The Detention Center
Brantley County Sheriff's Office (jail)
- Operated byBrantley County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address95 John Wilson Street, Nahunta, GA 31553
- VisitationSaturday in-person (30 minutes, 2 visitors max); kiosk video visitation 9 AM-11 PM
- Video visitation rateApproximately $0.50 per minute
- Property bond fee$20.00 money order per bond
- Jail AdministratorJason Bohannan
Source: Brantley County Sheriff's Office — Jail Information · checked 2026-09-29
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
- ✗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
- ✓Phone, video and commissary rates
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Len Davis
- Runs the jailYes — the Sheriff's Office site publishes the jail's information page and names its Jail Administrator
- 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: Brantley 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 Brantley County
- Superior Court: the Waycross Judicial Circuit, which also serves Pierce, Coffee, Charlton, Ware and Bacon. 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 Brantley 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.
- NoteCounty government site could not be opened (not in search results; direct fetch refused).
- The boardNot found
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- Sheriff site confirmed Brantley County, Georgia; names Sheriff Len Davis and Jail Administrator Jason Bohannan (Employee List page).
- Jail Information page lists approved bonding companies, the $20 property-bond fee, visitation rules, commissary deposit methods and video visitation at about $0.50/minute.
- Related Links page links an 'Inmate Search' (interopweb.com/brantleyjailpop) — our reader was blocked by robots.txt, so its contents were not seen.
- No capacity, budget, PREA, deaths, inspection or contract material on the sheriff site.
- What was tried: brantleyso.org root first refused (rate limit), www.brantleyso.org refused (provenance); 1 search used, which returned brantleyso.org. brantleycountyga.gov refused (provenance). brantleycounty.org is a private aggregator and was not used.
- County seat and governing body not recorded: no county government page could be opened.
- 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 Brantley 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