About 95,000 people from Georgia are behind bars in prisons, jails, and other forms of confinement. Over the course of a year, at least 236,000 different people are booked into Georgia's local jails.

These numbers show how broadly our criminal justice system touches individuals, families, and communities across our state. Learn more about incarceration in Georgia from the Prison Policy Initiative's Georgia profile.

Contact: Bryan Sells, bryan@sellsmail.com