The Detention Center
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- Operated byJasper County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address1551 Highway 212 West, Monticello, GA 31064 (same as Sheriff's Office, per county directory)
- Bookings271 inmates booked, 07/01/2025 to 09/30/2025 (sheriff's HB 1105 report, facility listed as "JASPER COUNTY S.O.")
- Budget FY2027Jail $1,755,465; Sheriff $3,583,037
- Spending FY2025Jail operations $1,399,356; Sheriff's Office $3,803,802 (audit)
- Jail AdministratorCaptain Edward Walker (Jail)
Source: Jasper County — County Directory · checked 2026-09-29
Transparency rating
1/10Closed- ✗The jail is named — not published
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✓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
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Donnie Pope
- Runs the jailYes — the sheriff's site says the sheriff is mandated "to maintain the common jail"; the county directory lists a Jail captain under the Sheriff's Office
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Office address1551 Highway 212 West, Monticello, GA 31064
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Jasper County Sheriff's Office — home page · 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 Jasper County
- Superior Court: the Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit, which also serves Baldwin, Greene, Jones, Morgan, Putnam, Wilkinson and Hancock. 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 Jasper 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 boardJasper County Board of Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Sheriff site jaspercosheriff.com opened and confirmed Jasper County, Georgia; it names Sheriff Donnie Pope (directory lead: Donnie L. Pope).
- The sheriff site has only a few pages (home, most wanted, job application, Criminal Alien Tracking Report); no jail name, roster, capacity, bond, visitation, fee or PREA pages.
- The HB 1105 quarterly report lists the facility only as "JASPER COUNTY S.O."; some quarterly report files were unreadable (binary or scanned).
- County site jaspercountyga.org opened after one search: county directory gives Monticello as seat and names the Jail captain; Finance page posts FY2025–FY2027 budgets and the FY2025 audit, which show Sheriff and Jail lines.
- No PREA, deaths, inspection, contract, bond or fee material found on the county or sheriff pages 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 Jasper 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