Locate Turner RSAT Inmates

Turner RSAT Overview

Turner Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Center, often listed by GDC as Turner RSAT Center, is operated by the Georgia Department of Corrections. It is a state facility in Sycamore, Georgia, for adult male felons and state probationers assigned to a six-month Residential Substance Abuse Treatment program. The facility is not the Turner County Jail, does not handle new street-arrest booking for local cases, and does not use the county jail roster as its primary lookup tool.

The official GDC Turner RSAT location page lists Turner RSAT as an RSAT center serving medium-security custody. GDC says Wilcox State Prison is the host facility. The page also provides the facility phone, fax, physical address, mailing address, capacity, construction and opening history, housing details, and program information. For Turner County users, the most important distinction is search scope: county jail records track arrest-stage and local jail custody, while GDC records track state custody, state sentence status, and state program placement.

The matched GDC source for the facility is the Turner RSAT Center page with address, capacity, mission, housing, and directions.

The GDC facility page is the controlling public source for Turner RSAT facility details, not the Turner County jail roster.

Turner RSAT Capacity

GDC lists Turner RSAT Center with capacity for 232 people. The population held is described as adult male felons in a state RSAT program, and the facility is listed at medium security. The research did not find a separate daily population count for Turner RSAT, so the capacity number should be treated as the facility figure that GDC publishes. It should not be blended with Turner County Jail's Vera county jail figures because they measure different systems.

Turner County Jail counts pretrial detainees, local sentenced custody, and people held for local court or bond action. Turner RSAT counts state-supervised program participants assigned by GDC. A person may move from county jail custody into GDC custody after sentencing or revocation, but the lookup source changes when that happens. For a Turner RSAT participant, the GDC offender query is the best public tool for confirming active or inactive state custody, institution history, sentence status, and available profile details.

Turner RSAT Inmate Lookup

Use the GDC offender query to search for someone assigned to Turner Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Center. Georgia.gov and GDC distinguish this state locator from county jail searches. GDC is the right path for offenders currently in GDC facilities, while county jail inmates are found through county websites. The GDC system also warns that profile information is offered for public convenience and should be verified by written correspondence with GDC Inmate Records and Information when accuracy is critical.

Search can start with a name, GDC ID number, case number, or a mix of filters. Useful filters include Most Recent Institution, conviction county, active or inactive records, and result display with or without photos. The institution dropdown includes Turner-related options, and conviction county can be set to Turner County if the person was convicted there. For broad searches, use fewer filters first. Too many filters can hide a record if a name spelling, middle name, institution, or status is different than expected.

The matched GDC locator source is the official offender query search interface.

The GDC query is designed for state offender searches, including Turner RSAT, while Turner County Jail roster records cover local jail custody.

1. Open the GDC offender query and read the GDC disclaimer before searching.
2. Search by last name and first name, or use a GDC ID or case number if known.
3. Use Most Recent Institution, Turner-related institution options, or Turner County conviction filters only when the first search is too broad.
4. Check active and inactive status if the person may have been released, transferred, or moved from Turner RSAT.
5. Open the profile and verify institution, photo if displayed, sentence status, and identifying details.

Turner RSAT Inmate Contact

The GDC facility page lists both the street address and the mail address. Use the street address for location and facility contact. Use the P.O. Box for offender mail unless GDC or the facility gives a different current mail rule. Because GDC facilities may route mail, visitation, money, and offender contact through statewide rules and vendor systems, confirm the current process through GDC before mailing anything that could be rejected.

GDC directions say to take I-75 South to the Sycamore/Ocilla exit, turn west from the ramp toward US-41, cross the railroad tracks, then turn left at the next road after the tracks. The facility is a few hundred yards down on the right. The source text had some duplicated distance wording, so only the clear non-duplicated route should be used for trip planning.

Turner RSAT Inmate Visits

Turner RSAT visitation follows Georgia Department of Corrections rules, not Turner County Jail rules. GDC state-prison and RSAT visitation commonly involves approval, scheduling, identification, dress standards, search rules, and facility-specific limits. A visitor should start with GDC's Visit an Inmate information, then confirm Turner RSAT's current requirements by phone. Do not assume that a person eligible for visits at a county jail can be visited the same way after transfer to GDC custody.

The research did not locate a Turner RSAT day-by-day public visit schedule in the inspected source text. The best supported schedule entry is therefore a call-confirmed schedule under GDC rules. Ask whether the participant is eligible for visits, whether approval is complete, whether the visit is in person or video, and whether the person's treatment or classification status changes access. Treatment programs can have schedule limits that are not obvious from a public locator result.

Turner RSAT Inmate Mail

Mail and money for Turner Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Center should use GDC channels, not Turner County Jail vendors. JailATM is tied to Turner County Jail commissary deposits. Turner RSAT is a state facility, so GDC's Contact an Offender rules and Send Money to an Offender information are the correct starting points. GDC rules can control what can be mailed, how the envelope is addressed, what items are rejected, and how money reaches an offender account.

For mail, use the GDC-published Turner RSAT mail address unless GDC or the facility provides an updated instruction. Include the offender's full name and identifying number when required by GDC. Avoid sending cash, personal checks, stamps, packages, or treatment materials unless the current GDC rule allows them. For funds, follow GDC's current approved payment options and fees. The research did not capture a Turner RSAT-specific fee schedule, so transaction costs should be checked on the GDC money page and any linked vendor path.

Turner RSAT Inmate Intake

Turner RSAT intake is not street-arrest booking. A person entering this facility is in the state corrections system and is assigned to a treatment program. GDC describes the mission as a six-month Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Facility for high-risk and high-need offenders with substance-abuse histories. The facility works with Spectrum Health Systems to provide structured therapeutic substance-abuse treatment. The stated goal is to return graduates to society as law-abiding, self-supporting, pro-social citizens and to reduce recidivism.

Housing is also different from a county jail booking unit. GDC says Turner RSAT has four open dormitories with double and triple bunks, housing 57 people in each dorm, plus four isolation or segregation cells. Housing types are listed as open dormitory, single cells, and medium. Programs include Academic GED, individual counseling, group counseling in a therapeutic community setting, general recreation, and various worship services. A person in this setting may have program limits or classification rules that do not appear on a simple search result.

RSAT

Residential Substance Abuse Treatment, a structured GDC treatment program.

GDC

Georgia Department of Corrections, the state agency that operates the offender locator and Turner RSAT.

Host facility

The prison or GDC institution that supports another facility's administration or operations.

About Turner RSAT Custody

GDC says the site was constructed in 2004, opened in 2006 as a pre-release center, and was remissioned in July 2012 as a six-month Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Facility. Its earlier role housed medium and minimum offenders with less than five years remaining to tentative parole month or maximum release date. Its current public mission centers on treatment for chronic substance abuse or dependence and chronic recidivistic tendencies.

For Turner County record searches, Turner RSAT creates a common point of confusion. The facility is inside Turner County, but it is not the Turner County Jail and does not serve as the first stop for new local arrests. A person arrested on a Turner County case may start in the jail in Ashburn and later appear in GDC records after sentencing, revocation, or transfer. For the county-jail side of that path, the separate Turner County jail inmate records page covers the roster and local records request route.