housing status. Mental-health placement, special management, segregation status, or work-detail assignment can affect movement inside the prison even when the public locator shows the same facility name.

State prison

A GDC facility for sentenced offenders, not a county pretrial jail.

Special management

Housing or supervision for offenders with higher management needs.

GDC locator

The state offender search for prison custody, facility assignment, and identifying details.

Transfer date

A movement date GDC says it does not provide for security reasons.