Blount County Detention Center Inmate Search

Blount County Detention Center Overview

The Blount County Detention Center is operated by the Blount County Sheriff's Office. The official county facility directory lists the jail at 225 Industrial Park Road in Oneonta, and the sheriff's public roster identifies the jail as the Blount County Detention Center. It is the local county detention facility for current inmates, municipal arrestees transferred from local police agencies, pretrial detainees, sentenced misdemeanants, people held for another agency, and inmates waiting on court, bond, release, transfer, or Alabama Department of Corrections pickup.

The research did not locate an official housing-pod layout, medical-unit description, work-release annex, visitor lobby schedule, or classification chart for this jail. The sourced building and capacity facts come from the Alabama Sheriffs Association Jail Admin spreadsheet dated 9-22-2025, which lists Blount County's jail date as 1995, renovation as 2019, 175 beds, and 175 jail capacity. The same spreadsheet identifies Ron Adkins as jail administrator and gives radkins@blountcountyal.gov as the administrator email.

The county jail directory page is the most direct county source for the jail address and phone. The screenshot below shows that official facility-directory entry, which matches the jail address and phone used throughout this page.

Blount County Detention Center Capacity and Population

The Alabama Sheriffs Association Jail Admin spreadsheet dated 9-22-2025 lists both the Blount County jail beds and jail capacity as 175. The sheriff roster captured during research on May 27, 2026 displayed 175 current inmates, but that roster count is a live custody figure, not an official average daily population or a promise that the jail always holds that number. No official county jail demographic report, average daily population report, male and female split, or pretrial and sentenced split was located in the sheriff or county sources reviewed.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Blount County Detention Center

Use the sheriff's Blount County Detention Center Inmate Roster for people currently held in the county jail or released from the detention center within the last 48 hours. The roster chooser has separate paths for Current Inmates and 48 Hour Release. The current roster is free, does not require a login, and supports browsing by name, booking date, current status, released status, alphabet filters, and a first-or-last-name search box.

1. Open the official roster chooser and select Current Inmates for present custody or 48 Hour Release for recent releases.
2. Use the Search By Name field with a first name or last name, or browse the A-Z filters and name/date sort options.
3. Review the result card for name, mugshot thumbnail, booking number, booking date, and listed charges.
4. Open the profile link for more fields, then call 205-625-4133 before relying on bail amounts, charges, or case numbers.

If the person does not appear on the county roster, check spelling, try last-name-only searching, and review the 48-hour release option. A sentenced state prisoner from Blount County is searched through the Alabama Department of Corrections inmate search, not the county jail roster. Federal inmates are searched through the Federal Bureau of Prisons locator after BOP commitment, and immigration custody is searched through the ICE detainee locator.

The official roster chooser shows the two public jail roster paths and the sheriff's disclaimer. Use that disclaimer carefully because the detention center states that roster information is provided for convenience and that it cannot certify accuracy or authenticity.

Blount County Detention Center Address and Contact

For detention-specific questions, start with the jail phone. The county facility directory gives the direct jail number as 205-625-4133, while sheriff pages list the main sheriff phone as 205-625-4127 and label that line as available 24 hours. The sheriff administrative office hours are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call before traveling for bond, property, visitation, mail, or inmate-account questions because public lobby rules and visitor entry details were not published in the official sources reviewed.

Visiting Someone at Blount County Detention Center

Official Blount-specific visitation details were not published in the sheriff and county sources reviewed. The research did not locate a current in-person schedule, video visitation vendor, visitor ID rule, dress code, child visitor rule, attorney visit policy, holiday rule, lockdown rule, or visitor-property instruction. Do not assume courthouse access rules apply to the jail because the courthouse and jail are separate destinations in Oneonta. Call 205-625-4133 before making travel plans.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Blount County Detention Center

The official research found a local Blount County statute, Code of Alabama § 45-5-231, authorizing the sheriff to operate a jail commissary and contract telephones for inmates in the county jail. That statute supports the existence of commissary and inmate telephone authority, but it does not publish a vendor, fee schedule, order day, deposit method, mail scanning rule, package rule, book rule, or inmate name and booking-number mail format. Use the inmate's full legal name and booking number when asking staff about mail, phone, commissary, property, or visitation. Do not send cash, packages, books, or prohibited items unless jail staff confirms the current rule.

Booking and Intake at Blount County Detention Center

The public roster shows that Blount County and municipal agencies can book people into the county detention center. Research examples included profiles with arresting agency entries such as Blount County and Oneonta Municipal, and roster entries also included holds for another agency. Public profile fields can include mugshot, booking number, age, gender, race, city and state address, arresting agency, booking date and time, listed charges, and bond or charge warnings.

Medical screening, property handling, classification process, first phone access, housing assignment, and exact timing for roster publication were not published in the official Blount County sources reviewed. The safest wording is that the public roster generally reflects the booking after staff enter it. For a recent arrest that does not appear online, call the detention center, check the 48-hour release list, and then use court or state/federal locators if the person has moved out of county jail custody.

About Blount County Detention Center

The detention center is part of the Blount County Sheriff's Office campus on Industrial Park Road. Sheriff Mark Moon is identified in official sheriff and Alabama Sheriffs Association sources, and the Alabama Sheriffs Association spreadsheet lists Ron Adkins as jail administrator. The sheriff site provides the local public-safety channels connected to custody work, including inmate roster access, most wanted information, press releases, registered or sex offender information, alerts, crime tips, and contact options. The Blount County Sheriff's Office mobile app listings also advertise inmate information, but the research did not prove that the app provides fields beyond the public website roster.

Recent public accountability material included an ALEA release about a 2026 in-custody death investigation involving the Blount County Detention Center. That source confirms state-level review activity after the detention center contacted medical personnel, but it should not be read as a finding about facility operations. No official accreditation page, program list, housing unit description, or condition report was located for this county jail in the sources reviewed.