The Telfair County Jail is at 26 Pickerton Street Milan, GA 31060. The Helena jail desk picks up at 229-362-0070. For other Telfair sheriff business go to 229-868-6621.

Telfair has no an online jail roster for Telfair. Call the jail at 229-362-0070 and give the person's full name and Telfair booking date, and the Telfair desk can confirm whether they are in Telfair custody.

After a state prison sentence, the Georgia Department of Corrections Find an Offender search shows where they are held.

By state law, in Telfair County, a judge has to see a Telfair arrestee within 48 hours without a warrant and 72 hours with one. The Telfair judge can order a Telfair bond in cash, by bondsman or with Helena property.

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

Read more on our Telfair County bail page.

Contact the Telfair sheriff's office at 229-868-6621 to check on a warrant in Helena. Before turning yourself in to the Telfair jail, see a lawyer.

The Oconee Circuit public defender covers Telfair cases when a Telfair judge finds they cannot pay. A Telfair applicant pays a $50 fee, which a judge can waive.

Visit rules and times change, so phone 229-362-0070 before you drive to Helena. Our guides cover lobby visits at the Telfair jail and screen visits from Helena.

Inmates in Helena can call out of the Telfair jail, and incoming calls to the Helena jail are not allowed. We cover Telfair jail calls, e-messages in Helena and Telfair tablets.

Money sent to a Telfair account covers snacks and soap through the Telfair commissary. Send money only through methods Helena names. Learn about Telfair account funding and the Helena jail store.

Print the person's full name on the Telfair envelope above the Helena jail address. Only plain paper goes to Helena; tape on mail to the Telfair jail gets it bounced. Check the Telfair notes on our mail page.

In Telfair County, anyone under 17 is handled in juvenile court. If a Telfair judge orders detention, DJJ uses the Cadwell Regional Youth Detention Center for Telfair. Families can call the sheriff's office at 229-868-6621 to find their child.

Phone 229-362-0070 quickly if your person in the Telfair County Jail has seizures or may hurt themselves in Helena. Have Telfair jail staff note the Telfair drug name and dose.

If the charge is federal, Telfair cases go to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, Dublin Division, at 100 North Franklin Street, Dublin, GA 31021 (not always fully staffed), 478-272-2121. In Dublin, a federal magistrate judge decides if the Telfair defendant can go home.

Federal detainees stay with the U.S. Marshals, at times in the Telfair jail or another county jail. After sentencing, use the BOP inmate locator.

• Step 1: Booking fingerprints reach databases ICE can search.
• Step 2: If the Telfair jail books a non-citizen, O.C.G.A. 42-4-14 requires the Telfair jail to check immigration status , and the Helena jailer informs ICE if they lack status.
• Step 3: If ICE wants the person, it sends Form I-247A, which asks the Telfair jail to keep them up to 48 hours past normal release.
• 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: ICE lists the Telfair sheriff in its 287(g) program.
• Step 6: After ICE picks up the person from Helena, use the ICE online locator for the Telfair detainee, or phone the ICE Atlanta field office about Helena, 180 Ted Turner Dr SW, Suite 522, Atlanta, GA 30303, 404-893-1290.

When a Telfair case ends in prison, Helena holds the person in the Helena jail until state officers take them. The Georgia Department of Corrections sends the Telfair prisoner to a reception center, and the Helena inmate later goes to an assigned prison. Telfair families can look them up with GDC Find an Offender.

No. Under O.C.G.A. 35-1-19, the Telfair sheriff may not post a Telfair mugshot online. For a copy of a Telfair mugshot, call the sheriff's office at 229-868-6621.

State prisoners have photos on GDC Find an Offender.

• Jacksonville Police Department: 229-833-6901
• Lumber City Police Department: 912-363-0555
• McRae-Helena Police Department: 229-868-2093
• Telfair County Sheriff's Office: 229-868-6621

Where Helena has no city police, deputies respond. Dial 911 in an emergency.