Worth County Inmate Population
Worth County has one local detention facility for this build: the Worth County Jail, operated by the Worth County Sheriff's Office. The local jail population is made up of people arrested in Worth County who are waiting on bond, first appearance, case filing, transfer, or a short local sentence. The Sheriff also reports quarterly jail booking totals under Georgia's Criminal Alien Track and Report Act, while historical jail population and capacity figures are available through the Vera/BJS county data set.
The Worth County inmate population changes for reasons that a current roster cannot show by itself. New arrests raise the daily count. Bond orders, dismissals, sentence completions, and transfers lower it. A sentenced felony case may move from the Worth County Jail into the Georgia Department of Corrections system, while federal or immigration custody must be checked through BOP or ICE tools instead of the county roster.
Worth County Inmate Population Statistics
The most current official local figures found during research were quarterly booking reports, not a daily jail census. The Sheriff reports bookings, Law Enforcement Support Center inquiries and responses, illegal-alien responses, and USDHS detainers in HB 1105 reports. For jail size, Vera's historical county data lists average daily population and rated capacity for selected years, but later zero values conflict with active Sheriff booking reports and should be treated as missing data rather than proof the jail had no population.
| Measure | Figure | Source / Year |
|---|---|---|
| Average daily jail population | 24 | Vera county CSV, 2022 |
| Rated capacity | 23 | Vera county CSV, 2022 |
| Known 2025 bookings | 815 | Worth County Sheriff HB 1105 quarterly reports, 2025 |
| Known published quarters total | 1,204 bookings | Worth County Sheriff HB 1105 reports, 2024 Q4 through 2026 Q1 |
The U.S. Census QuickFacts page for Worth County gives local scale for those jail figures: a July 1, 2025 population estimate of 20,059 people, down from the 2020 Census count of 20,784. That county size matters because even a modest jail count can represent a high custody rate in a rural county.
The Census QuickFacts source shows the county's local context rather than a jail count.
Use the Census figures as community context, then use Sheriff and Vera sources for jail-specific population and booking numbers.
Worth County Jail Population Trends
Historical Vera/BJS data shows a Worth County jail population above rated capacity in several years. The 2015 average daily population was 77.25 against 46 rated beds. By 2018 the reported average daily population was 41 against 46 rated beds. The 2022 data shows 24 people on average against 23 rated beds. These are historical measures, not a live census.
| Year | Average Daily Population | Rated Capacity | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 77.25 | 46 | Vera county CSV; reported ADP exceeded rated beds. |
| 2018 | 41 | 46 | Vera county CSV; reported ADP below the earlier peak. |
| 2019 | 37.25 | 34.5 | Vera county CSV; capacity reported below ADP. |
| 2022 | 24 | 23 | Vera county CSV; later zero rows are treated as incomplete. |
Booking counts tell a more recent story. Worth County Sheriff HB 1105 reports list 212 bookings in 2025 Q1, 217 in Q2, 203 in Q3, and 183 in Q4. The next posted quarter, 2026 Q1, listed 193 bookings. Those reports do not identify the daily population on any given date, but they show the jail remained active after the later Vera rows became incomplete.
Worth County Inmate Makeup
The best official local description of who is held at the Worth County Jail is functional rather than demographic: arrestees awaiting booking, bond, first appearance, or court; local sentenced detainees; and temporary holds before transfer when another authority takes custody. Worth County's public pages do not publish a current sex, race, age, charge-level, or pretrial/sentenced breakdown for the jail.
Vera's latest Worth County demographic fields in the research are from 2019. They list a male jail population of 51.5, female jail population of 0, Black jail population of 28.275, White jail population of 22.215, and Latinx jail population of 1.01. Because those figures are historical and fractional estimates, they should be used for trend context only. Current custody status still has to be checked through the county roster or Jail Operations.
Worth County Jail Record Laws
Georgia law is the reason jail booking records, request forms, and many roster fields can be reached by the public. The Worth County Sheriff's Office applies those rules through its open-records page and forms. The roster is the fastest path for current custody, but a records request is the right path for older booking records, copies, incident material, or booking photos not shown online.
Key Statutes:
O.C.G.A. 50-18-70 et seq. defines public records broadly unless a legal exemption applies.
O.C.G.A. 50-18-71 covers response timing and fees, including the general three-business-day response rule described by the Attorney General.
O.C.G.A. 35-1-18 is the booking-photo affirmation rule used by the Worth County Sheriff's Office.
O.C.G.A. 42-4-14 and 42-4-16 support the quarterly HB 1105 jail reporting seen on the Sheriff's site.
Worth County State Prison Search
There is no GDC state prison located in Worth County in the facility map. A person sentenced to a Georgia felony prison term may leave the Worth County inmate population at the local jail and appear in the statewide GDC offender search. GDC's own overview says it operates 34 state prisons and houses nearly 47,000 felony offenders statewide, so this is a separate population from the county jail roster.
The GDC locator is built for sentenced or otherwise state-held offenders, not local pretrial inmates. It lets a user search by name, gender, race, age range, current institution, offense, county, active or inactive status, and list type. GDC warns that photos display automatically if available and that users should verify information through written correspondence with Inmate Records and Information in Forsyth.
Search Worth County Inmates
The official Sheriff navigation labels the current custody tool as Current Inmates Charges and Bonds, but the Sheriff-hosted page said "Coming Soon" during research while linking to the useful Worth County OffenderIndex roster. That roster covers current inmates, bookings over the last 24 hours, and inmates by booking date. The current roster API returned no rows during the June 4, 2026 inspection, which should be read only as a research snapshot.
The Sheriff homepage is the local navigation hub for jail pages, forms, reports, mail, money, phone service, open records, and the roster link.
When the vendor roster is not enough, the Sheriff pages point to the phone, in-person, and records-request channels that complete the lookup path.
- Open the Worth County OffenderIndex roster from the Sheriff site or by direct URL.
- Use Current Inmates for a person believed to be held at the Worth County Jail now.
- Use Bookings Over Last 24 Hours for a very new arrest that may not be easy to find yet.
- Enter first name, last name, or both. For common names, start with last name and then narrow.
- Use Inmates by Booking Date for a known booking date or a released person, and include previous inmates only when needed.
- Call Jail Operations if no row appears and custody still seems likely.
Worth County Roster Fields
The OffenderIndex interface is more than a single name box. It has three tabs, date-range controls, a previous-inmate checkbox, and Search and Clear buttons. The booking-date tab defaults to a recent date span. The previous-inmate checkbox can make a broad search slower, which is useful context for anyone looking for a released person rather than a current inmate.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Current Inmates tab | Tab | No | Loads all current inmates with name filtering. |
| Bookings Over Last 24 Hours | Tab | No | Checks very recent bookings with name filtering. |
| Inmates by Booking Date | Tab | No | Searches a date range and can include previous inmates. |
| First Name | Text | No | Appears on current and last-24-hour tabs. |
| Last Name | Text | No | Useful as a broad first pass before adding first name. |
| Start Date / Stop Date | Date picker | No | Used on booking-date searches. |
| Include Previous Inmates | Checkbox | No | May take longer, but helps with released-inmate searches. |
Worth County Inmate Records
A Worth County inmate record can show the booking side of a case, not the full court outcome. The OffenderIndex source exposes fields for name, booked status, sex, height, weight, arrest date and time, days in jail, arresting officer, total bond, charge details, sentence fields, prior booking or release history, inmate ID, and age. Worth County's configuration has public location and date of birth turned off, and public roster photos were turned off during inspection.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Name and status | Identity and current booked status when the roster has rows. |
| Arrest date and days in jail | Timing for custody and how long the person has been held. |
| Total bond | Bond amount when populated, subject to court orders and holds. |
| Charges tab | Warrant number, counts, statute, description, offense type, and court when data exists. |
| Sentence tab | Sentence and release-date fields when populated. |
| History tab | Previous arrest and release dates when history is available. |
Worth County Jail vs Prison
County jail, state prison, BOP custody, and ICE detention are separate systems. The Worth County Jail is the first local lookup point for arrests made in Worth County. GDC is the lookup point after state felony custody begins. BOP is for federal inmates from 1982 to present, and ICE ODLS is for current ICE custody or qualifying CBP custody. A local roster no-result does not rule out a state, federal, or immigration location.
| Custody Type | Who It Covers | Where to Search |
|---|---|---|
| Worth County Jail | Pretrial arrestees, local sentences, and temporary holds | OffenderIndex or Jail Operations |
| Georgia state prison | Sentenced felony offenders in GDC custody | GDC Find an Offender |
| Federal custody | Federal inmates and many released federal records since 1982 | BOP Inmate Locator |
| Immigration detention | Current ICE custody and CBP custody over 48 hours | ICE Online Detainee Locator System |
State Federal ICE Search
The state, federal, and immigration fallback chain matters in Worth County because no separate state prison, BOP institution, ICE facility, or municipal lockup was found in the county. Search the Worth County Jail first for local custody. If the person was sentenced, moved, or held under another authority, use the separate locator that matches that authority.
For GDC, search by name and narrow by county or current institution if known. For BOP, search by register number or by first and last name. For ICE, search by A-number with country of birth, or by exact biographical information. VINELink is available in Georgia for victim custody notifications, but it should be used for alerts rather than as the sole official record.
Worth County Detention Facilities
Worth County's detention map resolves to one local facility. No official separate county annex, regional jail, work-release building, GDC prison, BOP institution, ICE detention center, or municipal jail page was found for Sylvester, Poulan, Sumner, or Warwick. That makes the Worth County Jail the first local place to check for most arrests in the county.
- Worth County Jail - county jail for Worth County arrestees, local sentenced detainees, and temporary holds before transfer when applicable.
Worth County Inmate FAQ
How big is the Worth County inmate population? The Sheriff's site does not publish a live daily population dashboard. Vera's 2022 historical data lists an average daily jail population of 24 and rated capacity of 23, while Sheriff HB 1105 reports show active booking counts in 2024, 2025, and 2026.
How do I search the Worth County inmate population? Start with the OffenderIndex roster linked from the Sheriff site. Use Current Inmates for active custody, Bookings Over Last 24 Hours for new arrests, and Inmates by Booking Date for prior or date-based searches.
Can I find a released inmate? The roster has a previous-inmates checkbox on the booking-date tab. If that does not locate the record, use the Sheriff's open-records process or check GDC, BOP, or ICE if custody moved out of the county jail.
Does Worth County show booking photos? The roster template has a photo slot, but Worth County's public configuration had photos turned off during research. Booking photos can be requested through open records with the required affirmation form.