The elected Bryan County sheriff heads the agency that runs the Bryan County Detention Center. The county's sheriff page lists the duties as operating the detention center, providing security for the courts, and serving criminal warrants, subpoenas and civil papers, and it puts the facility's maximum inmate capacity at 68. Two sheriff's office locations appear on that page without labels: 95 Sgt. Robert W. Crapse Drive, Pembroke, GA 31321, 912-653-3800, and 1955 Sgt. Michael W. Larson Drive, Richmond Hill, GA 31324, 912-756-2181.

The county's Detention Center page links to an outside inmate listing hosted by interopweb, under the words "Click Here for Current Inmate Information." That county-linked search has three tabs, Current Inmates, 24 Hours Arrests and Inmates by Arrest Date, and lets you filter by name. Each entry can show sex, height, weight, the arrest date, days held, the total bond, and the warrant number, statute, charge description and court for each count. Because the list is run by a third party, call the jail at 912-653-5245 before acting on anything it shows.

Our first source for jail numbers is the Georgia Sheriffs' Association directory for 2024, whose Bryan entry shows 912-653-5245 for the jail, a training line at 912-653-3814, and the main office at 912-653-3800. The same office number appears on the county's sheriff page with the Pembroke address and fax 912-653-2880, while the Richmond Hill office uses 912-756-2181 and fax 912-756-2127. Neither the county page nor the inmate list gives a separate street address for the detention center itself, so ask staff for directions before driving to visit or post bond.

No. Neither the sheriff page nor the detention center page on bryancountyga.gov posts visiting hours, a mail policy or a way to put money on an account, and the interopweb listing covers only custody details. One phone call to 912-653-5245 can settle it: ask which days the person can be seen, whether visits are face to face or on video, what ID a visitor needs, how letters must be addressed, and which deposit methods are allowed. Statewide pointers sit on our Bryan jail visiting and sending money pages.

Since the county gives no mailing rules for the detention center, get the correct address from jail staff at 912-653-5245 before you send anything. Ask whether the facility accepts letters on paper or routes mail through a scanning company, and whether photographs, greeting cards or printed pages are allowed. Put the inmate's full booked name on the envelope with your own return address, expect staff to open and inspect every piece, and never enclose money. Our Bryan jail mail page explains the rules most Georgia jails apply to incoming letters.

Two Georgia statutes set the deadline. When an arrest is made on a warrant, section 17-4-26 requires the person to be taken before a judicial officer within 72 hours; after an arrest without a warrant, section 17-4-62 cuts that to 48 hours. In Bryan County those first hearings are usually handled by the Magistrate Court, where a chief magistrate and an associate magistrate preside. The court's mailing address is P.O. Box 670, Pembroke, GA 31321, phone 912-653-3860, fax 912-653-5254. Bond and appointed counsel are normally addressed there.

Because 17-6-1 leaves approval of sureties and pledged land to the sheriff, release happens at the Pembroke jail; call 912-653-5245 first for the amount and any holds. The interopweb list shows a total bond figure for each person, but staff have the current number. Families can use cash, real estate in Georgia, or a professional bonding company, limited by 17-6-30 to the larger of 15 percent or $50 a count. For murder, rape, armed robbery and the other 17-6-1 offenses, only a superior court judge can fix bail.

The interopweb listing shows the warrant number, statute and court for each count against someone already in custody, but it does not search for outstanding warrants. For that, try the sheriff at 912-653-3800, which serves criminal warrants in the county, or the Magistrate Court at 912-653-3860, which issues most of them. If a warrant names you, get legal advice and turn yourself in at a time you choose, with bond money lined up in advance. Doing it that way keeps the arrest from happening at home or at work, and it shows the judge that the person intends to come to court.

The Atlantic Circuit Public Defender covers Bryan and five neighbors from 201 South Main Street, Suite 2400, Hinesville, GA 31313, phone 912-369-6338; the same office covers Evans, Liberty, Long, McIntosh and Tattnall. A defendant asks for appointed counsel by completing a short financial form, and a judge decides whether the person qualifies, often at the first appearance in magistrate court. Relatives may phone Hinesville to find out who was appointed, but the lawyer can share details only with the client's permission.

Felony cases from Bryan are prosecuted by the District Attorney's Office for the Atlantic Judicial Circuit, which covers the same six counties as the circuit's superior court. Per the office's site, it works from 945 Elma G. Miles Parkway, Hinesville, GA 31313, 912-876-4151. Misdemeanors that go to Bryan County State Court are handled in that court, whose chambers are reached at 912-653-4500. Victims who want notice of hearings should ask for the victim witness program at the district attorney's office.

Bryan youth needing secure detention are placed at the Claxton Regional Youth Detention Center, 3609 Bill Hodges Road, Claxton, GA 30417-6235, a facility that also takes Appling, Bulloch, Candler, Emanuel, Evans, Liberty, Long, Tattnall, Toombs and Wayne. Community supervision is run from the Bryan CSO/ISP office at 133 W. Dubois Street, Suite B, P.O. Box 550, Pembroke, GA 31321, which also serves McIntosh. The county site lists the juvenile judge at 912-653-3872, while juvenile files stay with the juvenile court clerk.

• Section 42-4-14 of the Georgia Code has jailers make a reasonable effort to determine the nationality of people they confine.
• For a foreign national, Pembroke staff may notify ICE.
• Paperwork for a hold arrives as Form I-247A, which ICE serves on the Pembroke jail to ask for advance word of the release date and a brief extra stay.
• Once ICE files a detainer, 8 CFR 287.7(d) permits the jail to keep the person for up to 48 hours beyond the scheduled release time; Saturdays, Sundays and holidays do not count toward that limit.
• Georgia bars sanctuary policies by local governments (36-80-23).
• After transfer, try the ICE detainee locator or the Atlanta field office, 180 Ted Turner Dr SW, Suite 522, Atlanta, GA 30303, 404-893-1290.

Federal cases from Bryan go to Savannah: 28 U.S.C. 90 assigns to that division Bryan, Chatham, Effingham and Liberty counties. The court sits at 8 Southern Oaks Ct., Savannah, GA 31405, and wants mail sent to 124 Barnard Street, Savannah, GA 31401. The clerk's office number is 912-650-4020. A federal arrest is handled apart from the county system, and the Pembroke jail roster may not reflect it. Federal pretrial detainees are Marshals prisoners; once sentenced, they move into federal prison custody, and the Bureau of Prisons locator shows where they are.

State prison time starts with a wait in Pembroke, sometimes for weeks, before Georgia Department of Corrections staff collect the person for intake and classification at a state prison. Corrections answers relatives at 404-656-4661 (headquarters mail: 300 Patrol Road, Forsyth, GA 31029); its offender search shows the prison once the move is made. For each state lockup's visiting hours and mailing rules, see our Georgia state prisons guide. Felony probation for the Atlantic Circuit, including Bryan, is supervised from the Department of Community Supervision office at 105 Daniel Street, Claxton, GA 30417, where newly sentenced probationers report.

Bryan mugshots are not posted online, because Georgia's 35-1-19 forbids arresting agencies from placing booking photographs on a website. Request a copy, together with arrest reports, at the Bryan County Sheriff's Office at 95 Sgt. Robert W. Crapse Drive, Pembroke, GA 31321, 912-653-3800. Court files are kept by the Clerk of Superior Court, who serves as clerk of the Superior, State, Juvenile and Magistrate Courts; the county's courthouse information line is 912-653-3872, and the State Court site lists the clerk's direct line as 912-653-3871 and the criminal deputy clerk at 912-653-3875. When a pay-to-remove website shows a Bryan mugshot after the charges were dismissed or ended in acquittal, 10-1-393.5 lets the person send a certified-mail demand, and the site has 30 days to delete it at no cost. Files on someone in immigration custody come from ICE's FOIA page, and federal prisoners' booking photos belong to the Marshals Service. Name the person, the date of birth and the approximate arrest date in a written request.

• Magistrate Court, for warrants: 912-653-3860
• Bryan County Sheriff's Office, Pembroke: 912-653-3800
• Sheriff's Office, Richmond Hill: 912-756-2181
• Bryan County jail (GSA 2024): 912-653-5245
• County courthouse information: 912-653-3872

City police arrests in Pembroke and Richmond Hill generally end in county booking, so the sheriff's numbers above are the right first call when a relative has been picked up. In any emergency, dial 911. The county's main switchboard in Pembroke is 912-653-5252, at 51 North Courthouse Street, and the Richmond Hill county annex at 66 Captain Matthew Freeman Drive answers on 912-756-3177.