Lookup Augusta Transitional Center Residents

Augusta Transitional Overview

GDC's Augusta Transitional Center profile describes a minimum-security transitional center at 601 Taylor Street in Augusta. The facility serves adult male felons and is designed for transition back into the community through work release, permanent worker roles, and reentry programming. The research lists Augusta State Medical Prison as the host facility and gives a capacity of 230. It was constructed and opened in 2002.

The facility's mission differs from a county jail. Charles B. Webster Detention Center handles Richmond County pretrial and local jail custody. Augusta Transitional Center handles sentenced state offenders who have reached a transition stage, including residents assigned to work release and permanent workers assigned to food service, sanitation, and building maintenance. The distinction matters because the county jail roster can miss a person who has moved into GDC custody.

The successful manifest image comes from the official GDC Augusta Transitional Center profile, the best source for facility type, capacity, mission, and directions.

The GDC profile anchors this page's use of statewide offender search, GDC visitation approval, and state money and package rules.

Augusta Transitional Population

The research gives a clear capacity figure for Augusta Transitional Center: GDC lists capacity as 230. The same profile describes the facility as minimum security and serving adult male felons. GDC's facility details also identify 12 permanent workers in food service, sanitation, and building maintenance, plus 173 residents assigned to work release. Those figures show the transitional-center function better than a standard jail bed count would.

Augusta Transitional Custody Search

Use the GDC Offender Query to search for Augusta Transitional Center residents. The GDC locator can search by last name, first name, GDC ID number, case number, conviction county, sentence status, scope, and most recent institution. The institution dropdown includes Augusta TC. The RCSO roster is only useful if the person is separately in Richmond County jail custody after a new local arrest.

1. Open the GDC Offender Query and agree to the disclaimer if the portal requires it.
2. Search by name, GDC ID, or case number. Use partial names when spelling is uncertain.
3. Choose Augusta TC in the Most Recent Institution field when too many results appear.
4. Set scope to active and inactive if the person may have moved, released, or transferred.
5. Read the offender profile and verify critical details with GDC when accuracy matters.

The GDC query also lets users narrow by conviction county, sentence status, age, race, gender, physical descriptors, primary offense, and active or inactive status. For Augusta Transitional Center, the most recent institution filter is especially useful because a resident may have a Richmond County connection, a different conviction county, or a recent transfer from another GDC facility.

Augusta Transitional Contact

Augusta Transitional Center has its own GDC facility contact information. Family, employers, and visitors should not route routine transitional-center questions through the Richmond County Sheriff's Office Booking Desk unless the question concerns a separate county jail arrest. GDC directions say that from Atlanta, travelers use I-20 east to Washington Road, then Calhoun Expressway, Greene Street, Seventh Street, and Taylor Street, with Augusta TC on the left at Sixth and Taylor.

Augusta Transitional Visits

Augusta Transitional Center visitation follows Georgia Department of Corrections visitation rules. Residents use facility processes to manage visitor lists through counselors. The facility must approve and schedule visits before arrival. Special visits generally require advance notice, and former offenders, probationers, or parolees may need superintendent or warden approval plus a clear GCIC history for the required period.

Because this is a minimum-security transitional center, some residents may have work-release schedules. That does not create open public access. Facility approval, current resident status, visit times, ID rules, and any work-release schedule conflicts should be confirmed with Augusta Transitional Center before travel.

Augusta Transitional Mail

GDC contact rules apply to Augusta Transitional Center. The research lists Securus as the GDC phone provider, with accounts through Securus or 1-800-844-6591. Calls may be monitored and recorded, call forwarding and three-way calls are prohibited, and maximum call length is 25 minutes. Do not use RCSO jail phone funding methods for a GDC resident unless the person is back in county jail custody.

GDC also lists money order voucher options. Package orders depend on eligibility and current GDC vendor rules. A work-release or transitional-center assignment can affect daily schedules, but it does not replace GDC mail, phone, money, or package controls.

Augusta Transitional Intake

Augusta Transitional Center intake is a corrections placement process, not street-arrest booking. Residents are adult male felons assigned through GDC into transition, work release, permanent worker roles, or related reentry programming. If a person was just arrested in Richmond County, start with the RCSO inmate inquiry and Booking Desk. If the person is serving a state sentence or has moved into reentry custody, search GDC.

The GDC profile describes housing on a single floor with two-, four-, and eight-man rooms, including accessible two-man rooms. Permanent workers serve food service, sanitation, and building maintenance. Work-release residents may leave for approved work while still remaining under facility rules, custody status, and GDC supervision.

This placement can be easy to confuse with release from custody. The resident may be in the community for an approved job or program, yet the controlling record remains a GDC offender record. Searchers should check the GDC profile for most recent institution and active status, then contact Augusta Transitional Center for visit, work-release, or scheduling questions that a public lookup record does not answer.

The address also matters because Augusta Transitional Center is downtown at Taylor Street, while the main county jail population facility is on Phinizy Road. A person trying to deliver paperwork, confirm a work-release schedule, or plan a visit should not assume a Richmond County jail location applies. The facility contact number and GDC locator should be used to confirm the correct custody setting first.

Augusta Transitional Programs

Program detail is one of the strongest research areas for Augusta Transitional Center. GDC lists GED, Adult Basic Education, Literacy, Odyssey Program, Fatherhood, Housing Services, Public Health, Work Ethics, Job Readiness, 12-Step Groups, Celebrate Recovery, BASICS World Of Work, general recreation, and community volunteer work. The profile also lists worship services, Bible study, Taleem, Gospel Choir, food services, maintenance, laundry, barbering, OSHA, forklift, and ServSafe.

Those programs reflect the facility's reentry mission. A resident may be working, attending programming, preparing for housing or employment, or performing permanent worker duties while still appearing in the GDC locator. For victim notification or custody-change alerts, Georgia VINELink remains a separate notification channel and should be used alongside the GDC locator when notification matters.

Program names also help distinguish this center from Richmond County Correctional Institution. RCCI is described as a work camp supporting Augusta-Richmond County government labor details, while Augusta Transitional Center focuses on work release, job readiness, housing services, public health, and reentry skills. Both are state-corrections pathways, but neither should be described as the county jail roster for recent arrests.

That distinction should remain clear in mail and money instructions too. A person at Augusta Transitional Center uses GDC communication, deposit, and package systems. A person at Charles B. Webster Detention Center uses the county jail's TextBehind, InmateSales, and RCSO visitor process. Mixing the two can delay mail, visits, and deposits, especially when a family member uses the wrong custody agency or mailing format.