Bamberg County Detention Center Inmate Lookup

Bamberg County Detention Center Overview

The Bamberg County Detention Center is the primary local detention facility identified in official county sources. The county page places it at 444 Second Street in Bamberg and lists a mailing address at P.O. Box 928, Bamberg, South Carolina 29003. The published phone number is (803) 245-3020 and the fax number is (803) 245-3012. The county staff directory identifies Moses Cheatham, Captain, as the detention center contact.

Official sources describe the facility as serving the local criminal justice system and housing adult male and female offenders only. The research did not locate an official county page with a rated bed capacity, housing-unit map, security-level classification, construction history, booking-desk hours, public-lobby hours, parking rules, transit route, accreditation statement, or live population dashboard. Those missing items should be treated as gaps in the published record, not as invitations to estimate.

The county detention page is the best starting source for facility identity and contact details. Source: Bamberg County Detention Center.

The official facility page supports the core local facts for this page: name, local role, adult male and female population note, address, phone, and fax.

Bamberg County Detention Center Capacity and Population

Official Bamberg County sources did not publish a rated capacity, current population count, average daily population, annual booking total, average length of stay, or capacity-vs-population indicator for the Detention Center. The only population classification located on the county detention page is that the facility houses adult male and female offenders only. No official race, ethnicity, age-band, pretrial, sentenced, mental-health, work-release, federal-hold, ICE-hold, or housing-unit breakdown was found.

For a current headcount or a specific inmate number, call the Detention Center and ask what can be released. For a historical count or record extract, use the sheriff or county FOIA process and request the exact record or report by name, date range, and subject.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Bamberg County Detention Center

No official current-inmate roster was located for Bamberg County. That means there is no county search page where a user can reliably enter a last name and open a live detention profile. The correct local path starts with the Detention Center phone line. If the question is about a booking record, mugshot, incident report, or a record that staff cannot release by phone, use the Bamberg County Sheriff's Office FOIA email at sheriff@bambergcounty.sc.gov. If the request belongs with county administration instead, use the county FOIA request page.

1. Call Bamberg County Detention Center at (803) 245-3020 and ask whether the person is currently held there.
2. Ask what information can be released, including the inmate number if it is needed for commissary or contact setup.
3. If staff cannot provide the record, email sheriff@bambergcounty.sc.gov with a specific request for the booking record, booking photo, or report.
4. Search the Bamberg County Public Index only for court charges and docket events, not as a live jail roster.
5. If the person has been sentenced or transferred, use SCDC, BOP, USMS, or ICE tools based on the new custody system.

Bamberg County Detention Center Address and Contact

The facility's published address and phone line are the primary contact points for current custody, visitor questions, and inmate-number questions. The county does not publish public-counter hours, visitor lobby rules, identification requirements, ADA entrance details, or visitor parking rules on the detention page. Confirm practical arrival details before traveling.

Visiting Someone at Bamberg County Detention Center

The county publishes weekend in-person visitation blocks separated by male and female population. The rules posted by the county require proper attire and prohibit handbags of any type, fire-producing devices, tobacco products, cameras, and cell phones. The posted page does not list visitor approval steps, ID requirements, exact visit length, number of visits per week, child-visitor rules, attorney visit procedures, remote video scheduling, holiday changes, or lockdown exceptions.

The county visitation page is the source for the weekend schedule and prohibited items. Source: Bamberg County Detention Center visitation information.

Because the page does not publish every entry rule, call before arrival if the visit involves children, legal materials, medical needs, accessibility questions, or a long drive to Bamberg.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Bamberg County Detention Center

The county publishes a simple inmate writing address format: Inmate Name, Post Office Box 928, Bamberg, South Carolina 29003. It does not publish detailed mail restrictions, scanned-mail vendor rules, book rules, legal-mail rules, photo limits, greeting-card restrictions, or returned-mail procedures. Use the published format and call the facility before sending anything that might be restricted.

Published fees for SmartDeposit, phone deposits, cash handling, Securus accounts, call rates, tablet services, or video contact were not located on the county page. The key local identifiers are the inmate name, inmate number, Facility Code 99N, and Pay Location Code #5500.

The commissary and contact image comes from the official county page. Source: Bamberg County inmate commissary/contact information.

The image is useful because the deposit codes are easy to mistype and are not interchangeable with another county or state facility.

Booking and Intake at Bamberg County Detention Center

Research did not locate a Bamberg County page describing each step of intake, but the facility is the local detention point for adult male and female offenders. A local arrest can involve transport to the Detention Center, administrative booking, property handling, fingerprints, photo, initial classification, medical or safety screening, and court or bond processing depending on the charge and court path. Those general intake concepts should not be confused with verified Bamberg-specific roster fields, because the county does not publish an online profile sample.

Booking details are not the same as final court records. A booking record documents jail intake and arrest information. Court records in the public index show filed cases, docket activity, court dates, dispositions, and later changes once the court record exists. Prosecutors and courts may amend, reduce, dismiss, or pursue charges that differ from the initial booking description.

Records, Mugshots, and FOIA Requests

For a booking record, incident report, warrant-related record, mugshot, dispatch record, or other sheriff record not available through a public web tool, use the sheriff FOIA route. The sheriff page lists sheriff@bambergcounty.sc.gov as the records-request email. The sheriff-specific fee schedule lists $15.00 per hour for search, retrieval, and redaction, $15.00 per hour for dispatch or 911 call search and retrieval, $5.00 per DVD or CD if transferred, and $0.25 per paper copy. No deposit is required, but the full balance must be paid before release or before notice that no records were found. Payment, if due, should be by cashier's check or money order payable to Bamberg County Sheriff's Office.

The county-wide FOIA process is separate. The county FOIA page says requesters should be specific and submit the form to Thomas M. Thomas, Bamberg County Deputy Administrator, P.O. Box 149, Bamberg, SC 29003. General county FOIA fees use the hourly rate of the lowest-paid employee doing the work, multiplied by actual time by the quarter-hour. Standard 8.5 x 11 copies are $0.25, 8.5 x 14 copies are $0.35, and unusual copies are charged case-by-case to cover actual costs. The county also warns that FOIA information cannot be used for commercial solicitation under South Carolina law.

Court, SCDC, Federal, and ICE Transfer Paths

If a person is no longer in the Bamberg County Detention Center, the next search depends on why custody changed. For filed criminal charges in county court systems, use the Bamberg County Public Index. That tool is for court records and does not prove live jail custody. For sentenced South Carolina prisoners, use the SCDC public inmate search. The SCDC institution list did not identify a state prison physically located in Bamberg County, so state-prison custody is handled through the statewide system.

For federal custody, use the BOP Inmate Locator when a person is in Bureau of Prisons custody. Federal pretrial detainees may be in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service District of South Carolina before they appear in BOP's public locator as a sentenced or designated federal inmate. For immigration custody, use ICE ODLS, which searches by A-Number and country of birth or by biographical information. ICE, BOP, and USMS systems are not county jail rosters and do not operate as Bamberg County booking-photo galleries.

About Bamberg County Detention Center

The detention facility is part of Bamberg County's public-safety structure. Official sources tie local detention, sheriff records, court routing, visitation, inmate mail, commissary, and Securus contact information to separate county pages rather than a single live inmate-search portal. The county also identifies Sheriff Kenny or Kenneth Bamberg as the local sheriff, with a January 7, 2025 county news item confirming his swearing-in and related public-safety promotions. That leadership detail does not change the lookup rule: current custody starts with the Detention Center, and records requests go through the proper sheriff or county FOIA channel.