The Emanuel County Detention Center is at 769 Kite Road (Georgia Highway 57 West). Jail staff answer at 478-237-8771. For other Emanuel sheriff business is 478-237-7526.

Emanuel has no a public inmate list for Emanuel. Phone the jail at 478-237-8771 with the person's full name and Emanuel booking date, and the Emanuel desk can confirm whether they are in Emanuel custody.

When a Emanuel case ends in prison time, Georgia Department of Corrections Find an Offender shows where they are held.

Under Georgia law, in Swainsboro, a judge must see a Emanuel arrestee within 48 hours if there was no warrant, or 72 hours if there was one. The Emanuel judge may set a Emanuel bond in cash, by bondsman or with Swainsboro property.

• What a bondsman in Swainsboro charges follows Georgia law, and Swainsboro families do not get it back.
• A few grave charges in Swainsboro need the superior court, so a Emanuel wait may be longer.
• Not showing up in Swainsboro court brings a new warrant and forfeited bond money.

Read more on our Emanuel County bail page.

Contact the Emanuel sheriff's office at 478-237-7526 to ask about an active Emanuel warrant. A Emanuel lawyer can help plan a surrender.

The Middle Circuit public defender takes Emanuel cases once a judge in Swainsboro rules they cannot pay. A Emanuel applicant pays a $50 fee, which a judge can waive.

Visiting hours can change, so call 478-237-8771 the day before you go to Swainsboro. Our guides cover lobby visits at the Emanuel jail and remote visits from Swainsboro.

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

Money sent to a Emanuel account covers snacks and soap from the Emanuel jail store. Use only the ways the Emanuel jail lists. Learn about Emanuel account funding and the Swainsboro jail store.

Put the person's full name on the Emanuel envelope with the Emanuel County Detention Center address. Only plain paper goes to Swainsboro; tape on mail to the Emanuel jail can get it sent back. Current Emanuel rules are on our mail page.

Emanuel youth under 17 go to juvenile court. If a Emanuel youth must be held, Emanuel youth go to the Claxton Regional Youth Detention Center. Families can call the sheriff's office at 478-237-7526 to find their child.

Phone 478-237-8771 quickly if your person in the Emanuel County Detention Center has seizures or may hurt themselves in Swainsboro. Ask the Swainsboro nurse note the Emanuel drug name and dose.

If the charge is federal, Emanuel cases go to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, Statesboro Division, at 52 North Main Street, Statesboro, GA 30458 (not always fully staffed), 912-650-4020. The Statesboro magistrate judge decides if the Emanuel 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 databases ICE can search.
• Step 2: For any non-citizen held in Emanuel County, O.C.G.A. 42-4-14 requires Swainsboro jail officers to look up legal status , after which Swainsboro officers tell ICE if status is missing.
• Step 3: If ICE seeks custody, it sends Form I-247A, which asks the Emanuel 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: ICE does not list Emanuel County in 287(g); ask the sheriff to confirm.
• Step 6: After ICE picks up the person from Swainsboro, use the ICE online locator for a Emanuel case, or phone the ICE Atlanta field office about Swainsboro, 180 Ted Turner Dr SW, Suite 522, Atlanta, GA 30303, 404-893-1290.

After a Emanuel County state prison sentence, the person from Swainsboro stays in the Emanuel County Detention Center until GDC transports them. The Georgia Department of Corrections then takes the Emanuel inmate to intake, and the Swainsboro inmate later goes to an assigned prison. Swainsboro relatives can follow them on GDC Find an Offender.

No. Under O.C.G.A. 35-1-19, the Emanuel sheriff are barred from posting a Emanuel mugshot online. If you need a Emanuel mugshot, call the sheriff's office at 478-237-7526.

State prisoners have photos on GDC Find an Offender.

• Adrian Police Department: 478-668-3376
• Garfield Police Department: 478-763-4316
• Midville Police Department: 478-589-7557
• Stillmore Police Department: 912-562-3472
• Swainsboro Police Department: 478-237-8967
• Twin City Police Department: 478-763-4140
• Emanuel County Sheriff's Office: 478-237-7526

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