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Turner County Jail Overview

Turner County Jail is operated by the Turner County Sheriff's Office. The facility handles the county's arrest-stage custody work: booking, intake, first appearance and bond routing, local sentenced custody, court holds, transfers, and release checks. Sheriff Andy Hester is the elected sheriff named on the official site, and the Jail Services department identifies Major Troy Morris as the jail services leader. The same sheriff site places jail services beside patrol, communications, investigations, and records functions, which matters because jail records often connect to incident reports, bond questions, court dates, and open-records requests.

The active Turner County Jail is the Sheriff's Office and jail complex at 1301 Industrial Drive in Ashburn. It should not be confused with the historic Turner County Jail, sometimes called Turner Castle, which is a different local historic building. Local arrests from Ashburn, Sycamore, Rebecca, sheriff deputies, Georgia State Patrol, and other officers on Turner County matters are generally routed through the county jail unless the person is cited, released, or transferred. A local jail entry can show that someone was booked or held, but it does not prove the final court charge or outcome.

The official sheriff page ties Turner County Jail services to the roster, JailATM, cash bond payments, open records, and Georgia Criminal Alien Track and Report Act reporting. Those links make the jail more than an address. They form the practical access chain for anyone checking whether a person is in custody, whether bond can be paid, whether funds can be placed for commissary, or whether a booking record must be requested from the Sheriff's Office instead of viewed online.

Turner County Jail Capacity

Turner County Jail population numbers come from the Vera Institute county dataset, not a live jail dashboard published by the sheriff. The research file uses Vera's Turner County, Georgia values because the official sheriff pages did not publish a current daily population, detailed annual booking report, staffing report, or separate local demographic dashboard. Vera reported a 2026 jail population of 54 and rated capacity of 108. Vera also reported 2025 population at 51.25 with capacity 102, and 2024 population at 86.75 with capacity 150.

Those figures should be read as sourced dataset values, not a promise about the count today. Jail population changes when people are booked, released on bond, sentenced, transferred to the Georgia Department of Corrections, held for another court, or moved under a detainer. Vera's 2026 data also split Turner County custody into 31 pretrial and 23 sentenced people. In plain terms, pretrial means the person has not been sentenced on the current case, while sentenced means a sentence or revocation is already in place.

The Vera Georgia incarceration trends explorer is the source tied to these county-level jail figures. Because Vera is not the jail's live roster, it supports population context while the sheriff roster and jail phones handle person-specific custody status.

Turner County Jail Roster Lookup

The correct online route for a current Turner County Jail inmate is the sheriff's official jail roster disclaimer. The disclaimer must be acknowledged before the roster path opens. The sheriff and county warn that roster data is provided as is, can be inaccurate or out of date, and must be verified with the originating agency when the result matters. That warning is not just legal text. It is a practical reminder that jail custody changes fast after bond, first appearance, transfer, or release.

The static research did not expose the full search form after the disclaimer, so the exact live roster fields should be checked in the browser. The captured official material did confirm the disclaimer acknowledgement and the sheriff's jail roster route. If the roster is down, if the person was released, or if the name search is unclear, call the main Sheriff's Office line or the jail and bond information line. For a broader custody search after a sentence or transfer, use the Georgia Department of Corrections locator, not the Turner County Jail roster.

The sheriff roster source shown here is the official Turner County Jail disclaimer page that appears before current in-custody access.

The screenshot shows why a user may need to acknowledge the disclaimer before a Turner County Jail inmate record can be viewed.

1. Open the sheriff's jail roster disclaimer from the official Turner County Sheriff's Office site.
2. Read the county and sheriff accuracy notice, then acknowledge it if the live page allows access.
3. Search or review the roster using the fields shown after the disclaimer, such as name or status if available.
4. Confirm that the person is listed under Turner County Jail rather than a state prison, federal locator, or another county jail.
5. Call 229-567-2401 or 229-567-3812 when bond, release, hold, or transfer status needs direct verification.

Turner County Jail Inmate Contact

For custody, bond, records, or visit questions, use the official Sheriff's Office and jail contact channels. The main number is the general Sheriff's Office line. The sheriff FAQ gives a more specific jail and bond information number for questions about getting someone out of jail. The open-records form also lists the fax number used by the Sheriff's Office. When calling, have the person's full name, date of birth if known, arrest date, and any case, booking, or charge information available.

The sheriff site identifies the facility address as 1301 Industrial Drive, Ashburn, GA 31714. The research did not locate published public-transit directions, visitor parking fees, or ADA entrance details. Anyone traveling for a visit, property question, or bond issue should confirm the entrance, allowed items, and timing with jail staff before leaving. The Sheriff's Office FAQ says outside items must be approved by jail command staff, and inmates may buy needed items through commissary.

Turner County Jail Inmate Visits

The official sheriff material inspected for Turner County did not publish a jail visitation schedule, video visitation vendor, visitor approval procedure, dress code, attorney visit policy, or holiday schedule. That gap matters because a rural county jail may change visit days or limit visits by housing status, medical status, disciplinary status, court transport, or staffing. Use the phone numbers above before traveling, and ask whether the visit is in person, video, attorney-only, or unavailable for that inmate.

A visitor should be ready to give the inmate's name and should ask about government photo ID, arrival time, property restrictions, dress rules, minor visitor rules, and whether the inmate must add visitors to an approved list. Do not bring clothes, food, medicine, documents, money, or personal property to the jail unless staff approves it first. The sheriff FAQ's outside-item rule is the clearest official local rule found in the research.

Turner County Jail Inmate Money

Turner County Sheriff's Office links jail commissary and ATM deposits to JailATM. The official research did not capture a local fee table, so fees, account type, payment limits, refunds, and processing times should be checked inside the vendor portal at the time of the transaction. Select the correct facility and inmate carefully. A deposit error can be hard to fix if the wrong person, account type, or agency is chosen.

The sheriff's online services also link bond payments to nCourt 24-hour cash bond. Bond should be handled with care. The sheriff FAQ says cash bond uses U.S. currency or money orders only, property bond uses real property in Georgia, and bonding-company information can be obtained from the jail information line. Even if a bond amount is listed, release may be blocked by another warrant, court order, probation issue, GDC hold, ICE inquiry, or federal detainer.

The sheriff-linked JailATM deposit portal is the matched source for commissary and inmate-fund deposits.

Use the portal only after confirming the inmate and facility, because the research did not locate a local posted fee schedule.

The sheriff-linked nCourt bond payment service is the matched source for online cash bond payment access.

The nCourt service is payment-specific; custody, hold status, and bond eligibility still need confirmation through the jail or court.

Turner County Jail Inmate Booking

Booking at Turner County Jail follows the normal Georgia county-jail path described in the research. After arrest, the person is transported to the jail for identification, property inventory, search, fingerprints, booking photo if taken, warrant checks, medical or mental-health screening, classification, phone access, and housing. Classification means the jail decides where a person is housed based on safety, security, medical needs, and custody status. A detainer is a hold or request from another agency that can block release even after local bond is handled.

Georgia's Criminal Alien Track and Report Act material appears on the sheriff site because O.C.G.A. 42-4-16 requires jailers to prepare quarterly reports about foreign-born inmates and certain immigration-status inquiries. That does not turn Turner County Jail into an ICE detention facility, and no ICE facility was found in Turner County. It means some booking records and quarterly reports may involve immigration-status procedures when the statute applies.

For older booking records, incident reports, accident reports, and booking photos not available through the live roster, use the Sheriff's Office open-records process. The official open-records form includes requester contact fields, a specific records-request field, signature and date lines, and a booking-photo affirmation under Georgia law. For a booking photograph, the requester must affirm lawful use under O.C.G.A. 35-1-19.

About Turner County Jail Custody

The current Turner County Jail is part of the Sheriff's Office law-enforcement, detention, and court-services mission. Its practical public systems are the roster disclaimer, jail phone lines, JailATM deposits, nCourt bond payment access, and open-records routing. A current inmate may later move out of the county system. Once a person is sentenced or transferred to state custody, the Georgia Department of Corrections query is the right search path, especially for facilities such as Turner Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Center in Sycamore.

The sheriff website also promotes the MySheriff mobile app through an official mobile app redirect. The source text says the app supports news, events, notifications, services, and crime tips. The research did not verify an app-only Turner County Jail roster or warrant lookup, so the app should be treated as a sheriff communications and services channel unless the live app shows more.

The official sheriff homepage is the matched source for Turner County Sheriff's Office contact, app, and navigation details.

The sheriff homepage ties jail service links, agency contact details, and the MySheriff app into the same public access path.