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DEKALB COUNTY JAIL

4425 MEMORIAL DRIVE
DECATUR, GA 30032

Located in DeKalb County, GA [1]

SCRAPED DATA DATE RANGE: Jan 1978–Jun 2024

View Source Roster (URL last reviewed by the JDI team on May 4, 2024)

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County population [2]

764,382

Facility capacity

3,800

Correctional staff [3]

N/A

Total bookings

1,468,094

Total people booked

639,760

Mean daily population

2,248

Mean daily admissions

87

Mean length of stay

26 days

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Notes

1

This facility was not identifiable from the Bureau of Justice Statistics 2019 Census of Jails, or was nonrespondent to their questionnaire. We have compiled information for this facility using a secondary dataset, the Department of Homeland Security Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) Prison Boundaries dataset. If you are aware of any issues with this data, please contact us at questions@jaildatainitiative.org.

2

County population estimates are derived from the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program's 2021 County Characteristics dataset.

3

Facility capacity and number of correctional staff may only available for facilities included in the Bureau of Justice Statistics dataset.

4

Due to the volume of historical bookings data available for this facility, all trends are displayed as averages per month.

5

Excess Releases are calculated as the average number of people released per day minus the average number of people admitted per day over the given date range. A green bar indicates there were more releases than admissions during that time period, while a red bar indicates that there were more admissions than releases.

6

Length of stay for people booked into this jail is calculated as the number of days from admission date to the last day the jail roster reports their detention. In some cases, jail rosters are only updated periodically, and so length of stay may not reflect shorter bookings (e.g., those less than 24 hours). Admission and release dates are parsed from jail rosters where they are explicitly reported; if they are not reported, we infer admission and release dates from the dates of first and last appearance of booked individuals in scraped roster data.

7

The values displayed for this field are counted once per booking.

8

The values displayed for this field are counted once per charge per booking. Thus, they may not sum to the total number of bookings for this facility.

9

The values displayed for this field are exactly as they appear on the roster for this facility (we do not process them). Because of this, they may contain spelling variations/typos or other inconsistencies.

10

The values displayed for this field are standardized manually by the Jail Data Initiative team from "raw" values reported on the roster for this facility. The standardization processes for fields may vary in complexity (e.g., since jail administrators sometimes conflate race and ethnicity, we standardize these in tandem). For more detailed information about our standardization methods, please view our Documentation Page. "UNKNOWN" implies we were unable to determine an appropriate standardization for the raw value, while "UNREPORTED" indicates a missing value.

11

Our charge description standardization method employs a third-party classification model, the University of Michigan's Criminal Justice Administrative Records System Text-Based Offense Classification model.

12

We define bookings with "serious violence" as those with at least one charge classified into a predicted offense category (L2) at least as serious as aggravated assault. This subset of charges is significant in contingent valuation surveys designed by Bambauer and Roth (2021) and Stevenson and Mayson (2022).

13

The model used for classifying charges is currently only available via web interface (see 11), and charges must therefore be classified manually in batches, which the JDI team undertakes periodically. This value represents the percentage of charges that have yet to be classified.

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