Pulaski State Prison

Pulaski State Prison (PSP) is a Georgia Department of Corrections prison for women located in Hawkinsville, Georgia. It has thirteen buildings with forty eight double bunk rooms. The facility opened in 1994.^[1]

Pulaski State Prison

Location	373 Upper River Road Hawkinsville, Georgia
Status	open
Security class	medium
Capacity	1223
Opened	1994
Managed by	Georgia Department of Corrections

History

Around the period 2005–2015, multiple prisoners at Pulaski died after being treated by Dr. Yvon Nazaire. The State of Georgia hired Dr. Nazaire even though several patient deaths and accusations of malpractice occurred while he was in New York.^[2] Reports in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution listed at least twenty-two prisoners who died under Dr. Nazaire's care—15 in Pulaski, five after being released from Pulaski, and another two at Georgia's Emanuel Women's Facility when Nazaire served there briefly.^[3] The doctor was subsequently fired by the DOC for lying about his qualifications, and put under investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.^[4]

Pulaski was one of nine Georgia state prisons implicated in an FBI sting operation announced in February 2016. The agency indicted 47 corrections staff of different GDC facilities who'd agreed to deliver illegal drugs while in uniform. These charges were "part of a larger public corruption investigation into Georgia Correctional Facilities".^[5]

Notable inmates

Inmate Name	Register Number	Status	Details
Isabel Martinez	1002537550	Serving 5 life sentences.	Murdered her husband and four children by stabbing them to death.[6][7][8][9]
Hannah Payne	1003503764	Serving life sentence with possibility of parole	Murdered 62-year-old Kenneth Herring during a confrontation after a hit-and-run car accident he caused.
Kirstie Flood	1000984940	Life sentence without parole	Murdered 2-year-old girl, Fallon Fridley.
Joanna Hayes	1000591662	Life sentence without parole	Murdered her daughter-in-law Heather Strube.[10]