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Coastal Transitional Center Overview

Coastal Transitional Center is a Georgia Department of Corrections transitional and community correctional facility at 309 Stiles Avenue in Savannah. The research identified a GDC-hosted PREA audit as the strongest official facility source for the address, phone number, state facility status, and facility type. The audit describes the facility type as an "Other community correctional facility" and states a mission of protecting the public by providing community residential services to inmates before discharge or parole from incarceration.

This is not a Chatham County Jail unit. It is not searched through the sheriff's 24-hour or 72-hour booking feed. Coastal Transitional Center residents are state inmates or residents in a transition setting, often tied to work release, parole preparation, or community reentry. GDC material identifies Coastal State Prison as the host facility for Coastal Transitional Center, so state prison contacts and GDC records matter more than county jail contacts.

Coastal Transitional Center Population

No current public GDC location page for Coastal Transitional Center was located in the assigned research. The most concrete official population scale came from GDC Hurricane Dorian releases. On September 3, 2019, GDC reported that 1,670 Coastal State Prison offenders and 260 Coastal Transitional Center residents had been evacuated because of Hurricane Dorian. On September 7, 2019, GDC reported that all 1,930 were safely back in those coastal facilities.

The 260 figure should be read as a documented historical emergency count, not a current bed count or daily population. It is useful because it confirms the facility scale and GDC operational control during coastal weather events.

Search Coastal Transitional Center Records

Use GDC Find an Offender for Coastal Transitional Center lookup. GDC's search guidance supports searches by name, description, ID, or case number, with age and other identifying details helping narrow matches. GDC warns users to verify information by written correspondence with Inmate Records and Information at PO Box 1529, Forsyth, GA 31029 before treating it as complete.

1. Open GDC Find an Offender rather than the Chatham County booking feed.
2. Search by name, GDC ID, case number, or other identifying details.
3. Review the returned facility or location field for Coastal Transitional Center or related GDC placement.
4. Confirm location before travel, mail, money deposits, or work-release assumptions.
5. If the person was recently arrested in Chatham County, start with the county booking feed and court records, then use GDC after state custody begins.

The GDC locator is not a county jail roster and should not be used to find fresh local bookings. A person arrested by Savannah PD, Chatham County PD, Pooler PD, Garden City PD, or another local agency usually starts in Chatham County Jail. The transitional center lookup becomes relevant after state custody and transition placement.

Coastal Transitional Center Contact

The PREA audit and facility map identify the physical address and phone number. Because the research did not locate a current full GDC public location page for Coastal Transitional Center, avoid adding unverified office hours, current superintendent names, visitation windows, or fee schedules. Use the documented contact details and GDC locator for the state custody path.

Coastal Transitional Center Visitation

The assigned research does not provide a current public visitation schedule for Coastal Transitional Center. It does say visitation, mail, and money should follow GDC or state transitional-center rules and any instructions from the facility or host facility. That means the correct public guidance is to confirm with the center or GDC before planning a visit, rather than borrowing the Chatham County Jail schedule or the Coastal State Prison table.

Coastal Center Mail Money

Mail, phone, and money rules for Coastal Transitional Center should follow GDC and facility instructions. The Chatham County Jail's JailATM addresses, booking kiosk details, and county visitation phone numbers should not be copied to this state transitional facility. The assigned research supports the facility address, phone, GDC operator, host facility, and resident mission, but it does not document a current Coastal Transitional Center commissary fee table.

Coastal Transitional Center Mission

The PREA audit mission statement is narrow but important. Coastal Transitional Center provides community residential services to inmates before discharge or parole. That means residents are still in state custody or state correctional control, but the facility's purpose differs from a medium-security prison dorm or county jail intake unit. The focus is transition, community placement, supervision, and public protection.

For a Chatham County reader, the practical difference is the lookup route. A recent arrest goes to Chatham County Jail records. A state sentence or transition placement goes through GDC. A person may move from Chatham County Jail to GDC after court action, but the county jail feed does not track the later transitional-center placement as a full state custody record.

Coastal Center Emergency Records

Chatham County's coastal location matters for state correctional operations. GDC's Hurricane Dorian releases show that the agency evacuated Coastal State Prison and Coastal Transitional Center residents before the storm and returned them afterward. The release also told family and friends to use the GDC Call Center at (404) 656-4661 for up-to-date offender location information and said inmate locations are updated about 24 hours after relocation.

That emergency context helps explain why a GDC locator result can lag during facility moves or coastal weather events. It also supports a practical rule: if a location appears wrong during an emergency, confirm through GDC rather than assuming the resident has been released or transferred permanently.

County Jail or Transitional Center

The three official Chatham facility channels serve different populations. Chatham County Jail is the county booking and pretrial facility. Coastal State Prison is a medium-security GDC prison for adult male felons. Coastal Transitional Center is a GDC community correctional facility for state inmates or residents nearing release or parole. The same person can appear in more than one system over time, but each stage has its own lookup path.