The Baldwin State Prison, previously the Baldwin Correctional Institution and the Georgia Women's Correctional Institution (GWCI), is a prison located in Milledgeville, Georgia, United States,[1] with a Hardwick postal address.

The state decided to move the women to other prison facilities for a total change in culture.

In 1984 several women at GWCI sued the prison, accusing employees of committing sexual abuse.

[6] In the early 1990s, based on affidavits of almost 200 prisoners at GWCI who said they had been abused, more than 12 DOC employees were suspended, fired, and transferred.

[7] As part of the scandal, 15 men and women were indicted on criminal charges of sexually abusing prisoners.

[8][9] In 1992 the sentence of the state's only female death row inmate was commuted to life in prison.

Baldwin was one of nine Georgia state prisons implicated in an FBI sting operation announced in February 2016.

These charges were "part of a larger public corruption investigation into Georgia Correctional Facilities".

[12] In 1992 Eric Harrison of the Los Angeles Times said that it "resembles nothing so much as a low-lying suburban office park or a modern middle school.