County jail inmate population report, 2000 January

Public Safety Information

Memorandum

TO:

Interested Persons

FROM:

Tony M. McClung

DATE:

January 18, 2000

SUBJECT: County Jail Report - January 2000

Enclosed is the County Jail Inmate Information Report for January 2000. This report reflects the inmate population on Thursday, January 6, 2000.
In January, 147 of the 147 functional county jails provided inmate information. This represents 100 percent of the county jails reporting and 100 percent of the State's population. Please note that this represents no change from last month in the percentage of the counties reporting nor in the percentage of the State's population represented.
This month, the county jail population (26,835) dropped for the third consecutive month and is at the lowest level since July 1999.
If you would like the jail report emailed to you rather than receiving a copy in the mail, please notify me by email at tmcclung@dca.state.ga.us.
If you have any questions, please call me at 404-679-4797.
/tmm
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Use and display of the Seal of the State of Georgia is restricted by law, and may be used only with express written permission from the State of Georgia as authorized by the Governor.

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Planning & Codes
Statistical Data on County Jails1 January 1990 - December 1999
The information below shows the changes that occurred from January 1990 until December 1999 in Georgia's county jails. The data represents information as submitted by local Sheriffs' Offices via the Georgia Crime Information Center (GCIC) during the ten (10) year period from 1990-1999. The Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA) then compiles, analyzes and distributes the County Jail Inmate Information Report to interested agencies and organizations.
It is of interest to note that there was a significant slowdown in the number of new beds being added to the county jail system during 1999. This year, only 348 beds were added for a total capacity of 28,406. In the preceding two years period (January 1997 until December 1998) counties increased their jail capacity by 5,303 beds. From January 1990 until December 1999 counties increased their jail capacity by 17,426 beds or 159%. Meanwhile, the number of inmates held in county jails during 1999 varied from a low of 26,473 in June to a high of 28,485 in February. There was also a significant increase in the number of inmates housed in county jails from January 1990 (14,225) until December 1999 (27,487). Another significant increase during the 1990's is the amount of spending on county jails. From FY 1990 until FY 1998, spending on county jails' operations increased by 171%. Furthermore, spending for jail constructions and the purchase of land or equipment for the jails are not included in these figures. For example, during FY 1998 counties spent $58,610,164 on jail construction and $9,435,110 on the purchase of equipment and land for the jail. Again, these two figures ($58,610,164 and $9,435,110) are not included in the total amount spent on county jail operations ($235,067,424) during FY 1998.2
The information that follows shows the changes that have taken place in county jails during the last year and the last decade.
1 Information provided from the monthly jail reports submitted by local Sheriffs' Offices via the Georgia Crime Information Center.
2 Expenditure information provided by Annual Reports of Local Government Finance as reported to the Georgia Department of Community Affairs. Financial data for FY 1999 has not been collected yet

County Jail Capacity

January 1999

28,058

December 1999

28,406

Percentage Increase

1.22%

January 1990

10,980

December 1999

28,406

Percentage Increase

158.71%

Inmates Awaiting Trial in Jail

January 1999

16,570

December 1999

16,891

Percentage Increase

1.94%

January 1990

9,230

Inmates Housed in County Jail January 1999 December 1999 Percentage Increase January 1990 December 1999 Percentage Increase Expenditures on County Jails (Operations)3 January 1999 December 1999 Percentage Increase Georgia's Population Growth4

27,282 27,487 .08% 14,225 27,487 93.23%
$83,738,211 $235,067,424 171.01%

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Planning & Codes
December 1999 Percentage Increase

16,891 83.01%

Inmates Sentenced to State Institutions5

January 1999

3,691

December 1999

2,374

Percentage Increase

Decreased

January 1990

2,673

December 1999

2,374

Percentage Increase

Decreased

1990 1998 Percentage Increase

6,478,149 7,642,207 17.97%

3Expenditure information provided by Annual Reports of Local Government Finance as reported to the Georgia Department of Community Affairs. These figures only included the cost of jail operations. The figures do not include jail construction cost nor the cost of land purchases and equipment for the jail. Financial data for FY 1999 has not been collected yet.
4Population estimates provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. The latest estimate provided by the Census Bureau is 1998, the estimate for 1999 has not been released.
5The number of inmates sentenced to State Institutions has varied widely (see graph) during the 1990's.
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Public Safety Information

SUMMARY
COUNTY JAIL INMATE POPULATION REPORT January 6, 2000

1. NUMBER OF JAIL INMATES
2. CAPACITY OF JAILS REPORTING (PERMANENT BEDS)
3. PERCENT OF CAPACITY OF JAILS REPORTING

DECREASED by 652 from 27,487 in December '99 to:
INCREASED by 8 from 28,406 from December '99:

26,835 28,414
94%

4. NUMBER OF JAILS OVER CAPACITY*

INCREASED by 8 from 38 from December

46*

'99:

5. INMATES SENTENCED TO STATE INSTITUTIONS

DECREASED by 48 from 2,374 in December '99 to:

2,326

6. PERCENTAGE OF INMATES HOUSED AT COUNTY LEVEL SENTENCED TO STATE

9%

7. NUMBER INMATES AWAITING TRIAL IN JAIL

DECREASED by 262 from 16,891 in December '99 to:

16,629

8. PERCENTAGE OF PRETRIAL INMATES

62%

9. NUMBER OF COUNTY SENTENCED INMATES

DECREASED by 393 from 4,466 in December '99 to:

4,073

10. PERCENTAGE OF COUNTY SENTENCED INMATES

15%

11. NUMBER OF OTHER INMATES

INCREASED by 51 from 3,756 in December '99 to:

3,807

12. PERCENTAGE OF OTHER INMATES

14%

13. PERCENTAGE OF JAILS REPORTING

100%

14. PERCENTAGE OF STATE POPULATION WITH JAILS REPORTING

100%

*This figure does not include jails at 100% or that would exceed 100% if not for the boarding out of inmates. Since the purpose of this report is to count the total number of inmates housed in county jails, there are no provisions in this report to separately count the number of inmates sent to other facilities for housing. Rather, each county reports only on the number of inmates held in their facility on the first Tuesday of the month. Inmates that are sent elsewhere for housing are counted by the facility housing those inmates.

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Public Safety Information
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Public Safety Information

Jurisdiction

Number of

Number of Number of Inmates

Total Number
of

Inmates

Sentenced to

Inmates

State

Inmates Awaiting Trial in Jail

Serving County Sentence

Number of Other Inmates

Inmates Jail as % of

% of

% of

% of

% of

In Jail Capacity Capacity Number Total Number Total Number Total Number Total

001 APPLING

24

36

67%

1

4% 22 92% 0

0%

1

4%

002 ATKINSON

10

18

56%

3 30% 0 0% 5 50% 2 20%

003 BACON

41

53

77%

6 15% 20 49% 6 15% 9 22%

004 BAKER

2

8

25%

1 50% 0 0% 1 50% 0 0%

005 BALDWIN

161

173

93%

14 9% 84 52% 15 9% 48 30%

006 BANKS

29

30

97%

2 7% 21 72% 1 3% 5 17%

007 BARROW

92

90

102% 24 26% 30 33% 16 17% 22 24%

008 BARTOW

390

401

97%

28 7% 250 64% 51 13% 61 16%

009 BEN HILL

85

136

63%

2 2% 29 34% 7 8% 47 55%

010 BERRIEN

10

28

36%

2 20% 1 10% 7 70% 0 0%

011 BIBB

532

585

91%

25 5% 252 47% 39 7% 216 41%

012 BLECKLEY

27

32

84%

2 7% 9 33% 0 0% 16 59%

013 BRANTLEY

16

23

70%

4 25% 7 44% 1 6% 4 25%

014 BROOKS

34

45

76%

5 15% 11 32% 5 15% 13 38%

015 BRYAN

38

68

56%

1 3% 0 0% 0 0% 37 97%

016 BULLOCH

68

106

64%

9 13% 51 75% 1 1% 7 10%

017 BURKE

50

96

52%

3 6% 36 72% 2 4% 9 18%

018 BUTTS

32

100

32%

2

6% 24 75% 4 13% 2

6%

019 CALHOUN

14

40

35%

2 14% 8 57% 4 29% 0

0%

020 CAMDEN

103

120

86%

2 2% 90 87% 5 5% 6 6%

021 CANDLER

29

72

40%

8 28% 16 55% 0 0% 5 17%

022 CARROLL

292

134

218%

7 2% 103 35% 128 44% 54 18%

023 CATOOSA

68

76

89%

16 24% 39 57% 7 10% 6 9%

024 CHARLTON

NO JAIL 0

0%

0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%

025 CHATHAM

1315 1224 107% 114 9% 1064 81% 58 4% 79 6%

026 CHATTAHOOCHEE NO JAIL 0

0%

0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%

027 CHATTOOGA

43

47

91%

3 7% 35 81% 3 7% 2 5%

028 CHEROKEE

245

125

196%

42 17% 171 70% 28 11% 4

2%

029 CLARKE

334

338

99%

11 3% 213 64% 105 31% 5 1%

030 CLAY

14

16

88%

0 0% 11 79% 0 0% 3 21%

031 CLAYTON

1260

760

166%

60 5% 626 50% 394 31% 180 14%

032 CLINCH

12

26

46%

4 33% 1 8% 1 8% 6 50%

033 COBB

1842 1811 102% 149 8% 1417 77% 224 12% 52 3%

034 COFFEE

129

188

69%

25 19% 84 65% 2 2% 18 14%

035 COLQUITT

115

210

55%

20 17% 0 0% 84 73% 11 10%

036 COLUMBIA

122

91

134%

17 14% 89 73% 16 13% 0

0%

037 COOK

41

30

137%

7 17% 24 59% 3 7% 7 17%

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Public Safety Information
038 COWETA 039 CRAWFORD 040 CRISP 041 DADE 042 DAWSON 043 DECATUR 044 DEKALB 045 DODGE 046 DOOLY 047 DOUGHERTY 048 DOUGLAS 049 EARLY 050 ECHOLS 051 EFFINGHAM 052 ELBERT 053 EMANUEL 054 EVANS 055 FANNIN 056 FAYETTE 057 FLOYD 058 FORSYTH 059 FRANKLIN 060 FULTON 061 GILMER 062 GLASCOCK 063 GLYNN 064 GORDON 065 GRADY 066 GREENE 067 GWINNETT 068 HABERSHAM 069 HALL 070 HANCOCK 071 HARALSON 072 HARRIS 073 HART 074 HEARD 075 HENRY 076 HOUSTON 077 IRWIN 078 JACKSON 079 JASPER 080 JEFFDAVIS/HAZ 081 JEFFERSON

226 7
164 38 41 78 2897 49 44 752 439 45 NO JAIL 70 78 39 13 32 201 621 150 63 3024 43 NO JAIL 303 142 73 64 1168 58 486 36 62 56 41 15 250 406 28 78 30 34 44

300 22 170 72 53 175 3636 56 37 1080 334 66 0 106 50 32 26 22 88 724 134 72 2320 60 0 344 140 124 64 1035 130 565 80 60 100 50 32 174 257 20 121 64 68 72

75% 32% 96% 53% 77% 45% 80% 88% 119% 70% 131% 68% 0% 66% 156% 122% 50% 145% 228% 86% 112% 88% 130% 72% 0% 88% 101% 59% 100% 113% 45% 86% 45% 103% 56% 82% 47% 144% 158% 140% 64% 47% 50% 61%

7

3% 168 74% 51 23% 0

0%

1 14% 6 86% 0

0%

0

0%

13 8% 103 63% 12 7% 36 22%

4 11% 14 37% 6 16% 14 37%

0 0% 23 56% 7 17% 11 27%

11 14% 45 58% 6 8% 16 21%

156 5% 2231 77% 394 14% 116 4%

13 27% 35 71% 1 2% 0 0%

0 0% 39 89% 3 7% 2 5%

60 8% 451 60% 204 27% 37 5%

42 10% 305 69% 83 19% 9 2%

5 11% 25 56% 2 4% 13 29%

0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%

12 17% 36 51% 11 16% 11 16%

8 10% 49 63% 15 19% 6 8%

9 23% 24 62% 3 8% 3 8%

3 23% 4 31% 0 0% 6 46%

11 34% 14 44% 6 19% 1

3%

14 7% 103 51% 84 42% 0

0%

30 5% 74 12% 185 30% 332 53%

21 14% 78 52% 23 15% 28 19%

3 5% 28 44% 23 37% 9 14%

104 3% 2222 73% 344 11% 354 12%

6 14% 33 77% 4 9% 0 0%

0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%

15 5% 217 72% 3 1% 68 22%

45 32% 28 20% 62 44% 7 5%

12 16% 44 60% 14 19% 3 4%

11 17% 43 67% 2 3% 8 13%

100 9% 597 51% 165 14% 306 26%

1 2% 44 76% 10 17% 3 5%

34 7% 244 50% 80 16% 128 26%

5 14% 27 75% 4 11% 0 0%

5 8% 38 61% 10 16% 9 15%

2 4% 40 71% 6 11% 8 14%

5 12% 11 27% 17 41% 8 20%

3 20% 11 73% 1 7% 0 0%

14 6% 178 71% 48 19% 10 4%

15 4% 167 41% 21 5% 203 50%

3 11% 20 71% 2 7% 3 11%

7 9% 52 67% 3 4% 16 21%

0 0% 19 63% 2 7% 9 30%

13 38% 14 41% 0 0% 7 21%

4 9% 40 91% 0 0% 0 0%

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082 JENKINS 083 JOHNSON 084 JONES 085 LAMAR 086 LANIER 087 LAURENS 088 LEE 089 LIBERTY 090 LINCOLN 091 LONG 092 LOWNDES 093 LUMPKIN 094 MCDUFFIE 095 MCINTOSH 096 MACON 097 MADISON 098 MARION 099 MERIWETHER 100 MILLER 101 MITCHELL 102 MONROE 103 MONTGOMERY 104 MORGAN 105 MURRAY 106 MUSCOGEE 107 NEWTON 108 OCONEE 109 OGLETHORPE 110 PAULDING 111 PEACH 112 PICKENS 113 PIERCE 114 PIKE 115 POLK 116 PULASKI 117 PUTNAM 118 QUITMAN 119 RABUN 120 RANDOLPH 121 RICHMOND 122 ROCKDALE 123 SCHLEY 124 SCREVEN 125 SEMINOLE

13

24

16

12

47

125

107

142

9

10

239

270

37

20

105

112

54

74

NO JAIL 0

421

606

53

36

113

217

24

20

32

68

18

7

27

30

65

106

19

24

76

116

73

51

NO JAIL 0

31

120

85

78

845

572

170

161

21

32

15

18

175

244

64

88

31

44

49

72

19

18

149

136

14

13

62

120

NO JAIL 0

17

36

23

32

733

910

251

228

4

12

36

24

30

54

54% 133% 38% 75% 90% 89% 185% 94% 73%
0% 69% 147% 52% 120% 47% 257% 90% 61% 79% 66% 143% 0% 26% 109% 148% 106% 66% 83% 72% 73% 70% 68% 106% 110% 108% 52% 0% 47% 72% 81% 110% 33% 150% 56%

4 31% 3 23% 3 23% 3 23%

4 25% 4 25% 5 31% 3 19%

11 23% 14 30% 6 13% 16 34%

5 5% 34 32% 12 11% 56 52%

0 0% 4 44% 1 11% 4 44%

57 24% 153 64% 18 8% 11 5%

0 0% 32 86% 4 11% 1 3%

22 21% 68 65% 6 6% 9 9%

2 4% 13 24% 10 19% 29 54%

0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%

29 7% 300 71% 42 10% 50 12%

6 11% 34 64% 11 21% 2 4%

17 15% 44 39% 42 37% 10 9%

10 42% 10 42% 0 0% 4 17%

5 16% 19 59% 5 16% 3 9%

3 17% 11 61% 0 0% 4 22%

11 41% 14 52% 2 7% 0 0%

1 2% 33 51% 3 5% 28 43%

2 11% 10 53% 3 16% 4 21%

5 7% 46 61% 15 20% 10 13%

3 4% 41 56% 29 40% 0 0%

0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%

5 16% 25 81% 1 3% 0 0%

6 7% 25 29% 6 7% 48 56%

117 14% 521 62% 70 8% 137 16%

63 37% 87 51% 3 2% 17 10%

4 19% 14 67% 3 14% 0 0%

5 33% 4 27% 3 20% 3 20%

2 1% 90 51% 27 15% 56 32%

3 5% 40 63% 1 2% 20 31%

3 10% 25 81% 2 6% 1 3%

15 31% 30 61% 4 8% 0 0%

3 16% 7 37% 9 47% 0 0%

12 8% 96 64% 31 21% 10 7%

3 21% 10 71% 0

0%

1

7%

8 13% 25 40% 4 6% 25 40%

0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%

0 0% 2 12% 10 59% 5 29%

7 30% 11 48% 0 0% 5 22%

84 11% 401 55% 79 11% 169 23%

15 6% 161 64% 56 22% 19 8%

2 50% 2 50% 0 0% 0 0%

6 17% 14 39% 7 19% 9 25%

15 50% 10 33% 4 13% 1 3%

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126 SPALDING 127 STEPHENS 128 STEWART 129 SUMTER 130 TALBOT 131 TALIAFERO 132 TATTNALL 133 TAYLOR 134 TELFAIR 135 TERRELL 136 THOMAS 137 TIFT 138 TOOMBS
139 TOWNS 140 TREUTLEN 141 TROUP 142 TURNER 143 TWIGGS 144 UNION (INCLUDES
TOWNS) 145 UPSON 146 WALKER 147 WALTON 148 WARE 149 WARREN 150 WASHINGTON 151 WAYNE 152 WEBSTER 153 WHEELER 154 WHITE 155 WHITFIELD 156 WILCOX 157 WILKES 158 WILKINSON 159 WORTH
Grand Totals

315 76 6 170 7 NO JAIL 48 23 16 32 144 166 86 SEE UNION 18 244 50 44 49
90 138 117 128 NO JAIL 47 68 NO JAIL 21 17 116 20 53 19 28 26,835

356 102 12 262 22
0 46 25 36 42 240 260 128
0 18 240 102 48 38
58 100 112 121
0 51 50 0 18 64 124 16 80 44 46 28,414

88% 75% 50% 65% 32% 0% 104% 92% 44% 76% 60% 64% 67%
0% 100% 102% 49% 92% 129%
155% 138% 104% 106%
0% 92% 136% 0% 117% 27% 94% 125% 66% 43% 61% 94%

14 4% 254 81% 45 14% 2

1%

1 1% 42 55% 23 30% 10 13%

2 33% 2 33% 1 17% 1 17%

11 6% 125 74% 34 20% 0 0%

3 43% 2 29% 2 29% 0 0%

0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%

14 29% 25 52% 6 13% 3 6%

3 13% 20 87% 0 0% 0 0%

4 25% 12 75% 0 0% 0 0%

8 25% 16 50% 0 0% 8 25%

14 10% 70 49% 25 17% 35 24%

15 9% 58 35% 56 34% 37 22%

34 40% 46 53% 2 2% 4 5%

0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 2 11% 13 72% 3 17% 0 0% 35 14% 169 69% 7 3% 33 14% 4 8% 11 22% 1 2% 34 68% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 44 100% 7 14% 7 14% 35 71% 0 0%

6 19 21 13 0 10 6 0 3 4 31 1 10 0 8 2,326

7% 45 50% 14% 49 36% 18% 78 67% 10% 97 76% 0% 0 0% 21% 32 68% 9% 55 81% 0% 0 0% 14% 1 5% 24% 13 76% 27% 59 51% 5% 11 55% 19% 22 42% 0% 14 74% 29% 12 43% 9% 16,629 62%

25 61 10 18 0 4 0 0 1 0 23 0 13 0 1 4,073

28% 44% 9% 14% 0% 9% 0% 0% 5% 0% 20% 0% 25% 0% 4% 15%

14 9 8 0 0 1 7 0 16 0 3 8 8 5 7 3,807

16% 7% 7% 0% 0% 2% 10% 0% 76% 0% 3% 40% 15% 26% 25% 14%

(1)-Towns County inmates are housed in Union County

Source: Prepared for the Department of Community Affairs by the Georgia Crime Information Center.

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