Terrell County Jail Overview
Terrell County Jail is operated by the Terrell County Sheriff's Office at 3108 Albany Highway in Dawson, Georgia. The sheriff site describes the office's responsibilities as including care and custody of people confined in the jail, court security, law enforcement, and crime investigation. That makes this facility the first local place to check after an arrest by the sheriff, Dawson police, or another Terrell County law-enforcement agency.
The jail handles people awaiting bond, first appearance, court action, transfer, or a short local sentence. It should not be confused with Terrell County Correctional Institution next door at 3110 Albany Highway. The correctional institution is a county-operated prison for adult male state inmates, while the jail is the county pretrial and local-custody facility.
The official sheriff and county pages reviewed for this build did not publish a jail capacity, housing-unit list, public housing-classification summary, commissary vendor, mail rule page, visitation schedule, or searchable current-inmate roster. Those missing details matter because they are often repeated by third-party sites without support. The safer approach is to call the jail for current custody and ask the sheriff's office about records that are not available by phone.
Terrell County Jail Booking Data
No official current daily population or rated bed capacity was located for Terrell County Jail. The official local figure available is the Terrell County Sheriff's Office Georgia Criminal Alien Track and Report Act quarterly jail report for Calendar Year 2025, Quarter 3. That report covered July through September 2025 and listed 117 inmates booked during the quarter. It also recorded one Law Enforcement Support Center inquiry, one LESC response, one response indicating the inmate was an illegal alien, and one USDHS immigration detainer. Chief Deputy Kendranna Walker signed the report on October 9, 2025.
The Terrell sheriff quarterly jail report page is the source for the local booking report screenshot below.
The report is useful for booking-volume context, but it is not a live roster and should not be used to confirm whether a specific person is in custody today.
How to Look Up an Inmate at Terrell County Jail
Terrell County did not publish an official public online jail roster or mugshot gallery in the sheriff or county sources reviewed. Start with the jail direct number, then use the sheriff's office during business hours if staff need to route the request. Have the person's full legal name, date of birth or age, arrest date, and arresting agency if known. For case filings, bond orders, warrants, and court dates, the jail is not the final court record source; Terrell County court offices handle those records after booking.
- Call Terrell County Jail at 229-995-4027 and ask whether the person is currently held there.
- If the jail cannot answer the records question, call the Sheriff's Office main line at 229-995-4488 during administrative hours.
- For booking records that are not released by phone, ask how to submit an open-records request through the Sheriff's Office.
- If the person has been sentenced or transferred to state custody, search the Georgia Department of Corrections Offender Query.
The Terrell County Sheriff contact page shows the sheriff, chief deputy, captain, jail supervisors, phone numbers, fax, email links, and business-hours language.
Use that contact page as the local routing source before relying on nonofficial inmate-listing websites.
Terrell County Jail Address and Contact
The jail and sheriff complex use the Albany Highway address shown by the sheriff site. County quick contacts list a separate jail phone number and sheriff's office phone number, which supports calling the jail first for current custody and the sheriff's office for administrative records questions. The sheriff contact page says administrative staff are available from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. except holidays and weekends, while the jail itself is operational 24 hours.
Terrell County Jail
3108 Albany Highway
Dawson, GA 39842
229-995-4027 jail direct
Operational 24 hours; administrative staff 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. except holidays and weekends.
Terrell County Sheriff's Office
PO Box 463
Dawson, GA 39842
229-995-4488 main; fax 229-995-4301
Use for sheriff administration and open-records routing.
Visiting Someone at Terrell County Jail
No official Terrell County Jail visitation schedule, visitor-entry rule page, parking instruction, transit note, dress-code list, or ADA visitor-access detail was located in the sheriff or county sources reviewed. Do not assume a visit is available just because the jail operates 24 hours. Jail operations and public administrative access are different. Call ahead before traveling, especially for a weekend, holiday, first-appearance day, or recent arrest where the person may still be in intake or court movement.
| Topic | Published Status | What to Do |
|---|---|---|
| Visitation schedule | Not located in official sources | Call 229-995-4027 before planning a visit. |
| Visitor entry and ID | Not located in official sources | Ask what identification and arrival time are required. |
| Parking, transit, and ADA access | Not located in official sources | Confirm visitor entrance and parking before traveling to Albany Highway. |
| Holiday or weekend visits | Not located in official sources | Use call-ahead confirmation because administrative staff are not listed for weekends or holidays. |
Mail, Phone, and Money at Terrell County Jail
Official sources did not identify a Terrell County Jail commissary vendor, inmate phone vendor, tablet provider, remote video system, deposit fee table, or exact inmate-mail format. The sheriff's office mailing address is PO Box 463, Dawson, GA 39842, but that is not enough to assume how inmate mail should be addressed. Before sending mail, photos, money, books, or legal documents, confirm the current inmate name format, booking number requirement, mailing address, prohibited items, and whether the jail uses physical mail or scanning.
| Service | Provider / Detail |
|---|---|
| Mail Address | Exact inmate-mail format not published; call the jail before mailing. |
| Phone / Video | No official vendor or video schedule located. |
| Money Deposit | No official commissary or deposit vendor located. |
Booking and Intake at Terrell County Jail
Terrell County does not publish a detailed booking-process page, but the available local sources show the jail is the sheriff's county-custody facility and operates 24 hours. A local arrest normally moves through identification, intake, custody screening, records entry, and court or bond routing. Some people are released after bond or first appearance; others remain for court, transfer, probation matters, or local sentencing. Because there is no official online roster, a recent arrest may need to be confirmed by phone rather than by waiting for a web entry to appear.
For the next stage after booking, use the courts. Terrell County Magistrate Court is relevant for early warrant and first-appearance issues, while the Superior Court Clerk handles criminal-record routing for pending and disposed criminal cases. If a person later receives a Georgia state sentence, the Terrell County Jail is no longer the best lookup channel; the GDC locator becomes the state-custody route.
Directions to Terrell County Jail
Terrell County Jail is on Albany Highway south of central Dawson, near the county correctional and government-services cluster. Visitors coming from the courthouse area near Rountree Drive SW and Lee Street should route toward Albany Highway and follow it south to the sheriff/jail address. Visitors coming from Albany or Dougherty County generally approach Dawson from the south or southeast. Visitors from Bronwood, Sasser, or Parrott should route through Dawson or the nearest state-route connection, then confirm the facility entrance before turning into the complex.
Official visitor parking, transit, and ADA-entry details were not located, so call the jail before traveling if entrance location or accessibility will affect the visit.
About Terrell County Jail
The sheriff's official homepage identifies Sheriff Vernon L. Jessie and presents the office mission around protecting lives, property, and rights, maintaining order, enforcing Georgia law, caring for people confined in the jail, securing court proceedings, and investigating crime. The current contact page also lists Chief Kendranna Walker, Captain Michael Oxford, Administrative Assistant Sabrina Hadley, and jail supervisors Sgt. T. Haynes, Sgt. W. Hallmon, and Sgt. R. Williams.
No official jail program list, accreditation statement, medical or grievance overview, reentry page, construction notice, consent decree, jail-death notice, or current capacity bulletin was located in the official sources reviewed. The main recent local jail document found was the Q3 2025 jail report signed on October 9, 2025.
Note: Confirm custody, visitor rules, and mail or money instructions with Terrell County Jail before traveling or sending anything.