The Pickens County Detention Facility is at 188 Cemetery Street, Carrollton, AL 35447, 205-367-2000. Town police bring prisoners here rather than keeping their own lockups, and the jail also rents beds to other agencies.

• Pickens County Sheriff's Office: 205-367-2000

Reform, Gordo and Carrollton arrests may come from town officers or deputies; the sheriff's line can tell you which. Ask the arresting agency whether the town set a separate bond amount.

Search a last name in Pickens County Inmate Search and copy the Pickens booking number.

There's also a Pickens sheriff app for phones, on the Pickens app for iPhone and Pickens app for Android.

Booking on Cemetery Street means prints, photos, health questions and a warrant run, and the online list can lag. Call 205-367-2000 and spell the legal name, plus birth date. Ask whether booking is finished, whether they were released, taken to a hospital, or are held for Tuscaloosa, Lamar or another county. Because the jail rents beds, someone from elsewhere may be housed here too.

Small charges sometimes end with a citation instead of jail. Gordo and Reform send city misdemeanors to their own courts: - Aliceville Municipal Court, 419 Memorial Parkway: 205-373-6662 - Carrollton Municipal Court, 100 Court Square: 205-367-8711 - Reform Municipal Court, 104 3rd Avenue SE: 205-375-6363 - Gordo Municipal Court, at Town Hall: 205-364-7111

Skipping a Pickens court date leads to an arrest warrant.

Carrollton judges have two days to confirm a no-warrant arrest; otherwise the lowest bond applies. Pickens warrant holds see court by day three. Domestic bail in Pickens may wait up to a day for the judge.

Judges decide bail, starting from Alabama's schedule. When the Pickens roster reads "no bond," only a Carrollton judge can change that, sometimes after an Aniah's Law hearing. Another change, Amendment 1 (from May 19, 2026), allows the court to withhold bail in attempted murder plus shooting into a lived-in apartment or vehicle. To lower it, a lawyer files a motion and points to a job, family nearby, a steady address and a clean court record. Families can pay cash, use a bondsman, pledge land or seek a signature bond. Alabama tacks on 3.5% and $35. See the Pickens bail help.

The court side is separate from the jail: the circuit clerk is at 20 Phoenix Avenue, Carrollton, 205-367-2050, weekdays 8:00 to 4:30, closed from noon to 1:00. Call the jail at 205-367-2000 to learn what it takes after the clerk closes.

Pickens District and Circuit Courts meet in Carrollton. The 24th Circuit district attorney answers at 205-367-9915. See the Pickens case process.

The court system's phone directory lists a Pickens public defender office at 205-660-6377. Ask for that help when the person first stands before a Carrollton judge. Cemetery Street calls are recorded; keep case details for counsel.

The jail or the Phoenix Avenue clerk can give charge names and the case number. Felonies risk prison; Pickens misdemeanors cap at one year in jail. Files are free to read at the clerk's office; Alacourt online charges.

Call 205-367-2000 and ask for the supervisor. Share medicines, diagnoses and pharmacy. Medical staff decide care; emergencies leave for a hospital. Say so at once if you fear self-harm.

Visiting is on video, at the jail or remotely where allowed. Phone the jail, or check the web, for open slots; schedules change. Our Pickens visit guide and remote visit page have more.

Register online to add funds, or use the store account for commissary. Phone accounts are separate. Pickens guides: deposits, Carrollton calls, messages, tablets, Pickens commissary.

Every envelope needs the booking number and name; don't mail cash. Pickens jail mail: our Pickens County guide. Belongings go back at release.

A sentence of over one year is usually served in the state prison system, ADOC. They often wait in the Carrollton jail for a state transfer. Then, they move to an intake center where they are processed. Prison staff sort them by security level, gang ties and medical and mental health care. Last, they are sent to a prison that meets those needs.

Use the state inmate search for their location. For prison details, open Alabama state prisons.

Call 205-367-2000. A lawyer can arrange a surrender with bond lined up.

Pickens juvenile probation: 205-367-2075. Minors aren't kept in the adult jail or listed on its roster. Pickens youths in detention get a prompt hearing, and prosecutors can seek adult court for a 16- or 17-year-old in a grave case.

These arrests are made by the ATF and Homeland Security Investigations. The case is tried by the Northern District of Alabama's Western Division, which uses the courthouse in Tuscaloosa Richard Shelby Federal Building and Courthouse, 2005 University Boulevard, Tuscaloosa, AL 35401, 205-561-1670. The Tuscaloosa building is not staffed every day; phone the clerk's office in Birmingham at 205-278-1700 with questions. Within a day or so, they see a magistrate judge who reads the charges. An officer from pretrial services talks with them and gives advice to the court. Release isn't based on a schedule in this system. Using rules in the Bail Reform Act, a magistrate judge hears a hearing soon after arrest to decide if they may go home.

While it's open, U.S. Marshals may house federal prisoners in the Carrollton jail through a contract. Start with Pickens roster to see if they're there. Calling the Marshals at 205-829-6611 can confirm the jail they are in; the office is at 1729 5th Avenue North, Room 240, Birmingham, AL 35203. Following a federal sentence, they is sent into BOP custody, usually after some weeks. Follow the person with the BOP locator.

• ICE finds out about an arrest from fingerprints the jail send. Then ICE might lodge a detainer.
• Paying bail does not erase this hold. The hold simply begins then.
• That form tells the sheriff to keep them up to 48 hours beyond release time. A weekend day does not freeze the clock.
• Inside that window, ICE often arrives to take custody. A missed pickup should mean the person goes free when the hold ends.
• To learn their location, try ICE's New Orleans field office at 181 James Drive W, St. Rose, LA 70087, 504-318-2360.
• Look on the online detainee locator using the A-number plus birth country. The locator works too by the full legal name together with birth date and country of birth when the A-number is unknown.
• ICE itself picks the detention center, and plans can change.

Yes. Current Pickens mugshots are shown in the Pickens County inmate search with charges.

A FOIA request to ICE is the way to request an ICE booking photo, and ICE must approve it. A news outlet can seek an unreleased booking photo from the sheriff's office at 205-367-2000. U.S. booking photos stay private. Exceptions are few. The U.S. Marshals can share a booking photo for an escapee or fugitive, if posting it helps find them or alert the public, or when it's needed immediately to keep people safe.

It's fraud if they want gift cards, wires or app transfers. Pickens bonds are paid at Cemetery Street, the Phoenix Avenue clerk, or to a bondsman you hired. End the call and dial 205-367-2000.

Ring the sheriff at 205-367-2000, which reaches the Pickens County Detention Facility, to confirm custody and the Pickens bond; ring the clerk at 205-367-2050, avoiding the noon hour.