The Terrell County Jail is at 3108 Albany Hwy Dawson, GA 39842. Jail staff answer at 229-995-4488. For other Terrell sheriff business call 229-995-4488.

Terrell has no web roster in Terrell County. Call the jail at 229-995-4488 with the person's full name and Terrell booking date, and the Terrell desk can confirm whether they are in Terrell custody.

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

By state law, in Terrell County, a judge must see a Terrell arrestee within 48 hours if there was no warrant, or 72 hours if there was one. The Terrell judge can allow a Terrell bond in cash, by bondsman or with Dawson property.

• What a bondsman in Dawson charges has a legal limit, and a Terrell family never gets that fee back.
• A few grave charges in Dawson need the superior court, so a Terrell wait may be longer.
• Missing a court date in Terrell County can mean a Terrell warrant and the bond is lost.

Read more on our Terrell County bail page.

Contact the Terrell sheriff's office at 229-995-4488 to ask about an active Terrell warrant. A Terrell lawyer can help plan a surrender.

The Pataula Circuit public defender takes Terrell cases when a Terrell judge finds the person cannot pay. A Terrell applicant pays a $50 fee, though a judge may waive it.

Visiting hours can change, so call 229-995-4488 the day before you go to Dawson. We explain lobby visits at the Terrell jail and remote visits from Dawson.

Inmates in Dawson can call out of the Terrell jail, but family cannot ring in to Dawson. See our notes on Terrell jail calls, e-messages in Dawson and Terrell tablets.

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

Print the person's full name on the Terrell envelope above the Dawson jail address. Plain paper works best for Dawson; tape on mail to the Terrell jail can get it sent back. Current Terrell rules are on our mail page.

Terrell youth under 17 go to juvenile court. When a Dawson child needs detention, the Department of Juvenile Justice sends Terrell youth to the Terrell Regional Youth Detention Center. Families can call the sheriff's office at 229-995-4488 to ask where the child is.

Call 229-995-4488 quickly if your person in the Terrell County Jail has diabetes or may hurt themselves in Dawson. Ask the Dawson nurse write down the medicine and dose.

If the charge is federal, Terrell cases go to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, Albany Division, at 201 West Broad Avenue, Albany, GA 31701, --. The Albany magistrate judge decides if the Terrell defendant can go home.

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

• Step 1: Booking fingerprints reach databases ICE can search.
• Step 2: When a non-citizen is booked in Dawson, O.C.G.A. 42-4-14 tells Terrell staff to check legal status, after which Dawson officers tell ICE if status is missing.
• Step 3: If ICE wants the person, it sends Form I-247A, which asks the Terrell jail to keep them up to 48 hours past normal release.
• Step 4: HB 1105, passed in 2024, also created 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 Terrell County in 287(g); ask the sheriff to confirm.
• Step 6: After ICE picks up the person from Dawson, try the ICE detainee locator for the Terrell detainee, or phone the Atlanta field office, which covers Dawson, 180 Ted Turner Dr SW, Suite 522, Atlanta, GA 30303, 404-893-1290.

Once a Terrell judge gives a prison sentence, Terrell County keeps them in the Terrell County Jail until the Georgia Department of Corrections picks them up. The Georgia Department of Corrections sends the Terrell prisoner for processing. After that, Dawson prisoners go wherever the state assigns them. Dawson relatives can follow them on GDC Find an Offender.

No. Under O.C.G.A. 35-1-19, the Terrell sheriff are barred from posting a Terrell mugshot online. For a copy of a Terrell mugshot, call the sheriff's office at 229-995-4488.

State prisoners have photos on GDC Find an Offender.

• Dawson Police Department: 229-995-4414
• Terrell County Sheriff's Office: 229-995-4488

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