Look Up Inmates at the Washington County Jail

Washington County Jail Overview

The Washington County Jail sits at 1100 Brickyard Road in Chipley and is operated by the Washington County Sheriff's Office. It holds local detainees and people booked into county custody, mostly those awaiting a first appearance or later court dates, plus some serving short county sentences. Public custody records for the jail are published through the sheriff's online roster, built on an OCV and VINE integration. On the roster, the jail carries the holding-facility code FLWASHINGTONJA.

The sheriff has not published the year the jail was built, its current rated capacity, intake hours, or housing layout on the pages reviewed for this site, so those details are left out rather than guessed. What is documented is the public face of the jail: the current roster, the booking photo and demographic fields, the visitation schedule, and the records channels. The lead-in image below shows the sheriff's jail-location page. Reviewing the WCSO jail location page shows the official jail address and contact detail.

That page is the source for the jail address and phone used throughout this site.

Washington County Jail Capacity and Population

The sheriff has not posted a current rated capacity for the jail. The only capacity figure on record is a historical one from the Vera Institute, which lists a rated-capacity field of about 186 for 2019, drawn from federal jail data rather than a current county document. The live roster carried 99 people on June 3, 2026, and Vera's county dataset puts the 2026 jail population near 106. Read the stat block below with those sources in mind.

The 99-person count is a single day's snapshot, not an average daily population, so it should not be read as a year-round figure. The Vera capacity mark is a historical estimate, not a fresh sheriff-published number, so this page does not draw a crowding conclusion from it.

How to Look Up an Inmate at the Washington County Jail

Use the sheriff's inmate roster. It is free, needs no login, and a last name is enough to begin. The roster lists current jail inmates on cards with a photo and a Read More link to the full profile. People sentenced to state prison will not appear here, since they move to the Florida DOC locator. The steps below run through a single jail lookup.

1. Open the roster at wcso.us/inmateRoster.
2. Type the person's last name into the Type to Search field.
3. Confirm the holding facility reads as the Washington County Jail.
4. Open the profile with Read More for charges, bond, booked date, and custody status.

For a full walkthrough of the roster fields and what a profile shows, see the jail inmate records page. Each roster card also carries a VINELink link to sign up for a custody-status alert.

Washington County Jail Address and Contact

The jail and the sheriff's records division are the two offices most visitors need. The jail handles custody and bond status by phone, and the records division handles older booking records and public-records requests.

Visiting Someone at the Washington County Jail

The jail runs visitation on a pod and cell schedule rather than a broad weekday plan. Each pod gets its own block, split by cell numbers, and Monday and Wednesday are recreation days with no listed visits. Friday covers holding, detox and medical cells, and protective custody. The lead-in image below shows the source. Reviewing the WCSO visitation rules page shows the full pod and cell schedule.

Times are in 24-hour format. Pod assignments can change, so confirm a specific time with the jail before traveling.

Mail, Phone, and Money at the Washington County Jail

The sheriff has not posted mail rules, a commissary vendor, a money-deposit service, or a phone provider on the pages reviewed for this site. Because none of that is published, this page names no vendor and quotes no deposit fee. The reliable step is to call the jail at 850-638-6110 and ask how mail, deposits, and inmate calls are handled before sending anything. Confirm the person is still in custody first, since release can drop them off the roster the same day.

Booking and Intake at the Washington County Jail

After a local arrest, a person is taken to the jail for booking. The sheriff has not published a step-by-step intake narrative, but the roster fields show what booking produces: an inmate ID, a booked date and time, a custody status, the holding-facility code, demographic fields, a mugshot, and charge and bond entries. The booking record appears on the public roster after processing, though no refresh interval is stated.

If the person is not released, the case generally moves to a first appearance within 24 hours under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.130. The charges shown at booking come from the arrest and can differ from the charges the State Attorney later files, a difference covered on the court records after a jail arrest page.

Records and Public Information at the Washington County Jail

Anything that has rolled off the live roster, or any booking record that was never posted online, runs through the sheriff's records division under Florida's Chapter 119 public-records law. The custodian is Terisa Hayes. Requests go in by phone at 850-638-6070, by email to records@wcso.us, by mail to 711 Third Street in Chipley, through the online records form, or in person at the records lobby. The office reviews each request, gives a fee estimate, and collects payment before release.

The common charges are modest. Case-report copies run $0.15 per page, certified copies are $1.00 each, and clerical research beyond fifteen minutes is billed at $20.00 for the first hour and $5.00 per quarter hour after that. A local background check is $10.00 per person plus $1.00 for each added name. The sheriff's office can help with local arrest history, but a case disposition is kept by the Clerk of Court, so an outcome question goes there.

About the Washington County Jail

The jail is part of a compact custody map in Chipley, the county seat. The sheriff's headquarters sits at 711 Third Street, the jail at 1100 Brickyard Road, and the courthouse complex with the Clerk and the State Attorney is on Jackson Avenue. Two Florida DOC prisons, the Northwest Florida Reception Center and its Annex, also stand in the county, but they are state facilities and are not part of the county jail. No jail-conditions lawsuit, consent decree, or new-construction plan turned up in the official sources reviewed for this site.

One feature stands out about how the jail reports its inmates. The roster is tightly linked to VINELink, so every card carries a Notify Me of Status Change option, and the public record shows booking timestamps and a mugshot but not a plain-English housing unit or a court date. The visitation schedule, by contrast, is unusually granular, naming individual pods and cell-number groups rather than a simple weekday split. That mix of a thin custody record and a detailed visitation plan is a quirk worth knowing before you rely on either one.

The sheriff also offers a mobile app, the Washington County FL Sheriff app, on the Apple and Google stores. It surfaces the same roster, wanted, and records tools as the website, so it is a convenient second way to check the jail population from a phone.