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Clarke County Inmate Population Overview

The Clarke County inmate population is not housed in one simple jail system. The sheriff-run Athens-Clarke County Jail is the main intake and pretrial facility for people arrested by Athens-Clarke County Police, the sheriff, University of Georgia police, and other local agencies. It holds people arrested on criminal charges or local ordinance violations, probation and parole violation holds, contempt cases, holds for other counties or states, local sentenced inmates, and state-sentenced people waiting for transfer.

Two separate Athens-Clarke County Corrections Department facilities serve a different part of the custody picture. The Athens-Clarke County Correctional Institution holds sentenced Georgia Department of Corrections offenders in a county correctional institution. The Athens-Clarke County Diversion/Transition Center serves work-release and transition residents. That split matters because the county jail roster is the right first source for recent arrests, while the Georgia Department of Corrections locator is the better path for sentenced offenders in the correctional institution or transition setting.

Clarke County Inmate Population Statistics

The strongest local population figures come from Athens-Clarke County's financial and budget records. The FY2024 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report listed 6,765 inmates processed and an average daily jail population of 387. The FY2026 approved budget presented a rising jail forecast, including an average daily population of 532, 8,099 inmates processed, and 412 released to the state system for that budget year forecast.

The current official rated bed capacity for the Athens-Clarke County Jail was not located in the ACCGov or GDC pages reviewed in the research file. A Georgia Sheriffs' Association April 2026 search-result snippet listed Clarke at 508 inmates and 839 capacity, but the research treats that as secondary because it did not reconcile cleanly with the stronger local ACC budget and ACFR sources. For the sentenced correctional institution, GDC and PREA sources give clearer facility-level numbers.

Clarke County Inmate Population Trends

Recent Clarke County jail figures show growth from the low point reported in the FY2024 ACFR and the later FY2026 budget trend table. The FY2026 budget listed 365 ADP in FY2022, 475 in FY2023, 436 in FY2024, 491 in FY2025, and a 532 forecast for FY2026. The same budget showed inmates processed rising from 5,684 in FY2022 to a forecast of 8,099 in FY2026. Those numbers place the current jail count in a broader operating trend, rather than a single daily snapshot.

The research also notes older overcrowding context. A 2005 ACC planning document snippet listed 338 beds and 426 ADP. That older figure should not be treated as the current jail capacity, but it helps explain why Clarke County jail population pages need to separate current official sources from historical planning notes. The Georgia Sheriffs' Association statewide jail report can add context, but ACC budget and ACFR sources remain the safer local base for the Athens-Clarke County Jail.

The official Georgia Sheriffs' Association jail report is another population source for statewide comparison. The report screenshot is useful for understanding how county jail counts are commonly displayed by capacity, awaiting-trial status, county-sentenced status, state-sentenced status, and other hold categories.

Because the direct Clarke row was not fully captured in the research file's May 2026 table view, local ACC budget and ACFR figures should carry more weight than a statewide report snippet when the numbers differ.

Clarke County Jail Custody Makeup

The Clarke County inmate population includes people at different legal stages. A person may be booked after arrest and held before a first appearance. Another may be held on a probation or parole violation, contempt order, local sentence, or another jurisdiction's hold. The jail can also hold state-sentenced people for a period before transfer. The public roster fields observed in the research show sex, race, year of birth, booking date, first charge, bond, case number, police case number, and MID, but they do not publish a full demographic table or a full date of birth.

For the correctional institution, the 2025 PREA audit gives more specific population details. It identified an adult male population, age 18 and older, minimum and medium custody, seven housing units, a current population of 170 at the time of the audit, and a 171 average daily population for the prior 12 months. The Diversion/Transition Center has a work-release and reentry role, so it should not be described as a booking jail even though it is part of the local custody map.

Pretrial detainee

A person held in jail while charges, bond, or trial are still pending.

State-sentenced inmate

A person sentenced to Georgia Department of Corrections custody who may move from the jail to a GDC facility or county correctional institution.

Detainer or hold

A notice that another agency or court may want custody even if one local charge has bond.

Classification

The jail's risk and needs process for housing and supervision decisions.

Laws for Clarke County Jail Records

Georgia law shapes both the public right to request jail information and the limits on what can appear online. O.C.G.A. 50-18-70 states Georgia's broad Open Records Act policy for public records, while O.C.G.A. 50-18-71 covers response timing and lawful fees. Agencies generally must respond within three business days when records are available or explain timing, cost, or exemptions.

Jail-specific statutes also matter. O.C.G.A. 42-4-4 covers sheriff duties toward people in jail, including custody and care. O.C.G.A. 42-4-7 requires the sheriff to keep records of persons committed to the county jail. O.C.G.A. 42-4-16 addresses inmate reports by county jails and municipal detention facilities. Booking photographs are handled separately by O.C.G.A. 35-1-19, which restricts online posting and certain releases.

Search the Clarke County Inmate Population

The official current-jail path starts at the ACCGov current inmate list landing page, where users accept a disclaimer before entering the roster. The county says records appear after a 24-hour booking delay and update every 15 minutes after that. The live listing observed in the research was a display table, not a search form. To find a person, scan the table or use the browser's find function, then open the linked name for the profile page.

The official current list of inmates landing page states the delay and disclaimer before sending users to the roster. That warning is important because a new arrest may not appear right away, and a released person may already have dropped from the current table.

The disclaimer points users toward the sheriff for official records, so the fallback chain is built into the county's own roster entry point rather than added after the fact.

1. Open the official current-list landing page and accept the posted disclaimer.
2. Use the current prisoner listing to scan names or search the page with the browser find tool.
3. Check the year of birth, booking date, charge, bond, case number, and police case number before assuming a match.
4. Open the profile link because the roster table displays only the first charge.
5. If the person is newly booked, call the jail at 706-613-3270 because the roster has a posted delay.
6. If the person was sentenced or transferred, use the GDC, BOP, or ICE locator that matches the custody type.

Clarke County Jail Roster Fields

The Clarke County current prisoner listing is direct but old-style. It does not offer a name-search form in the captured table. The roster page displays current prisoners, and each name links to a profile. The table heading states that it displays the first charge only, so a single row should not be read as the full charge list. The seven-day booking report is a separate county-linked report that helps when the person has been released or when booking, release, arresting agency, bonding company, warrant, and court jurisdiction details are needed.

The current prisoner listing screenshot shows the public table format used for Clarke County jail roster lookup. It is a current-custody display, not a certified criminal history record.

The table view helps with fast custody checks, but official booking copies, older records, and contested details should go through the sheriff's open-records contact or the ACCGov portal.

Past Clarke County Inmate Records

A released person may disappear from the current prisoner listing, which only answers the current-custody question. The county's separate arrests-from-the-last-seven-days report can help with recent bookings because it includes booking time, release time, arresting agency, charge, crime type, court jurisdiction, bonding company, bond amount, warrant number, and police case number. After that short window, official jail records generally require an open-records request through the sheriff or the ACCGov GovQA portal.

For a useful request, include the person's full name, approximate booking date, MID or booking number if known, and the records sought: booking date and time, arresting agency, charges, bond amounts or remarks, release or transfer status, case number, police case number, and any publicly releasable profile fields. Georgia open-records timing and fees still apply, and protected information may be redacted. Booking photographs require extra care because Georgia law treats mugshots differently from ordinary roster fields.

Clarke County Jail vs GDC Search

The main split is pretrial local jail custody versus sentenced state custody. The Athens-Clarke County Jail roster is the place to start for a person recently arrested in Clarke County and still held locally. The Georgia Department of Corrections locator is the place to start when a person has been sentenced to GDC custody, moved to the Athens-Clarke County Correctional Institution, placed in a transition center, or transferred elsewhere in the state system.

Clarke County Detention Facilities

The Clarke County inmate population map includes one sheriff-run local jail and two Athens-Clarke County Corrections Department facilities. The names sound similar, but each one serves a different custody role. That difference drives the search path, visit rules, phone number, and records source.

• Athens-Clarke County Jail is the sheriff-run local jail for new arrests, pretrial custody, local sentences, holds, and state-sentenced people awaiting transfer.
• Athens-Clarke County Correctional Institution is a county correctional institution for sentenced GDC offenders, with lookup through the GDC offender search rather than the sheriff roster.
• Athens-Clarke County Diversion/Transition Center is a work-release and transition facility for non-violent work-release residents and returning citizens completing GDC sentences.

Clarke County Jail Programs and Updates

The official jail services page lists a broad set of programs that make the Clarke County inmate population more than a count in a table. Offerings include GED study and testing support, University of Georgia volunteer tutoring, Athens Technical College proctoring, AA and NA meetings, religious services, library services, EDOVO tablet education, INSIDE/OUT, Habitat for Humanity construction training, job readiness, peer recovery, fatherhood, art, restorative practices, domestic-violence classes, substance-abuse treatment, and reentry support.

Recent official and news sources should be read with dates and caution. ACCGov announced Charles Mason as Warden and Corrections Department Director on May 18-19, 2026. The GDC-hosted PREA audit for the Correctional Institution was final on June 17, 2025 and found 45 standards met and none not met. News reports in 2025 and 2026 described jail deaths and GBI investigations, but those items are conditions and oversight context, not roster lookup tools or proof of case outcomes.

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