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Candler County, Georgia sentencing data

In the latest Georgia Department of Corrections public release loaded into Justice Audit, 103 people sentenced in Candler County were held in Georgia state prisons. Their median sentence is 20 years, about the same as the statewide median of 20 years. 66% are serving 20 years or more, compared with 58% statewide. The most common offense is child molestation.

103people in prison

20 yearsmedian sentence (state: 20 years)

66%serving 20+ years (state: 58%)

4life sentences

See Candler County records County sentencing report

Sentences by offense: Candler 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	Candler median (yrs)	Georgia median (yrs)
Child Molestation	11	20	20

Race

Group	People	Share
Black	52	50%
White	47	46%

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 Candler 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.