Crawford County, Georgia — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

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Operated byCrawford County Sheriff's Office
Jail address21 Hortman Mill Rd., Knoxville, GA 31050
Jail phone(478) 836-3116
Bookings57 inmates booked in Q2 2026 (sheriff's quarterly immigration status report)
Jail AdministratorCaptain Corey King, Detention Captain

Source: Crawford County Sheriff's Office — Detention · checked 2026-09-29

Transparency rating

0/10Closed

✗The jail is named — not published
✗Who is in custody — not published
✗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 — not published
✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Crawford County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-09-29. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the county posts the document.

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

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The Sheriff

Sheriff Lewis S. Walker

Runs the jailYes — the Sheriff's Office Detention division, under a Detention Captain, is 'responsible for the detention staff and inmates'
How the office is filledElected, four-year term; sworn in 2008 per his own page

Still needed

Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail

Source: Crawford County Sheriff's Office — About the Sheriff · 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 Crawford County

Superior Court: the Macon Judicial Circuit, which also serves Bibb 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 Crawford County Magistrate Court. For most charges a magistrate sets bail soon after arrest.

Still needed

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 not found or opened
The boardNot found
Where the jail money is decidedNot found

Notes on the record

Sheriff's own site names Lewis S. Walker; matches the directory lead.
Detention page names the Detention Captain and gives address and phone, but no published facility name, capacity, visitation, fees, bond or PREA information.
The sheriff links a 'Jail Population Report' hosted at interopweb.com/crawfordjailpop; it refused our reader (robots.txt), so roster and capacity are unconfirmed, not absent.
Immigration Status Information page posts the quarterly report under O.C.G.A. 42-4-16 (Q2 2026: 57 booked, 0 detainers).
What was tried: crawfordsheriff.net root rate-limited (HTTP 429); https://www.crawfordsheriff.net/ opened. One search used; it returned only aggregators, Wikipedia and a state corrections page — no county government site.
No county government pages were opened, so seat, board and budget are not confirmed.
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 Crawford 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