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Jackson County Correctional Facility Overview

The Jackson County Correctional Facility is the county detention center for Jackson County, Florida, and it sits at 2737 Penn Avenue in Marianna. It is run as a county jail, not a state prison. That means it holds local people who were arrested in the county and are waiting on booking, first appearance, trial, a bond decision, a transfer, or a short county sentence. Both men and women may be held here. It is pre-trial and county-sentence custody, so the people inside have not all been convicted. Many are simply waiting for a court date.

The county lists a holding capacity of 327 inmates for the facility. Staffing runs to about 43 full-time certified correctional officers, along with medical, maintenance, food service, and administrative staff. The county does not publish pod names, a housing map, or public classification levels for the building. Classification does exist as a job here, and there is a phone extension for it, but the exact housing units are not posted. The county page is the source for the capacity figure and the staffing breakdown.

The official county page for this jail carries the capacity, the history, the contact numbers, and the inmate-service rules. You can review the source at the Jackson County correctional facility page, which is also the basis for the screenshot below.

That page is where the county explains capacity, visitation, money, phone, and medication rules in one place. It is the most reliable starting point when you need a current fact about how this Jackson County jail operates.

Jackson County Correctional Facility Capacity and Population

The Jackson County Correctional Facility has a rated capacity of 327 inmates, a figure the county publishes on its official correctional facility page. The day-to-day count is smaller. The Florida Department of Corrections tracks county jail numbers each month in its county detention report. For February 2024, that report put the Jackson County jail average daily population at 208. At that level the jail was running near two-thirds of its stated capacity for the month. The state did not flag any overcrowding order or capacity emergency for the county.

The 208 figure comes from the FDC county detention report for February 2024. The count moves month to month. The same FDC series showed an average daily population of 212 in September 2023 and 207 in December 2023, so the jail tends to hold a couple hundred people at a time. These are county jail numbers only. The much larger incarcerated population physically inside Jackson County sits in state and federal prisons, which are counted separately and looked up through different systems.

Note: The 327 capacity and 208 average daily population are different kinds of figures, so the jail can sit well below capacity on a typical day.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Jackson County Correctional Facility

There is no verified public online roster for the Jackson County jail. The county correctional facility page, the clerk, the Florida Department of State jail directory, and FDLE were all checked, and none expose a searchable roster, a current-inmate list, or a booking gallery for this county. So the practical lookup leads with the phone and a public-records request, not a web form. The main line is (850) 482-9651. For a new arrest, ask for Booking at extension 218. For a housing or status question after booking, ask for Classification at extension 228. The front desk and admin line is extension 210.

Because booking charges can differ from later court charges, the court record is a second track. Once a case is filed, the Jackson County Clerk court search shows the formal charges and hearings. For people who have left the county jail, custody may have shifted to a state prison or a federal lockup, and those each have their own locator. Walk the chain in order and you will usually land on the right system.

1. Confirm the person was arrested in Jackson County, Florida, and not in another Jackson County or in Jacksonville and Duval County.
2. Call the Jackson County Correctional Facility at (850) 482-9651 and ask for Booking at extension 218 for a recent arrest or transport.
3. Give the person's full legal name, an approximate date of birth or age if you have it, and the arresting agency if you know it.
4. If the person is not found, ask whether they may still be in transport or intake, were released, were transferred, or are held at another custody level.
5. For a sentenced state prisoner, search the Florida Department of Corrections offender search; for a federal inmate, use the BOP Inmate Locator; for immigration custody, use the ICE Online Detainee Locator.
6. Register with VINELink for custody and release alerts, and file a Jackson County public-records request if a call does not give you enough detail.

Jackson County Correctional Facility Address and Contact

The jail sits on Penn Avenue in Marianna, which is a separate location from the county administration building and from the clerk and courthouse area. For jail and booking questions, you want the correctional facility number, not the sheriff's administrative line. The county also publishes direct extensions, which act as your fallback when no roster can be confirmed. The booking, classification, medical, and commissary desks all have their own extension.

The county lists more extensions on the same facility page. Kitchen is extension 217, Medical is extension 220, the Officer in Charge is extension 223, and Commissary is extension 226. For nonexempt booking records that you cannot get by phone, the Jackson County public-records process is the formal route, run through the Board of County Commissioners at 2864 Madison Street in Marianna.

Visiting Someone at Jackson County Correctional Facility

There is no in-person visitation at the Jackson County Correctional Facility. The county handles visits and contact through video and phone instead. Every inmate is given one free video visit and two free phone calls each week, unless that person is on some kind of restriction. Video visits run through JailATM.com, and the inmate phone service is IC Solutions. Because this is contact by channel rather than by day, the table below lists the channel and the detail rather than a day-by-day in-person schedule.

Attorney visit details are not laid out on the county page, so a lawyer or family member should call the facility before arriving. Since the jail does not allow in-person visits, most trips to Penn Avenue are for money deposits, approved property drop-off, medication intake during the first days of custody, or a notary signature.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Jackson County Correctional Facility

Routine inmate mail does not go to the Penn Avenue street address. The county routes inmate mail to a processing box in Jonesboro, Arkansas, and every envelope needs the inmate's name and inmate ID on it. Money goes on an account through a lobby kiosk or through Access Corrections. Families can load up to $300 a day on an account. The commissary cart has its own limits, and funds have to be in by a set Monday deadline to count for the following week.

Inmates can buy books, games, movies, and music from tablets, and the county says more than 300 versions of bibles from many religions, along with other religious materials, are free on the tablets. Keep the Jonesboro, Arkansas box in mind, since sending regular mail to the street address can slow it down or cause it to be returned.

Booking and Intake at Jackson County Correctional Facility

After an arrest in Jackson County, the person is usually taken to the Penn Avenue jail for local booking, unless another custody authority applies. Booking is the intake step that turns an arrest into a jail record. The county does not publish a step-by-step booking manual, but the normal process includes identity confirmation, a property inventory, medical screening, fingerprints, a booking photograph, charge entry, and a classification decision about housing. Booking questions go to the main number at extension 218.

Medication is handled tightly at intake. The jail accepts medication only in the first 72 hours, only in the original unexpired bottle, and only with medical-department approval and staff present. Medical staff are on duty seven days a week from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM. Property drop-off is narrow too. The jail will take one pair of non-steel-toe work boots for trustees and one pair of eyeglasses, but only after the inmate requests it and the Operations Captain or a designee approves. Approved items can be brought in Monday through Friday from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM.

The booking charge is not always the final court charge. A prosecutor can file a different charge, drop one, reduce it, or add one. To follow the formal case, use the Jackson County Clerk court search after a case is filed, and read the Jackson County jail inmate records page for the full lookup chain and what a booking record can show.

About Jackson County Correctional Facility

The current Penn Avenue building opened in the summer of 1992, when inmates moved out of the old jail behind the Jackson County Courthouse. That history matters for older records. Paper or archived files may name the courthouse-area jail, while all current custody, visitation, money, phone, and mail steps run through the Penn Avenue facility. The jail operates under Florida's county detention rules, which require county jails to follow at least the Florida Model Jail Standards.

This jail is the local layer of a much larger custody picture in Jackson County. Several Florida prisons sit inside the county, and those are not searched here. Once a person is convicted and sentenced to state prison, they leave this county jail and become a state inmate. At that point the lookup moves to the Florida Department of Corrections, and the person may end up at a nearby state facility such as Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone. The county court case still stays with the Jackson County Clerk, but custody status follows the inmate to the state system. For the broader county picture, the Jackson County inmate population hub ties the local jail to those state and federal facilities.