The Bartow County Jail is at 104 Zena Drive Cartersville, GA 30121. Jail staff answer at 770-382-5050. Other calls to the Bartow sheriff is 770-382-5050.

Put the last name into Bartow County Inmate Search. An arrest in Cartersville over the weekend can take hours to show up as Bartow staff finish booking.

By state law, in Bartow County, a judge must see a person arrested in Bartow County within 48 hours without a warrant and 72 hours with one. The Bartow judge can allow a Bartow bond in cash, by bondsman or with Cartersville property.

• The fee a Bartow bondsman charges follows Georgia law, and Cartersville families do not get it back.
• A few grave charges in Cartersville need a superior court judge, which can mean a longer wait in Cartersville.
• Not showing up in Cartersville court can mean a Bartow warrant and a lost bond.

See our Bartow County bail page.

Phone the Bartow sheriff's office at 770-382-5050 to ask whether a Bartow warrant is active. Before turning yourself in to the Bartow jail, see a lawyer.

The Cherokee Circuit public defender covers Bartow cases once a judge in Cartersville rules the person cannot pay. Someone applying in Cartersville pays a $50 fee, though a judge may waive it.

Visit rules and times change, so call 770-382-5050 before you drive to Cartersville. Our guides cover lobby visits at the Bartow jail and remote visits from Cartersville.

Calls from the Bartow County Jail go out only, but family cannot ring in to Cartersville. Read about Bartow jail calls, e-messages in Cartersville and Bartow tablets.

Money on the account covers snacks and soap from the Bartow jail store. Stick to the deposit options the Bartow jail posts. Read about Bartow deposits and the Cartersville canteen.

Put the person's full name on the Bartow envelope with the Bartow County Jail address. Plain paper works best for Cartersville; glitter or tape on a letter to Cartersville gets it bounced. Check the Bartow notes on our mail page.

In Bartow County, anyone under 17 is handled in juvenile court. When a Cartersville child needs detention, the Department of Juvenile Justice sends Bartow youth to the Bob Richards Regional Youth Detention Center. Families can call the sheriff's office at 770-382-5050 to learn where their child was taken.

Call 770-382-5050 quickly if your person in the Bartow County Jail has diabetes or may hurt themselves in Cartersville. Ask the Cartersville nurse write down the medicine and dose.

Federal charges from Bartow County go to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Rome Division, at Harold L. Murphy Federal Building & US Courthouse, 600 East First Street, Rome, GA 30161-3149, 706-378-4060. The Rome magistrate judge decides if the Bartow defendant can go home.

Federal detainees stay with the U.S. Marshals, sometimes in a county jail. Once sentenced, check the BOP inmate locator.

• Step 1: Fingerprints taken at booking reach federal databases that ICE can see.
• Step 2: If the Bartow jail books a non-citizen, O.C.G.A. 42-4-14 directs Bartow staff to confirm legal status , and the Cartersville jailer informs ICE if status is missing.
• Step 3: If ICE seeks custody, it sends Form I-247A, asking the jail to hold them as long as 48 hours after release would happen.
• Step 4: HB 1105, passed in 2024, also created O.C.G.A. 42-1-11.5 and 36-80-23, which ban sanctuary policies in Georgia.
• Step 5: Ask the Bartow sheriff's office whether it has a 287(g) agreement with ICE.
• Step 6: After ICE picks up the person from Cartersville, check the online ICE locator for a Bartow case, or phone the Atlanta field office, which covers Cartersville, 180 Ted Turner Dr SW, Suite 522, Atlanta, GA 30303, 404-893-1290.

After a Bartow County state prison sentence, the Bartow prisoner remains in the Bartow County Jail until the Georgia Department of Corrections picks them up. The Georgia Department of Corrections sends the Bartow prisoner to intake. After that, Cartersville prisoners go wherever the state assigns them. Bartow County families can track them with GDC Find an Offender.

No. Under O.C.G.A. 35-1-19, the Bartow sheriff and city police cannot post mugshots (booking photos) from Cartersville on the web. If you need a Bartow mugshot, contact the sheriff's office at 770-382-5050.

State prisoners have photos on GDC Find an Offender.

• Adairsville Police Department: 770-773-7779
• Bartow County Board of Education Police Department: 770-606-5800
• Cartersville Police Department: 770-382-2526
• Emerson Police Department: 770-386-6696
• Euharlee Police Department: 770-386-7339
• Kingston Police Department: 770-336-5507
• White Police Department: 770-382-9383
• Bartow County Sheriff's Office: 770-382-5050

Bartow deputies cover areas with no city police. Dial 911 in an emergency.