The Detention Center
Henry County Jail
- Operated byHenry County Sheriff's Office (Jail Operations)
- Jail address120 Henry Pkwy, McDonough, GA 30253
- Capacity900 detainees between two facilities
- PopulationMainly pretrial and state-sentenced detainees
- Mental Health UnitEstablished within the jail by the sheriff
- Phone / commissary vendorICSolutions; inmate accounts via Access Corrections
- Jail AdministratorColonel Leontyne Daniel, Jail Operations Commander
Source: Henry County Sheriff's Office — Jail Operations · checked 2026-09-29
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✗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
- Beds900 (capacity between two facilities)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Reginald B. Scandrett
- Runs the jailYes — the Sheriff's Office Jail Operations division runs the Henry County Jail
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term (county officials directory, Feb 2026: term to 2028)
- Office29th Sheriff of Henry County
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Henry County Sheriff's Office — Meet Our 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 Henry County
- Superior Court: the Flint Judicial Circuit, which serves Henry County alone. 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 Henry 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.
- NoteMinutes portal page opened but its links did not load for our reader
- The boardHenry County Board of Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Sheriff site henrycountysheriffga.gov opened and confirmed Henry County, Georgia; it names Sheriff Reginald B. Scandrett, matching the directory lead.
- Jail Operations page names the Henry County Jail, gives capacity of 900 detainees between two facilities, and names the Jail Operations Commander and assistant commander.
- Bonding page gives full guidance: cash, property, transfer and surety bonds, a non-refundable $20 fee per bond, a 10% service fee on online cash-bond payments, and the approved bonding companies. No bond schedule.
- Inmate account page lists a $5.00 fee for wristband replacement and for medical/dental visits and mentions an unstated monthly administrative fee. Telephone page names ICSolutions but posts no call rates.
- Sheriff site links an inmate search on inmatesearch.co.henry.ga.us, but our reader was refused (PROVENANCE_REQUIRED), so roster is scored no.
- Sheriff budget page describes spending areas (including jail operations) but gives no figures. County budget pages on henrycountyga.gov loaded without document links; /260/Budget-Department was refused.
- CALEA page announces the office is pursuing accreditation; no reports posted. No PREA, deaths or inspection material found.
- County seat McDonough and board name taken from the county's February 2026 elected-officials directory (county CivicPlus document).
- One county search spent. Early fetches to the sheriff site were refused by the proxy (HTTP 429) and later succeeded after waiting.
- 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 Henry 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