Jail Report - Georgia Sheriffs' Association

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

ITEM	March	February	Increase/Decrease
1 - Number of Jail Inmates	35,168	37,297	-2,129
2 - Capacity of Jails Reporting (permanent beds)	47,461	51,326	-3,865
3 - Percent of Jail Capacity	74.1%	72.7%	1.4%
4 - Number of Jails Over Capacity	11	13	-2
5 - Inmates Sentenced to State Institutions	2,536	2,613	-77
6 - Percent of State-Sentenced Inmates Housed at County Level	7.2%	7.0%	0.2%
7 - Number of Inmates Awaiting Trial	25,168	26,030	-862
8 - Percent of Inmates Awaiting Trial	71.6%	69.8%	1.8%
9 - Number of Inmates Sentenced to County Jails	3,289	3,540	-251
10 - Percent of Inmates Sentenced to County Jails	9.4%	9.5%	-0.1%
11 - Number of Other Inmates	5,226	2,558	2,668
12 - Percent of Other Inmates	14.9%	6.9%	8.0%
13 - Number of Jails Reporting	120	137	-17
14 - Number of Counties with Jails	112	122	-10

County Jail Report

Primary Jail Capacity Data
March 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	88	193	45.6%	13	14.8%	38	43.2%	2	2.3%	18	20.5%
2	Atkinson	66	80	82.5%	6	9.1%	58	87.9%	2	3%	0	0%
3	Bacon - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Baker - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Baldwin	288	305	94.4%	17	5.9%	173	60.1%	193	67%	28	9.7%
6	Banks
7	Barrow	241	378	63.8%	24	10%	155	64.3%	20	8.3%	9	3.7%
8	Bartow
9	Ben Hill	104	145	71.7%	15	14.4%	71	68.3%	6	5.8%	5	4.8%
10	Berrien
11	Bibb	1044	966	108.1%	82	7.9%	695	66.6%	35	3.4%	17	1.6%
12	Bleckley	42	75	56%	8	19%	33	78.6%	0	0%	5	11.9%
13	Brantley - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	Brooks	68	120	56.7%	4	5.9%	0	0%	4	5.9%	0	0%
15	Bryan	54	67	80.6%	7	13%	42	77.8%	5	9.3%	1	1.9%
16	Bulloch	338	450	75.1%	49	14.5%	230	68%	47	13.9%	11	3.3%
17	Burke	96	135	71.1%	11	11.5%	55	57.3%	0	0%	0	0%
18	Butts	198	305	64.9%	4	2%	99	50%	15	7.6%	2	1%
19	Calhoun	28	40	70%	3	10.7%	21	75%	3	10.7%	0	0%
20	Camden	154	193	79.8%	8	5.2%	124	80.5%	0	0%	115	74.7%
21	Candler	27	72	37.5%	5	18.5%	12	44.4%	0	0%	1	3.7%
22	Carroll	522	642	81.3%	57	10.9%	191	36.6%	326	62.5%	2	0.4%
23	Catoosa	179	248	72.2%	19	10.6%	91	50.8%	20	11.2%	5	2.8%
24	Charlton
25	Chatham	1336	2433	54.9%	16	1.2%	1254	93.9%	30	2.2%	6	0.4%
26	Chattahoochee
27	Chattooga	44	48	91.7%	4	9.1%	18	40.9%	5	11.4%	2	4.5%
28	Cherokee	571	849	67.3%	68	11.9%	408	71.5%	87	15.2%	2	0.4%
29	Clarke	487	839	58%	53	10.9%	225	46.2%	19	3.9%	4	0.8%
30	Clay
31	Clayton
32	Clinch
33	Cobb	2185	3131	69.8%	117	5.4%	1639	75%	266	12.2%	173	7.9%
34	Coffee	410	448	91.5%	27	6.6%	303	73.9%	5	1.2%	54	13.2%
35	Colquitt	223	210	106.2%	1	0.4%	197	88.3%	25	11.2%	0	0%
36	Columbia	343	360	95.3%	40	11.7%	263	76.7%	37	10.8%	2	0.6%
37	Cook
38	Coweta	567	469	120.9%	24	4.2%	409	72.1%	179	31.6%	0	0%
39	Crawford	26	26	100%	0	0%	22	84.6%	0	0%	0	0%
40	Crisp
41	Dade	63	110	57.3%	10	15.9%	51	81%	2	3.2%	3	4.8%
42	Dawson	112	192	58.3%	6	5.4%	72	64.3%	4	3.6%	4	3.6%
43	Decatur
44	DeKalb	1927	3500	55.1%	21	1.1%	1778	92.3%	177	9.2%	393	20.4%
45	Dodge	90	160	56.3%	4	4.4%	90	100%	3	3.3%	2	2.2%
46	Dooly	33	163	20.2%	5	15.2%	33	100%	1	3%	3	9.1%
47	Dougherty	742	1230	60.3%	51	6.9%	522	70.4%	52	7%	121	16.3%
48	Douglas
49	Early	35	77	45.5%	0	0%	21	60%	18	51.4%	46	131.4%
50	Echols
51	Effingham	156	268	58.2%	27	17.3%	111	71.2%	9	5.8%	8	5.1%
52	Elbert
53	Emanuel
54	Evans
55	Fannin	43	84	51.2%	2	4.7%	25	58.1%	0	0%	18	41.9%
56	Fayette	371	554	67%	28	7.5%	345	93%	20	5.4%	0	0%
57	Floyd	545	755	72.2%	12	2.2%	281	51.6%	116	21.3%	137	25.1%
58	Forsyth	299	608	49.2%	11	3.7%	224	74.9%	57	19.1%	1	0.3%
59	Franklin	91	74	123%	5	5.5%	59	64.8%	9	9.9%	18	19.8%
60	Fulton	1972	2250	87.6%	205	10.4%	1463	74.2%	57	2.9%	2720	137.9%
61	Gilmer	71	142	50%	7	9.9%	34	47.9%	1	1.4%	1	1.4%
62	Glascock - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
63	Glynn	474	611	77.6%	20	4.2%	365	77%	15	3.2%	25	5.3%
64	Gordon	295	376	78.5%	44	14.9%	116	39.3%	59	20%	1	0.3%
65	Grady	117	132	88.6%	7	6%	77	65.8%	27	23.1%	2	1.7%
66	Greene
67	Gwinnett	2555	2600	98.3%	50	2%	2037	79.7%	141	5.5%	2	0.1%
68	Habersham	176	162	108.6%	29	16.5%	137	77.8%	7	4%	0	0%
69	Hall	731	1134	64.5%	70	9.6%	548	75%	79	10.8%	4	0.5%
70	Hancock
71	Haralson	125	125	100%	18	14.4%	103	82.4%	5	4%	21	16.8%
72	Harris	88	109	80.7%	9	10.2%	78	88.6%	0	0%	1	1.1%
73	Hart	166	230	72.2%	23	13.9%	95	57.2%	1	0.6%	6	3.6%
74	Heard	37	60	61.7%	7	18.9%	21	56.8%	2	5.4%	7	18.9%
75	Henry	799	877	91.1%	20	2.5%	766	95.9%	99	12.4%	2	0.3%
76	Houston	480	665	72.2%	97	20.2%	355	74%	42	8.8%	6	1.3%
77	Irwin	606	1297	46.7%	3	0.5%	28	4.6%	1	0.2%	1	0.2%
78	Jackson	198	463	42.8%	20	10.1%	156	78.8%	15	7.6%	17	8.6%
79	Jasper
80	Jeff Davis	68	106	64.2%	11	16.2%	46	67.6%	3	4.4%	15	22.1%
81	Jefferson	114	162	70.4%	8	7%	53	46.5%	0	0%	5	4.4%
82	Jenkins	25	65	38.5%	0	0%	23	92%	2	8%	0	0%
83	Johnson
84	Jones	135	167	80.8%	10	7.4%	111	82.2%	10	7.4%	3	2.2%
85	Lamar
86	Lanier
87	Laurens	212	275	77.1%	4	1.9%	67	31.6%	0	0%	212	100%
88	Lee	91	120	75.8%	13	14.3%	70	76.9%	8	8.8%	0	0%
89	Liberty	219	300	73%	33	15.1%	111	50.7%	8	3.7%	52	23.7%
90	Lincoln
91	Long
92	Lowndes	745	986	75.6%	54	7.2%	557	74.8%	134	18%	0	0%
93	Lumpkin	151	256	59%	3	2%	76	50.3%	5	3.3%	52	34.4%
94	Macon
95	Madison	66	96	68.8%	0	0%	47	71.2%	1	1.5%	17	25.8%
96	Marion	13	30	43.3%	1	7.7%	9	69.2%	1	7.7%	0	0%
97	McDuffie	145	250	58%	10	6.9%	127	87.6%	2	1.4%	27	18.6%
98	McIntosh	97	120	80.8%	2	2.1%	85	87.6%	3	3.1%	60	61.9%
99	Meriwether	75	106	70.8%	3	4%	56	74.7%	11	14.7%	1	1.3%
100	Miller	38	72	52.8%	1	2.6%	6	15.8%	2	5.3%	0	0%
101	Mitchell	104	122	85.2%	5	4.8%	84	80.8%	14	13.5%	3	2.9%
102	Monroe	179	175	102.3%	8	4.5%	157	87.7%	2	1.1%	12	6.7%
103	Montgomery - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
104	Morgan	72	232	31%	13	18.1%	42	58.3%	9	12.5%	2	2.8%
105	Murray	144	160	90%	24	16.7%	88	61.1%	22	15.3%	1	0.7%
106	Muscogee	1144	1069	107%	51	4.5%	960	83.9%	22	1.9%	9	0.8%
107	Newton	573	600	95.5%	71	12.4%	176	30.7%	79	13.8%	20	3.5%
108	Oconee - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
109	Oglethorpe
110	Paulding	294	631	46.6%	14	4.8%	226	76.9%	22	7.5%	65	22.1%
111	Peach
112	Pickens	96	155	61.9%	11	11.5%	67	69.8%	3	3.1%	5	5.2%
113	Pierce
114	Pike	16	32	50%	2	12.5%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%
115	Polk	256	240	106.7%	12	4.7%	180	70.3%	26	10.2%	15	5.9%
116	Pulaski	53	64	82.8%	1	1.9%	19	35.8%	0	0%	52	98.1%
117	Putnam	96	120	80%	27	28.1%	59	61.5%	11	11.5%	2	2.1%
118	Quitman
119	Rabun	106	102	103.9%	4	3.8%	83	78.3%	10	9.4%	8	7.5%
120	Randolph	58	100	58%	3	5.2%	13	22.4%	0	0%	39	67.2%
121	Richmond	1334	1066	125.1%	80	6%	1068	80.1%	51	3.8%	163	12.2%
122	Rockdale	349	758	46%	23	6.6%	309	88.5%	14	4%	27	7.7%
123	Schley
124	Screven	55	247	22.3%	2	3.6%	28	50.9%	1	1.8%	24	43.6%
125	Seminole
126	Spalding	551	542	101.7%	71	12.9%	433	78.6%	45	8.2%	2	0.4%
127	Stephens	180	194	92.8%	23	12.8%	143	79.4%	15	8.3%	1	0.6%
128	Stewart
129	Sumter	175	260	67.3%	16	9.1%	153	87.4%	0	0%	0	0%
130	Talbot	17	22	77.3%	1	5.9%	11	64.7%	0	0%	0	0%
131	Taliaferro - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
132	Tattnall
133	Taylor	41	65	63.1%	3	7.3%	34	82.9%	2	4.9%	1	2.4%
134	Telfair	44	70	62.9%	1	2.3%	44	100%	0	0%	0	0%
135	Terrell	33	65	50.8%	4	12.1%	4	12.1%	0	0%	0	0%
136	Thomas	472	480	98.3%	16	3.4%	196	41.5%	93	19.7%	53	11.2%
137	Tift
138	Toombs	146	240	60.8%	17	11.6%	98	67.1%	10	6.8%	4	2.7%
139	Towns
140	Treutlen	36	50	72%	10	27.8%	14	38.9%	1	2.8%	6	16.7%
141	Troup	627	690	90.9%	31	4.9%	498	79.4%	36	5.7%	7	1.1%
142	Turner	65	108	60.2%	13	20%	31	47.7%	2	3.1%	0	0%
143	Twiggs
144	Union	57	57	100%	5	8.8%	43	75.4%	1	1.8%	2	3.5%
145	Upson	130	220	59.1%	25	19.2%	75	57.7%	9	6.9%	0	0%
146	Walker	211	225	93.8%	45	21.3%	151	71.6%	15	7.1%	0	0%
147	Walton	620	869	71.3%	118	19%	397	64%	92	14.8%	0	0%
148	Ware	401	510	78.6%	19	4.7%	304	75.8%	27	6.7%	47	11.7%
149	Warren
150	Washington	164	216	75.9%	15	9.1%	116	70.7%	12	7.3%	4	2.4%
151	Wayne	138	182	75.8%	3	2.2%	70	50.7%	42	30.4%	85	61.6%
152	Webster
153	Wheeler	12	30	40%	3	25%	9	75%	0	0%	0	0%
154	White	95	176	54%	7	7.4%	34	35.8%	27	28.4%	1	1.1%
155	Whitfield	413	544	75.9%	57	13.8%	272	65.9%	27	6.5%	57	13.8%
156	Wilcox	13	16	81.3%	3	23.1%	5	38.5%	1	7.7%	7	53.8%
157	Wilkes	41	80	51.3%	7	17.1%	34	82.9%	3	7.3%	3	7.3%
158	Wilkinson
159	Worth - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	TOTALS	34,931	47,130	74.1%	2,510	7.2%	24,989	71.5%	3,286	9.4%	5,203	14.9%