The Detention Center
Peach County Jail
- Operated byPeach County Sheriff's Office (Detention Division)
- Jail address1007 Spruce St., Fort Valley, GA 31030
- Beds116 beds after a renovation completed in 2011 (originally 64 beds)
- Maximum population125 inmates (Detention Division page)
- Average daily populationAbout 102; roughly 2,000 bookings a year
- Staff32 detention deputies
- Jail AdministratorCaptain Tony Trice (Detention Division commander)
Source: Peach County Sheriff's Office — Jail Information · checked 2026-09-29
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓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 — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found (renovation/expansion completed 2011)
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds116
Since then
- Expanded from 64 to 116 beds, renovation completed 2011
The Sheriff
Sheriff Robert "Buck" Shannon
- Runs the jailYes — the Sheriff is 'the official jailer of the county'
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Took officeJanuary 2025 (per sheriff's home page)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Peach County Sheriff's Office — Office of 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 Peach County
- Superior Court: the Macon Judicial Circuit, which also serves Bibb and Crawford. 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 Peach 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 clerk page links a Board Meetings page; the board page redirects https to http and was skipped.
- The boardPeach County Board of Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Sheriff site peachcountysheriff.com confirmed Peach County, Georgia.
- Jail Information FAQ explains bondable charges, that some arrests require seeing a magistrate first, and three ways to post bond (cash, property bond, bail bondsman).
- Video visitation exists; no provider, rates, commissary or phone fees published.
- No inmate roster link found on the sheriff pages opened (Phone Numbers and Links page has none).
- County Finance Documents page lists budget years (2014–2027) but our reader could not see the document links, so no sheriff/jail line could be confirmed — budget scored no.
- 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 Peach 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