Bacon County Jail Overview
Bacon County Jail is operated by the Bacon County Sheriff's Office. The official address is 307 South Dixon Street, Alma, GA 31510. The jail is the county intake and custody facility tied to the sheriff's Jail menu, Inmates module, open-records process, bond information, video visitation page, inmate communications rules, and commissary deposit instructions. Sheriff Andy Batten leads the sheriff's office, and the official division contacts identify Josh Stevens as Jail Administrator with the jail line at (912) 632-5166.
The jail holds pretrial Bacon County detainees, people waiting on bond or court action, people booked on warrants or probation violations, and some people sentenced to state custody while waiting for transfer. The Georgia Department of Corrections also lists Bacon County Jail as a county jail location, but that listing does not make GDC the operator. The correct operator for local jail records is the sheriff's office.
The GDC Bacon County Jail listing is useful as a state directory source for address and phone details. County jail custody questions still route first to the Bacon County jail line because the sheriff controls the local roster, mail rules, bonds, and booking records.
Bacon County Jail Population
The strongest sourced jail capacity figure located for Bacon County Jail is the Georgia Sheriffs' Association Jail Report. For May 2026, that report lists Bacon County Jail with capacity for 74 people, 57 people in jail, and 77% occupancy. The same monthly snapshot lists 50 people awaiting trial, 7 sentenced to state custody, 0 serving county sentences, and 0 in the other-inmate category.
Those figures show why a Bacon County Jail roster search is usually a pretrial custody search. Most people counted in the May 2026 report were awaiting trial, not serving a county sentence. The seven state-sentenced inmates also explain a common lookup issue: a person can be sentenced to GDC custody yet still appear tied to the county jail until transfer occurs.
Look Up Bacon County Jail Inmates
The correct online lookup path for this facility is the sheriff's Bacon County Inmates module. The inspected official OCV feed showed current-inmate entries with name, local inmate ID, age, race, gender, booking date, total bond amount, and charge text. It did not show housing units, arresting agency, court dates, release dates, or mugshot images in sampled entries.
- Open the sheriff's Inmates module from the Jail menu or use the direct roster route.
- Use the roster search box if it renders in the browser or sheriff app. The official feed did not show advanced fields such as booking number or date of birth.
- Read the newest entries first. The sheriff feed is configured date-descending, so recent bookings appear before older entries.
- Check the bond field carefully. N/A or 0.00 can reflect a hold, no bond, a probation matter, or missing public detail.
- If the person is missing, call (912) 632-5166 or use the sheriff open-records request path for existing booking records.
The official roster feed showed 73 active entries when inspected on June 4, 2026, while the May 2026 GSA monthly count showed 57 jail inmates. That difference should not be forced into one number. Roster feeds, monthly reports, releases, transfers, and retention windows can differ by date and purpose.
The manifest screenshot for the Bacon County sheriff roster shows the reader-facing Inmates module used for county jail lookup.
The sheriff roster is the official lookup route for Bacon County Jail, not for the two GDC facilities in Alma.
Bacon County Jail Contact
For custody, bond, mail, video visitation, and roster-status questions, the jail line is the most specific local contact found in the official division-contact data. The sheriff main number is broader agency routing. The GDC phone number appears in state directory listings, but it should not be treated as the best first call for local jail desk questions.
Bacon County Jail
307 South Dixon Street
Alma, GA 31510
(912) 632-5166
Jail line for custody and jail questions
Bacon County Sheriff's Office
307 South Dixon Street
Alma, GA 31510
(912) 632-8515
Office hours listed as 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. EST, Monday through Friday
Bacon County Jail Visits
The official Bacon County sheriff visitation page located during research routes inmate video visitation through HomeWAV. No official Bacon County in-person visitation schedule, visitor approval rule, dress code, holiday schedule, or visit-length table was located in the sheriff sources. That absence matters. Anyone planning a visit should confirm the current visit method with the jail before travel.
| Channel | Official detail located | Use |
|---|---|---|
| Video visitation | HomeWAV signup/login linked from sheriff page | Remote or account-based visits when approved |
| In-person visitation | No local schedule located | Call the jail line before arrival |
| Attorney visits | No Bacon-specific schedule located | Contact jail staff for current procedure |
| Visitor rules | No local ID or dress code page located | Confirm rules before scheduling |
The sheriff's inmate video visitation page documents the HomeWAV route rather than a posted local in-person visit calendar.
Video visitation is the only documented Bacon County Jail visitation channel found in official local sources.
Bacon County Jail Mail and Money
The sheriff's inmate communications page gives the jail mail format and states that approved mail is scanned into the inmate kiosk system. Mail must include the sender's name and return address. Noncompliant mail may not be delivered and may be destroyed. The same page lists video visitation, landline calls, text messaging, and inmate email as communication options, but it does not publish phone rates or a complete vendor table for every communication type.
| Service | Provider / Detail |
|---|---|
| Inmate mail | Inmate's First and Last Name, Bacon County Jail, PO Box 237, Alma, GA 31510 |
| Mail restrictions | No care packages, nude or partly nude material, books, newspapers, magazines, obscene material, chemically altered letters or cards, or other items staff deem inappropriate |
| Video visits | HomeWAV account route from the sheriff visitation page |
| Money deposit | Lobby kiosk, online commissary deposit, money order, and phone deposit |
| Fees and limits | Not published in the official sheriff deposit source |
The sheriff's commissary funds page says jail deposits may be made through the lobby kiosk, online at the linked commissary deposit portal, by money order, or by phone. The official page does not publish a fee schedule, so the final transaction cost should be checked with the kiosk, portal, or jail staff.
Bacon County Jail Booking
Official sources did not publish a full intake manual, but the roster shows the public output of booking. A person arrested by the sheriff's office, Alma Police, Georgia State Patrol, or another agency operating in Bacon County may be entered into the county jail record. The visible record can then show name, inmate ID, age, race, gender, booking date, total bond amount plus state fees, and charges.
Bond information is more local and specific. The sheriff's bonding information page lists cash bond, signature property bond, and approved professional bonding-company options. Cash bonds require certified checks or money orders, plus a separate $20 bond fee. Property bonds require property valued at or above the bond amount, free of debts or liens, and all owners must sign when the deed has multiple names.
Note: Confirm custody, bond status, visit access, and mail rules with Bacon County Jail before traveling or sending funds.
About Bacon County Jail
Bacon County Jail sits in Alma, the county seat, and is part of the sheriff's South Dixon Street office location. Bacon County's official county materials describe the county as located near U.S. Highway 1 and Georgia Highway 32. No official sheriff page located during research published a jail exterior history, construction date, public parking map, visitor entrance map, housing-unit list, or ADA entrance instruction.
Recent county-jail context should be handled with care. The GBI announced a January 2026 Bacon County jailer arrest after the sheriff's office requested an investigation involving allegations of improper sexual contact with an inmate and prohibited items. Two federal court orders in 2025 and 2026 contain jail-condition allegations, but those are litigation allegations and procedural records, not blanket factual findings about current conditions.