The Bacon County Inmate Population
The strongest current population source located for Bacon County Jail is the Georgia Sheriffs' Association jail report, which is also the current county jail reporting path linked by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs. That May 2026 report lists Bacon County Jail as a 74-bed county jail with 57 people held at the time of the report. Those figures describe the sheriff-operated jail on South Dixon Street, not the two Georgia Department of Corrections facilities in Alma. The GSA note that primary jail capacity excludes other detention facilities is important in Bacon County because Bacon Probation Detention Center and Bacon Transitional Center are state facilities, not extra county jail beds.
The Bacon County inmate population moves as cases move. Arrests by the sheriff, Alma Police, Georgia State Patrol, or another agency can lead to a county jail booking. Bond decisions, first appearances, warrants, probation holds, and court orders affect whether a person stays in the jail roster. After conviction and state sentencing, a person can remain in the county jail while awaiting transfer, then later appear in the Georgia Department of Corrections offender query. That is why a jail roster search and a state locator search may both be needed for one Bacon County case.
Bacon County Inmate Population Statistics
May 2026 data shows a small rural jail that was below rated capacity but heavily pretrial. The GSA report counted 50 people awaiting trial and 7 people sentenced to state custody while still in the Bacon County Jail. It reported no people serving county sentences and no other-inmate category for that monthly snapshot. The point matters for users because the public jail roster is not just a list of people with new arrests. It can include longer-held detainees and state-sentenced people waiting for movement to GDC custody.
| Measure | Figure | Source / Date |
|---|---|---|
| Bacon County Jail capacity | 74 | Georgia Sheriffs' Association, May 2026 |
| Number of inmates in jail | 57 | Georgia Sheriffs' Association, May 2026 |
| Percent of capacity | 77% | Georgia Sheriffs' Association, May 2026 |
| Awaiting trial | 50, or 87.7% | Georgia Sheriffs' Association, May 2026 |
| Sentenced to state | 7, or 12.3% | Georgia Sheriffs' Association, May 2026 |
| Bacon Transitional Center capacity | 100 male residents | GDC press release, March 29, 2023 |
Bacon County Inmate Population Trends
The short-term jail trend in the research file covers two recent monthly snapshots. A search-indexed GSA snapshot for April 2026 showed 62 inmates against the same 74-bed capacity. The May 2026 GSA report showed 57 inmates. That is a five-person decline and an occupancy drop from 83.8% to 77%. The pretrial share stayed high in both months: about 87.1% in April and 87.7% in May. Those two months do not prove a long-term trend, but they do show the local jail count was not over capacity during the captured period.
| Date / Year | Count or Measure | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | 57 jail inmates / 74 capacity | 77% capacity, with 50 awaiting trial and 7 sentenced to state. |
| April 2026 | 62 jail inmates / 74 capacity | 83.8% capacity, with 54 awaiting trial, 7 sentenced to state, and 1 other. |
| 2023 | Bacon TC expanded to 100 male residents | GDC opened a new 50-bed dorm at the Bacon PDC/TC property. |
| 2025 | 11,070 county population estimate | Census QuickFacts, July 1, 2025 estimate. |
The sheriff roster feed had 73 active entries at inspection on June 4, 2026, while the GSA May report counted 57 jail inmates. Those numbers should not be forced to match. They have different dates and may reflect roster retention, release timing, transfers, or report cutoffs. For a person search, use the live sheriff roster and the jail line. For population context, use dated monthly reports and cite the month.
Bacon County Jail Custody Mix
The most useful demographic detail found was not race or sex. It was custody status. In the May 2026 GSA report, most people in Bacon County Jail were awaiting trial. That means the county jail population is mostly pretrial custody, which is custody before a final conviction or sentence on the pending case. The same report listed no people serving county sentences in that monthly snapshot. It did list state-sentenced inmates still physically housed in the county jail, a common bridge period before GDC transfer.
- Awaiting trial: 50 of 57 people in the May 2026 jail report were in the pretrial category.
- Sentenced to state: 7 of 57 were already sentenced to state custody but still in the local jail snapshot.
- County sentence: 0 people were reported in that category for May 2026.
- Other inmates: 0 people were reported in that category for May 2026.
Roster-level identity fields are narrower. The Bacon County sheriff feed showed age, race shorthand, gender, booking date, bond total, and charge text on individual entries, but the current GSA report did not publish a county jail age, race, or sex breakdown. County Census demographics should not be treated as jail demographics. They describe the county population, not the people in custody.
Laws Governing Bacon County Jail Data
Georgia public-records law is the baseline for Bacon County inmate records, but it does not make every jail detail public. The sheriff's open-records page says the Georgia Open Records Act does not require the office to create records, reports, summaries, or compilations that do not already exist. That matters when a user asks for a custom timeline, a charge summary, or a historical list that the sheriff's office does not maintain as a ready record.
Key Statutes:
O.C.G.A. 50-18-70 sets Georgia's broad public-records policy for existing sheriff, jail, county, and court records unless an exemption applies.
O.C.G.A. 50-18-71 governs inspection, copying, response timing, and fees, including the fee framework used on Bacon County request forms.
O.C.G.A. 50-18-72 lists exemptions that can affect law-enforcement, medical, juvenile, security, privacy, and active-investigation records.
O.C.G.A. Title 42, Chapter 4 covers Georgia county and municipal jail governance, conditions of detention, medical services, and inmate-account deductions.
O.C.G.A. 45-16-20 et seq. provides the Georgia Death Investigation Act framework for coroner or medical examiner inquiry in covered deaths.
Search the Bacon County Jail Roster
The official current-inmate path is the Bacon County Sheriff's Office Inmates module. The underlying OCV configuration identifies it as an Inmates list with search enabled, date-descending sort, and a public feed. The roster is best read as an official sheriff list, not as an advanced database with separate last-name, first-name, date-of-birth, booking-number, and facility filters. The public route may load as a JavaScript page. The sheriff app also advertises inmate-viewing, so mobile users may see the same public function there.
The sheriff roster page is shown in the captured image below. It is the reader-facing route for current Bacon County Jail entries.
The roster image matters because Bacon County's official site is app-backed. If the public page fails to load cleanly, the jail line, app link, and open-records process remain the fallback channels.
- Open the sheriff Inmates module from the Bacon County Sheriff's Office site.
- Use the roster search box if it renders on the page or in the sheriff app.
- Review entries in newest-first order and match the name, age, race, gender, and booking date.
- Read the total bond field carefully. N/A or 0.00 does not always mean release is available.
- If the person is missing, call the jail line or check GDC, BOP, ICE, and VINELink based on the custody type.
Bacon County Inmate Search Fields
The roster field setup is simple. The research found no public advanced fields in the raw feed. It did find a site-level search control and a fixed newest-first configuration. This is why broad name searches and phone confirmation are practical in Bacon County. The roster may work well for a current jail booking, but it will not answer every court, bond, housing, or transfer question.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Options / Format Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Search | Text, site-level roster search | Unspecified | Manifest enables search; no separate advanced fields found in raw feed. |
| Sort | Fixed configuration | N/A | Configured as dateDesc, with no public sort controls located in the feed. |
| Inmate entry title | Result label | N/A | Name appears in LAST, FIRST MIDDLE style. |
| Date display | Result metadata | N/A | Configuration says displayDate true; the raw feed also has timestamp data. |
What a Bacon County Inmate Record Shows
Current Bacon County inmate entries show enough to identify a person and understand the booking, but they do not act as full jail files. The inspected entries displayed local inmate ID, age, race, gender, booking date, a total bond amount field, and charge text. They did not show housing unit, arresting agency, warrant number, court date, full date of birth, release date, or a formal case number. That gap is normal for public jail rosters, but it affects how the record should be used.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Title / Name | Public roster name in last-name-first format. |
| Inmate ID | Local numeric jail or inmate identifier. |
| Age | Age, not full date of birth. |
| Race / Gender | Short roster identifiers such as W, B, H and M or F. |
| Booking Date | Date booked into Bacon County Jail. |
| Total Bond Amount | Aggregate bond amount plus state fees, or N/A. |
| Charges | Booking or hold charge text lines, not a court case table. |
| Images | The feed has an image field, but inspected entries had no public images. |
Bacon County Jail vs State Prison
No single lookup covers every person tied to Bacon County. The county roster covers current local jail custody. GDC covers sentenced state prisoners, Bacon PDC residents, Bacon TC residents, and people whose most recent institution or conviction county points to Bacon County. Federal and immigration custody use separate systems, and no BOP or ICE detention facility was found in Bacon County official sources.
| Question | Bacon County Jail Roster | GDC Offender Locator |
|---|---|---|
| Run by | Bacon County Sheriff's Office | Georgia Department of Corrections |
| Who it covers | Current county jail inmates, pretrial detainees, bond holds, and some state-sentenced people still in jail. | State correctional custody, including Bacon PDC and Bacon TC residents. |
| Best search clue | Name and current booking details. | Name, GDC ID, case number, institution, status, or conviction county. |
| What it does not cover | Most people after GDC transfer, federal prisoners, and ICE detainees. | New county bookings that have not become state custody. |
The state locator also has a photo setting for results when photos are available. That differs from the inspected Bacon County sheriff roster feed, where the entries had empty image arrays. For federal prison, use the BOP inmate locator. For immigration detention, use ICE ODLS, noting that ICE excludes people under 18 from that public search.
Bacon County Inmate Records Requests
When the roster does not show a released person, incident detail, booking photo, report, or charge history, the sheriff's open-records route is the local path. The Bacon County Sheriff's Office open-records page accepts online requests for incident and accident reports, emailed PDF forms to sheriff@baconcounty.org, and mailed requests to Bacon County Sheriff's Office, ATTN: Open Records, 307 South Dixon Street, Alma, GA 31510. Booking photos use separate booking-photo affirmation forms under Georgia law.
The sheriff open-records page is captured below because it is the local route for non-roster jail records and booking-photo requests.
The screenshot shows why roster lookup and public-records requests should be treated as separate channels. The roster is for current entries, while records staff handle existing reports and forms.
Fees depend on the record route. The Bacon County commissioners' general public-records form lists $0.10 per page and administrative search or retrieval costs, with no charge for the first 15 minutes. The sheriff accident report form lists a $5 report fee. The research did not locate a universal fee schedule for every sheriff jail record or a separate booking-photo fee, so request pages should be checked before payment.
Bacon County Detention Facilities
Bacon County's detention map has one local jail and two state correctional facilities in Alma. The county jail page should be used for current sheriff custody. The PDC and transitional center pages should be read through a GDC lens because they are state-run, even though they share a local address and phone listing.
- Bacon County Jail holds pretrial Bacon County detainees, people awaiting bond or court, and some state-sentenced inmates awaiting transfer.
- Bacon Probation Detention Center is a GDC probation detention center for probationers in a state corrections setting.
- Bacon Transitional Center is a GDC work-release and reentry facility for adult male state residents.
Bacon County Inmate Population FAQ
How big is the Bacon County inmate population?
The May 2026 Georgia Sheriffs' Association jail report listed 57 inmates in Bacon County Jail against a 74-bed capacity. That is the county jail count only. It does not add Bacon Transitional Center capacity or any unknown Bacon PDC capacity because those are state correctional facilities.
Does Bacon County have an online inmate roster?
Yes. The Bacon County Sheriff's Office publishes an Inmates module on its official OCV-backed site. The roster had search enabled in the manifest and showed current entries with name, inmate ID, booking date, bond total, and charge text in inspected records.
Where are state-sentenced Bacon County inmates found?
Use the GDC offender query after a person has moved into state custody or is held at Bacon PDC or Bacon TC. During the transfer period, the person may still appear in the county jail count as sentenced to state, so both systems can be relevant.
Does the roster show Bacon County mugshots?
The roster feed has an image field, but inspected current entries had empty image arrays. Booking photos are handled through the sheriff open-records page and booking-photo affirmation forms, not through commercial mugshot sites.
Who confirms release or bond?
The jail line is the most specific local custody confirmation route. Bond can show as N/A, 0.00, or a numeric total on the roster, but those values need confirmation because holds and court orders can block release.