Coweta County Prison has 216 beds and houses primarily state offenders. State offenders are assigned by the Georgia Department of Corrections through a yearly contract approved by the Board of Commissioners.

The Department of Corrections pays the county $22 per day per state offender, effective July 1, 2019. This is the first time the subsidy has increased since 1999. Most county inmates are received from the local courts and are usually sentenced for up to 12 months at the work release center. Only healthy offenders are housed at the prison due to the work requirement of each offender. Skilled and semi-skilled offenders are assigned to a variety of details under the supervision of state-certified correction officers who work for either the prison, the Public Works Division which include Road Department, Fleet Maintenance, and Environmental Management.

The prison is rated as a medium security institution which houses medium and minimum offenders. There are no registered sex offenders housed at this facility. Officers working offenders on outside details are authorized to carry weapons, but most details are unarmed. Only medium/minimum security level offenders work on outside details.

All details work under the direct supervision of a state certified corrections officer and who are deemed peace officers by the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council, they do have the “power of arrest” as it relates to corrections matters.

Offender’s prison labor has saved county taxpayers millions of dollars by providing a ready labor force. Offenders perform a variety of functions for the county including: