Jail Report - Georgia Sheriffs' Association

Inmate Counts Reported to Georgia Sheriffs' Association By Each Sheriff's Office For Their Inmate Population for December, 2024

ITEM	December	November	Increase/Decrease
1 - Number of Jail Inmates	33,843	34,207	-364
2 - Capacity of Jails Reporting (permanent beds)	49,534	48,769	765
3 - Percent of Jail Capacity	68.3%	70.1%	-1.8%
4 - Number of Jails Over Capacity	9	12	-3
5 - Inmates Sentenced to State Institutions	1,532	1,409	123
6 - Percent of State-Sentenced Inmates Housed at County Level	4.5%	4.1%	0.4%
7 - Number of Inmates Awaiting Trial	23,897	24,169	-272
8 - Percent of Inmates Awaiting Trial	70.6%	70.7%	0.0%
9 - Number of Inmates Sentenced to County Jails	2,783	2,975	-192
10 - Percent of Inmates Sentenced to County Jails	8.2%	8.7%	-0.5%
11 - Number of Other Inmates	3,960	4,713	-753
12 - Percent of Other Inmates	11.7%	13.8%	-2.1%
13 - Number of Jails Reporting	144	123	21
14 - Number of Counties with Jails	132	118	14

County Jail Report

Primary Jail Capacity Data
December 2024
(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	64	193	33.2%	6	9.4%	37	57.8%	0	0%	4	6.3%
2	Atkinson	53	80	66.3%	3	5.7%	48	90.6%	2	3.8%	0	0%
3	Bacon	57	76	75%	3	5.3%	53	93%	0	0%	1	1.8%
4	Baker - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Baldwin	277	335	82.7%	13	4.7%	177	63.9%	161	58.1%	22	7.9%
6	Banks	57	63	90.5%	6	10.5%	50	87.7%	2	3.5%	1	1.8%
7	Barrow	308	378	81.5%	17	5.5%	217	70.5%	17	5.5%	36	11.7%
8	Bartow
9	Ben Hill	89	145	61.4%	9	10.1%	58	65.2%	3	3.4%	3	3.4%
10	Berrien
11	Bibb
12	Bleckley	42	75	56%	4	9.5%	30	71.4%	1	2.4%	6	14.3%
13	Brantley
14	Brooks	90	120	75%	4	4.4%	0	0%	1	1.1%	1	1.1%
15	Bryan	59	68	86.8%	3	5.1%	54	91.5%	1	1.7%	1	1.7%
16	Bulloch	366	450	81.3%	49	13.4%	261	71.3%	50	13.7%	6	1.6%
17	Burke	81	135	60%	3	3.7%	63	77.8%	0	0%	23	28.4%
18	Butts	197	305	64.6%	4	2%	104	52.8%	4	2%	0	0%
19	Calhoun	30	42	71.4%	2	6.7%	25	83.3%	1	3.3%	0	0%
20	Camden	144	150	96%	2	1.4%	109	75.7%	1	0.7%	93	64.6%
21	Candler	35	72	48.6%	2	5.7%	23	65.7%	1	2.9%	0	0%
22	Carroll	440	644	68.3%	7	1.6%	137	31.1%	288	65.5%	3	0.7%
23	Catoosa	191	248	77%	29	15.2%	116	60.7%	6	3.1%	9	4.7%
24	Charlton	1	1	100%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%
25	Chatham	1328	2433	54.6%	16	1.2%	1275	96%	18	1.4%	9	0.7%
26	Chattahoochee
27	Chattooga	48	48	100%	2	4.2%	43	89.6%	4	8.3%	2	4.2%
28	Cherokee	534	849	62.9%	11	2.1%	440	82.4%	77	14.4%	1	0.2%
29	Clarke	444	839	52.9%	24	5.4%	268	60.4%	32	7.2%	2	0.5%
30	Clay
31	Clayton
32	Clinch	0	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%
33	Cobb	2084	3067	67.9%	90	4.3%	1648	79.1%	340	16.3%	1060	50.9%
34	Coffee	376	448	83.9%	7	1.9%	240	63.8%	2	0.5%	91	24.2%
35	Colquitt	234	210	111.4%	6	2.6%	194	82.9%	36	15.4%	4	1.7%
36	Columbia	348	358	97.2%	18	5.2%	278	79.9%	42	12.1%	4	1.1%
37	Cook	86	108	79.6%	3	3.5%	62	72.1%	4	4.7%	6	7%
38	Coweta	484	416	116.3%	7	1.4%	405	83.7%	79	16.3%	7	1.4%
39	Crawford	31	31	100%	0	0%	29	93.5%	0	0%	0	0%
40	Crisp	209	224	93.3%	12	5.7%	124	59.3%	16	7.7%	9	4.3%
41	Dade	62	110	56.4%	0	0%	36	58.1%	5	8.1%	15	24.2%
42	Dawson	81	198	40.9%	0	0%	47	58%	1	1.2%	6	7.4%
43	Decatur	119	175	68%	5	4.2%	102	85.7%	6	5%	2	1.7%
44	DeKalb	1862	3500	53.2%	44	2.4%	1317	70.7%	134	7.2%	355	19.1%
45	Dodge	122	160	76.3%	3	2.5%	114	93.4%	0	0%	0	0%
46	Dooly	34	163	20.9%	4	11.8%	34	100%	2	5.9%	6	17.6%
47	Dougherty	839	1230	68.2%	59	7%	586	69.8%	42	5%	132	15.7%
48	Douglas	622	1600	38.9%	9	1.4%	587	94.4%	13	2.1%	3	0.5%
49	Early	28	85	32.9%	1	3.6%	3	10.7%	0	0%	0	0%
50	Echols
51	Effingham	158	268	59%	17	10.8%	117	74.1%	9	5.7%	8	5.1%
52	Elbert	80	114	70.2%	8	10%	60	75%	5	6.3%	3	3.8%
53	Emanuel
54	Evans - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
55	Fannin	45	84	53.6%	1	2.2%	45	100%	0	0%	0	0%
56	Fayette	365	554	65.9%	14	3.8%	335	91.8%	12	3.3%	0	0%
57	Floyd - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
58	Forsyth	322	608	53%	16	5%	251	78%	29	9%	3	0.9%
59	Franklin	93	74	125.7%	10	10.8%	67	72%	7	7.5%	3	3.2%
60	Fulton	2016	2300	87.7%	103	5.1%	448	22.2%	7	0.3%	585	29%
61	Gilmer	113	142	79.6%	1	0.9%	64	56.6%	3	2.7%	12	10.6%
62	Glascock - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
63	Glynn	447	611	73.2%	19	4.3%	347	77.6%	9	2%	12	2.7%
64	Gordon	283	376	75.3%	15	5.3%	123	43.5%	48	17%	8	2.8%
65	Grady	77	132	58.3%	5	6.5%	55	71.4%	12	15.6%	4	5.2%
66	Greene	0	112	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%
67	Gwinnett	2204	2600	84.8%	79	3.6%	1858	84.3%	80	3.6%	6	0.3%
68	Habersham	142	162	87.7%	8	5.6%	116	81.7%	7	4.9%	11	7.7%
69	Hall	628	1134	55.4%	9	1.4%	511	81.4%	64	10.2%	4	0.6%
70	Hancock	34	88	38.6%	2	5.9%	25	73.5%	5	14.7%	1	2.9%
71	Haralson	117	125	93.6%	26	22.2%	92	78.6%	5	4.3%	24	20.5%
72	Harris	81	109	74.3%	4	4.9%	67	82.7%	2	2.5%	4	4.9%
73	Hart	129	230	56.1%	2	1.6%	73	56.6%	0	0%	38	29.5%
74	Heard	43	60	71.7%	2	4.7%	36	83.7%	1	2.3%	4	9.3%
75	Henry	616	892	69.1%	8	1.3%	587	95.3%	56	9.1%	0	0%
76	Houston	535	665	80.5%	70	13.1%	423	79.1%	59	11%	23	4.3%
77	Irwin	215	1297	16.6%	0	0%	21	9.8%	1	0.5%	9	4.2%
78	Jackson	163	452	36.1%	4	2.5%	138	84.7%	8	4.9%	11	6.7%
79	Jasper	65	100	65%	5	7.7%	47	72.3%	11	16.9%	2	3.1%
80	Jeff Davis	68	106	64.2%	0	0%	50	73.5%	7	10.3%	13	19.1%
81	Jefferson	117	162	72.2%	4	3.4%	46	39.3%	0	0%	42	35.9%
82	Jenkins	36	65	55.4%	1	2.8%	20	55.6%	1	2.8%	5	13.9%
83	Johnson	14	46	30.4%	0	0%	8	57.1%	1	7.1%	14	100%
84	Jones	91	167	54.5%	8	8.8%	61	67%	16	17.6%	3	3.3%
85	Lamar	59	155	38.1%	5	8.5%	35	59.3%	7	11.9%	0	0%
86	Lanier - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
87	Laurens	226	275	82.2%	6	2.7%	50	22.1%	0	0%	226	100%
88	Lee	96	120	80%	6	6.3%	48	50%	10	10.4%	1	1%
89	Liberty	233	300	77.7%	6	2.6%	119	51.1%	1	0.4%	64	27.5%
90	Lincoln	33	80	41.3%	2	6.1%	14	42.4%	1	3%	0	0%
91	Long - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
92	Lowndes	626	920	68%	36	5.8%	486	77.6%	104	16.6%	0	0%
93	Lumpkin	123	156	78.8%	7	5.7%	91	74%	9	7.3%	14	11.4%
94	Macon
95	Madison	65	96	67.7%	0	0%	56	86.2%	0	0%	7	10.8%
96	Marion	18	30	60%	1	5.6%	11	61.1%	1	5.6%	2	11.1%
97	McDuffie	105	240	43.8%	0	0%	85	81%	0	0%	20	19%
98	McIntosh	98	120	81.7%	6	6.1%	65	66.3%	6	6.1%	5	5.1%
99	Meriwether	78	106	73.6%	10	12.8%	56	71.8%	8	10.3%	0	0%
100	Miller	35	72	48.6%	1	2.9%	14	40%	3	8.6%	12	34.3%
101	Mitchell	98	122	80.3%	2	2%	74	75.5%	14	14.3%	8	8.2%
102	Monroe	139	175	79.4%	5	3.6%	117	84.2%	10	7.2%	7	5%
103	Montgomery - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
104	Morgan	115	192	59.9%	5	4.3%	65	56.5%	13	11.3%	61	53%
105	Murray	124	160	77.5%	19	15.3%	85	68.5%	6	4.8%	8	6.5%
106	Muscogee	1092	1069	102.2%	35	3.2%	875	80.1%	66	6%	66	6%
107	Newton	515	600	85.8%	78	15.1%	241	46.8%	56	10.9%	11	2.1%
108	Oconee	67	137	48.9%	2	3%	38	56.7%	0	0%	26	38.8%
109	Oglethorpe
110	Paulding	280	640	43.8%	1	0.4%	202	72.1%	22	7.9%	24	8.6%
111	Peach	100	125	80%	0	0%	92	92%	1	1%	0	0%
112	Pickens	86	155	55.5%	4	4.7%	56	65.1%	2	2.3%	11	12.8%
113	Pierce	121	165	73.3%	0	0%	110	90.9%	0	0%	11	9.1%
114	Pike	20	32	62.5%	0	0%	17	85%	0	0%	0	0%
115	Polk	191	240	79.6%	5	2.6%	93	48.7%	28	14.7%	4	2.1%
116	Pulaski
117	Putnam	62	120	51.7%	4	6.5%	28	45.2%	5	8.1%	6	9.7%
118	Quitman - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
119	Rabun	120	102	117.6%	9	7.5%	91	75.8%	12	10%	6	5%
120	Randolph	42	42	100%	0	0%	0	0%	0	0%	37	88.1%
121	Richmond	1215	1066	114%	38	3.1%	1037	85.3%	0	0%	172	14.2%
122	Rockdale	330	724	45.6%	12	3.6%	282	85.5%	18	5.5%	12	3.6%
123	Schley
124	Screven	37	247	15%	2	5.4%	27	73%	5	13.5%	3	8.1%
125	Seminole	59	54	109.3%	1	1.7%	50	84.7%	4	6.8%	1	1.7%
126	Spalding	442	542	81.5%	29	6.6%	359	81.2%	54	12.2%	1	0.2%
127	Stephens	155	194	79.9%	8	5.2%	140	90.3%	2	1.3%	8	5.2%
128	Stewart
129	Sumter	182	260	70%	4	2.2%	180	98.9%	1	0.5%	0	0%
130	Talbot
131	Taliaferro - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
132	Tattnall	126	152	82.9%	4	3.2%	66	52.4%	11	8.7%	45	35.7%
133	Taylor	32	62	51.6%	2	6.3%	31	96.9%	0	0%	0	0%
134	Telfair	58	70	82.9%	1	1.7%	57	98.3%	0	0%	0	0%
135	Terrell	27	55	49.1%	2	7.4%	23	85.2%	1	3.7%	1	3.7%
136	Thomas	442	480	92.1%	6	1.4%	313	70.8%	61	13.8%	24	5.4%
137	Tift	237	290	81.7%	5	2.1%	50	21.1%	20	8.4%	10	4.2%
138	Toombs	134	240	55.8%	21	15.7%	89	66.4%	8	6%	5	3.7%
139	Towns	41	67	61.2%	1	2.4%	29	70.7%	6	14.6%	6	14.6%
140	Treutlen	40	50	80%	3	7.5%	20	50%	2	5%	13	32.5%
141	Troup	525	746	70.4%	14	2.7%	365	69.5%	35	6.7%	0	0%
142	Turner	72	150	48%	4	5.6%	54	75%	0	0%	14	19.4%
143	Twiggs	33	48	68.8%	2	6.1%	29	87.9%	1	3%	0	0%
144	Union	56	57	98.2%	2	3.6%	34	60.7%	5	8.9%	5	8.9%
145	Upson	178	217	82%	6	3.4%	144	80.9%	11	6.2%	3	1.7%
146	Walker	172	225	76.4%	17	9.9%	150	87.2%	5	2.9%	0	0%
147	Walton	580	400	145%	73	12.6%	439	75.7%	62	10.7%	0	0%
148	Ware	367	510	72%	12	3.3%	276	75.2%	20	5.4%	67	18.3%
149	Warren - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
150	Washington	142	236	60.2%	24	16.9%	94	66.2%	14	9.9%	10	7%
151	Wayne	120	182	65.9%	7	5.8%	0	0%	29	24.2%	80	66.7%
152	Webster - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
153	Wheeler	15	30	50%	0	0%	15	100%	0	0%	0	0%
154	White	111	176	63.1%	0	0%	38	34.2%	20	18%	0	0%
155	Whitfield	418	544	76.8%	27	6.5%	306	73.2%	22	5.3%	63	15.1%
156	Wilcox	15	16	93.8%	1	6.7%	12	80%	1	6.7%	0	0%
157	Wilkes	36	80	45%	1	2.8%	23	63.9%	2	5.6%	5	13.9%
158	Wilkinson	39	50	78%	1	2.6%	27	69.2%	0	0%	0	0%
159	Worth - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	TOTALS	33,256	48,633	68.4%	1,513	4.5%	23,558	70.8%	2,662	8%	3,960	11.9%