The jail is at 50 NW 1st Street, Lake Butler, FL 32054. The jail and the Union County Sheriff's Office use the same number: 386-496-2501.

Type a name into VINELink to check Union custody. With so few beds, a phone call is often the fastest check. VINELink sends alerts when someone gets out.

Union is in the Eighth Judicial Circuit with Alachua. A judge reviews new arrests within 24 hours:

• ROR, no payment needed.
• Cash: Union's clerk keeps the full bond while the case is open and gives it back afterward, less costs.
• Bondsman: a 10 percent fee, $100 minimum per charge, not returned.

Bradford, Columbia or probation holds keep someone in Lake Butler. Miss a Union court date and a warrant follows. See our Union bail page.

It may well be; in this small farm county, the NW 1st Street jail books every warrant arrest from Raiford and Worthington Springs. The clerk's office at 386-496-3711 can share the case number and the next hearing. Each docket on the online court records search lists any capias. Local warrant checks run through the Sheriff's Office, and FDLE's statewide database handles everything filed farther afield. Is the warrant yours? Then a lawyer can set your surrender so you pick the day, bring paperwork and see a judge quickly.

The Eighth Circuit Public Defender represents Union clients judged indigent. The $50 fee may be waived.

Visits must be arranged; ask about video. Call 386-496-2501. See visits and remote visits.

Lake Butler inmates can't get calls; they phone out on money relatives prepay. See phones, messages and tablets.

Union commissary is paid from deposits. Ask the jail which methods work. See money and commissary.

Address with name, booking number and 50 NW 1st Street. No stickers. See mail rules.

Union kids under 18 are charged in juvenile court. When a judge orders them held, they usually go to the Alachua Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Gainesville, 352-955-2105, and get a hearing inside 24 hours. Parents can call 386-496-2501.

Phone 386-496-2501 about medicines, seizures, insulin or suicide risk.

The U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida, hears Union federal cases in Jacksonville at 300 N. Hogan St., Jacksonville, FL 32202.

Union federal arrestees appear before a Jacksonville magistrate first; detention is set at a hearing. The U.S. Marshals (904-301-6670) may house them in county jails. After sentencing, see the BOP locator.

• NW 1st Street booking prints reach DHS.
• ICE may issue an I-247A detainer.
• Union can hold the person awaiting federal transfer up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)).
• F.S. 908.105: Lake Butler's bond judge and the prosecutor receive the hold, and it enters the court file.
• F.S. 907.041: a Union forcible-felony defendant who lacks lawful status won't be released ahead of first appearance; the judge there presumes detention, which can be challenged.
• F.S. 908.11: 287(g) is required; the Lake Butler sheriff agreed to task force and warrant service roles.
• Union families can enter a name at ICE's locator; ICE can also be reached at its Miami field office, 2805 SW 145th Ave., Miramar, FL 33027, 954-843-5800.

Union County is home to several state prisons, yet anyone sentenced in Lake Butler still passes through FDC reception before assignment. Find them with FDC's offender search and get prison addresses from our Florida prisons page.

Request booking photos from the Union County Sheriff's Office at 386-496-2501. Most are public; F.S. 119.071 exempts some.

ICE photos require an ICE FOIA filing. Union federal mugshots surface only on Marshals wanted posters.

• Union County Sheriff's Office: 386-496-2501

Union has no city police department in our records; the sheriff covers the county. Emergencies: 911.