The Detention Center
Bibb County Sheriff's Office Corrections Center
- Operated byBibb County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address668 Oglethorpe Street, Macon
- CapacityExpanded from 585 in 2007 to over 900+ inmates (sheriff's page)
- Second facilityDetention Center, 645 Hazel Street — approximately 192 beds; work release and community service
- Who is heldMale and female inmates 17 and older, misdemeanor and felony
- FY27 Sheriff's Office budget$60,118,851 (Macon-Bibb FY27 Budget Book)
Source: Bibb County Sheriff's Office — Corrections & Detention · checked 2026-09-29
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✗PREA audits — not published
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✗How to post bond — not published
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsOver 900 (Corrections Center) plus approximately 192 (Detention Center), per sheriff's page
Since then
- Capacity expanded from 585 (2007) to over 900 — sheriff's page gives no construction details
The Sheriff
Sheriff David Davis
- Runs the jailYes — the Sheriff's Office runs the Corrections Center (jail) and the Detention Center
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Bibb County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-09-29
The Judges
Georgia's superior court judges are elected state judges who hear felony cases. For most charges a county magistrate sets bail soon after arrest; for the most serious felonies only a superior court judge can.
Who sets bail in Bibb County
- Superior Court: the Macon Judicial Circuit, which also serves Crawford and Peach. Superior court judges are elected circuit-wide in nonpartisan elections to four-year terms and hear felony cases; for the most serious felonies only a superior court judge can set bail.
- Magistrate Court: the Bibb County Magistrate Court. For most charges a magistrate sets bail soon after arrest.
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-09-29
The Board of Commissioners
They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.
- What they controlThe county budget that funds the sheriff's office and the jail, and the jail building itself. Some small counties have a sole commissioner; consolidated governments such as Athens-Clarke, Augusta-Richmond, Columbus and Macon-Bibb have a commission instead.
- What they don'tDay-to-day operations. By law the sheriff is the jailer of the county and appoints the other jailers, subject to the governing authority's supervision (O.C.G.A. 42-4-1). No state agency inspects the jail.
- NoteConsolidated Macon-Bibb County government; the Commission is its legislative branch.
- The boardMacon-Bibb Commission →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Sheriff site confirmed Macon-Bibb County, Georgia; it names Sheriff David Davis (directory lead: David J. Davis).
- Sheriff's Inmate Search page offers tools to find 'someone currently housed in our correctional facilities' (inmate.bibbsheriff.us; its content did not render to our reader).
- FY27 Budget Book on maconbibb.us shows Sheriff's Office $60,118,851, plus a Macon Bibb County Jail Fund ($132,000) and Commissary Fund ($2,510,000).
- Commissary vendor link published, but no fee rates. No bond guidance on Court Services or Warrants pages.
- Sheriff news page showed no items on deaths in custody, inspections, court orders or federal investigations.
- No search used.
- State inspection/oversight: Georgia law makes the sheriff the county's jailer. The Georgia Sheriffs' Association, an association of the state's sheriffs rather than a state agency, publishes jail standards and a statewide monthly jail report.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Bibb County and what it costs the people who live here. Nationally, almost 77% of the people who died in local jails in 2019 had not been convicted of anything, and suicide was the leading single cause of those deaths (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Mortality in Local Jails, 2000–2019).
How much is your sheriff — and your judge — costing you?
Your VOTE is POWERFUL.
The sheriff is elected. So are the commissioners who pay for the jail, and the judges who set bail.
Names verified 2026-09-29 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered