Metro State Prison

Metro State Prison, previously the Metro Correctional Institution,[1] is an American former Georgia Department of Corrections prison for women in unincorporated southern DeKalb County, Georgia,[2] near Atlanta.

[1] Georgia DOC officials said that the gender swap occurred because many female prisoners were from Greater Atlanta and the proximity would provide more opportunities for family members to visit them.

In addition, the location allowed female prisoners to have more access to psychological and medical services available in Greater Atlanta.

Lynn Cook of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution said "[t]he swap also made [sic] to get the female inmates out of a culture at Georgia Women’s Correctional Institution that had allowed officers and other workers at the prison to engage in sexual relationships with inmates.

In April 2011 a spokesperson for the Georgia DOC said that the state had no plans for the facility.