Georgetown County Jail Roster Overview
The Georgetown County Sheriff's Office operates the Booking and Release page, the public roster for people booked into the Georgetown County Detention Center. The roster is a free public page on the sheriff's official website. It uses visible booking cards and client-side filtering, so users search the cards by name, booking date, or release date instead of logging into a separate vendor system.
The detention center is the county intake point for local arrests. The official detention center mission page says the Georgetown County Detention Center houses all persons arrested in Georgetown County by local law enforcement, and it also houses assigned state and federal prisoners. The roster is still a county jail source. It should not be treated as a complete statewide prison locator, federal inmate database, immigration detention locator, or court disposition record.
On June 29, 2026, the public roster source showed 133 entries with blank release metadata. That count is useful as a roster-derived point-in-time indicator, but it is not an official average daily population report. The current detention center capacity from the sheriff's official mission page is 212 inmates.
How to Use the Georgetown County Inmate Roster
Start with the sheriff's official Booking and Release page for current and released Georgetown County jail cards. The page can be searched with a name, booking date, or release date. Active entries may have no release date, so a release-date search is better for released people than for current detainees.
- Open the Georgetown County Sheriff's Office Booking and Release page.
- Use the Search dropdown to choose Name, Booking date, or Release date.
- For a name search, enter a first name, last name, or full name. Try alternate spellings if the first search fails.
- For a date search, use the booking date when looking for a new arrest and the release date when looking for someone already released.
- Review the booking card for the person's name, booking photo if shown, booking date and time, charges, bond amounts, and release date if one is published.
- If the person is not listed, call Georgetown County Detention Center at (843) 545-3400 or check the state, federal, immigration, and VINE channels described below.
The official roster screenshot below comes from the sheriff's Booking and Release page and shows the public card-style lookup format.
The screenshot matches the captured search fields: the user selects a search type, enters the available name or date information, and reads the public card fields that the sheriff publishes.
Georgetown County Roster Search Fields
The county roster search is narrow. It does not offer a booking-number field in the inspected public card structure, and it does not search by housing unit, arresting agency, court date, or case number. Those limits are important when answering how to find someone in the Georgetown jail.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Search | Dropdown | Unspecified | Options captured were Name, Booking date, and Release date. |
| Name input | Text | No | Shown when Search is set to Name, with a John Doe style placeholder. It searches visible roster-card name metadata. |
| Date input | Date picker or text | No | Shown for Booking date or Release date searches. Source metadata uses a YYYY-MM-DD style date. |
| Reset | Button or link | No | Clears search fields and restores the visible roster list. |
What a Georgetown County Inmate Profile Shows
A public roster card is a booking record, not a full criminal case file. It can tell whether the sheriff's system has published a booking, whether release information appears, and what charge and bond text is attached to the card. It does not replace court records, sealed-record rules, or direct jail confirmation for urgent custody decisions.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Name | The person's name as published on the booking card and stored in the card metadata. |
| Booking photo | A public booking image may appear on the card. Not every internal jail photo or historical image is exposed. |
| Booking date and time | The date and time the person was booked into the Georgetown County Detention Center. |
| Release date and time | Shown when a release is published. Blank release metadata can indicate an active entry with no public release date shown. |
| Charges | Charge descriptions tied to the booking card. Formal court charges can later change. |
| Bond amount | Dollar bond amounts may appear under individual charges, but holds and court orders must be verified with the jail or court. |
| Roster status | Inferred from release information: released when release date/time appears, active or no release shown when blank. |
| Not displayed | Booking number, housing unit, court date, full address, medical information, classification notes, and internal jail records were not observed in the inspected public card structure. |
Finding County, State, Federal, and ICE Inmates
Many failed inmate searches come from using the right name in the wrong system. The Georgetown County roster is for local jail booking cards. The South Carolina Department of Corrections inmate search is for people currently sentenced to and incarcerated in SCDC as of midnight the previous day. SCDC does not list county detainees, released SCDC offenders, parole or probation cases, juveniles housed with SCDC, or current SCDC fugitives in the normal public search.
Federal and immigration custody are separate. The BOP inmate locator is for federal inmates and federal custody records from 1982 forward. The ICE Online Detainee Locator System is for immigration detainee location. South Carolina VINE can help with custody and case-status notifications, but VINE is a notification channel, not the sheriff's roster. The Georgetown County Sheriff SC app exists for public-safety communication and tips, but the reviewed store text did not confirm an app-only inmate roster or warrant search.
| Custody | Where to Look | Important Limit |
|---|---|---|
| County jail pre-trial or local sentence | Georgetown County Booking and Release | Shows public booking cards, not full court files or internal jail records. |
| Sentenced state prisoner | SCDC incarcerated inmate search | Current sentenced SCDC inmates as of midnight the previous day. |
| Federal inmate | Federal BOP locator | Does not operate a Georgetown County jail roster or county mugshot database. |
| Immigration detention | ICE ODLS | Search by A-Number and country or biographical information. |
| Notification | South Carolina VINE | May require registration or contact information for alerts. |
Georgetown County Jail Facilities
The facility map confirms one county detention facility for Georgetown County. No separate county annex, regional detention center, work-release building, state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention facility was confirmed inside the county during the official source sweep.
Georgetown County Detention Center
2394 Browns Ferry Road
Georgetown, SC 29440
(843) 545-3400
Capacity: 212 inmates. Opened March 1996. Operated by the Georgetown County Sheriff's Office under Sheriff Carter Weaver.
The official detention center overview is shown below from the Georgetown County Sheriff's Office detention center mission page.
That source supplies the local facility facts used here: operator, opening date, capacity, intake duties, and the role of the jail in housing people arrested in Georgetown County.
Booking Process in Georgetown County
After a local arrest, the person is brought to the Georgetown County Detention Center for intake. The official detention page says the facility books and houses all persons arrested in Georgetown County by local law enforcement. It also photographs and fingerprints prisoners, conducts background checks, secures people in custody, and provides clothing, food, and medical services. South Carolina county jail authority is addressed in Title 24, Chapter 5, while Title 24, Chapter 9 covers jail and prison inspection standards.
The roster card appears only after the sheriff's public system publishes the booking. The sheriff page does not publish a guaranteed refresh interval, so a very new arrest may require a phone call. Internal intake details such as medical screening, classification notes, mental-health information, housing unit, and property inventory are not public fields in the inspected roster.
Bond court is part of the local path after booking. The South Carolina Judicial Branch lists Georgetown County Bond Court at 2394 Browns Ferry Road, the same address as the detention center. A local charge may then move to magistrate, municipal, or General Sessions court depending on charge level and prosecution decisions. Bail and recognizance are governed by Title 17, Chapter 15, so a roster bond entry should be verified against the current court order.
Visitation Hours and Rules
The official source sweep located the sheriff's visitation page, phone and commissary page, inmate mail page, bonding court page, and FAQ page, but the captured research did not include a complete day-by-day public visitation schedule. For that reason, specific hours should be confirmed directly with the official visitation page or by calling the jail before travel.
| Visit or Contact Type | Schedule or Route | Caveat |
|---|---|---|
| In-person visitation | Use the sheriff visitation page and jail phone confirmation. | Specific day and time rules were not captured in the research text. |
| Video visitation | Pay Tel Connect service is listed by the sheriff phone and commissary page. | Scheduling rules and fees should be verified with Pay Tel or the jail. |
| Attorney or legal visit | Verify directly with Georgetown County Detention Center. | Do not treat legal visits as ordinary family visitation. |
| Mail scan and messaging | Pay Tel Connect is listed for messaging, photo sharing, and mail scan. | Use the inmate-mail page for current addressing and mail-screening rules. |
| Operational changes | Call (843) 545-3400 before travel. | Lockdowns, holidays, staffing, emergencies, and classification can change access. |
How to Contact a Georgetown County Inmate
The sheriff's phone and commissary page points families to Pay Tel Connect for phone calls, video visitation, messaging, photo sharing, and mail scan services at Georgetown County Detention Center. Pay Tel help is available through the app or website and at 1-800-729-8355. The research also notes McDaniel Supply Company in the commissary context, but it did not capture a complete fee table or deposit schedule.
For personal mail, use the official inmate mail page before sending anything. The research confirms a mail-scan service, but it does not provide a complete public addressing format, contraband list, or legal-mail procedure. Those details should be checked with the jail, especially if the mail is urgent or legal in nature.
Commissary and Inmate Funds
Commissary and communication services should be handled through the official sheriff pages and the vendor routes they identify. The source sweep did not locate exact Georgetown County fee amounts, kiosk availability, payment-card fees, cashier hours, or online deposit limits. Do not rely on unofficial deposit claims without checking the jail or the vendor page named by the sheriff.
For records that are not on the roster, South Carolina FOIA Title 30, Chapter 4 is the public-records framework. Section 30-4-30 gives access to inspect or copy public records unless an exemption applies, Section 30-4-40 lists exemptions, and Section 30-4-50 addresses certain law-enforcement information about arrests and reports.
Note: Confirm custody status with Georgetown County Detention Center before sending funds, scheduling a visit, or assuming a bond amount will result in release.