The Columbia County Detention Center is at 2273 County Camp Road Appling, GA 30802. The Appling jail desk picks up at 706-541-0754. Other calls to the Columbia sheriff call 706-541-1043.

Enter the last name in Columbia County Inmate Search. A new Columbia booking can take hours to show up as Columbia staff finish booking.

Under Georgia law, in Appling, a judge must see someone held in Appling within 48 hours without a warrant and 72 hours with one. The Columbia judge may set a Columbia bond in cash, by bondsman or with Appling property.

• What a bondsman in Appling charges has a legal limit, and a Columbia family never gets that fee back.
• Some serious charges in Columbia County need the superior court, so a Columbia wait may be longer.
• Missing a court date in Columbia County may lead to a Columbia warrant and a lost bond.

See our Columbia County bail page.

Phone the Columbia sheriff's office at 706-541-1043 to ask about an active Columbia warrant. A Columbia lawyer can help plan a surrender.

The Columbia Circuit public defender takes Columbia cases once a judge in Appling rules they cannot pay. Someone applying in Appling is charged $50, which a judge can waive.

Visit rules and times change, so call 706-541-0754 the day before you go to Appling. We explain lobby visits at the Columbia jail and screen visits from Appling.

Inmates in Appling can call out of the Columbia jail, but family cannot ring in to Appling. We cover Columbia jail calls, messages in Appling and Columbia tablets.

Money sent to a Columbia account buys snacks and soap at the Appling commissary. Send money only through methods Appling names. Read about Columbia money transfers and the Appling jail store.

Print the person's full name on the Columbia envelope above the Appling jail address. Plain paper works best for Appling; tape on mail to the Columbia jail may cause a return. Check the Columbia notes on our mail page.

Children under 17 in Appling go to juvenile court. If a Columbia judge orders detention, the Department of Juvenile Justice sends Columbia youth to the Augusta Regional Youth Detention Center. Families can call the sheriff's office at 706-541-1043 to learn where their child was taken.

Call 706-541-0754 quickly if your person in the Columbia County Detention Center has seizures or may hurt themselves in Appling. Tell the Columbia desk record the drug and the dose.

A federal case from Columbia County is heard in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, Augusta Division, at 600 James Brown Blvd., Augusta, GA 30901, 706-849-4400. The Augusta magistrate judge decides on release for a Columbia defendant.

Federal detainees stay with the U.S. Marshals, at times in the Columbia jail or another county jail. Once sentenced, check the BOP inmate locator.

• Step 1: Booking fingerprints reach databases ICE can search.
• Step 2: If the Columbia jail books a non-citizen, O.C.G.A. 42-4-14 requires Columbia staff to confirm their status , and the Appling jailer informs ICE if status is missing.
• Step 3: If ICE wants the person, it sends Form I-247A, which asks the Columbia 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 ban sanctuary policies in Georgia.
• Step 5: Per ICE, Columbia County has a 287(g) agreement.
• Step 6: Once ICE takes custody of a Columbia detainee, use the ICE detainee locator for a Columbia case, or phone the Atlanta field office for Columbia cases, 180 Ted Turner Dr SW, Suite 522, Atlanta, GA 30303, 404-893-1290.

When a Columbia case ends in prison, Columbia County keeps them in the Appling jail until the Georgia Department of Corrections picks them up. Next, the Georgia Department of Corrections moves the person from Appling to intake, and the Appling inmate later goes to an assigned prison. Appling relatives can follow them on GDC Find an Offender.

No. Under O.C.G.A. 35-1-19, the Columbia sheriff are barred from posting a Columbia mugshot online. For a copy of a Columbia mugshot, phone the sheriff's office at 706-541-1043.

State prisoners have photos on GDC Find an Offender.

• Grovetown Department of Public Safety: 706-396-4000
• Harlem Police Department: 706-556-6262
• Columbia County Sheriff's Office: 706-541-1043

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