The Childersburg Community Complex is composed of three separate facilities, each with a separate mandate.

CHILDERSBURG COMMUNITY WORK CENTER is a community works oriented facility with a capacity for 250 inmates classified as minimum-out custody. The inmates providing free labor are assigned to individual community squads and the squads are assigned to various state and local governmental agencies. The agencies accept responsibility for supervising the assigned squad and transporting it to and from the Center.

CHILDERSRBURG BOOT CAMP is an intensive ninety (90) to one hundred eighty (180) day program with emphasis on a military boot camp style regiment; to include strict discipline, rigorous exercise, Adult Basic Education (ABE), substance abuse and life skills counseling. The facility has a capacity of 150 inmates per cycle. Boot camp participants are not processed through the Receiving & Classification at Kilby like usual inmates entering the Department. Rather, participants are sentenced directly from the committing county to the program by court order under a judge’s review. After successful completion of Boot Camp, the inmate returns to the jurisdiction of the sentencing judge for final disposition of the sentence.

CHILDERSBURG WORK RELEASE CENTER became operational in July 1996 and has a capacity for 135 inmates. As a reintegrative program, the inmates work in free-world jobs during the day and return to the Center after work. The inmates have 32.5% of their gross salary deducted from their prevailing wages to help defray the cost of their incarceration.