Jail Report - Georgia Sheriffs' Association

Inmate Counts Reported to Georgia Sheriffs' Association By Each Sheriff's Office For Their Inmate Population for May, 2026

ITEM	May	April	Increase/Decrease
1 - Number of Jail Inmates	26,659	32,059	-5,400
2 - Capacity of Jails Reporting (permanent beds)	37,394	45,171	-7,777
3 - Percent of Jail Capacity	71.3%	71.0%	0.3%
4 - Number of Jails Over Capacity	12	14	-2
5 - Inmates Sentenced to State Institutions	1,952	2,357	-405
6 - Percent of State-Sentenced Inmates Housed at County Level	7.3%	7.4%	0.0%
7 - Number of Inmates Awaiting Trial	19,056	22,103	-3,047
8 - Percent of Inmates Awaiting Trial	71.5%	68.9%	2.5%
9 - Number of Inmates Sentenced to County Jails	2,302	3,323	-1,021
10 - Percent of Inmates Sentenced to County Jails	8.6%	10.4%	-1.7%
11 - Number of Other Inmates	2,079	2,259	-180
12 - Percent of Other Inmates	7.8%	7.0%	0.8%
13 - Number of Jails Reporting	114	143	-29
14 - Number of Counties with Jails	104	127	-23

County Jail Report

Primary Jail Capacity Data
May 2026
(Does not include inmates housed in other detention facilities such as Work Release Centers, County Prisons, etc.)

Jurisdiction		Number of Inmates in Jail	Jail Capacity	Inmates as % of Capacity	Number of Inmates Sentenced to State	% of Inmates Sentenced to State	Number of Inmates Awaiting Trial in Jail	% of Inmates Awaiting Trial in Jail	Number of Inmates Serving County Sentence	% of Inmates Serving County Sentence	Number of Other Inmates	% of Other Inmates
1	Appling	112	193	58%	9	8%	55	49.1%	7	6.3%	23	20.5%
2	Atkinson	76	80	95%	2	2.6%	72	94.7%	2	2.6%	0	0%
3	Bacon	57	74	77%	7	12.3%	50	87.7%	0	0%	0	0%
4	Baker - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Baldwin
6	Banks
7	Barrow	252	378	66.7%	50	19.8%	160	63.5%	22	8.7%	5	2%
8	Bartow
9	Ben Hill
10	Berrien
11	Bibb
12	Bleckley	52	75	69.3%	5	9.6%	41	78.8%	0	0%	6	11.5%
13	Brantley
14	Brooks
15	Bryan	54	68	79.4%	8	14.8%	38	70.4%	2	3.7%	1	1.9%
16	Bulloch	362	450	80.4%	66	18.2%	213	58.8%	57	15.7%	22	6.1%
17	Burke
18	Butts	189	305	62%	4	2.1%	114	60.3%	3	1.6%	14	7.4%
19	Calhoun	28	40	70%	2	7.1%	23	82.1%	1	3.6%	0	0%
20	Camden	132	192	68.8%	5	3.8%	132	100%	0	0%	0	0%
21	Candler	32	72	44.4%	5	15.6%	18	56.3%	1	3.1%	1	3.1%
22	Carroll	541	644	84%	78	14.4%	186	34.4%	269	49.7%	5	0.9%
23	Catoosa	193	248	77.8%	6	3.1%	105	54.4%	14	7.3%	6	3.1%
24	Charlton	0	1	0%	10	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%
25	Chatham	1347	2433	55.4%	20	1.5%	1259	93.5%	31	2.3%	11	0.8%
26	Chattahoochee
27	Chattooga	46	48	95.8%	10	21.7%	19	41.3%	9	19.6%	4	8.7%
28	Cherokee	570	849	67.1%	70	12.3%	409	71.8%	86	15.1%	4	0.7%
29	Clarke	461	839	54.9%	74	16.1%	197	42.7%	12	2.6%	4	0.9%
30	Clay - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	Clayton
32	Clinch
33	Cobb	2254	3131	72%	114	5.1%	1715	76.1%	249	11%	204	9.1%
34	Coffee	379	448	84.6%	24	6.3%	277	73.1%	0	0%	39	10.3%
35	Colquitt
36	Columbia	373	360	103.6%	61	16.4%	255	68.4%	51	13.7%	7	1.9%
37	Cook	100	108	92.6%	18	18%	57	57%	4	4%	4	4%
38	Coweta	592	469	126.2%	19	3.2%	434	73.3%	156	26.4%	3	0.5%
39	Crawford	21	22	95.5%	1	4.8%	16	76.2%	0	0%	0	0%
40	Crisp
41	Dade	66	110	60%	10	15.2%	48	72.7%	5	7.6%	5	7.6%
42	Dawson	119	196	60.7%	9	7.6%	71	59.7%	3	2.5%	3	2.5%
43	Decatur - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
44	DeKalb	1977	3500	56.5%	30	1.5%	1753	88.7%	147	7.4%	370	18.7%
45	Dodge	104	160	65%	8	7.7%	104	100%	2	1.9%	1	1%
46	Dooly	28	163	17.2%	5	17.9%	23	82.1%	0	0%	0	0%
47	Dougherty	733	1230	59.6%	55	7.5%	490	66.8%	50	6.8%	136	18.6%
48	Douglas
49	Early
50	Echols
51	Effingham	170	268	63.4%	34	20%	113	66.5%	6	3.5%	7	4.1%
52	Elbert
53	Emanuel
54	Evans - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
55	Fannin	48	84	57.1%	1	2.1%	33	68.8%	0	0%	16	33.3%
56	Fayette	337	554	60.8%	11	3.3%	324	96.1%	20	5.9%	0	0%
57	Floyd	564	755	74.7%	14	2.5%	290	51.4%	158	28%	142	25.2%
58	Forsyth	327	608	53.8%	21	6.4%	244	74.6%	42	12.8%	4	1.2%
59	Franklin	106	74	143.2%	8	7.5%	60	56.6%	6	5.7%	6	5.7%
60	Fulton
61	Gilmer	72	146	49.3%	11	15.3%	37	51.4%	0	0%	2	2.8%
62	Glascock - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
63	Glynn	515	611	84.3%	18	3.5%	351	68.2%	30	5.8%	20	3.9%
64	Gordon	257	376	68.4%	66	25.7%	86	33.5%	41	16%	0	0%
65	Grady	114	132	86.4%	6	5.3%	77	67.5%	19	16.7%	4	3.5%
66	Greene - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
67	Gwinnett
68	Habersham	185	162	114.2%	22	11.9%	140	75.7%	16	8.6%	7	3.8%
69	Hall	716	1134	63.1%	56	7.8%	548	76.5%	63	8.8%	3	0.4%
70	Hancock
71	Haralson	128	125	102.4%	15	11.7%	96	75%	2	1.6%	32	25%
72	Harris	88	109	80.7%	10	11.4%	79	89.8%	1	1.1%	3	3.4%
73	Hart	172	230	74.8%	20	11.6%	86	50%	0	0%	75	43.6%
74	Heard	36	60	60%	7	19.4%	22	61.1%	0	0%	6	16.7%
75	Henry	825	877	94.1%	15	1.8%	797	96.6%	9	1.1%	0	0%
76	Houston
77	Irwin	666	1297	51.3%	4	0.6%	23	3.5%	0	0%	4	0.6%
78	Jackson
79	Jasper
80	Jeff Davis	73	106	68.9%	5	6.8%	25	34.2%	4	5.5%	8	11%
81	Jefferson	103	162	63.6%	11	10.7%	45	43.7%	0	0%	5	4.9%
82	Jenkins	29	65	44.6%	3	10.3%	21	72.4%	0	0%	0	0%
83	Johnson	21	46	45.7%	2	9.5%	8	38.1%	2	9.5%	16	76.2%
84	Jones	124	167	74.3%	15	12.1%	95	76.6%	10	8.1%	2	1.6%
85	Lamar	69	155	44.5%	4	5.8%	41	59.4%	8	11.6%	5	7.2%
86	Lanier
87	Laurens	197	275	71.6%	11	5.6%	76	38.6%	0	0%	196	99.5%
88	Lee
89	Liberty
90	Lincoln	36	80	45%	6	16.7%	13	36.1%	2	5.6%	1	2.8%
91	Long	0	133	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%
92	Lowndes	738	986	74.8%	47	6.4%	563	76.3%	128	17.3%	0	0%
93	Lumpkin
94	Macon
95	Madison	74	96	77.1%	0	0%	44	59.5%	2	2.7%	25	33.8%
96	Marion	20	30	66.7%	2	10%	11	55%	1	5%	1	5%
97	McDuffie	145	250	58%	12	8.3%	79	54.5%	5	3.4%	49	33.8%
98	McIntosh	84	120	70%	2	2.4%	53	63.1%	1	1.2%	5	6%
99	Meriwether	65	106	61.3%	6	9.2%	50	76.9%	11	16.9%	1	1.5%
100	Miller
101	Mitchell	98	122	80.3%	12	12.2%	60	61.2%	23	23.5%	5	5.1%
102	Monroe	179	175	102.3%	8	4.5%	156	87.2%	5	2.8%	10	5.6%
103	Montgomery - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
104	Morgan	72	232	31%	19	26.4%	36	50%	7	9.7%	4	5.6%
105	Murray
106	Muscogee	1172	1069	109.6%	25	2.1%	1006	85.8%	29	2.5%	11	0.9%
107	Newton
108	Oconee	90	137	65.7%	4	4.4%	56	62.2%	1	1.1%	22	24.4%
109	Oglethorpe
110	Paulding	272	631	43.1%	12	4.4%	241	88.6%	11	4%	11	4%
111	Peach
112	Pickens	95	155	61.3%	12	12.6%	68	71.6%	4	4.2%	3	3.2%
113	Pierce	111	165	67.3%	3	2.7%	107	96.4%	2	1.8%	21	18.9%
114	Pike	21	32	65.6%	1	4.8%	11	52.4%	3	14.3%	5	23.8%
115	Polk	233	240	97.1%	18	7.7%	176	75.5%	25	10.7%	13	5.6%
116	Pulaski	73	64	114.1%	3	4.1%	32	43.8%	0	0%	0	0%
117	Putnam
118	Quitman - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
119	Rabun	121	102	118.6%	5	4.1%	96	79.3%	9	7.4%	10	8.3%
120	Randolph	75	100	75%	7	9.3%	28	37.3%	0	0%	36	48%
121	Richmond	1378	1066	129.3%	80	5.8%	1097	79.6%	63	4.6%	155	11.2%
122	Rockdale	341	758	45%	18	5.3%	309	90.6%	13	3.8%	33	9.7%
123	Schley	9	16	56.3%	0	0%	6	66.7%	1	11.1%	1	11.1%
124	Screven
125	Seminole	43	54	79.6%	4	9.3%	34	79.1%	2	4.7%	3	7%
126	Spalding	550	542	101.5%	29	5.3%	474	86.2%	47	8.5%	2	0.4%
127	Stephens	164	194	84.5%	16	9.8%	132	80.5%	11	6.7%	11	6.7%
128	Stewart
129	Sumter	179	260	68.8%	20	11.2%	157	87.7%	1	0.6%	0	0%
130	Talbot	21	22	95.5%	1	4.8%	1	4.8%	0	0%	20	95.2%
131	Taliaferro - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
132	Tattnall
133	Taylor	32	65	49.2%	1	3.1%	30	93.8%	1	3.1%	1	3.1%
134	Telfair	46	70	65.7%	3	6.5%	43	93.5%	0	0%	0	0%
135	Terrell	40	65	61.5%	0	0%	5	12.5%	0	0%	0	0%
136	Thomas
137	Tift
138	Toombs
139	Towns	20	67	29.9%	1	5%	9	45%	3	15%	1	5%
140	Treutlen	44	50	88%	10	22.7%	19	43.2%	0	0%	11	25%
141	Troup	635	690	92%	30	4.7%	573	90.2%	37	5.8%	3	0.5%
142	Turner	42	108	38.9%	10	23.8%	22	52.4%	0	0%	0	0%
143	Twiggs	29	48	60.4%	3	10.3%	25	86.2%	1	3.4%	0	0%
144	Union	65	57	114%	11	16.9%	41	63.1%	9	13.8%	3	4.6%
145	Upson	132	220	60%	3	2.3%	89	67.4%	2	1.5%	0	0%
146	Walker	206	225	91.6%	50	24.3%	147	71.4%	9	4.4%	0	0%
147	Walton	640	869	73.6%	135	21.1%	431	67.3%	106	16.6%	0	0%
148	Ware
149	Warren - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
150	Washington	172	212	81.1%	19	11%	117	68%	16	9.3%	1	0.6%
151	Wayne	133	182	73.1%	15	11.3%	5	3.8%	35	26.3%	92	69.2%
152	Webster	0	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%
153	Wheeler	20	30	66.7%	4	20%	16	80%	0	0%	0	0%
154	White	101	176	57.4%	6	5.9%	35	34.7%	21	20.8%	3	3%
155	Whitfield	429	544	78.9%	78	18.2%	268	62.5%	28	6.5%	55	12.8%
156	Wilcox	15	16	93.8%	2	13.3%	8	53.3%	1	6.7%	3	20%
157	Wilkes
158	Wilkinson
159	Worth	0	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%
	TOTALS	26,452	37,095	71.3%	1,928	7.3%	19,030	71.9%	2,296	8.7%	2,072	7.8%