Jail Report - Georgia Sheriffs' Association

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

ITEM	July	June	Increase/Decrease
1 - Number of Jail Inmates	28,801	35,772	-6,971
2 - Capacity of Jails Reporting (permanent beds)	39,891	48,311	-8,420
3 - Percent of Jail Capacity	72.2%	74.0%	-1.8%
4 - Number of Jails Over Capacity	15	12	3
5 - Inmates Sentenced to State Institutions	1,858	2,421	-563
6 - Percent of State-Sentenced Inmates Housed at County Level	6.5%	6.8%	-0.3%
7 - Number of Inmates Awaiting Trial	20,390	25,388	-4,998
8 - Percent of Inmates Awaiting Trial	70.8%	71.0%	-0.2%
9 - Number of Inmates Sentenced to County Jails	2,536	3,355	-819
10 - Percent of Inmates Sentenced to County Jails	8.8%	9.4%	-0.6%
11 - Number of Other Inmates	2,285	2,684	-399
12 - Percent of Other Inmates	7.9%	7.5%	0.4%
13 - Number of Jails Reporting	100	120	-20
14 - Number of Counties with Jails	96	114	-18

County Jail Report

Primary Jail Capacity Data
July 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
2	Atkinson	78	89	87.6%	0	0%	62	79.5%	0	0%	16	20.5%
3	Bacon	60	74	81.1%	9	15%	49	81.7%	0	0%	2	3.3%
4	Baker - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Baldwin
6	Banks
7	Barrow	260	378	68.8%	58	22.3%	153	58.8%	24	9.2%	4	1.5%
8	Bartow
9	Ben Hill
10	Berrien
11	Bibb	1022	966	105.8%	75	7.3%	675	66%	26	2.5%	17	1.7%
12	Bleckley
13	Brantley
14	Brooks	64	120	53.3%	10	15.6%	0	0%	2	3.1%	0	0%
15	Bryan	52	68	76.5%	7	13.5%	31	59.6%	4	7.7%	1	1.9%
16	Bulloch	311	450	69.1%	50	16.1%	191	61.4%	50	16.1%	17	5.5%
17	Burke
18	Butts	187	305	61.3%	6	3.2%	84	44.9%	8	4.3%	33	17.6%
19	Calhoun	36	40	90%	1	2.8%	27	75%	3	8.3%	4	11.1%
20	Camden	134	193	69.4%	4	3%	113	84.3%	1	0.7%	5	3.7%
21	Candler	36	72	50%	5	13.9%	19	52.8%	2	5.6%	2	5.6%
22	Carroll	571	644	88.7%	67	11.7%	188	32.9%	373	65.3%	5	0.9%
23	Catoosa	190	248	76.6%	14	7.4%	104	54.7%	13	6.8%	2	1.1%
24	Charlton
25	Chatham	1384	2433	56.9%	15	1.1%	1303	94.1%	32	2.3%	9	0.7%
26	Chattahoochee
27	Chattooga	49	47	104.3%	5	10.2%	23	46.9%	4	8.2%	1	2%
28	Cherokee
29	Clarke	513	839	61.1%	78	15.2%	227	44.2%	22	4.3%	3	0.6%
30	Clay
31	Clayton
32	Clinch
33	Cobb	2307	3171	72.8%	95	4.1%	1708	74%	264	11.4%	204	8.8%
34	Coffee	386	448	86.2%	47	12.2%	268	69.4%	0	0%	39	10.1%
35	Colquitt	248	210	118.1%	3	1.2%	215	86.7%	12	4.8%	5	2%
36	Columbia	382	360	106.1%	61	16%	260	68.1%	54	14.1%	5	1.3%
37	Cook
38	Coweta	581	645	90.1%	4	0.7%	400	68.8%	177	30.5%	6	1%
39	Crawford	24	24	100%	3	12.5%	20	83.3%	1	4.2%	0	0%
40	Crisp
41	Dade	45	110	40.9%	7	15.6%	38	84.4%	2	4.4%	3	6.7%
42	Dawson
43	Decatur
44	DeKalb	2112	3500	60.3%	12	0.6%	1872	88.6%	218	10.3%	416	19.7%
45	Dodge	93	160	58.1%	13	14%	93	100%	1	1.1%	0	0%
46	Dooly	33	163	20.2%	8	24.2%	25	75.8%	1	3%	6	18.2%
47	Dougherty	792	1230	64.4%	70	8.8%	507	64%	56	7.1%	135	17%
48	Douglas	754	1600	47.1%	48	6.4%	720	95.5%	8	1.1%	6	0.8%
49	Early
50	Echols
51	Effingham	151	268	56.3%	26	17.2%	109	72.2%	7	4.6%	1	0.7%
52	Elbert
53	Emanuel	136	125	108.8%	1	0.7%	76	55.9%	7	5.1%	6	4.4%
54	Evans
55	Fannin	62	84	73.8%	1	1.6%	40	64.5%	0	0%	22	35.5%
56	Fayette	355	554	64.1%	11	3.1%	290	81.7%	18	5.1%	0	0%
57	Floyd	511	755	67.7%	10	2%	275	53.8%	106	20.7%	72	14.1%
58	Forsyth	330	608	54.3%	23	7%	230	69.7%	59	17.9%	8	2.4%
59	Franklin	98	74	132.4%	5	5.1%	78	79.6%	6	6.1%	11	11.2%
60	Fulton
61	Gilmer	76	142	53.5%	3	3.9%	45	59.2%	1	1.3%	3	3.9%
62	Glascock
63	Glynn	531	611	86.9%	20	3.8%	365	68.7%	20	3.8%	35	6.6%
64	Gordon	290	376	77.1%	57	19.7%	102	35.2%	32	11%	7	2.4%
65	Grady
66	Greene
67	Gwinnett
68	Habersham	181	162	111.7%	17	9.4%	149	82.3%	8	4.4%	7	3.9%
69	Hall	717	1134	63.2%	43	6%	544	75.9%	76	10.6%	3	0.4%
70	Hancock
71	Haralson	128	125	102.4%	11	8.6%	83	64.8%	104	81.3%	7	5.5%
72	Harris	90	109	82.6%	10	11.1%	71	78.9%	1	1.1%	4	4.4%
73	Hart	179	230	77.8%	15	8.4%	109	60.9%	0	0%	61	34.1%
74	Heard	40	60	66.7%	8	20%	26	65%	2	5%	4	10%
75	Henry	823	877	93.8%	9	1.1%	812	98.7%	10	1.2%	0	0%
76	Houston
77	Irwin	867	1297	66.8%	0	0%	16	1.8%	0	0%	3	0.3%
78	Jackson	256	463	55.3%	27	10.5%	172	67.2%	15	5.9%	48	18.8%
79	Jasper	68	100	68%	1	1.5%	57	83.8%	7	10.3%	3	4.4%
80	Jeff Davis	71	106	67%	12	16.9%	45	63.4%	3	4.2%	11	15.5%
81	Jefferson	108	162	66.7%	7	6.5%	49	45.4%	1	0.9%	4	3.7%
82	Jenkins
83	Johnson
84	Jones	104	167	62.3%	19	18.3%	63	60.6%	18	17.3%	11	10.6%
85	Lamar	101	155	65.2%	3	3%	60	59.4%	14	13.9%	23	22.8%
86	Lanier
87	Laurens	214	275	77.8%	8	3.7%	77	36%	0	0%	214	100%
88	Lee
89	Liberty	265	300	88.3%	28	10.6%	148	55.8%	15	5.7%	40	15.1%
90	Lincoln	28	80	35%	4	14.3%	18	64.3%	0	0%	1	3.6%
91	Long
92	Lowndes	772	994	77.7%	59	7.6%	579	75%	134	17.4%	0	0%
93	Lumpkin	148	256	57.8%	0	0%	92	62.2%	0	0%	54	36.5%
94	Macon
95	Madison	86	96	89.6%	0	0%	56	65.1%	6	7%	20	23.3%
96	Marion	17	30	56.7%	0	0%	13	76.5%	1	5.9%	0	0%
97	McDuffie	129	250	51.6%	10	7.8%	114	88.4%	2	1.6%	53	41.1%
98	McIntosh	71	120	59.2%	2	2.8%	62	87.3%	1	1.4%	0	0%
99	Meriwether	57	106	53.8%	10	17.5%	38	66.7%	6	10.5%	0	0%
100	Miller	35	72	48.6%	6	17.1%	35	100%	2	5.7%	0	0%
101	Mitchell	96	122	78.7%	11	11.5%	56	58.3%	12	12.5%	1	1%
102	Monroe	207	175	118.3%	16	7.7%	207	100%	5	2.4%	10	4.8%
103	Montgomery
104	Morgan	63	232	27.2%	19	30.2%	26	41.3%	8	12.7%	1	1.6%
105	Murray	159	160	99.4%	43	27%	80	50.3%	16	10.1%	0	0%
106	Muscogee	1241	1069	116.1%	26	2.1%	1047	84.4%	27	2.2%	10	0.8%
107	Newton
108	Oconee - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
109	Oglethorpe
110	Paulding	305	631	48.3%	17	5.6%	231	75.7%	10	3.3%	12	3.9%
111	Peach
112	Pickens	100	155	64.5%	12	12%	68	68%	3	3%	8	8%
113	Pierce
114	Pike	20	32	62.5%	1	5%	15	75%	1	5%	0	0%
115	Polk	245	240	102.1%	19	7.8%	178	72.7%	30	12.2%	12	4.9%
116	Pulaski - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
117	Putnam	78	120	65%	17	21.8%	58	74.4%	3	3.8%	4	5.1%
118	Quitman
119	Rabun	125	102	122.5%	4	3.2%	103	82.4%	12	9.6%	6	4.8%
120	Randolph	71	100	71%	4	5.6%	29	40.8%	0	0%	41	57.7%
121	Richmond	1311	1066	123%	63	4.8%	1054	80.4%	56	4.3%	145	11.1%
122	Rockdale	352	758	46.4%	11	3.1%	320	90.9%	16	4.5%	29	8.2%
123	Schley
124	Screven	82	247	33.2%	11	13.4%	34	41.5%	5	6.1%	32	39%
125	Seminole	49	54	90.7%	9	18.4%	34	69.4%	4	8.2%	2	4.1%
126	Spalding
127	Stephens	153	194	78.9%	9	5.9%	126	82.4%	6	3.9%	0	0%
128	Stewart
129	Sumter	175	260	67.3%	25	14.3%	146	83.4%	4	2.3%	0	0%
130	Talbot	17	22	77.3%	1	5.9%	0	0%	0	0%	2	11.8%
131	Taliaferro
132	Tattnall
133	Taylor	39	65	60%	0	0%	35	89.7%	0	0%	4	10.3%
134	Telfair - NO JAIL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
135	Terrell
136	Thomas
137	Tift
138	Toombs
139	Towns
140	Treutlen	46	50	92%	9	19.6%	12	26.1%	7	15.2%	3	6.5%
141	Troup	498	746	66.8%	1	0.2%	334	67.1%	42	8.4%	3	0.6%
142	Turner	41	108	38%	7	17.1%	20	48.8%	1	2.4%	0	0%
143	Twiggs	31	48	64.6%	4	12.9%	27	87.1%	0	0%	0	0%
144	Union
145	Upson	167	220	75.9%	4	2.4%	116	69.5%	21	12.6%	0	0%
146	Walker	179	225	79.6%	38	21.2%	130	72.6%	4	2.2%	0	0%
147	Walton	602	869	69.3%	99	16.4%	442	73.4%	76	12.6%	0	0%
148	Ware	412	510	80.8%	25	6.1%	303	73.5%	28	6.8%	47	11.4%
149	Warren
150	Washington	169	212	79.7%	4	2.4%	129	76.3%	15	8.9%	4	2.4%
151	Wayne	134	182	73.6%	7	5.2%	20	14.9%	34	25.4%	89	66.4%
152	Webster
153	Wheeler
154	White	95	176	54%	3	3.2%	42	44.2%	18	18.9%	2	2.1%
155	Whitfield	492	544	90.4%	89	18.1%	342	69.5%	24	4.9%	37	7.5%
156	Wilcox	21	16	131.3%	1	4.8%	5	23.8%	2	9.5%	2	9.5%
157	Wilkes
158	Wilkinson
159	Worth
	TOTALS	28,574	39,620	72.1%	1,850	6.5%	20,242	70.8%	2,530	8.9%	2,188	7.7%