The Detention Center
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- Operated byTroup County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address130 Sam Walker Dr (county departments list: 'Sheriff's Office (Jail)')
- Jail phone706 883 1616
- FY2026 budgetSheriff dept 3300: $21,609,621; Jail Operations division 3326: $543,000
Source: Troup County — Departments · checked 2026-09-29
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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 James Woodruff
- Runs the jailYes — sheriffs are the county jailers (O.C.G.A. 42-4-1); the county lists 'Sheriff's Office (Jail)' at 130 Sam Walker Dr
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Named on own site'James Woodruff, County Sheriff' on the county's Local Elected Officials page
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Troup County — Local Elected Officials · 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 Troup County
- Superior Court: the Coweta Judicial Circuit, which also serves Coweta and Meriwether. 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 Troup 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.
- NoteChairman elected county-wide plus four district commissioners.
- The boardTroup County Board of Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The sheriff's site (troupcountysheriff.org) could not be read: every https URL, including /home/jail from a search result, redirects down to http, and the reader will not follow. Jail-page checks (named, roster, capacity, bond, fees, PREA) are therefore unverified on the sheriff's own site; they reflect the county government site only.
- County site confirmed as Troup County, LaGrange, Georgia; Local Elected Officials page names Sheriff James Woodruff.
- County departments list gives 'Sheriff's Office (Jail) | 130 Sam Walker Dr' but no facility name, so the jail is not recorded as named.
- FY2025-2026 adopted budget shows Sheriff department 3300 ($21,609,621) with a Jail Operations division 3326 ($543,000); it refers to prisoner housing arrangements with municipalities but no contract was opened.
- Magistrate Court criminal jurisdiction page says the court sets bail but gives no instructions on posting bond and no schedule.
- What was tried: troupcountysheriff.org (https root, /jail, /home/jail, welcome PDF) — all refused or downgraded to http; county home, Commissioners, Departments, Local Elected Officials, Finance Budgets, FY2025-26 budget, Magistrate criminal jurisdiction opened; public_safety page refused (PROVENANCE_REQUIRED). Searches used: 2.
- Not scored: The sheriff's own website, including its jail page, could not be read by our reader; only county government pages were read. Marking the rest 'not published' would claim more than was checked. Found published on the pages that did open: budget.
- 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 Troup 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