The Detention Center
Glynn County Detention Center (GCDC)
- Operated byGlynn County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address100 Sulphur Springs Road, Brunswick, GA 31520
- Rated capacityNot found
Source: Glynn County — Glynn County Detention Center · checked 2026-09-29
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗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
- ✓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 E. Neal Jump
- Runs the jailYes — the county page says he oversees 'the Glynn County Sheriff's Office and Detention Center'
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- In office sinceTook office January 2013
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Glynn County — Meet the Glynn County 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 Glynn County
- Superior Court: the Brunswick Judicial Circuit, which also serves Appling, Camden, Wayne and Jeff Davis. 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 Glynn 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.
- The boardGlynn County Board of Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Sheriff pages sit on the county site glynncounty.org; Glynn County, Georgia confirmed.
- RE-CHECK capacity: the detention center page links a 'Jail Population Report' PDF (https://content.glynncounty.org/sites/default/files/2026-09/Population_12.pdf) but our reader was blocked by robots.txt, so it is scored 'no' only because it could not be read.
- Fees (visitation page): Paytel Connect — tablet messages $0.25 each, local calls $0.012/min, out-of-state calls $0.21/min, remote video visitation $0.19/min.
- Bonding page: $20 per bond posting fee, $25 property lien filing fee and $25 lien cancellation fee, and steps for a surety to surrender a defendant; a separate page lists licensed bail bond companies. It does not explain step by step how to post a bond or give a bond schedule.
- Inmate deposits: lobby kiosk, online via jailpackstore.com, or money order by mail; no deposit fee amounts shown.
- Roster: the sheriff page mentions inmate lookup, but no roster link was found on the pages opened.
- Budget: a FY2025 Sheriff budget summary is on the county's OpenGov page (stories.opengov.com), not on the county's own domain, and our reader saw no figures; not counted.
- Sheriff page also links a 2Q 2026 Foreign National Stat Report and a citizens' complaint process form.
- What was tried: https://glynncounty.org (PROVENANCE_REQUIRED); one WebSearch 'Glynn County Georgia sheriff detention center'; then glynncounty.org home, sheriff's office, detention center, bonding information, licensed bail bonds, fund inmate account, visitation, meet the sheriff; population PDF (robots.txt blocked); OpenGov sheriff summary.
- 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 Glynn 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