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Charlton County Jail Overview

Charlton County Jail is operated by the Charlton County Sheriff's Office. The county sheriff page identifies Sheriff Robert Phillips as sheriff, and the sheriff site identifies Captain King as Jail Administrator. The facility is listed by the Georgia Department of Corrections county jail directory as a county jail. That GDC listing is useful because it names the jail directly, but it does not create an online county roster, capacity sheet, or posted visitation rule set.

The jail holds local custody cases. That includes pre-trial detainees waiting on court action, local court commitments, local sentenced misdemeanants, and people held for release or transfer under the sheriff's authority. The jail should not be treated as the same system as a Georgia Department of Corrections prison, the Bureau of Prisons, or the ICE facilities in Folkston. That distinction matters because each system has its own locator and records path.

The official address record has a real source difference. GDC lists Charlton County Jail at 100 South Third Street in Folkston. The county and sheriff public pages list the Sheriff's Office at 1548 Third Street in Folkston. Both are official source points, so custody, visit, and records questions should be confirmed by phone before a trip to the public counter.

GDC's Charlton County Jail listing shows the state directory page for the jail. The image reflects that state listing, not a county-published roster.

The image is useful for address and phone confirmation, while current custody still routes through the sheriff because no public Charlton County Jail roster was located.

Charlton County Jail Lookup

No official public Charlton County online jail roster, current-inmate search, booking report, or released-inmate list was found in the county, sheriff, or GDC sources inspected. That is not a dead end. It changes the lookup order. A live local custody question starts with the sheriff phone line. A report-copy or historical jail-record question should move to the sheriff's open-records process.

The county jail search should stay local until there is a reason to move to another custody system. If the person was recently arrested in Charlton County, call the sheriff and ask for jail or booking desk routing. If the person has already been sentenced to Georgia prison, use the GDC Offender Query. If the person is in immigration detention, use ICE ODLS. If the person is serving a federal sentence, use the BOP locator.

1. Call the Charlton County Sheriff's Office at 912-496-7321 for a current custody check.
2. Ask whether the person is held in the county jail, released, transferred, or subject to another agency hold.
3. For copies of records or reports, use the sheriff's Open Records Request form.
4. Use GDC Offender Query, ICE ODLS, or the BOP Inmate Locator only when the facts point outside the county jail.

Charlton County Jail Contact

The safest way to handle the address difference is to call first and ask which entrance or records counter applies to the request. A family member asking about live custody may need the jail or booking desk. A requester asking for a report, incident record, 911 record, case report, or traffic citation should use the open-records form or records routing through the sheriff.

The county page lists fax 912-496-7612, while the sheriff site research observed fax 912-496-6712. Because those two fax numbers differ by source, phone confirmation is better than assuming either fax is the right channel for a jail record.

Charlton County Jail Records

The sheriff's public records path is well documented even though the jail roster is not. The sheriff website links the same open-records form from records and Freedom of Information request language. The form includes request type, requester contact fields, case or incident number, officer name, incident location, event date and time, subject name, and a free-form details field.

For jail-related records, a narrow request is usually stronger than a broad one. Use the person's full name, event date, location, and case or incident number if known. Georgia law also separates the jail commitment record from the court file. The jail may document commitment and custody. The clerk and court file show formal charges, bond orders, pleas, dispositions, and sentencing.

Charlton County Jail Visits

No official Charlton County Jail visitation schedule, video visit portal, visitor dress code, or lobby hour page was found in the inspected county and sheriff sources. That means the page should not list days, times, visit lengths, or vendor names for this jail. Call before traveling, bring government identification, and ask whether the person is eligible for visits before leaving home.

Note: The ICE visitation schedules in Folkston do not apply to Charlton County Jail visitors.

Charlton County Jail Mail

The official sources reviewed did not publish Charlton County Jail mail formatting rules, a commissary provider, a money-deposit website, a phone vendor, tablet provider, deposit fee table, or accepted payment methods. Do not assume that services documented for the Folkston ICE facilities apply to the county jail. Access Corrections and GettingOut were documented for ICE context, not the county sheriff's jail.

Before sending money or mail, confirm the person's custody status, the correct mailing name format, any inmate ID requirement, and whether the jail accepts mailed funds, lobby deposits, online deposits, or no public deposits at all. The jail may reject mail or funds that do not follow its current internal rules, even when the person is held there.

Charlton County Jail Intake

Charlton County does not publish a local booking-process page, so exact booking times and posting delays should not be stated. Georgia law gives the best public-record anchor. O.C.G.A. § 42-4-7 requires the sheriff to keep a public record of jail commitments with the person's name, age, sex, race, process or court, offense charged, commitment date, discharge date, discharge order, and issuing court.

In practice, an arrest or court commitment leads to intake, identification, property handling, medical or safety screening, booking photograph procedures when applicable, bond or court status review, and later release or transfer. A booking charge is not always the final charge. For formal charge status after an arrest, use the court and clerk records rather than treating the jail record as the final case outcome.

Commitment

A lawful court or process entry placing a person in jail custody.

Detainer

A hold or request from another agency that can affect release.

Disposition

The court outcome, such as dismissal, plea, conviction, or sentence.

About Charlton County Jail

The research did not locate an official construction year, capacity, housing layout, work-release annex, accreditation detail, program list, population dashboard, or recent reform page for Charlton County Jail. The most accurate description is a sheriff-operated local detention facility with limited public web publishing. Georgia jail laws still set core duties for jail operation, public commitment records, and health and safety rules.

For broader Charlton County inmate population work, keep the systems separate. The local jail is the first stop for fresh local arrests. GDC handles sentenced Georgia offenders. BOP handles federal prison records after federal commitment. ICE ODLS handles immigration detainees, including people held at the Folkston ICE Processing Center and the Folkston ICE Processing Center Annex.