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Whitfield County Jail Overview

Whitfield County Jail, also described in sources as the WCSO Detention Facility, is operated by the Whitfield County Sheriff's Office. It is a county jail, not a state prison. WCSO places the Detention Facility under Captain Wesley Lynch, while the Georgia Sheriffs' Association 2026 directory identifies Darren J. Pierce as the current sheriff and Captain Wes Lynch as chief jailer. The jail is the local custody facility for arrests made in Dalton and across Whitfield County.

WCSO says the jail houses persons arrested by the Whitfield County Sheriff's Office, Dalton Police Department, Tunnel Hill Police Department, Cohutta Police Department, Varnell Police Department, Georgia State Patrol, GBI, FBI, and occasional federal agencies. That custody mix includes pretrial detainees, local sentenced inmates, warrant and probation-related holds, and temporary outside-agency matters. A person transferred to Georgia DOC custody after sentencing is no longer searched as a current county jail inmate.

Whitfield County Jail Capacity

WCSO describes Whitfield County Jail as a four-story, 146,000 square-foot, 540-bed facility. The same detention page says jail staff serve three meals daily to an average of about 400 inmates. A June 4, 2026 official P2C inmate query returned 428 current inmate records. These figures are useful together, but they are not identical measures. Bed capacity is a facility measure, average meal population is an operational measure, and the P2C total is a point-in-time public roster count.

Lookup Whitfield County Jail Inmates

Use the official Whitfield P2C Inmates Catalog for current county jail custody. The roster accepts name fields, age, charge, arrest date, race, sex, free-text search, and sort controls. P2C is a local jail system, so it should be used before state or federal locators when the person was just arrested in Whitfield County. If the person has already been sentenced to state prison, search GDC instead.

1. Open the P2C Inmates Catalog and search by last name first.
2. Add first name, age, charge, arrest date, race, or sex if the result set is too broad.
3. Review the public fields, including arrest date, booking agency, charges, court date, and bond.
4. Check Recent Arrests, WCSO by phone, court records, GDC, BOP, or ICE if the current jail roster does not locate the person.

Whitfield County Jail Address

The jail and sheriff's office are at the Professional Boulevard public-safety complex. Do not confuse this address with the courthouse cluster downtown on Selvidge Street. Use the jail address for detention questions, custody confirmation, video-visitation logistics, and jail records routes. Use the courthouse address for clerk, Magistrate Court, Superior Court, and District Attorney matters.

The Georgia DOC location page for Whitfield County Jail confirms the same county-jail status, address, and public phone number.

Visit Whitfield County Jail

Visitation is video-based. WCSO states that visitation is conducted by video conference equipment located onsite and at JailATM.com. The inmate handbook says each inmate may have one internal visit per week and may have external visits through kiosks or tablets. Internal visits are 20 minutes and are not held Tuesdays or Fridays. Remote video visits run through the vendor and may involve vendor fees and refund rules.

Visitors age 16 or older must present government-issued photo identification. Contact visits are not allowed. No more than three visitors may attend one session, including infants and children, and visitors under 17 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Dress rules prohibit halter tops, tank tops, strapless dresses, bare-midriff clothing, and suggestive form-fitting clothing.

Mail and Money at Whitfield County Jail

Personal inmate mail is scanned through JailATM at an Atlanta processing address. Legal mail remains separate and should be sent to the facility when properly marked for an attorney-of-record communication. The WCSO mail notice says personal mail sent to the facility after the policy change may be returned or destroyed, so the address format matters.

Whitfield County Jail Commissary

Commissary is subcontracted, and housing units order once per week. Funds must be available by Wednesday morning no later than 6:00 a.m. Orders arrive Thursday, and staff attempt distribution within 24 hours. Food purchases are limited to $45 per week. Indigent packs are available for hygiene and sanitation, but the cost is billed to the inmate. The handbook also states that 25 percent of new deposits may be applied to debt, subject to change.

Booking at Whitfield County Jail

Booking begins after arrest and transport to the jail. The public P2C record can show name, age, race, sex, height, weight, arrest date, booking agency, primary charge, per-charge charge code and description, docket number, bond type, bond status, bond amount, total bond, and court date. Some fields exist in the data model but are hidden from the public view, including date of birth, home address, arresting agency, arrest notes, and release reason or time.

Classification, housing assignment, property storage, and medical screening follow intake. The inmate handbook says personal property is stored until release, and medical requests are made through kiosk or tablet systems. Sick call generally occurs five days a week. Dental services are urgent-care and pain-management only, while medication is dispensed four times daily. The handbook states that inmates are not denied medical care because they lack insurance or money.

Bond and Records Contacts

Bond information appears in P2C as total bond amount and per-charge bond type, status, and amount. Observed bond types included property bond and no bond. WCSO's handbook says inmates held in lieu of bond, by court order, or under a judge's authority must address early release through the courts or the appropriate judge. The jail records and processes bond status, but it does not independently change a court's no-bond order or hold.

For reports not listed online, the P2C FAQ says requesters may identify locations, involved parties, and dates, then mail the request to Whitfield County Sheriff's Office, 805 Professional Blvd, Dalton, GA 30720, Attention: Open Records, or request records in person. Incident reports for involved persons may be requested subject to Georgia Open Records limitations. Numerous reports may trigger a minimum fee of 10 cents per page, and searches longer than 15 minutes may incur added fees.

Directions to Whitfield County Jail

Whitfield County Jail is on Professional Boulevard in Dalton. Visitors coming for jail matters should use that address rather than the courthouse address on Selvidge Street. From I-75, confirm the best exit and surface-street route in a live map before traveling. From downtown Dalton, navigate separately from the courthouse to the jail's public-safety area. Official sources did not publish a visitor parking map, parking fee schedule, public transit route, or detailed ADA entrance map.