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Colquitt County Jail Overview

The Georgia Department of Corrections location profile for Colquitt County Jail lists the jail as a county jail in Moultrie with the same primary phone used by the sheriff's office. The Colquitt County Sheriff's Office operates the jail under Sheriff Rod Howell. This is the public-facing detention point for Colquitt County arrests, not the same custody track as the Colquitt County Correctional Institution, which is a county correctional institution under Georgia Department of Corrections supervision.

Official sources use two address labels for the sheriff and jail campus: the GDC profile gives 200 S Vandenberg Drive, while the county sheriff page posts the sheriff campus on Veterans Parkway. Treat both as references to the same general Moultrie law-enforcement complex and call before driving to confirm the public entrance. The jail handles local custody after arrests by the sheriff, Moultrie Police, Doerun Police, and other agencies when detention is required. For a recent booking, the jail phone is the best starting point because no official public roster, recent booking page, or mugshot gallery was located on the county site.

The official GDC profile is a useful way to verify the jail's listed address and phone. The profile is shown in the research screenshot below.

The image supports the basic facility identity, but it does not create a live county jail roster. Current custody still must be confirmed through the jail or a lawful records request.

Colquitt County Jail Capacity

Colquitt County's 2024 jail feasibility study described the jail as a three-pod facility with 200 beds before the superpod construction project. The same study compared Colquitt County with Glynn, Lowndes, Thomas, and Tift counties and found that Colquitt had one jail bed per 230.84 residents. The study concluded that the existing facility was short of the demand shown by county population and peer-county comparisons.

The population picture changes by source and date. The feasibility study used 200 beds for the pre-construction jail. A Georgia Sheriffs' Association indexed April 2026 report snippet showed 255 jail inmates and 210 capacity, which placed the jail at 121.4 percent of capacity in that report. The same research notes that a rendered May 2026 jail-report page had the Colquitt row blank, so the April 2026 figures should be cited by date and not treated as a live daily count.

Look Up Colquitt County Jail Inmates

Colquitt County does not appear to publish an official public online jail roster on the sheriff or county website. The access path for current county jail custody is therefore different from counties with a public current-inmate search form. Start with the jail phone and ask whether the person is in custody, bonded out, transferred, held for another agency, or moved into state custody. A missing Georgia Department of Corrections result does not prove the person is not in the jail, because GDC is not a live county pretrial roster.

1. Call Colquitt County Jail at 229-616-7430 with the person's full legal name, date of birth if known, and approximate arrest date.
2. Ask whether the person is currently held at Colquitt County Jail, has bonded out, or was transferred to GDC, another county, federal custody, or ICE custody.
3. If the person is state-sentenced or under Georgia corrections supervision, search GDC Find an Offender by name, GDC ID, conviction county, or most recent institution.
4. For a booking record, jail commitment, discharge record, or releasable booking photo not provided by phone, submit a Georgia Open Records Act request to the sheriff's office.

Colquitt County Jail Contact

The jail contact card should be used for custody questions, jail service routing, and entrance confirmation. Because posted sources use both Vandenberg Drive and Veterans Parkway for the complex, visitors should confirm which entrance is open for the specific task. No official lobby hours were found in the county material reviewed.

Colquitt County Jail Visitation

The sheriff page links phone and video visitation to Pay Tel, and Pay Tel describes InteleVISIT as a secure two-way onsite or remote video visitation service controlled by the correctional facility. The research did not locate an official Colquitt County Jail schedule, visit length, dress code, lobby rule, or visitor approval process. That means the schedule must be confirmed with the jail or through the Pay Tel facility account flow before a visit is planned.

Pay Tel terms state that visitors must create an account, adults must provide valid government photo ID, children must be with a registered parent or guardian, and sessions may be monitored or recorded unless a privileged process is approved by the facility. Those are vendor platform rules, not a complete local jail policy. Local jail staff can deny, change, or cancel visits.

Colquitt County Jail Services

Colquitt County Sheriff's Office links separate vendors for money, messaging, and phone or video service. Commissary Deposit is the money and commissary order path. Inmate Inbox is the messaging path, and the research captured posted pricing of 25 cents per text message and 50 cents per picture message. Pay Tel handles phone accounts and video visitation. These vendors require the correct facility and inmate information, so a user may need to call the jail first when no public roster supplies a booking number or inmate ID.

Colquitt County Jail Booking

Booking at Colquitt County Jail begins after an arresting agency brings a person into county custody. The jail can confirm whether a person is still held, released on bond, moved to court, transferred, or subject to a hold. Under Georgia jail-record law, jailers keep identifying and custody records for people committed to jail, but the county did not publish an online sample inmate profile or roster fields during research.

After booking, the legal path can split. Magistrate Court handles bail, pre-warrant hearings, arrest warrants, and search warrants. Filed criminal cases are tracked through the clerk and prosecutor once charges move into court records. People searching for custody should start with Colquitt County jail inmate records, while formal charges after booking belong in the court-record path. A person sentenced into state custody may later appear in GDC rather than the county jail's local records process.

Colquitt County Jail Conditions

The 2024 jail feasibility study is the main official source for jail building conditions. It described moisture, mold, mildew, air-quality issues, inadequate classification separation, obsolete hardware, outdated locking controls, smoke-control gaps, deficient daylight, HVAC and fresh-air problems, uncontained fire-door exits, lack of cell-call provisions, and accessibility issues. The same study tied the superpod plan to American Correctional Association standards, Georgia adult detention standards, fire and life-safety codes, and accessibility standards.

The county selected the existing site because the land was already owned by the county, the location was accessible from across Colquitt County, a remote site would make transport less efficient, and the sheriff's office could use existing infrastructure during construction. The study expected Pods One, Two, and Three to continue housing detainees during construction, then Pods Two and Three would be demolished while Pod One remained.