Jail Report - Georgia Sheriffs' Association

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

ITEM	February	January	Increase/Decrease
1 - Number of Jail Inmates	23,953	38,458	-14,505
2 - Capacity of Jails Reporting (permanent beds)	33,009	52,687	-19,678
3 - Percent of Jail Capacity	72.6%	73.0%	-0.4%
4 - Number of Jails Over Capacity	10	17	-7
5 - Inmates Sentenced to State Institutions	1,773	2,600	-827
6 - Percent of State-Sentenced Inmates Housed at County Level	7.4%	6.8%	0.6%
7 - Number of Inmates Awaiting Trial	16,357	27,201	-10,844
8 - Percent of Inmates Awaiting Trial	68.3%	70.7%	-2.4%
9 - Number of Inmates Sentenced to County Jails	2,664	3,596	-932
10 - Percent of Inmates Sentenced to County Jails	11.1%	9.4%	1.8%
11 - Number of Other Inmates	1,464	2,292	-828
12 - Percent of Other Inmates	6.1%	6.0%	0.2%
13 - Number of Jails Reporting	104	147	-43
14 - Number of Counties with Jails	92	130	-38

County Jail Report

Primary Jail Capacity Data
February 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	84	193	43.5%	10	11.9%	36	42.9%	5	6%	14	16.7%
2	Atkinson	62	80	77.5%	4	6.5%	57	91.9%	1	1.6%	0	0%
3	Bacon
4	Baker - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Baldwin	287	335	85.7%	9	3.1%	182	63.4%	174	60.6%	74	25.8%
6	Banks
7	Barrow	272	378	72%	57	21%	164	60.3%	16	5.9%	10	3.7%
8	Bartow	574	1253	45.8%	45	7.8%	315	54.9%	189	32.9%	13	2.3%
9	Ben Hill
10	Berrien
11	Bibb	1036	966	107.2%	64	6.2%	680	65.6%	49	4.7%	20	1.9%
12	Bleckley
13	Brantley	99	120	82.5%	20	20.2%	74	74.7%	2	2%	2	2%
14	Brooks
15	Bryan	49	68	72.1%	6	12.2%	30	61.2%	3	6.1%	0	0%
16	Bulloch	364	450	80.9%	61	16.8%	236	64.8%	54	14.8%	12	3.3%
17	Burke	100	135	74.1%	12	12%	50	50%	0	0%	0	0%
18	Butts	224	305	73.4%	10	4.5%	129	57.6%	16	7.1%	2	0.9%
19	Calhoun	23	40	57.5%	1	4.3%	17	73.9%	3	13%	0	0%
20	Camden	153	194	78.9%	8	5.2%	133	86.9%	0	0%	0	0%
21	Candler	30	72	41.7%	9	30%	9	30%	2	6.7%	1	3.3%
22	Carroll	516	644	80.1%	40	7.8%	196	38%	280	54.3%	5	1%
23	Catoosa	177	248	71.4%	18	10.2%	97	54.8%	23	13%	4	2.3%
24	Charlton
25	Chatham	1308	2433	53.8%	30	2.3%	1213	92.7%	30	2.3%	10	0.8%
26	Chattahoochee
27	Chattooga	42	48	87.5%	3	7.1%	27	64.3%	4	9.5%	0	0%
28	Cherokee	542	849	63.8%	71	13.1%	389	71.8%	73	13.5%	3	0.6%
29	Clarke
30	Clay - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	Clayton
32	Clinch
33	Cobb
34	Coffee - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
35	Colquitt
36	Columbia	369	360	102.5%	51	13.8%	261	70.7%	54	14.6%	6	1.6%
37	Cook	100	108	92.6%	13	13%	56	56%	7	7%	5	5%
38	Coweta	582	469	124.1%	20	3.4%	405	69.6%	192	33%	7	1.2%
39	Crawford
40	Crisp
41	Dade	57	110	51.8%	8	14%	47	82.5%	2	3.5%	4	7%
42	Dawson
43	Decatur
44	DeKalb
45	Dodge	88	160	55%	4	4.5%	88	100%	2	2.3%	1	1.1%
46	Dooly	39	163	23.9%	1	2.6%	38	97.4%	1	2.6%	3	7.7%
47	Dougherty	769	1230	62.5%	43	5.6%	570	74.1%	49	6.4%	118	15.3%
48	Douglas	724	1600	45.3%	68	9.4%	630	87%	11	1.5%	3	0.4%
49	Early
50	Echols
51	Effingham	166	268	61.9%	34	20.5%	113	68.1%	8	4.8%	5	3%
52	Elbert
53	Emanuel
54	Evans - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
55	Fannin	55	84	65.5%	2	3.6%	43	78.2%	0	0%	20	36.4%
56	Fayette	386	554	69.7%	15	3.9%	335	86.8%	27	7%	2	0.5%
57	Floyd	519	755	68.7%	10	1.9%	246	47.4%	150	28.9%	67	12.9%
58	Forsyth	312	608	51.3%	8	2.6%	228	73.1%	53	17%	2	0.6%
59	Franklin	93	74	125.7%	3	3.2%	59	63.4%	9	9.7%	19	20.4%
60	Fulton
61	Gilmer	68	142	47.9%	6	8.8%	27	39.7%	0	0%	1	1.5%
62	Glascock
63	Glynn	470	611	76.9%	15	3.2%	351	74.7%	15	3.2%	20	4.3%
64	Gordon
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	181	162	111.7%	27	14.9%	141	77.9%	12	6.6%	1	0.6%
69	Hall	675	1134	59.5%	69	10.2%	501	74.2%	71	10.5%	3	0.4%
70	Hancock
71	Haralson	129	125	103.2%	16	12.4%	13	10.1%	98	76%	6	4.7%
72	Harris
73	Hart	170	230	73.9%	23	13.5%	51	30%	3	1.8%	45	26.5%
74	Heard	43	60	71.7%	4	9.3%	28	65.1%	2	4.7%	8	18.6%
75	Henry	831	877	94.8%	9	1.1%	774	93.1%	146	17.6%	0	0%
76	Houston
77	Irwin	599	1297	46.2%	5	0.8%	16	2.7%	1	0.2%	5	0.8%
78	Jackson	171	463	36.9%	17	9.9%	142	83%	8	4.7%	29	17%
79	Jasper	61	100	61%	3	4.9%	47	77%	7	11.5%	4	6.6%
80	Jeff Davis	57	106	53.8%	6	10.5%	42	73.7%	3	5.3%	13	22.8%
81	Jefferson	117	162	72.2%	7	6%	52	44.4%	0	0%	4	3.4%
82	Jenkins	26	65	40%	3	11.5%	18	69.2%	3	11.5%	1	3.8%
83	Johnson
84	Jones	117	167	70.1%	14	12%	84	71.8%	8	6.8%	5	4.3%
85	Lamar
86	Lanier
87	Laurens	213	275	77.5%	1	0.5%	0	0%	0	0%	213	100%
88	Lee	87	120	72.5%	10	11.5%	74	85.1%	3	3.4%	0	0%
89	Liberty
90	Lincoln	35	80	43.8%	3	8.6%	13	37.1%	3	8.6%	0	0%
91	Long
92	Lowndes	720	896	80.4%	48	6.7%	542	75.3%	130	18.1%	0	0%
93	Lumpkin
94	Macon
95	Madison	74	96	77.1%	8	10.8%	49	66.2%	2	2.7%	18	24.3%
96	Marion	17	30	56.7%	1	5.9%	12	70.6%	2	11.8%	0	0%
97	McDuffie
98	McIntosh
99	Meriwether
100	Miller	32	72	44.4%	0	0%	3	9.4%	4	12.5%	10	31.3%
101	Mitchell	91	122	74.6%	11	12.1%	65	71.4%	16	17.6%	1	1.1%
102	Monroe	165	175	94.3%	8	4.8%	142	86.1%	5	3%	10	6.1%
103	Montgomery - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
104	Morgan	76	192	39.6%	10	13.2%	43	56.6%	6	7.9%	1	1.3%
105	Murray	173	160	108.1%	32	18.5%	91	52.6%	28	16.2%	2	1.2%
106	Muscogee	1166	1069	109.1%	69	5.9%	952	81.6%	25	2.1%	13	1.1%
107	Newton	549	600	91.5%	54	9.8%	272	49.5%	49	8.9%	13	2.4%
108	Oconee - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
109	Oglethorpe
110	Paulding	291	631	46.1%	14	4.8%	203	69.8%	21	7.2%	39	13.4%
111	Peach	116	125	92.8%	7	6%	86	74.1%	4	3.4%	10	8.6%
112	Pickens	99	155	63.9%	12	12.1%	72	72.7%	1	1%	4	4%
113	Pierce	131	165	79.4%	2	1.5%	114	87%	5	3.8%	18	13.7%
114	Pike	14	32	43.8%	2	14.3%	10	71.4%	0	0%	0	0%
115	Polk	221	240	92.1%	10	4.5%	172	77.8%	23	10.4%	15	6.8%
116	Pulaski	29	42	69%	5	17.2%	24	82.8%	0	0%	0	0%
117	Putnam
118	Quitman - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
119	Rabun	126	102	123.5%	6	4.8%	96	76.2%	13	10.3%	11	8.7%
120	Randolph	63	100	63%	3	4.8%	13	20.6%	0	0%	31	49.2%
121	Richmond	1336	1066	125.3%	44	3.3%	1134	84.9%	41	3.1%	119	8.9%
122	Rockdale
123	Schley	6	16	37.5%	0	0%	5	83.3%	0	0%	0	0%
124	Screven
125	Seminole	47	54	87%	5	10.6%	40	85.1%	1	2.1%	1	2.1%
126	Spalding
127	Stephens
128	Stewart
129	Sumter	180	260	69.2%	22	12.2%	152	84.4%	0	0%	0	0%
130	Talbot
131	Taliaferro - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
132	Tattnall	121	152	79.6%	5	4.1%	56	46.3%	16	13.2%	43	35.5%
133	Taylor	38	65	58.5%	4	10.5%	34	89.5%	2	5.3%	1	2.6%
134	Telfair	50	70	71.4%	3	6%	47	94%	0	0%	0	0%
135	Terrell
136	Thomas	463	480	96.5%	22	4.8%	257	55.5%	94	20.3%	53	11.4%
137	Tift
138	Toombs
139	Towns	27	67	40.3%	2	7.4%	13	48.1%	2	7.4%	0	0%
140	Treutlen
141	Troup	651	746	87.3%	37	5.7%	475	73%	38	5.8%	2	0.3%
142	Turner
143	Twiggs	34	48	70.8%	1	2.9%	30	88.2%	1	2.9%	0	0%
144	Union	52	57	91.2%	5	9.6%	34	65.4%	5	9.6%	4	7.7%
145	Upson	141	220	64.1%	27	19.1%	75	53.2%	12	8.5%	0	0%
146	Walker	217	225	96.4%	53	24.4%	149	68.7%	15	6.9%	0	0%
147	Walton	605	869	69.6%	91	15%	391	64.6%	78	12.9%	0	0%
148	Ware
149	Warren - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
150	Washington	164	212	77.4%	3	1.8%	128	78%	14	8.5%	4	2.4%
151	Wayne	160	182	87.9%	18	11.3%	65	40.6%	47	29.4%	103	64.4%
152	Webster - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
153	Wheeler	18	30	60%	6	33.3%	12	66.7%	0	0%	0	0%
154	White	100	176	56.8%	7	7%	33	33%	31	31%	0	0%
155	Whitfield	439	544	80.7%	73	16.6%	283	64.5%	29	6.6%	54	12.3%
156	Wilcox	11	16	68.8%	1	9.1%	7	63.6%	2	18.2%	4	36.4%
157	Wilkes	44	80	55%	3	6.8%	41	93.2%	1	2.3%	5	11.4%
158	Wilkinson
159	Worth
	TOTALS	23,308	32,169	72.5%	1,730	7.4%	15,949	68.4%	2,635	11.3%	1,379	5.9%