Teenage inmates moved from troubled prison

ALTO - The last of 13 teenage inmates have been moved out of a north Georgia prison that was the site of numerous violent incidents among young inmates.

The inmates, aged between 13 and 16, were moved from Lee Arrendale State Prison in Alto after the state Department of Corrections decided to turn the facility into a prison for women.

Prisons Commissioner James Donald had planned to leave the juvenile inmates in a segregated area of the 20-acre prison compound, but later decided to move them to the Al Burruss Correctional Training Center in Forsyth, Ga.

The Lee Arrendale prison served as a reform school for boys before becoming a state prison.