Jail Report - Georgia Sheriffs' Association

Inmate Counts Reported to Georgia Sheriffs' Association By Each Sheriff's Office For Their Inmate Population for December, 2025

ITEM	December	November	Increase/Decrease
1 - Number of Jail Inmates	32,540	33,564	-1,024
2 - Capacity of Jails Reporting (permanent beds)	46,423	47,542	-1,119
3 - Percent of Jail Capacity	70.1%	70.6%	-0.5%
4 - Number of Jails Over Capacity	16	9	7
5 - Inmates Sentenced to State Institutions	2,112	2,098	14
6 - Percent of State-Sentenced Inmates Housed at County Level	6.5%	6.3%	0.2%
7 - Number of Inmates Awaiting Trial	22,724	23,430	-706
8 - Percent of Inmates Awaiting Trial	69.8%	69.8%	0.0%
9 - Number of Inmates Sentenced to County Jails	3,045	2,889	156
10 - Percent of Inmates Sentenced to County Jails	9.4%	8.6%	0.8%
11 - Number of Other Inmates	2,304	3,100	-796
12 - Percent of Other Inmates	7.1%	9.2%	-2.2%
13 - Number of Jails Reporting	139	134	5
14 - Number of Counties with Jails	120	121	-1

County Jail Report

Primary Jail Capacity Data
December 2025
(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	82	193	42.5%	5	6.1%	43	52.4%	2	2.4%	11	13.4%
2	Atkinson	62	80	77.5%	1	1.6%	59	95.2%	2	3.2%	0	0%
3	Bacon	64	74	86.5%	15	23.4%	48	75%	0	0%	1	1.6%
4	Baker - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Baldwin - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	Banks	137	60	228.3%	10	7.3%	137	100%	0	0%	0	0%
7	Barrow	286	378	75.7%	61	21.3%	173	60.5%	20	7%	4	1.4%
8	Bartow	544	1253	43.4%	41	7.5%	315	57.9%	170	31.3%	7	1.3%
9	Ben Hill
10	Berrien	86	76	113.2%	3	3.5%	0	0%	78	90.7%	2	2.3%
11	Bibb	1013	966	104.9%	42	4.1%	676	66.7%	40	3.9%	21	2.1%
12	Bleckley	49	75	65.3%	7	14.3%	36	73.5%	1	2%	5	10.2%
13	Brantley	125	120	104.2%	13	10.4%	90	72%	1	0.8%	0	0%
14	Brooks	70	120	58.3%	9	12.9%	0	0%	5	7.1%	0	0%
15	Bryan - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	Bulloch	318	450	70.7%	52	16.4%	210	66%	44	13.8%	9	2.8%
17	Burke - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	Butts	216	305	70.8%	5	2.3%	116	53.7%	18	8.3%	2	0.9%
19	Calhoun	30	40	75%	1	3.3%	24	80%	3	10%	0	0%
20	Camden	141	193	73.1%	9	6.4%	1	0.7%	2	1.4%	0	0%
21	Candler	40	72	55.6%	6	15%	19	47.5%	0	0%	4	10%
22	Carroll	532	644	82.6%	43	8.1%	204	38.3%	311	58.5%	9	1.7%
23	Catoosa	180	248	72.6%	12	6.7%	114	63.3%	18	10%	0	0%
24	Charlton
25	Chatham	1291	2433	53.1%	11	0.9%	1196	92.6%	31	2.4%	4	0.3%
26	Chattahoochee
27	Chattooga	52	48	108.3%	5	9.6%	22	42.3%	5	9.6%	2	3.8%
28	Cherokee	480	849	56.5%	63	13.1%	351	73.1%	61	12.7%	1	0.2%
29	Clarke	513	839	61.1%	59	11.5%	251	48.9%	13	2.5%	6	1.2%
30	Clay - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	Clayton
32	Clinch - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
33	Cobb	2156	3067	70.3%	46	2.1%	1743	80.8%	233	10.8%	87	4%
34	Coffee	402	448	89.7%	37	9.2%	258	64.2%	12	3%	47	11.7%
35	Colquitt	279	210	132.9%	5	1.8%	177	63.4%	74	26.5%	10	3.6%
36	Columbia	342	360	95%	42	12.3%	266	77.8%	38	11.1%	8	2.3%
37	Cook	84	108	77.8%	9	10.7%	47	56%	6	7.1%	6	7.1%
38	Coweta	509	469	108.5%	0	0%	389	76.4%	198	38.9%	8	1.6%
39	Crawford	27	27	100%	0	0%	25	92.6%	0	0%	0	0%
40	Crisp
41	Dade	76	110	69.1%	8	10.5%	58	76.3%	4	5.3%	9	11.8%
42	Dawson	93	192	48.4%	12	12.9%	62	66.7%	1	1.1%	1	1.1%
43	Decatur	147	175	84%	17	11.6%	0	0%	9	6.1%	2	1.4%
44	DeKalb	2007	3500	57.3%	42	2.1%	1706	85%	122	6.1%	427	21.3%
45	Dodge	88	160	55%	4	4.5%	88	100%	0	0%	2	2.3%
46	Dooly	37	163	22.7%	8	21.6%	37	100%	0	0%	2	5.4%
47	Dougherty	780	1230	63.4%	40	5.1%	549	70.4%	64	8.2%	116	14.9%
48	Douglas	720	1600	45%	40	5.6%	644	89.4%	11	1.5%	0	0%
49	Early
50	Echols
51	Effingham	180	268	67.2%	37	20.6%	124	68.9%	8	4.4%	10	5.6%
52	Elbert
53	Emanuel - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
54	Evans - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
55	Fannin	55	84	65.5%	3	5.5%	41	74.5%	0	0%	16	29.1%
56	Fayette	358	554	64.6%	6	1.7%	346	96.6%	19	5.3%	2	0.6%
57	Floyd	491	755	65%	8	1.6%	257	52.3%	89	18.1%	64	13%
58	Forsyth	282	608	46.4%	1	0.4%	224	79.4%	43	15.2%	0	0%
59	Franklin	100	74	135.1%	13	13%	67	67%	4	4%	20	20%
60	Fulton
61	Gilmer	64	146	43.8%	0	0%	28	43.8%	0	0%	1	1.6%
62	Glascock - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
63	Glynn	550	611	90%	20	3.6%	318	57.8%	15	2.7%	12	2.2%
64	Gordon	280	376	74.5%	44	15.7%	103	36.8%	47	16.8%	1	0.4%
65	Grady - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
66	Greene - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
67	Gwinnett
68	Habersham	184	162	113.6%	17	9.2%	150	81.5%	12	6.5%	5	2.7%
69	Hall	744	1134	65.6%	51	6.9%	571	76.7%	71	9.5%	3	0.4%
70	Hancock
71	Haralson	109	125	87.2%	1	0.9%	1	0.9%	94	86.2%	7	6.4%
72	Harris	88	109	80.7%	5	5.7%	72	81.8%	2	2.3%	4	4.5%
73	Hart	164	230	71.3%	11	6.7%	121	73.8%	5	3%	12	7.3%
74	Heard	34	60	56.7%	5	14.7%	22	64.7%	1	2.9%	6	17.6%
75	Henry	734	877	83.7%	8	1.1%	710	96.7%	19	2.6%	6	0.8%
76	Houston	581	665	87.4%	110	18.9%	445	76.6%	45	7.7%	5	0.9%
77	Irwin	547	1297	42.2%	6	1.1%	18	3.3%	1	0.2%	9	1.6%
78	Jackson	162	463	35%	12	7.4%	132	81.5%	5	3.1%	17	10.5%
79	Jasper	59	100	59%	4	6.8%	36	61%	10	16.9%	9	15.3%
80	Jeff Davis	66	106	62.3%	5	7.6%	54	81.8%	1	1.5%	8	12.1%
81	Jefferson	109	162	67.3%	4	3.7%	55	50.5%	2	1.8%	4	3.7%
82	Jenkins	37	65	56.9%	8	21.6%	23	62.2%	3	8.1%	2	5.4%
83	Johnson
84	Jones	120	167	71.9%	6	5%	95	79.2%	11	9.2%	6	5%
85	Lamar	89	155	57.4%	4	4.5%	64	71.9%	16	18%	5	5.6%
86	Lanier
87	Laurens	203	275	73.8%	1	0.5%	69	34%	0	0%	203	100%
88	Lee	87	120	72.5%	12	13.8%	72	82.8%	3	3.4%	0	0%
89	Liberty	234	300	78%	18	7.7%	125	53.4%	7	3%	50	21.4%
90	Lincoln	31	80	38.8%	3	9.7%	11	35.5%	1	3.2%	0	0%
91	Long	0	130	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%
92	Lowndes	701	896	78.2%	43	6.1%	546	77.9%	112	16%	0	0%
93	Lumpkin	135	156	86.5%	6	4.4%	89	65.9%	7	5.2%	40	29.6%
94	Macon
95	Madison	84	96	87.5%	0	0%	54	64.3%	3	3.6%	27	32.1%
96	Marion	13	30	43.3%	0	0%	9	69.2%	1	7.7%	0	0%
97	McDuffie	131	250	52.4%	19	14.5%	105	80.2%	3	2.3%	24	18.3%
98	McIntosh	86	120	71.7%	0	0%	47	54.7%	2	2.3%	14	16.3%
99	Meriwether
100	Miller	30	72	41.7%	1	3.3%	14	46.7%	5	16.7%	9	30%
101	Mitchell	103	122	84.4%	7	6.8%	80	77.7%	13	12.6%	2	1.9%
102	Monroe	156	175	89.1%	25	16%	119	76.3%	6	3.8%	6	3.8%
103	Montgomery - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
104	Morgan	79	192	41.1%	10	12.7%	54	68.4%	6	7.6%	3	3.8%
105	Murray	159	160	99.4%	42	26.4%	71	44.7%	13	8.2%	7	4.4%
106	Muscogee	1158	1069	108.3%	39	3.4%	924	79.8%	28	2.4%	11	0.9%
107	Newton	531	600	88.5%	63	11.9%	264	49.7%	49	9.2%	14	2.6%
108	Oconee	87	137	63.5%	4	4.6%	50	57.5%	0	0%	24	27.6%
109	Oglethorpe
110	Paulding	278	631	44.1%	10	3.6%	183	65.8%	5	1.8%	60	21.6%
111	Peach	118	125	94.4%	6	5.1%	112	94.9%	1	0.8%	7	5.9%
112	Pickens	93	155	60%	15	16.1%	50	53.8%	2	2.2%	10	10.8%
113	Pierce	110	165	66.7%	2	1.8%	103	93.6%	0	0%	13	11.8%
114	Pike	12	32	37.5%	1	8.3%	9	75%	1	8.3%	0	0%
115	Polk	241	240	100.4%	11	4.6%	186	77.2%	18	7.5%	16	6.6%
116	Pulaski	30	42	71.4%	2	6.7%	30	100%	0	0%	0	0%
117	Putnam	82	120	68.3%	21	25.6%	38	46.3%	10	12.2%	2	2.4%
118	Quitman - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
119	Rabun	112	102	109.8%	9	8%	78	69.6%	18	16.1%	6	5.4%
120	Randolph	73	100	73%	4	5.5%	2	2.7%	0	0%	34	46.6%
121	Richmond	1286	1066	120.6%	42	3.3%	1096	85.2%	3	0.2%	166	12.9%
122	Rockdale	305	758	40.2%	24	7.9%	209	68.5%	8	2.6%	20	6.6%
123	Schley - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
124	Screven	76	247	30.8%	5	6.6%	35	46.1%	2	2.6%	33	43.4%
125	Seminole	34	54	63%	0	0%	32	94.1%	2	5.9%	0	0%
126	Spalding	564	542	104.1%	55	9.8%	462	81.9%	47	8.3%	3	0.5%
127	Stephens	177	194	91.2%	24	13.6%	136	76.8%	20	11.3%	4	2.3%
128	Stewart
129	Sumter	155	260	59.6%	13	8.4%	142	91.6%	0	0%	0	0%
130	Talbot	15	22	68.2%	3	20%	13	86.7%	0	0%	1	6.7%
131	Taliaferro - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
132	Tattnall	119	152	78.3%	12	10.1%	50	42%	14	11.8%	43	36.1%
133	Taylor	33	62	53.2%	1	3%	31	93.9%	1	3%	1	3%
134	Telfair	45	70	64.3%	1	2.2%	44	97.8%	0	0%	0	0%
135	Terrell	40	67	59.7%	2	5%	37	92.5%	0	0%	0	0%
136	Thomas	426	480	88.8%	22	5.2%	205	48.1%	101	23.7%	60	14.1%
137	Tift
138	Toombs
139	Towns	29	67	43.3%	6	20.7%	12	41.4%	2	6.9%	0	0%
140	Treutlen	43	50	86%	7	16.3%	22	51.2%	4	9.3%	10	23.3%
141	Troup	620	746	83.1%	30	4.8%	411	66.3%	12	1.9%	1	0.2%
142	Turner	55	108	50.9%	3	5.5%	34	61.8%	1	1.8%	0	0%
143	Twiggs	36	48	75%	0	0%	35	97.2%	1	2.8%	0	0%
144	Union	59	57	103.5%	10	16.9%	39	66.1%	2	3.4%	2	3.4%
145	Upson	129	220	58.6%	6	4.7%	98	76%	3	2.3%	0	0%
146	Walker	215	225	95.6%	40	18.6%	167	77.7%	8	3.7%	0	0%
147	Walton	577	869	66.4%	93	16.1%	385	66.7%	73	12.7%	2	0.3%
148	Ware	435	510	85.3%	40	9.2%	324	74.5%	23	5.3%	63	14.5%
149	Warren - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
150	Washington	176	212	83%	11	6.3%	126	71.6%	12	6.8%	7	4%
151	Wayne - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
152	Webster - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
153	Wheeler	15	30	50%	1	6.7%	14	93.3%	0	0%	0	0%
154	White	92	176	52.3%	4	4.3%	49	53.3%	21	22.8%	0	0%
155	Whitfield	425	544	78.1%	51	12%	314	73.9%	17	4%	43	10.1%
156	Wilcox	12	16	75%	3	25%	4	33.3%	0	0%	8	66.7%
157	Wilkes	43	80	53.8%	1	2.3%	42	97.7%	1	2.3%	2	4.7%
158	Wilkinson
159	Worth - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	TOTALS	31,638	45,312	69.8%	2,056	6.5%	22,273	70.4%	2,812	8.9%	2,098	6.6%