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Berrien County, Georgia sentencing data

In the latest Georgia Department of Corrections public release loaded into Justice Audit, 133 people sentenced in Berrien County were held in Georgia state prisons. Their median sentence is 15 years, shorter than the statewide median of 20 years. 53% are serving 20 years or more, compared with 58% statewide. The most common offense is aggrav assault.

133people in prison

15 yearsmedian sentence (state: 20 years)

53%serving 20+ years (state: 58%)

16life sentences

See Berrien County records County sentencing report

Sentences by offense: Berrien County vs. Georgia

Offenses with 10+ people. Median of the longest sentence from each person's most recent sentencing; life and death sentences not included.

Offense	People	Berrien median (yrs)	Georgia median (yrs)
Aggrav Assault	16	12	20
Child Molestation	11	20	20

Race

Group	People	Share
White	81	61%
Black	46	35%

Groups with fewer than 10 people are not shown.

Other Georgia counties

Appling Atkinson Bacon Baldwin Banks Barrow Bartow Ben Hill Berrien Bibb Bleckley Brantley Brooks Bryan Bulloch Burke Butts Calhoun Camden Candler Carroll Catoosa Charlton Chatham Chattooga Cherokee Clarke Clayton Clinch Cobb Coffee Colquitt Columbia Cook Coweta Crawford Crisp Dade Dawson Decatur Dekalb Dodge Dooly Dougherty Douglas Early Effingham Elbert Emanuel Evans Fannin Fayette Floyd Forsyth Franklin Fulton Gilmer Glynn Gordon Grady Greene Gwinnett Habersham Hall Hancock Haralson Harris Hart Heard Henry Houston Irwin Jackson Jasper Jeff Davis Jefferson Jenkins Johnson Jones Lamar Lanier Laurens Lee Liberty Lincoln Long Lowndes Lumpkin Macon Madison Marion McDuffie McIntosh Meriwether Miller Mitchell Monroe Montgomery Morgan Murray Muscogee Newton Oconee Oglethorpe Paulding Peach Pickens Pierce Pike Polk Pulaski Putnam Rabun Randolph Richmond Rockdale Schley Screven Seminole Spalding Stephens Stewart Sumter Talbot Taliaferro Tattnall Taylor Telfair Terrell Thomas Tift Toombs Towns Treutlen Troup Turner Twiggs Union Upson Walker Walton Ware Warren Washington Wayne Wheeler White Whitfield Wilcox Wilkes Wilkinson Worth

About this data

Source: Georgia Department of Corrections public inmate records. People currently in state prison custody whose longest sentence was imposed in Berrien County, one record per person, using the longest sentence from their most recent sentencing. Criminal history is not in the data, so differences between counties can reflect prior records as well as sentencing practice.