Jail Report - Georgia Sheriffs' Association

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

ITEM	August	July	Increase/Decrease
1 - Number of Jail Inmates	27,030	30,394	-3,364
2 - Capacity of Jails Reporting (permanent beds)	36,364	41,914	-5,550
3 - Percent of Jail Capacity	74.3%	72.5%	1.8%
4 - Number of Jails Over Capacity	14	15	-1
5 - Inmates Sentenced to State Institutions	1,994	2,040	-46
6 - Percent of State-Sentenced Inmates Housed at County Level	7.4%	6.7%	0.7%
7 - Number of Inmates Awaiting Trial	18,749	21,471	-2,722
8 - Percent of Inmates Awaiting Trial	69.4%	70.6%	-1.3%
9 - Number of Inmates Sentenced to County Jails	2,594	2,824	-230
10 - Percent of Inmates Sentenced to County Jails	9.6%	9.3%	0.3%
11 - Number of Other Inmates	1,839	2,374	-535
12 - Percent of Other Inmates	6.8%	7.8%	-1.0%
13 - Number of Jails Reporting	105	110	-5
14 - Number of Counties with Jails	95	106	-11

County Jail Report

Primary Jail Capacity Data
August 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	143	193	74.1%	21	14.7%	62	43.4%	7	4.9%	34	23.8%
2	Atkinson
3	Bacon	54	74	73%	5	9.3%	46	85.2%	1	1.9%	2	3.7%
4	Baker - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Baldwin	287	335	85.7%	16	5.6%	143	49.8%	170	59.2%	15	5.2%
6	Banks
7	Barrow	275	378	72.8%	47	17.1%	179	65.1%	21	7.6%	8	2.9%
8	Bartow
9	Ben Hill
10	Berrien
11	Bibb	1022	966	105.8%	68	6.7%	678	66.3%	21	2.1%	24	2.3%
12	Bleckley	45	75	60%	5	11.1%	35	77.8%	0	0%	3	6.7%
13	Brantley	92	120	76.7%	26	28.3%	69	75%	3	3.3%	0	0%
14	Brooks
15	Bryan	51	68	75%	7	13.7%	23	45.1%	4	7.8%	1	2%
16	Bulloch	301	450	66.9%	45	15%	209	69.4%	44	14.6%	3	1%
17	Burke
18	Butts	192	305	63%	8	4.2%	94	49%	10	5.2%	24	12.5%
19	Calhoun	31	40	77.5%	0	0%	25	80.6%	3	9.7%	3	9.7%
20	Camden	113	193	58.5%	6	5.3%	113	100%	2	1.8%	97	85.8%
21	Candler	47	104	45.2%	4	8.5%	31	66%	0	0%	1	2.1%
22	Carroll	588	644	91.3%	64	10.9%	194	33%	381	64.8%	9	1.5%
23	Catoosa	183	248	73.8%	15	8.2%	117	63.9%	19	10.4%	0	0%
24	Charlton
25	Chatham	1421	2433	58.4%	21	1.5%	1325	93.2%	25	1.8%	9	0.6%
26	Chattahoochee
27	Chattooga	63	47	134%	8	12.7%	32	50.8%	5	7.9%	1	1.6%
28	Cherokee	601	849	70.8%	68	11.3%	453	75.4%	75	12.5%	1	0.2%
29	Clarke	534	839	63.6%	73	13.7%	218	40.8%	26	4.9%	3	0.6%
30	Clay - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	Clayton
32	Clinch
33	Cobb	2280	3171	71.9%	100	4.4%	1682	73.8%	273	12%	218	9.6%
34	Coffee - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
35	Colquitt
36	Columbia	378	398	95%	70	18.5%	250	66.1%	48	12.7%	4	1.1%
37	Cook	99	108	91.7%	6	6.1%	69	69.7%	7	7.1%	4	4%
38	Coweta	627	645	97.2%	20	3.2%	422	67.3%	182	29%	7	1.1%
39	Crawford
40	Crisp
41	Dade	47	110	42.7%	9	19.1%	34	72.3%	4	8.5%	4	8.5%
42	Dawson
43	Decatur - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
44	DeKalb
45	Dodge	94	160	58.8%	12	12.8%	94	100%	1	1.1%	0	0%
46	Dooly	26	163	16%	7	26.9%	18	69.2%	2	7.7%	2	7.7%
47	Dougherty	782	1230	63.6%	64	8.2%	528	67.5%	55	7%	134	17.1%
48	Douglas	722	1600	45.1%	56	7.8%	635	88%	10	1.4%	5	0.7%
49	Early
50	Echols
51	Effingham	173	268	64.6%	32	18.5%	123	71.1%	7	4%	4	2.3%
52	Elbert	82	114	71.9%	13	15.9%	53	64.6%	18	22%	2	2.4%
53	Emanuel	146	125	116.8%	1	0.7%	78	53.4%	6	4.1%	9	6.2%
54	Evans - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
55	Fannin	63	84	75%	2	3.2%	38	60.3%	0	0%	25	39.7%
56	Fayette
57	Floyd	534	755	70.7%	19	3.6%	279	52.2%	105	19.7%	86	16.1%
58	Forsyth	307	608	50.5%	27	8.8%	223	72.6%	48	15.6%	4	1.3%
59	Franklin	84	74	113.5%	17	20.2%	57	67.9%	6	7.1%	9	10.7%
60	Fulton
61	Gilmer	69	146	47.3%	4	5.8%	33	47.8%	0	0%	0	0%
62	Glascock
63	Glynn	511	611	83.6%	15	2.9%	365	71.4%	20	3.9%	40	7.8%
64	Gordon	300	376	79.8%	56	18.7%	99	33%	41	13.7%	6	2%
65	Grady
66	Greene - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
67	Gwinnett
68	Habersham	176	162	108.6%	16	9.1%	144	81.8%	9	5.1%	7	4%
69	Hall	724	1134	63.8%	51	7%	558	77.1%	66	9.1%	3	0.4%
70	Hancock
71	Haralson	125	125	100%	6	4.8%	24	19.2%	101	80.8%	23	18.4%
72	Harris	92	109	84.4%	15	16.3%	70	76.1%	0	0%	3	3.3%
73	Hart	169	230	73.5%	17	10.1%	102	60.4%	0	0%	58	34.3%
74	Heard	34	60	56.7%	1	2.9%	26	76.5%	2	5.9%	4	11.8%
75	Henry	870	877	99.2%	9	1%	849	97.6%	20	2.3%	0	0%
76	Houston
77	Irwin	856	1297	66%	0	0%	26	3%	2	0.2%	4	0.5%
78	Jackson	263	463	56.8%	28	10.6%	195	74.1%	10	3.8%	36	13.7%
79	Jasper
80	Jeff Davis	53	106	50%	7	13.2%	43	81.1%	0	0%	0	0%
81	Jefferson	113	162	69.8%	7	6.2%	47	41.6%	2	1.8%	4	3.5%
82	Jenkins	25	65	38.5%	5	20%	16	64%	0	0%	1	4%
83	Johnson	30	46	65.2%	4	13.3%	20	66.7%	0	0%	19	63.3%
84	Jones
85	Lamar
86	Lanier
87	Laurens	217	275	78.9%	6	2.8%	74	34.1%	0	0%	217	100%
88	Lee	91	120	75.8%	8	8.8%	69	75.8%	14	15.4%	0	0%
89	Liberty
90	Lincoln	33	80	41.3%	4	12.1%	11	33.3%	2	6.1%	1	3%
91	Long
92	Lowndes	765	993	77%	61	8%	568	74.2%	136	17.8%	0	0%
93	Lumpkin	140	256	54.7%	3	2.1%	73	52.1%	3	2.1%	53	37.9%
94	Macon
95	Madison	75	96	78.1%	0	0%	50	66.7%	4	5.3%	18	24%
96	Marion	15	30	50%	2	13.3%	11	73.3%	2	13.3%	0	0%
97	McDuffie
98	McIntosh	71	120	59.2%	3	4.2%	49	69%	1	1.4%	1	1.4%
99	Meriwether	33	106	31.1%	6	18.2%	24	72.7%	3	9.1%	0	0%
100	Miller	47	72	65.3%	5	10.6%	38	80.9%	2	4.3%	0	0%
101	Mitchell	98	122	80.3%	7	7.1%	78	79.6%	11	11.2%	4	4.1%
102	Monroe	180	175	102.9%	4	2.2%	157	87.2%	6	3.3%	14	7.8%
103	Montgomery - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
104	Morgan	87	232	37.5%	12	13.8%	42	48.3%	11	12.6%	4	4.6%
105	Murray	153	160	95.6%	43	28.1%	62	40.5%	28	18.3%	0	0%
106	Muscogee	1247	1069	116.7%	31	2.5%	1059	84.9%	25	2%	9	0.7%
107	Newton
108	Oconee	82	137	59.9%	1	1.2%	58	70.7%	3	3.7%	18	22%
109	Oglethorpe
110	Paulding	263	631	41.7%	7	2.7%	183	69.6%	7	2.7%	63	24%
111	Peach
112	Pickens	85	155	54.8%	12	14.1%	57	67.1%	6	7.1%	10	11.8%
113	Pierce	121	165	73.3%	1	0.8%	117	96.7%	1	0.8%	12	9.9%
114	Pike	22	32	68.8%	1	4.5%	21	95.5%	2	9.1%	0	0%
115	Polk	253	240	105.4%	26	10.3%	186	73.5%	27	10.7%	12	4.7%
116	Pulaski	78	64	121.9%	2	2.6%	12	15.4%	2	2.6%	0	0%
117	Putnam
118	Quitman - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
119	Rabun	136	152	89.5%	6	4.4%	111	81.6%	11	8.1%	7	5.1%
120	Randolph	85	100	85%	47	55.3%	36	42.4%	1	1.2%	49	57.6%
121	Richmond	1325	1066	124.3%	78	5.9%	1046	78.9%	66	5%	147	11.1%
122	Rockdale	363	758	47.9%	25	6.9%	302	83.2%	19	5.2%	28	7.7%
123	Schley	8	16	50%	0	0%	7	87.5%	0	0%	1	12.5%
124	Screven
125	Seminole	38	54	70.4%	4	10.5%	27	71.1%	4	10.5%	4	10.5%
126	Spalding	559	542	103.1%	44	7.9%	486	86.9%	27	4.8%	2	0.4%
127	Stephens	166	192	86.5%	9	5.4%	148	89.2%	11	6.6%	4	2.4%
128	Stewart
129	Sumter	171	260	65.8%	32	18.7%	137	80.1%	2	1.2%	0	0%
130	Talbot	15	22	68.2%	2	13.3%	6	40%	0	0%	3	20%
131	Taliaferro - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
132	Tattnall
133	Taylor
134	Telfair	50	70	71.4%	4	8%	46	92%	0	0%	0	0%
135	Terrell
136	Thomas	520	480	108.3%	9	1.7%	347	66.7%	96	18.5%	71	13.7%
137	Tift
138	Toombs
139	Towns
140	Treutlen	38	50	76%	5	13.2%	7	18.4%	8	21.1%	6	15.8%
141	Troup	510	690	73.9%	20	3.9%	447	87.6%	37	7.3%	2	0.4%
142	Turner
143	Twiggs	31	48	64.6%	0	0%	31	100%	0	0%	0	0%
144	Union	63	57	110.5%	17	27%	36	57.1%	8	12.7%	0	0%
145	Upson	160	220	72.7%	2	1.3%	133	83.1%	12	7.5%	0	0%
146	Walker
147	Walton	628	869	72.3%	117	18.6%	434	69.1%	77	12.3%	0	0%
148	Ware	409	510	80.2%	31	7.6%	303	74.1%	20	4.9%	56	13.7%
149	Warren	8	8	100%	2	25%	2	25%	0	0%	0	0%
150	Washington
151	Wayne
152	Webster
153	Wheeler
154	White	92	176	52.3%	6	6.5%	37	40.2%	24	26.1%	0	0%
155	Whitfield
156	Wilcox	19	16	118.8%	2	10.5%	2	10.5%	2	10.5%	11	57.9%
157	Wilkes
158	Wilkinson
159	Worth - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	TOTALS	26,447	35,629	74.2%	1,910	7.2%	18,376	69.5%	2,583	9.8%	1,790	6.8%