Long County Jail Overview
The Long County Jail / Long County Sheriff's Office Jail & Bonding Function is the local custody hub for Long County arrests, but the sheriff's official jail page says the office does not currently operate its own jail facility. The original Long County Jail was in the courthouse and closed after a fire in the early 1980s. That fact controls the whole lookup process. A Long County inmate may be arrested, rostered, bonded, and tracked by the Long County Sheriff's Office while sleeping in a bed at Appling County Jail, Tattnall County Jail, Wayne County Jail, McIntosh County Jail, Ware County Jail, Pierce County Jail, or Screven County Jail.
The Long County Sheriff's Office jail and bonding page explains the no-jail status, the surrounding jail arrangement, holds, bonds, court-date routing, and mail destinations. The practical point is simple: use the Long County roster for the Long County custody record, then use the outside housing jail for visit, mail, phone, commissary, property, and any booking-photo question that depends on the physical facility.
The GDC location listing for Long County Jail still lists a South McDonald Street jail address and phone, but the sheriff's current operational page should control. That source says no active Long County-operated jail exists. The image below is the successful manifest screenshot of the GDC listing, included because it is directly relevant to the address discrepancy.
Use the listing with caution. For current jail operations, the Long County Sheriff's Office page and the Long County roster are the better sources.
Long County Jail Capacity
Long County Jail capacity should not be filled with a guessed bed count. The sheriff reports no active local jail facility, and older Georgia Department of Community Affairs jail-report material listed Long as "LONG NO JAIL" with zero capacity and population values. The Long County inmate population is therefore a roster population, not an on-site jail census. A current roster snapshot can show many booked people, but those people are spread through other county jails.
| Measure | Long County jail record meaning |
|---|---|
| County jail capacity | No active Long County-operated jail capacity published by the sheriff. |
| Roster count | A live custody list for Long County bookings, not a fixed building census. |
| Housing note | The key field that routes mail, visits, and facility questions to the correct outside jail. |
Look Up Long County Inmates
The official Long County current inmate roster is hosted by Synergistic Software and is linked from the sheriff website. It is the first lookup channel for Long County Jail records because it tracks people booked through Long County even when they are housed in another county. The roster can show name, status, sex, height, weight, address when published, arrest date, days in jail, total bond, warrant number, counts, statute, description, misdemeanor or felony marker, court field, and a housing note.
- Open the Long County current-inmates roster and search by name, or browse if the name spelling is uncertain.
- Check the Status field first. Current entries and recent released entries can appear on different roster tabs.
- Read the Total Bond line, but treat it as a roster value, not as the final court order.
- Review the charge table for warrant number, statute, charge description, and court field.
- Find the bold "HOUSED IN" note before calling, mailing, visiting, or sending money.
The arrest-date page is useful when a person is no longer current but was recently booked. The 24-hour arrests page can show both currently booked and released people. If a person has been sentenced to state prison, switch to the GDC offender locator rather than continuing to search only the Long County jail roster.
Long County Jail Contact
For Long County holds, bond processing, roster questions, sheriff records, and administrative routing, start with the Long County Sheriff's Office in Ludowici. Do not assume the outside housing jail can clear a Long County hold or answer a Long County court-date question. Long County's own jail page says holds placed on people booked by Long County must be processed through the sheriff's office, not through the facility where the person is housed.
Long County Sheriff's Office
6 East Academy Street
P.O. Box 368
Ludowici, GA 31316
(912) 545-2118
Administrative office hours posted as 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily
GDC-Listed Long County Jail
22 South McDonald Street
Ludowici, GA 31316
(912) 545-2222
Use with caution because the sheriff says no active jail is operated locally.
Long County Jail Visits
Long County does not publish a single jail visitation schedule because it does not operate an active jail. The correct visit path is to search the roster, confirm the person is currently booked, read the housing county, and call that housing jail for the schedule. A visitor should ask about appointment rules, video or in-person options, identification, dress code, child visitors, property limits, lockdowns, holidays, and arrival time.
| Custody location | Published Long County schedule | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Long County Sheriff's Office | No jail visit schedule because there is no active county jail. | Use for bond, holds, records, and routing. |
| Appling, Tattnall, Wayne, McIntosh, Ware, Pierce, or Screven | Not published in the Long County source. | Call the housing jail after confirming the roster note. |
| Long Unit | State-prison rules, not county jail visits. | Use GDC approval and scheduling resources. |
Note: Do not travel to Ludowici for jail visitation unless Long County confirms that a local administrative visit is actually needed.
Long County Jail Mail
Mail follows the physical housing jail, not the Long County courthouse story. The sheriff's jail page publishes mail destinations for Tattnall, Wayne, Appling, McIntosh, and Ware. The roster also showed Pierce and Screven housing notes during the research pass, but those counties were not listed in the Long County jail-mail block. For those two, confirm the current address through Long County before mailing anything.
| Housing jail | Mail information from Long County source | Phone |
|---|---|---|
| Appling County Jail | Inmate's name, 560 Barnes Street, Suite B, Baxley, GA 31513 | (912) 367-8121 |
| Tattnall County Jail | Inmate's name, P.O. Box 545, Reidsville, GA 30453 | (912) 557-6778 |
| Wayne County Jail | Inmate's name, 1892 S. Macon Street, Jesup, GA 31545 | (912) 427-5975 |
| McIntosh County Jail | Inmate's name, 12317 GA-251, Darien, GA 31305 | (912) 437-6623 |
| Ware County Jail | Inmate's name, 3487 Harris Road, Waycross, GA 31503 | (912) 287-4323 |
| Pierce or Screven | Roster-observed housing county, not listed in the Long County mail block. | Confirm through Long County first. |
No Long County-wide commissary, phone, tablet, or deposit vendor was published in the source material. The housing jail controls those day-to-day services. Call before sending money, because an inmate housed in Appling may use a different process than one housed in Wayne or McIntosh.
Long County Jail Bond
Bond is one of the few topics that stays local even when the detainee is housed outside Long County. The sheriff's bonding page says the office accepts cash bonds, in-county property bonds, out-of-county property bonds, and approved bail bonds when eligible. The sheriff also says it does not set bond amounts. Magistrate Court, State Court, or Superior Court sets bond. That matters when the roster shows DENIED, NOT SET, or a dollar amount.
| Bond type | Long County rule from research |
|---|---|
| Cash bond | Confirm eligibility, then use cash, money order, or cashier's check through Long County. |
| In-county property bond | Requires identification, proof of value, and a separate state-required fee. |
| Out-of-county property bond | Requires approval from both the Long County sheriff and the property county sheriff. |
| Bail bondsman | Long County lists approved bonding companies in surrounding counties. |
A housing jail should not be treated as the court or bond authority for a Long County case. If the person has a hold, call Long County. If the question is a court date or case status, call the Clerk of Court rather than the sheriff or the housing jail.
Long County Jail Records
Long County sheriff records can be requested through the sheriff's open-records channel when the record is controlled by the sheriff. The research file identifies the open-records email as foia.request@longcountyso.org, with status checks by calling (912) 545-2118 and asking for Open Records personnel Mark Hall. Long County cites Georgia's Open Records Act, a three-business-day response rule, possible exemptions, and reasonable fees based on search, retrieval, redaction, and production.
- Housing note
- The roster line that tells which outside jail physically holds the Long County detainee.
- Hold
- A custody restraint or agency request that may block release even when another bond issue changes.
- Total bond
- The roster's overall bond value or status, which must be confirmed because courts set bond.
- Current inmate
- A person listed as currently booked in the Long County roster system.
The sheriff's open-records page also states that LCSO does not generate or maintain booking photos because it does not house inmates on-site. For a booking photo, identify the housing jail and ask that facility about its public-record process.
Note: Confirm custody, bond, and the housing county before travel because Long County jail records do not mean local jail beds.