The Glynn County Sheriff's Office oversees the Glynn County Detention Center at 100 Sulphur Springs Road, Brunswick, 912-554-7590, which his office describes as able to house 600 inmates. The county's biography of the sheriff says his staff includes more than 60 deputies and about 100 detention officers, and that he oversaw construction of the current sheriff's office and detention center. Besides the jail, the sheriff's office provides courthouse security, monitors registered sex offenders, serves civil papers and criminal warrants and enforces traffic laws. Administrative staff work weekdays, eight to five, and answer email at sheriff@glynncounty-ga.gov.

The sheriff publishes a Population With All Charges Report, an alphabetical list of everyone held at the detention center that is refreshed daily. For each person it gives name, age, race and gender, the booking date, the number of days jailed, active and inactive charges and the degree of each charge. Our Glynn County Inmate Search links to it. A booking from the last few hours may not show yet, so phone 912-554-7590 and give the person's legal name and date of birth. Families can also register with VINELink, a free and confidential service, for alerts when a person's custody status changes.

Most mainland and island arrests come from the Glynn County Police Department, a separate county agency that serves about 88,000 residents from the Carl Alexander Public Safety Complex, 157 Carl Alexander Way, Brunswick, GA 31525, 912-554-7800. Sheriff's deputies, the Georgia State Patrol, Georgia Ports Authority police, school police and Department of Natural Resources rangers also make arrests whose cases end up in Glynn courts. Whoever made the arrest, booking happens at Sulphur Springs Road, so the detention center at 912-554-7590 is the place to confirm custody.

Glynn's Magistrate Court holds first appearance hearings every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9:30 a.m. in the Magistrate Courtroom. A warrantless arrest must reach a judge inside 48 hours under Code section 17-4-62, and within 72 hours when a warrant was issued first under section 17-4-26, so the three weekly sessions keep cases inside those limits. The magistrate explains the charges, considers bail for most offenses and asks whether the person wants an appointed lawyer. For the docket, the Clerk of Superior Court's staff at 701 H Street, Brunswick, answer at 912-554-7250.

Release can come through cash, a property bond or one of the bail bond companies the sheriff lists as licensed in Glynn County. Anyone signing as a surety becomes financially answerable if the defendant misses any court date, and a property bond can place a lien on the signer's land until the case ends. The sheriff charges a $25 lien filing fee, a $20 bond posting fee and a $25 lien cancellation fee. Bondsmen's premiums are held by section 17-6-30 to 15 percent of the bond or $50 per count. Our Glynn County bail guide covers each step.

In-person visits are non-contact, through a barrier with a telephone handset, and there is no charge. Visiting days are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, with each person's slot set by cell assignment. A visit lasts fifteen minutes; most inmates get two visits a week, while trustees and housekeepers get three. Up to four approved visitors may attend a visit, and visitors under 17 must be the inmate's own biological, adopted or stepchildren with an approved adult. To book, email visitation@glynncounty-ga.gov with the inmate's name, cell assignment and ID number. Food, drink and personal items stay out of the lobby. See also Glynn jail visiting.

Yes, through the jail's video-visit and messaging provider. A visitor creates an account, uploads an ID and a selfie for verification, and once approved can take video calls that the inmate initiates; the same account also enables tablet messaging. Video visits from the lobby's Video Visitation Center at the jail are free, while remote sessions cost money. The county lists these Glynn rates: $0.25 per tablet message, $.012 per minute for local calls, $0.21 per minute for out-of-state calls and $0.19 per minute for remote video. The provider may bill a different rate depending on the caller's county of residence. More detail is in Glynn video visits and Glynn jail calls.

There are three routes. A kiosk in the visitation lobby at the detention center is open 24 hours a day and takes cash, credit and debit cards, showing the usage fee before the deposit. For online deposits, the jail uses its commissary contractor McDaniel Supply Company at jailpackstore.com; you need the inmate's full name, the facility name and the inmate's ID number, and Visa, MasterCard and Discover are accepted but prepaid cards are not. McDaniel's help line is 800-822-9388. Mailed deposits must be a money order or a certified check alone, with the inmate's name and ID in the memo, in a pre-stamped envelope to 100 Sulphur Springs Rd., Brunswick, GA 31520. Our sending money guide adds context.

Personal letters, cards and photographs do not go to Brunswick. They go to a mail processing center, where they are opened, scanned and posted to the inmate's tablet: Glynn County Detention Center, GA, PO Box 18247, Greensboro, NC 27419, with Facility ID Number 5244, the detainee's name and the detainee's SO number. Leave out any of those lines, the postage, or a legible return address that names the sender in full, and the letter goes unscanned. Legal mail, money orders, and books or magazines shipped straight from a retailer such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble or Books-A-Million go to 100 Sulphur Springs Rd., Brunswick, GA 31520 instead; mail questions go to 912-554-7590. See Glynn jail mail.

Only for court. The detention center does not accept personal clothing or shoes for daily wear, since those can be bought through commissary. Court outfits are taken at the main lobby on weekdays between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. The person dropping it off needs one valid ID: a driver's license, a passport, a military photo ID, a state ID card or a voter registration card. Because court dates in Glynn are set by the Superior, State, Magistrate and Juvenile Courts, it helps to confirm the hearing date with the right clerk before bringing an outfit to Sulphur Springs Road.

The sheriff's office lets attorneys see clients seven days a week in three windows: 8:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m., 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Attorneys must carry their bar card. For a family trying to arrange counsel, the Brunswick Judicial Circuit Public Defender's Office handles Superior and Juvenile Court cases for people who cannot afford a lawyer and can be reached at 912-554-7072 or pdo-bjc@gapublicdefender.org. Misdemeanor defendants in State Court are served by the State Court Public Defender at 11 Judicial Lane, Suite 225, Brunswick, 912-279-2875.

Juvenile cases go to the Glynn County Juvenile Court at 11 Judicial Lane, Suite 100, Brunswick, GA 31520, 912-554-7039, open weekdays 8 to 5. If a young person must be held, the Department of Juvenile Justice lists the Waycross Regional Youth Detention Center, 3275 Harris Road, Waycross, GA 31503-8956, 912-287-6680, as the RYDC that serves Glynn along with Camden, Charlton, Ware and other nearby counties. After court, supervision runs through the DJJ Glynn Community Services Office at 1513 Gloucester Street, Brunswick, 912-264-7313.

• Section 42-4-14 of Georgia law gives the Glynn jailer 48 hours from booking to try to establish each detainee's nationality.
• When someone appears to be a foreign national, Sulphur Springs Road staff can reach out to ICE through its national support center or its Atlanta office. The sheriff posts a Foreign National Statistical Report summarizing these contacts.
• Under 8 CFR 287.7(d), an ICE detainer can add as much as 48 hours of custody after release, not counting Saturdays, Sundays or holidays.
• Georgia also outlaws sanctuary policies by cities and counties through section 36-80-23.
• Once a transfer happens, search the ICE detainee locator or phone the Atlanta field office, 180 Ted Turner Dr SW, Suite 522, Atlanta, GA 30303, 404-893-1290.
• The detainer comes on Form I-247A, which the prisoner receives. ICE officers must take custody at the Sulphur Springs Road jail before the time limit; afterward, detainees can be transferred to immigration detention in another state.

Glynn's federal cases belong to the Southern District of Georgia, and 28 U.S.C. 90 places Glynn in the Brunswick Division with Appling, Camden, Jeff Davis, Long, McIntosh and Wayne counties. That division sits in Brunswick; the court lists its location at 801 Gloucester Street, Brunswick, GA 31520, with the clerk's office at 912-280-1330. A person awaiting a federal case is in U.S. Marshals custody even if housed locally, and once sentenced, the federal prison system's inmate locator shows where the sentence is served. Glynn defendants in federal cases learn at a detention hearing whether a magistrate judge will set conditions for release or keep them with the Marshals.

A Superior Court sentence to state prison keeps the person on Sulphur Springs Road until the Georgia Department of Corrections schedules transport to intake. From then on, the state's Find an Offender search shows the assigned prison and accepts a name or GDC number. The department takes inmate concerns at 404-656-4661 and mail at 300 Patrol Road, Forsyth, GA 31029. Felony probation is supervised by the Department of Community Supervision, which lists a Glynn County Courthouse location at 701 H Street, Brunswick. Misdemeanor probation from State Court is handled by Southeast Corrections, 1429 Union Street, Brunswick, 912-261-8007. Our Georgia state prisons directory describes, facility by facility, how to visit and send mail.

Georgia generally treats arrest records and booking photos as public. The sheriff's office takes open records requests through the Open Records Request link on its county web page, and its fee schedule lists $15 for a record check, $20 for a felony record check, $5 per fingerprint card and $0.50 per copied page. Police reports from county officers come from GCPD Records, 912-554-7820, gcpdrecords@glynncounty-ga.gov. For felony files, go to the Clerk of Superior and Magistrate Court, 701 H Street, PO Box 1355, Brunswick, GA 31521, 912-554-7272; misdemeanor and traffic files sit with the Clerk of State Court, 912-554-7325. Brunswick deputies may not post booking photos on websites; Georgia Code 35-1-19 is the bar. Copies can be released to reporters and other requesters who sign that the photo will stay away from removal-fee sites. After a Glynn dismissal or acquittal, Georgia Code 10-1-393.5 gives the person a certified-mail route to have such a site drop the photo within 30 days, free. Immigration detainee records come through the ICE FOIA site, and federal marshals hold the photos of federal prisoners.

• Glynn County Sheriff's Office, 100 Sulphur Springs Road, Brunswick: 912-554-7600
• Detention Center: 912-554-7590; sheriff's warrant line in the 2024 directory: 912-554-7609
• Glynn County Police headquarters: 912-554-7800; non-emergency dispatch: 912-554-3645
• GCPD Islands Substation, 1965 Demere Road, St. Simons Island: 912-279-2891
• Silent Witness crime tip line: 912-264-1333

Felonies are prosecuted by the Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, 701 H Street, Box 301, Brunswick, 912-554-7200. For a situation that is not an emergency, the dispatch line keeps 911 free, and the department lists its Islands Substation on Demere Road as a second location.