Rivers State Prison: One Building, Three Very Different Lives

Front entrance of the abandoned Rivers State Prison building at the historic Central State Hospital campus in Milledgeville, Georgia.

Some places seem destined for a single purpose. A school is built to educate. A courthouse is built to deliver justice. A hospital is built to heal. Then there are places like Rivers State Prison. What began as a hospital dedicated to treating one of America’s deadliest diseases eventually became a prison, only to spend … Read more