Dillon County Jail Roster Reality
No official Dillon County online jail roster, public current-inmate list, daily booking report, or mugshot gallery was located on the official Dillon County or Sheriff's Office pages during research. That means Dillon County inmate records cannot be searched in the same way as counties that publish a vendor roster. The official Sheriff's Office page still gives essential local facts: the Dillon County Detention Center is a division of the Sheriff's Department, the facility can house up to 200 inmates, and the detention center has 37 trained personnel.
That negative roster finding should change the order of search steps. For a person who may be in custody today, call the Dillon County Detention Center at 843-774-1435 or the sheriff's detention center line at 843-841-3730. For a court case after booking, use the Dillon County Public Index. For state-prison custody after sentencing, use SCDC. For release notices, use VINELink where agency coverage is available. For records that are not posted online, ask the Sheriff's Office how to submit a South Carolina FOIA request.
The official Dillon County Sheriff's Office page is the best county source for detention-center contact information and facility capacity.
Lookup Dillon County Jail Custody
A practical Dillon County inmate lookup starts with the agency most likely to know whether the person is physically in the jail. Staff may not release every detail by phone, and protected juvenile, medical, safety, sealed, or investigative information can be withheld. Still, the detention center is the correct first contact for a recent arrest, a bond question, a release check, or a transfer question.
- Call the Dillon County Detention Center at 843-774-1435 or the sheriff's detention center line at 843-841-3730.
- Give the person's full name, date of birth if known, and arresting agency if known.
- Ask whether the person is in local custody, released, transferred, or held for another authority.
- Ask which court has the next event and whether bond has been set.
- If the person is no longer in local custody, search the Public Index, SCDC, VINELink, BOP, or ICE depending on the answer.
- If a nonexempt record is needed, ask how to submit a FOIA request for booking records or jail logs.
City of Dillon Police arrests can still end up in county custody. The city police page lists 101 W. Main St. and phone 843-774-0051, but it does not publish a long-term city jail roster. County detention or court records are usually the next place to check after a city arrest.
Dillon County Roster Search Fields
The roster search-field inventory is intentionally spare because the official county roster form was not found. Do not assume a last-name search box, booking-number lookup, date filter, profile page, housing field, release date field, or online mugshot field exists for Dillon County jail custody. Those details should be requested from the detention center or through a public-records route when allowed.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last Name | n/a | n/a | Not published for a Dillon County jail roster. |
| First Name | n/a | n/a | No official county roster search form was located. |
| Booking Number | n/a | n/a | Booking-number search was not available on official county pages. |
| Booking Date | n/a | n/a | No daily booking report or recent-bookings page was found. |
| Facility | n/a | n/a | Only Dillon County Detention Center was identified in the facility map. |
Dillon County Inmate Profile Fields
No county jail sample inmate profile could be inspected because Dillon County does not publish an official public roster. The useful approach is to separate likely booking-record fields from fields that are usually not public. A nonexempt booking record may identify the person, the arresting agency, the booking event, the charge, the bond status, the court, and current custody status. Internal housing, classification details, medical screening, and mental-health information are different. They can be withheld for privacy, security, and safety reasons.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Name | The booked legal name or the name used at arrest. |
| Booking date/time | When the jail accepted the person into custody. |
| Arresting agency | Sheriff, City of Dillon Police, SLED, highway patrol, or another agency. |
| Charges | Arrest or booking charges. These may differ from final filed charges. |
| Bond | Whether bond was set, denied, posted, or affected by another hold. |
| Custody status | Current custody, release, transfer, or outside hold if public. |
| Booking photo | Not posted in an official Dillon County online mugshot gallery located in research. |
| Medical or mental-health | Not a public roster field and generally protected. |
Note: A booking charge is an intake record, not a conviction and not always the charge the Solicitor later files in court.
Dillon County Jail Facility Contact
The facility map lists one county detention facility. The Dillon County Detention Center sits on Old Latta Highway, next to the Sheriff's Office and Judicial Center corridor. The official page names Sarah Samuel as Director and lists a detention center email for the director. Public office hours are published for the Sheriff's Office administration, but booking, visitation, bond, property, and records counter rules should be confirmed by phone before travel.
Dillon County Detention Center
1027 Old Latta Highway
Dillon, SC 29536
843-774-1435
Director listed by county: Sarah Samuel, ssamuel@dillonsheriff.org
Dillon County Sheriff's Office
1033 Old Latta Highway, P.O. Box 627
Dillon, SC 29536
843-774-1432
Detention center line in sheriff block: 843-841-3730
Dillon County Booking and Intake
Dillon County does not publish a step-by-step booking page, but the local facility facts and South Carolina process rules give a clear outline. A person arrested in the county may be brought to the Dillon County Detention Center or first processed by the arresting agency. At intake, detention staff receive paperwork, confirm identity, inventory property, perform required searches, begin the booking record, and place the person into classification. The county page states that the detention mission includes proper classification, supervision, humane treatment, security, sanitation, and medical and mental-health services for those in need.
- Booking
- The jail intake event after arrest or court commitment.
- Classification
- The jail process for assigning custody level and housing based on safety and facility needs.
- First appearance
- An early court appearance where rights, charges, and bond may be addressed.
- Detainer
- A hold from another agency that may prevent release after local bond is posted.
South Carolina law gives magistrates a central role in early bond decisions. Under S.C. Code 22-5-510, a person charged with a bailable offense must have a bond hearing within 24 hours of arrest. The same statute addresses release after bond is delivered to the incarcerating facility.
Dillon County Visitation Rules
The official Dillon County detention page does not publish visitation schedules, remote-video vendor details, visitor approval rules, dress code, child visitor rules, visit length, attorney visit rules, or holiday changes. That absence should be stated plainly. Do not rely on another county's schedule, because jail visitation rules are facility-specific and can change with staffing, classification, lockdowns, and court orders.
| Topic | Dillon County Detention Center Status |
|---|---|
| In-person visitation schedule | Not published on the official county page. Call 843-774-1435 or 843-841-3730. |
| Visitor ID | Not published. Confirm before arrival. |
| Dress code | Not published. Confirm before arrival. |
| Child visitors | Not published. Confirm before arrival. |
| Attorney visits | Not published. Attorneys should contact the facility or court directly. |
| Remote video | No official vendor located. |
| Lockdown or holiday changes | Not published. Call before visiting. |
Dillon County Mail and Money
Local inmate mail, phone, video, commissary, and money-deposit rules were not published in the official Dillon County detention sources located. That means users should not assume a vendor, deposit fee, online money portal, book vendor, photo rule, tablet system, email service, or required mailing-address format. The detention center address can be used as a contact point, but an inmate-mail format should be confirmed before sending anything.
| Service | Published Local Detail |
|---|---|
| Inmate mailing format | Not published. Do not assume booking-number format. |
| Money deposits | No official online deposit vendor located. |
| Commissary | No official commissary vendor or fee table located. |
| Phone calls | No official phone vendor or rate sheet located. |
| Books, cards, photos | Not published. Confirm directly with the detention center. |
Note: Confirm custody and facility rules before sending money, mail, books, photos, or property to Dillon County Detention Center.
Dillon County Court and Prison Search
The Dillon County Public Index is the court-record route after arrest. It can show defendant names, case numbers, court, filing date, case type, charge descriptions, hearing dates, and dispositions depending on the record. The Public Index screenshot below shows the court-search channel that complements jail custody checks. It is not a current jail roster.
Use SCDC for sentenced state-prison custody. Use VINELink for custody notifications where available. Use BOP for federal sentenced inmates and ICE ODLS for immigration detention. None of these systems replaces the detention center for a recent local booking.
Dillon County Records Requests
South Carolina FOIA is the formal path for nonexempt public records that are not posted online. The research did not locate a Dillon County Sheriff's Office booking-record request form, so start by calling the Sheriff's Office main number or detention center and asking how to submit a FOIA request for booking records, incident reports, jail logs, or booking photographs. Be specific. Ask for the record type, date range, name, arresting agency, and case or booking identifiers if known.
S.C. Code 30-4-30 covers public-record inspection and copying rights, while S.C. Code 30-4-40 lists exemptions. Juvenile records, sealed records, medical details, active investigative details, security information, and expunged records may be withheld or redacted. A denied or redacted request does not mean the record never existed. It may mean the record is not public in that form.
Use the Silent Witness form only for crime tips. The Sheriff's Office page links Silent Witness forms in English and Spanish, but the research identifies those forms as anonymous crime-information tools, not records-request forms. A Dillon County inmate record request should go through the Sheriff's Office, detention center, court office, or FOIA process that owns the record. That distinction prevents a custody or booking-photo question from being sent through a tip channel that was not built for public-record access. It also keeps urgent jail questions with staff who can answer custody, bond, transfer, and release-status issues.