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Greenville Detention Overview

The Greenville County Detention Center, also called the Adult Detention Center, is a county jail operated through Greenville County Department of Public Safety detention operations. It serves the Greenville County jail population, not the South Carolina state-prison population. People held here include adult pretrial detainees, local sentenced offenders, arrestees waiting on bond or first appearance, people held pending transfer, and inmates who need medical or mental-health housing inside the jail system.

The detention campus uses 20 McGee Street, Greenville, SC 29601 for jail, legal-mail, money-order, lobby, and detention contact purposes. The connected sheriff, law-enforcement, and public-records campus also uses 4 McGee Street, Greenville, SC 29601. That distinction matters. A family visit, legal mail, or inmate account issue may point to the detention address, while a public-records request may point to the Law Enforcement Center.

The county says the adult facility is made up of Buildings One, Two, and Four. The structure is local and specific: Building Two is the older McGee Street jail, Building One includes intake, release, medical, and administrative areas, and Building Four adds housing and support space.

The county adult facility page shows the Greenville County Detention Center building layout and capacity history.

That building page is the best official source for understanding why the jail is described as one detention center with several adult buildings.

Greenville Detention Capacity

Greenville County publishes an official adult rated capacity of 1,277 for the detention center. Building Two has a rated capacity of 511 after renovations and is used primarily for housing. Building One has a rated capacity of 318 and includes intake and release, medical space, administrative offices, and housing for inmates with medical or mental-health needs. Building Four has a rated capacity of 448 and is mainly housing and support services.

A current daily jail population, average daily population, annual booking total, or demographic breakdown was not located in the official source set reviewed for this build. The public inmate search may show current names, but a roster count should not be treated as an official population statistic unless the county publishes it as such. The sourced numbers here are capacity figures, not a live head count.

Greenville Jail Roster Lookup

Current Greenville County jail custody is searched through the official Greenville County Inmate Search. Use that county roster for people who may be in the Detention Center after a local arrest. Do not use it for a sentenced state prisoner who has moved to the South Carolina Department of Corrections. For a person who may have left county custody after sentencing, the state locator is the better path.

The online roster could not be fully inspected in the terminal because the portal was protected from automated access. The research still confirms two useful county rules. Bond amounts are listed by individual charge in the inmate search, and housing or release-date information must be obtained by calling or visiting the Detention Center. A temporary bond means the person has not appeared before a judge for arraignment and no bond has been set.

1. Open the county inmate search and start with the broadest name spelling that is likely to match the booking record.
2. Review any charge and bond rows carefully because Greenville County says bond is listed by individual charge.
3. If housing, release timing, or a recent booking is unclear, call the Detention Center at 864-467-2330 or visit the appropriate McGee Street lobby.
4. If the person has been sentenced to state prison, search the South Carolina Department of Corrections locator instead of the county jail roster.

Greenville Detention Contact

Use the main detention number for jail information, medical concern routing, and questions that the online roster does not answer. Professional visitors have a separate scheduling number, and non-business-hours professional visit requests have their own line. Public records may route through the Sheriff's Office Public Records Center or the Public Safety records office at the Law Enforcement Center.

Greenville Inmate Visitation

The Detention Center visitation page says family visitation is available seven days per week. Inmates may receive two 30-minute visits per week. Up to three adults may be on the inmate visitor list, and the inmate may update that list once every 30 days. A visit may include one adult and two minor children. Visitors must present picture identification that matches the list, surrender it for a visitor badge during the visit, and follow conservative clothing rules.

Building Four has a specific local rule that prevents wrong-lobby trips. Building Four visitors report to the Building Two public lobby, where the Building Four Video Visitation Office operates from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. with the last visit accepted at 5:30 p.m. Professional visits generally run Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with interruptions for meal periods and headcounts.

The county visitation screenshot shows the public rules and schedule links that visitors should check before travel.

That source is especially important for dress rules, visitor-list limits, and professional access restrictions during meals and headcounts.

Greenville Mail And Money

Greenville County uses different addresses for different jail services. Personal mail goes to the Securus Digital Mail Center-Greenville, where it is scanned and made available through inmate kiosks. Legal mail, publications, bank statements from financial institutions, and money orders go to the detention center on McGee Street. Postal photos are not accepted. Paperback books, magazines, and newspapers must come from a publisher, clearinghouse, or distributor, and hardcovers are not allowed.

Money deposits can be made at lobby kiosks in Buildings One and Two. Those kiosks are available 24/7 and accept cash or debit and credit cards. Card deposits have a $100 maximum and are limited to one transaction every 48 hours. Online deposits and family packages use JailPackStore. Commissary orders are placed twice weekly with a $100 order cap. Barber services have published charges: $15 for a haircut, $10 for a shave or beard service, $12.50 for an indigent haircut, and $7.50 for an indigent beard removal.

Greenville Phone And Health

Securus Technologies provides the jail phone service. General population phone access is 7:30 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. daily, subject to meals, counts, emergencies, and facility operations. Calls may be monitored or recorded, with attorney confidentiality handled through the jail's confidential-call process. The Detention Center does not accept incoming inmate calls or deliver routine non-emergency messages.

The Health Services Division screens people on arrival through booking staff, medical staff, and jail psychological services. Family members can fax the inmate medical or mental-health information form to 864-467-2386, drop it in the main lobby, or call 864-467-2330 and ask to leave a Phone-In-Concern for medical or psychological staff. HIPAA limits what staff can disclose, but the jail can receive medication, diagnosis, and risk information from family.

Greenville Booking Intake

Booking at Greenville County Detention Center begins when a local law-enforcement agency brings an adult arrestee into county custody. Building One is the key facility area for intake and release, and the county health page confirms screening for health concerns upon arrival. A new jail record may appear in the county inmate search after intake has moved far enough for public posting. The record can lag behind a recent arrest, and the first bond status may be temporary if no judge-set bond exists yet.

Classification is the jail process that assigns housing based on security, health, separation, and operational needs. Greenville County says detainees are classified and supervised. The online roster is not the final source for housing, and the county directs housing questions to phone or in-person contact. After court action, a person may be released, remain on local charges, be held for another agency, or transfer to state prison. Once that transfer occurs, the county jail roster may stop being the right lookup path. The Perry Correctional Institution page explains the state-prison side of that path.

Greenville Detention Records

When the online jail roster does not supply a record, use the county's records channels instead of guessing from an old screenshot or third-party site. The Sheriff's Office Public Records Center handles requests through GovQA, and Greenville County Public Safety also identifies the Public Records Office at the Law Enforcement Center on 4 McGee Street. South Carolina FOIA controls access to public records, but exemptions, redaction, fees, and advance payment may apply.

For custody status, start with the jail roster. For formal court charges after arrest, use the Greenville County Public Index and the court system. For sentenced state-prison custody, use SCDC. For victim notification, VINELink may help with custody or release alerts where Greenville County or South Carolina coverage is available. These channels overlap, but they do not replace each other.