Jail Report – Georgia Sheriffs' Association

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

ITEM	September	August	Increase/Decrease
1 - Number of Jail Inmates	33,140	33,477	-337
2 - Capacity of Jails Reporting (permanent beds)	45,736	46,340	-604
3 - Percent of Jail Capacity	72.5%	72.2%	0.2%
4 - Number of Jails Over Capacity	14	14	0
5 - Inmates Sentenced to State Institutions	2,817	2,387	430
6 - Percent of State-Sentenced Inmates Housed at County Level	8.5%	7.1%	1.4%
7 - Number of Inmates Awaiting Trial	22,793	23,457	-664
8 - Percent of Inmates Awaiting Trial	68.8%	70.1%	-1.3%
9 - Number of Inmates Sentenced to County Jails	3,160	3,307	-147
10 - Percent of Inmates Sentenced to County Jails	9.5%	9.9%	-0.3%
11 - Number of Other Inmates	2,688	2,653	35
12 - Percent of Other Inmates	8.1%	7.9%	0.2%
13 - Number of Jails Reporting	136	140	-4
14 - Number of Counties with Jails	124	128	-4

County Jail Report

Primary Jail Capacity Data
September 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	149	193	77.2%	17	11.4%	58	38.9%	8	5.4%	42	28.2%
2	Atkinson	86	84	102.4%	0	0%	72	83.7%	0	0%	14	16.3%
3	Bacon	55	74	74.3%	6	10.9%	49	89.1%	0	0%	0	0%
4	Baker - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Baldwin	284	335	84.8%	10	3.5%	151	53.2%	176	62%	22	7.7%
6	Banks
7	Barrow	275	378	72.8%	58	21.1%	167	60.7%	19	6.9%	7	2.5%
8	Bartow
9	Ben Hill	124	145	85.5%	30	24.2%	70	56.5%	1	0.8%	8	6.5%
10	Berrien
11	Bibb	982	966	101.7%	80	8.1%	633	64.5%	32	3.3%	18	1.8%
12	Bleckley	48	75	64%	3	6.3%	39	81.3%	0	0%	5	10.4%
13	Brantley - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	Brooks - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
15	Bryan	48	68	70.6%	6	12.5%	28	58.3%	5	10.4%	0	0%
16	Bulloch	312	450	69.3%	55	17.6%	226	72.4%	30	9.6%	1	0.3%
17	Burke	116	135	85.9%	5	4.3%	97	83.6%	35	30.2%	18	15.5%
18	Butts	196	305	64.3%	5	2.6%	92	46.9%	11	5.6%	21	10.7%
19	Calhoun	35	40	87.5%	0	0%	29	82.9%	2	5.7%	1	2.9%
20	Camden	126	193	65.3%	4	3.2%	122	96.8%	1	0.8%	111	88.1%
21	Candler	60	104	57.7%	5	8.3%	37	61.7%	0	0%	2	3.3%
22	Carroll	596	644	92.5%	77	12.9%	171	28.7%	415	69.6%	9	1.5%
23	Catoosa	189	248	76.2%	15	7.9%	117	61.9%	17	9%	3	1.6%
24	Charlton
25	Chatham	1335	2433	54.9%	11	0.8%	1267	94.9%	30	2.2%	6	0.4%
26	Chattahoochee
27	Chattooga	50	47	106.4%	9	18%	24	48%	1	2%	2	4%
28	Cherokee	618	848	72.9%	81	13.1%	458	74.1%	73	11.8%	0	0%
29	Clarke	557	839	66.4%	104	18.7%	223	40%	21	3.8%	3	0.5%
30	Clay - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	Clayton
32	Clinch
33	Cobb	2357	3171	74.3%	86	3.6%	1748	74.2%	299	12.7%	198	8.4%
34	Coffee - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
35	Colquitt	252	265	95.1%	17	6.7%	164	65.1%	65	25.8%	3	1.2%
36	Columbia	362	398	91%	76	21%	249	68.8%	36	9.9%	4	1.1%
37	Cook	92	108	85.2%	7	7.6%	67	72.8%	8	8.7%	2	2.2%
38	Coweta	593	645	91.9%	18	3%	395	66.6%	197	33.2%	7	1.2%
39	Crawford
40	Crisp	173	224	77.2%	12	6.9%	105	60.7%	6	3.5%	5	2.9%
41	Dade	56	110	50.9%	4	7.1%	45	80.4%	2	3.6%	7	12.5%
42	Dawson	131	192	68.2%	13	9.9%	87	66.4%	0	0%	1	0.8%
43	Decatur	148	175	84.6%	36	24.3%	92	62.2%	4	2.7%	2	1.4%
44	DeKalb	2134	3500	61%	34	1.6%	1819	85.2%	162	7.6%	395	18.5%
45	Dodge	81	160	50.6%	12	14.8%	81	100%	2	2.5%	0	0%
46	Dooly	40	163	24.5%	6	15%	33	82.5%	2	5%	6	15%
47	Dougherty	760	1230	61.8%	60	7.9%	517	68%	57	7.5%	130	17.1%
48	Douglas	727	1600	45.4%	66	9.1%	632	86.9%	9	1.2%	5	0.7%
49	Early	35	73	47.9%	0	0%	26	74.3%	10	28.6%	0	0%
50	Echols
51	Effingham	169	268	63.1%	35	20.7%	113	66.9%	12	7.1%	4	2.4%
52	Elbert	71	114	62.3%	6	8.5%	55	77.5%	10	14.1%	0	0%
53	Emanuel	143	125	114.4%	3	2.1%	80	55.9%	10	7%	12	8.4%
54	Evans - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
55	Fannin	48	84	57.1%	7	14.6%	27	56.3%	0	0%	21	43.8%
56	Fayette	352	554	63.5%	7	2%	314	89.2%	17	4.8%	2	0.6%
57	Floyd - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
58	Forsyth	331	608	54.4%	308	93.1%	245	74%	40	12.1%	7	2.1%
59	Franklin	83	74	112.2%	10	12%	58	69.9%	13	15.7%	13	15.7%
60	Fulton
61	Gilmer	72	142	50.7%	6	8.3%	28	38.9%	1	1.4%	10	13.9%
62	Glascock - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
63	Glynn	522	611	85.4%	10	1.9%	365	69.9%	30	5.7%	50	9.6%
64	Gordon	284	376	75.5%	68	23.9%	98	34.5%	32	11.3%	6	2.1%
65	Grady
66	Greene	42	112	37.5%	2	4.8%	20	47.6%	1	2.4%	3	7.1%
67	Gwinnett
68	Habersham	170	162	104.9%	19	11.2%	131	77.1%	14	8.2%	6	3.5%
69	Hall	691	1134	60.9%	59	8.5%	549	79.5%	58	8.4%	2	0.3%
70	Hancock
71	Haralson	132	125	105.6%	9	6.8%	108	81.8%	5	3.8%	110	83.3%
72	Harris	79	109	72.5%	19	24.1%	51	64.6%	3	3.8%	4	5.1%
73	Hart	172	230	74.8%	20	11.6%	96	55.8%	0	0%	65	37.8%
74	Heard	35	60	58.3%	6	17.1%	21	60%	4	11.4%	4	11.4%
75	Henry	881	877	100.5%	8	0.9%	604	68.6%	45	5.1%	0	0%
76	Houston
77	Irwin	908	1297	70%	0	0%	24	2.6%	2	0.2%	2	0.2%
78	Jackson	255	463	55.1%	35	13.7%	182	71.4%	24	9.4%	29	11.4%
79	Jasper	65	100	65%	8	12.3%	40	61.5%	14	21.5%	3	4.6%
80	Jeff Davis	60	106	56.6%	7	11.7%	42	70%	1	1.7%	19	31.7%
81	Jefferson	137	162	84.6%	8	5.8%	51	37.2%	4	2.9%	4	2.9%
82	Jenkins	24	65	36.9%	5	20.8%	16	66.7%	2	8.3%	0	0%
83	Johnson	28	46	60.9%	6	21.4%	19	67.9%	0	0%	19	67.9%
84	Jones	106	167	63.5%	29	27.4%	73	68.9%	4	3.8%	1	0.9%
85	Lamar	72	155	46.5%	2	2.8%	86	119.4%	11	15.3%	33	45.8%
86	Lanier
87	Laurens	210	275	76.4%	0	0%	77	36.7%	0	0%	210	100%
88	Lee	107	120	89.2%	8	7.5%	92	86%	7	6.5%	0	0%
89	Liberty	238	300	79.3%	5	2.1%	138	58%	1	0.4%	35	14.7%
90	Lincoln	32	80	40%	4	12.5%	13	40.6%	2	6.3%	0	0%
91	Long
92	Lowndes	724	1038	69.7%	44	6.1%	541	74.7%	139	19.2%	0	0%
93	Lumpkin	150	256	58.6%	2	1.3%	75	50%	1	0.7%	63	42%
94	Macon
95	Madison	80	96	83.3%	0	0%	54	67.5%	2	2.5%	19	23.8%
96	Marion	14	30	46.7%	4	28.6%	8	57.1%	2	14.3%	0	0%
97	McDuffie
98	McIntosh	87	120	72.5%	2	2.3%	55	63.2%	1	1.1%	5	5.7%
99	Meriwether	38	106	35.8%	2	5.3%	34	89.5%	4	10.5%	0	0%
100	Miller	45	72	62.5%	8	17.8%	6	13.3%	1	2.2%	0	0%
101	Mitchell	88	122	72.1%	8	9.1%	73	83%	7	8%	0	0%
102	Monroe	182	175	104%	15	8.2%	150	82.4%	5	2.7%	12	6.6%
103	Montgomery - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
104	Morgan	77	232	33.2%	16	20.8%	50	64.9%	6	7.8%	4	5.2%
105	Murray	157	160	98.1%	47	29.9%	74	47.1%	17	10.8%	0	0%
106	Muscogee	1239	1069	115.9%	37	3%	1062	85.7%	30	2.4%	8	0.6%
107	Newton	540	600	90%	27	5%	462	85.6%	87	16.1%	3	0.6%
108	Oconee	102	137	74.5%	3	2.9%	74	72.5%	0	0%	10	9.8%
109	Oglethorpe	23	72	31.9%	3	13%	17	73.9%	4	17.4%	0	0%
110	Paulding	282	631	44.7%	17	6%	221	78.4%	4	1.4%	8	2.8%
111	Peach	117	125	93.6%	6	5.1%	97	82.9%	0	0%	0	0%
112	Pickens	98	155	63.2%	14	14.3%	65	66.3%	8	8.2%	1	1%
113	Pierce	112	165	67.9%	1	0.9%	109	97.3%	1	0.9%	13	11.6%
114	Pike	25	32	78.1%	1	4%	19	76%	1	4%	0	0%
115	Polk	235	240	97.9%	22	9.4%	166	70.6%	29	12.3%	16	6.8%
116	Pulaski	74	64	115.6%	4	5.4%	14	18.9%	3	4.1%	74	100%
117	Putnam	82	120	68.3%	21	25.6%	48	58.5%	5	6.1%	5	6.1%
118	Quitman
119	Rabun	139	102	136.3%	7	5%	113	81.3%	17	12.2%	2	1.4%
120	Randolph	78	100	78%	9	11.5%	32	41%	1	1.3%	43	55.1%
121	Richmond	1296	1066	121.6%	87	6.7%	1028	79.3%	64	4.9%	140	10.8%
122	Rockdale	379	758	50%	29	7.7%	326	86%	20	5.3%	22	5.8%
123	Schley	4	16	25%	0	0%	4	100%	0	0%	0	0%
124	Screven	71	247	28.7%	11	15.5%	35	49.3%	4	5.6%	21	29.6%
125	Seminole	42	54	77.8%	3	7.1%	31	73.8%	5	11.9%	3	7.1%
126	Spalding	531	542	98%	50	9.4%	400	75.3%	79	14.9%	2	0.4%
127	Stephens	141	192	73.4%	21	14.9%	114	80.9%	11	7.8%	0	0%
128	Stewart
129	Sumter	175	260	67.3%	29	16.6%	142	81.1%	2	1.1%	2	1.1%
130	Talbot	13	22	59.1%	2	15.4%	8	61.5%	0	0%	8	61.5%
131	Taliaferro - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
132	Tattnall	131	152	86.2%	13	9.9%	49	37.4%	18	13.7%	50	38.2%
133	Taylor	44	62	71%	0	0%	42	95.5%	0	0%	2	4.5%
134	Telfair	56	70	80%	6	10.7%	50	89.3%	1	1.8%	0	0%
135	Terrell	31	55	56.4%	2	6.5%	23	74.2%	0	0%	23	74.2%
136	Thomas	529	480	110.2%	7	1.3%	142	26.8%	72	13.6%	76	14.4%
137	Tift	206	290	71%	25	12.1%	114	55.3%	8	3.9%	6	2.9%
138	Toombs
139	Towns	42	67	62.7%	3	7.1%	18	42.9%	9	21.4%	0	0%
140	Treutlen	42	50	84%	8	19%	1	2.4%	7	16.7%	7	16.7%
141	Troup	475	746	63.7%	20	4.2%	437	92%	27	5.7%	5	1.1%
142	Turner	43	108	39.8%	4	9.3%	19	44.2%	1	2.3%	0	0%
143	Twiggs	23	48	47.9%	2	8.7%	21	91.3%	0	0%	0	0%
144	Union	54	57	94.7%	18	33.3%	31	57.4%	4	7.4%	0	0%
145	Upson	147	220	66.8%	4	2.7%	106	72.1%	11	7.5%	0	0%
146	Walker	184	225	81.8%	51	27.7%	126	68.5%	7	3.8%	0	0%
147	Walton	622	869	71.6%	132	21.2%	510	82%	83	13.3%	0	0%
148	Ware	414	510	81.2%	37	8.9%	337	81.4%	25	6%	61	14.7%
149	Warren - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
150	Washington	151	216	69.9%	20	13.2%	74	49%	13	8.6%	3	2%
151	Wayne	134	182	73.6%	12	9%	14	10.4%	41	30.6%	80	59.7%
152	Webster
153	Wheeler	20	30	66.7%	5	25%	15	75%	0	0%	0	0%
154	White	84	176	47.7%	5	6%	28	33.3%	22	26.2%	0	0%
155	Whitfield	427	544	78.5%	50	11.7%	300	70.3%	33	7.7%	44	10.3%
156	Wilcox	11	16	68.8%	1	9.1%	4	36.4%	2	18.2%	0	0%
157	Wilkes	50	80	62.5%	2	4%	11	22%	4	8%	5	10%
158	Wilkinson
159	Worth - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	TOTALS	32,061	44,148	72.6%	2,726	8.5%	22,185	69.2%	3,051	9.5%	2,578	8%