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Thu., February 2, 2012 3:12pm
Fifty officers graduated from an officer training program in Millen. Eventually 200 people will work at new private prison in Jenkins County. New factory could also be on the way.
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Thu., August 18, 2011 11:00am
The discovery of East Georgia's Camp Lawton prison stockade a year ago this week was considered one of the biggest Civil War finds in decades. Georgia Southern University has unveiled a new artifact relating to the site. An archaeologist says, it goes to the heart of what it meant to live at Camp Lawton.
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Fri., September 17, 2010 2:28pm
Jenkins County has seen its luck turn around. The recent discovery of a civil war prison could bring thousands of tourists to town. But now the county known for having the highest unemployment rate in the state will be the site of a new state prison.
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Mon., August 30, 2010 2:45pm
A private prison broke ground Monday in middle Georgia. The 1,000-bed facility in Milledgeville is expected to employ 235 people when it opens in 2012.
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Thu., August 19, 2010 3:24pm
At the site of a confederate prison camp in Jenkins County archeologists continue to uncover what could be hundreds of priceless civil war artifacts. The find could give a much needed boost to the county’s flat lined economy.
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Fri., March 19, 2010 6:47am
Hospital in Jenkins County can't afford to do procedures like colonoscopies
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Wed., February 10, 2010 2:42pm
A new 1-thousand bed prison is coming to Milledgeville
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Wed., November 11, 2009 1:39pm
A new state prison could be coming to Jenkins County bringing with it jobs
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Tue., October 13, 2009 12:02pm
Hundreds turned out in Millen for a public meeting on a new state prison th
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Sun., October 11, 2009 6:29pm
The construction of a new state prison facility is the subject of a public
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