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Telfair County Jail Overview

The Georgia Department of Corrections location page for Telfair County Jail lists the facility as a county jail in McRae. The operator identified in local research is the Telfair County Sheriff's Office. The Telfair County public-safety page identifies Sheriff Sim Davidson and places the Sheriff's Office on East Oak Street in McRae-Helena. Those two official sources give the most useful local contact trail for a Telfair County Jail custody search.

Telfair County Jail is used for local jail custody. That means it is the first place to check for many recent arrests, pretrial detainees, short local holds, and people waiting on bond or court action. It is not the same system as Telfair State Prison, which is run by the Georgia Department of Corrections for sentenced state prisoners. It is also not a federal or immigration detention center. No official city jail roster was located for McRae-Helena, Lumber City, or Milan, so local jail custody is best verified through the county jail or sheriff contact path.

The official source set was thin on jail operations. No county jail page was found with a public roster, booking report, booking photo gallery, visitation calendar, mail policy, commissary vendor, money deposit vendor, phone vendor, inmate handbook, or jail program list. That absence matters. A Telfair County Jail record request should not rely on commercial jail-directory pages or mugshot sites as official sources.

The manifest image for this facility comes from the GDC Telfair County Jail location page.

The screenshot reinforces the limited but official nature of the jail listing: address, type, and phone are documented, while roster and visitor details are not published there.

Telfair County Jail Capacity

The strongest jail population data in the research comes from the Vera Institute county incarceration dataset, not from a live Telfair County dashboard. Vera reported a 2024 Telfair County jail total population of 57, pretrial custody of 55.5, a rated capacity of 70, and a jail incarceration rate of 811.04 per 100,000 residents ages 15 to 64. These are county jail measures, so they should not be read as the population of Telfair State Prison.

Telfair County financial statements add budget context. The FY2022 report listed public safety expenses of $4,638,770 and actual general-fund jail operations expenditures of $1,690,705. Those figures describe county spending, not a daily inmate count, but they show that jail operations were a distinct line in the county's public safety costs.

Find Telfair County Jail Custody

No official Telfair County Sheriff online jail roster was located. A current Telfair County Jail custody search should therefore start with the facility phone listed by GDC and the Sheriff's Office contact listed by the county public-safety page. If staff cannot release a detail by phone, ask how to submit a Georgia Open Records Act request for booking records, arrest material, bond details, or a booking photograph.

1. Call Telfair County Jail at the GDC-listed jail phone and ask whether the person is in current county custody.
2. Have the full name, date of birth if known, approximate arrest date, and arresting agency ready before calling.
3. Ask whether the person was released, transferred, sent to GDC custody, or held on another agency warrant or detainer.
4. For copies of records, ask the jail or sheriff how to route a Georgia Open Records Act request to the proper custodian.
5. If staff indicate a state-prison transfer, use the GDC Offender Query instead of the county jail contact path.

The Georgia.gov Find an Offender page says the GDC search is for offenders in Georgia Department of Corrections facilities and that county jail searches should use the county source. Since no official Telfair County Jail online roster was found, the local phone and records-request path is the practical county source.

Telfair County Jail Contact

Official sources list two nearby Oak Street locations connected to jail and sheriff functions. GDC lists the jail address and jail phone. The county public-safety page lists the Sheriff's Office address, Sheriff Sim Davidson, and the sheriff non-emergency number. It also prints a jail non-emergency number with a 299 area code, which conflicts with GDC and appears likely to be an area-code issue. Verify phone numbers before relying on them for travel or records pickup.

Telfair County Jail Visiting

No official Telfair County Jail visitation schedule was located. No source showed visit days, public lobby hours, video visit rules, visitor ID requirements, child visitor rules, attorney visit hours, dress code, or a handbook. For that reason, the only source-safe instruction is to contact the jail or sheriff before traveling. Do not assume that state-prison visiting rules apply to this county jail.

Visitors should also avoid bringing restricted items. O.C.G.A. 42-4-13 restricts contraband inside jail guard lines or delivery to inmates. The research did not locate a Telfair-specific visitor property list, so the jail's current rule is the controlling practical source.

Telfair County Jail Mail

No official jail mail page, commissary vendor, inmate-phone provider, money-deposit portal, package rule, or fee schedule was found for Telfair County Jail. That means no deposit fee, account setup rule, call price, photo rule, package limit, or mail address format should be inferred. Use the jail phone or Sheriff's Office to confirm the current rule before sending mail, money, or property.

GDC phone, package, and money pages cover state prisoners. They should not be assigned to Telfair County Jail unless the county confirms the same vendor or rule. A person moved to Telfair State Prison or another GDC facility should use the GDC mail and money instructions for that state facility, not the county jail contact path.

Telfair County Jail Records

When a phone call does not answer a records question, the Georgia Open Records Act is the next documented route. The Georgia Attorney General open-government page identifies the open-records law, and O.C.G.A. 50-18-71 sets the general response framework for public records. Agencies must provide responsive records within a reasonable time not to exceed three business days, or provide available records and a timeline when all records cannot be produced in that period.

Booking

The jail intake process after arrest.

Detainer

A hold or notice from another agency that may affect release.

Pretrial detainee

A person held before the court case is resolved.

GDC

Georgia Department of Corrections, the state prison system.

Booking photographs have a separate Georgia rule. O.C.G.A. 35-1-19 defines booking photographs and restricts law-enforcement website posting and release in some publication and fee-for-removal contexts. No official Telfair County Jail mugshot gallery was located. Current booking-photo questions should be routed to the jail or sheriff, and court charge questions should move to the clerk or court channel after charges are filed.

Telfair County Jail Directions

GDC lists Telfair County Jail at 11 East Oak Street in McRae, near the McRae-Helena county-seat area where the sheriff and court offices are also listed. Travelers should confirm whether they need the jail entrance at 11 East Oak Street or the sheriff/public-safety counter at 19 E. Oak Street before leaving for visitation, bond, records pickup, or inmate-property questions.

Regional approaches into McRae-Helena use U.S. 341, U.S. 23, U.S. 319, and U.S. 441 connections. The research did not locate jail visitor parking rates, transit instructions, or public counter hours, so those details should be verified directly with the jail.