Search Telfair State Prison Inmates

Telfair State Prison Overview

Georgia Department of Corrections lists Telfair State Prison as a state prison at Helena. GDC describes the facility as serving adult male felons at close security. The 2025 PREA audit also lists minimum, medium, and close custody levels held at the prison. That makes the Telfair State Prison inmate lookup different from a Telfair County Jail custody check. The jail is local and sheriff-run. The prison is a state corrections facility.

GDC lists Telfair State Prison as constructed in 1991 and opened in 1992. The facility page describes a close-security general population mission and notes that the prison is a Tier I and II STEP facility and a vegan diet facility. The prison also houses a C.E.R.T. Team and Tactical Squad. These details come from the state facility page and should not be copied onto the county jail page.

The manifest image for this facility comes from the GDC Telfair State Prison facility page.

The screenshot matches the GDC source used for capacity, visitation, housing, program, contact, and facility type details on the prison page.

Telfair State Prison Population

GDC and the 2025 PREA audit for Telfair State Prison give a detailed population snapshot for Telfair State Prison. The GDC facility page lists capacity as 1,400. The PREA final audit submitted May 21, 2025 lists designed capacity as 1,420, current population as 1,415, and average daily population for the prior 12 months as 1,410. The same audit notes that Telfair State Prison had been over capacity at some point in the prior 12 months.

Find Telfair State Prison Inmates

Telfair State Prison inmates are searched through the GDC Offender Query. The Georgia.gov Find an Offender service page says the GDC search can locate offenders by name, ID or case number, age, and other identifying information. It also says county-jail searches should go through the county. That distinction is important in Telfair County because Telfair County Jail has no official online roster located, while Telfair State Prison is part of the statewide GDC lookup system.

1. Open the GDC Offender Query and accept the disclaimer gate before searching.
2. Search by last name and first name, or use a GDC ID number or case number when known.
3. Use filters such as gender, race, age, conviction county, offense, and most recent institution if the name is common.
4. Confirm the most recent institution field before assuming the person is held at Telfair State Prison.
5. Use active or inactive offender options when checking current incarceration or older GDC records.

Telfair State Prison Contact

GDC publishes the prison's physical address, phone, fax, and mailing address. The 2025 PREA audit lists Warden Andrew Mcfarlane, PREA manager Anntionette Johnson, and health services administrator Marie Yawn. Those names are source-specific snapshots from the audit and should be verified through GDC before relying on current staff assignments.

For local arrests, Telfair County Jail and the Sheriff's Office remain the local custody contacts. For a sentenced state prisoner housed at Telfair State Prison, GDC is the controlling agency for offender records, visitation approval, mail, phones, money, packages, classification, and release or parole-related lookup.

Telfair State Prison Visits

GDC lists Telfair State Prison visitation on Saturdays, Sundays, and state holidays from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The GDC visitation process is more formal than a county jail visit. A visitor must become approved, submit the required application to the facility, and schedule visits online after approval. The GDC visit an inmate page also covers dress code, contraband, application handling, and visit-related procedures.

GDC visitation instructions state that email forms are not accepted. Visitors should confirm approval, schedule status, dress code, and any current facility limits before traveling to Helena. The county jail's missing visitor schedule does not affect the GDC-published Telfair State Prison visitation hours.

Telfair State Prison Mail

Mail, phone, money, and packages for Telfair State Prison follow GDC state-facility rules. The GDC contact an offender page lists Securus Technologies as the phone provider, gives 1-800-844-6591 as the provider number, lists $0.08 per minute local and long-distance rates, and states a 25-minute call maximum. Those details apply to GDC facilities, not to Telfair County Jail unless the county separately confirms the same vendor.

GDC money instructions state that users must be on the approved visitor list. Package rules should be checked through GDC before ordering because state prison package programs have approved-vendor and eligibility limits. Do not send money or packages based on county jail rules when the person is housed at Telfair State Prison.

Telfair State Prison Housing

GDC describes Telfair State Prison housing in specific terms. The facility has eight housing units. Five are double-bunked cell units, two are open dormitories, and the isolation or segregation unit includes 40 single cells and 40 double-bunked cells. This structure supports a state-prison population with different custody levels and program assignments.

Close security

A GDC custody level with more restrictive supervision than lower-security settings.

PREA

The Prison Rape Elimination Act audit process used to review facility compliance standards.

Classification

The process used to assign custody level, housing, programs, and supervision needs.

Telfair State Prison Programs

GDC publishes a broad program and work list for Telfair State Prison. Work details include an inmate fire department, Correctional Industries, food service, institutional maintenance and sanitation, and environmental activities. Academic programs include GED, Adult Basic Education, and literacy remedial work. Counseling and reentry programs include family violence, re-entry, health education, Motivation for Change, Thinking for a Change, AA/NA, Confronting Self, SOPP, and Moral Reconation Therapy.

Vocational and on-the-job training details include warehouse, building maintenance, laundry, food preparation, custodial maintenance, grounds keeper, barber, general clerk, auto mechanics helper, baker, basic computer, two computer labs, and tag plant. GDC also lists general recreation, religious activities, Bible study, and pastoral counseling. These are prison programs for GDC offenders and should not be treated as Telfair County Jail programs.

Telfair State Prison Records

GDC offender records are the main public lookup path for Telfair State Prison. The GDC query page warns that photographs of offenders, if available, display automatically, and also states that users should verify information by written correspondence with Inmate Records and Information at P.O. Box 1529, Forsyth, GA 31029. First Offender Act records are not available on the GDC website per the research inspection.

If the person is still in local pretrial custody, use the Telfair County Jail contact path instead. If the person is in federal custody, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator. If the person is in immigration custody, use the ICE Online Detainee Locator System. No BOP or ICE detention facility was located in Telfair County, but those locators can still matter after a transfer or federal case.

The 2025 PREA audit gives the most detailed recent facility snapshot in the research. It lists the on-site audit dates as March 3 through March 7, 2025, states the final report was submitted May 21, 2025, and reports 45 standards met with 0 not met. It also lists 97 staff with inmate contact, 24 contractors with contact, and 10 volunteers with contact.