Average daily jail population
Total, Downtown, Jail East and Youth populations over time.
Shelby County Jail data helps explain the volume moving through the jail, how long booking takes, and the prior-incarceration profile of people booked.
How to read the page
Population is a daily-stock measure, while bookings and releases are flows. Prior-incarceration measures describe booking history and should not be read as a conviction or recidivism measure by themselves.
Bookings and releases
Monthly total bookings compared with releases.
Booking processing time
Average booking processing time in hours at the Downtown jail.
No prior incarcerations
Share of bookings with no prior incarcerations.
1–2 prior incarcerations
Share of bookings with one or two prior incarcerations.
6+ prior incarcerations
Share of bookings with six or more prior incarcerations.