The Catoosa County Jail is at 5842 Highway 41 Ringgold, GA 30736. Call the Catoosa jail at 706-935-2424. Other calls to the Catoosa sheriff call 706-935-2424.

Type the last name into Catoosa County Inmate Search. A late-night arrest in Ringgold can take hours to show up as Catoosa staff finish booking.

In Catoosa County, a judge must see a Catoosa arrestee within 48 hours without a warrant and 72 hours with one. The Catoosa judge can allow a Catoosa bond in cash, by bondsman or with Ringgold property.

• A bondsman's fee in Catoosa County follows Georgia law, and a Catoosa family never gets that fee back.
• A few grave charges in Ringgold need the superior court, so a Catoosa wait may be longer.
• Missing a court date in Catoosa County can mean a new warrant and a lost bond.

More detail is on our Catoosa County bail page.

Phone the Catoosa sheriff's office at 706-935-2424 to ask about an active Catoosa warrant. Before a surrender in Ringgold, talk to a lawyer.

The Lookout Mountain Circuit public defender takes Catoosa cases if a Catoosa judge decides the person cannot pay. A Catoosa applicant owes a $50 fee, which a judge can waive.

Visiting hours can change, so call 706-935-2424 before you drive to Ringgold. We explain in-person visits at the Catoosa jail and remote visits from Ringgold.

Inmates in Ringgold can call out of the Catoosa jail, but family cannot ring in to Ringgold. Read about Catoosa jail calls, messages in Ringgold and Catoosa tablets.

An inmate account buys snacks and soap at the Ringgold commissary. Stick to the deposit options the Catoosa jail posts. Learn about Catoosa deposits and the Ringgold canteen.

Print the person's full name on the Catoosa envelope over the Catoosa jail's street address. Only plain paper goes to Ringgold; glitter or tape on a letter to Ringgold gets it bounced. See the Ringgold section of our mail page.

Children under 17 in Ringgold go to juvenile court. If a Catoosa youth must be held, DJJ uses the Elbert Shaw Regional Youth Detention Center for Catoosa. Families can call the sheriff's office at 706-935-2424 to ask where the child is.

Ring 706-935-2424 quickly if your person in the Catoosa County Jail has diabetes or may hurt themselves in Ringgold. Tell the Catoosa desk record the drug and the dose.

If the charge is federal, Catoosa cases 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 Catoosa defendant can go home.

Federal detainees stay with the U.S. Marshals, sometimes in a county jail. After sentencing, use the BOP inmate locator.

• Step 1: Booking fingerprints reach federal systems ICE checks.
• Step 2: If the Catoosa jail books a non-citizen, O.C.G.A. 42-4-14 tells the Catoosa jail to check legal status , and the Ringgold jailer informs ICE if they lack status.
• Step 3: When ICE is interested, it sends Form I-247A, which asks the Catoosa jail to keep them as long as 48 hours after release would happen.
• Step 4: The 2024 law HB 1105 also wrote O.C.G.A. 42-1-11.5 and 36-80-23, which forbid local rules against helping ICE.
• Step 5: Per ICE, Catoosa County has a 287(g) agreement.
• Step 6: Once ICE takes custody of a Catoosa detainee, check the ICE detainee locator for a Catoosa case, or phone the Atlanta field office, which covers Ringgold, 180 Ted Turner Dr SW, Suite 522, Atlanta, GA 30303, 404-893-1290.

When a Catoosa case ends in prison, the Catoosa prisoner remains in the Ringgold jail until state officers take them. Next, the Georgia Department of Corrections moves the person from Ringgold to a diagnostic center, and the Ringgold inmate later goes to an assigned prison. Ringgold relatives can follow them on GDC Find an Offender.

No. Under O.C.G.A. 35-1-19, the Catoosa sheriff cannot post mugshots (booking photos) from Ringgold on the web. If you need a Catoosa mugshot, phone the sheriff's office at 706-935-2424.

State prisoners have photos on GDC Find an Offender.

• Fort Oglethorpe Police Department: 706-866-2544
• Ringgold Police Department: 706-935-3066
• Catoosa County Sheriff's Office: 706-935-2424

Sheriff's deputies patrol parts of Catoosa County without a police force. Dial 911 in an emergency.