Toombs houses its detention center at 357 N.W. Broad Street Lyons, GA 30436. Lyons jail staff pick up at 912-526-1002, per the state sheriffs' 2024 directory, which puts the sheriff's office at 912-526-6778 in Suite 3 of that Broad Street building. Jail staff answer custody, bond and release questions, while the office line covers warrants, records and other sheriff business. A sturdy envelope labeled with the case name can hold every receipt, notice and business card gathered during the weeks ahead. Keep the booking number written on the front so it is close at hand for each call.

Search the Toombs roster by last name. Arrests late at night in Lyons may need several hours to appear while intake is finished. A name missing from the Toombs roster can mean release, a move to state prison or federal custody; the GDC Find an Offender tool tracks state prisons, while ICE runs its own online locator. Booking status and, after a ruling, the bond figure come from the Broad Street desk at 912-526-1002. Common surnames bring up several matches, so a legal name plus birth date narrows things fast.

Arrests made on a warrant reach a Lyons judge within 72 hours, and those made without one within 48. Release in Toombs may be secured with cash, through a bonding agent, or by pledging Lyons property.

• Bond on certain grave counts must come from superior court, which slows things.
• Courthouse staff in Lyons can point visitors to the correct floor if the room number is unclear.

There is more on our Toombs bail guide.

Before using a Lyons bondsman, confirm the bond amount still matches what the latest hearing set.

Vidalia is the larger town, and the Toombs County sheriff on Northwest Broad Street handles warrants for both communities. Vidalia police can detain someone on county paper and then transfer them to the detention center below. Statewide fugitives appear on the GBI wanted page. Surrender timing can be worked out by the defense lawyer.

Warrant line, sheriff's office: 912-526-6778

Toombs County Detention Center, 357 N.W. Broad Street, Lyons, GA 30436, 912-526-1002

Superior court clerk for new court dates: 100 Courthouse Square, Lyons, GA 30436, 912-526-3501

See Also: Bail Guide | Court Guide

Once a Toombs judge rules the defendant unable to afford a lawyer, the case goes to the Middle Circuit Public Defender, 120 North Main Street, Swainsboro, GA 30401, 478-237-9014. The office serves Candler, Emanuel, Jefferson, Toombs and Washington counties. The judge settles eligibility at the first hearing, held under Code sections 17-4-62 and 17-4-26 soon after booking. The defendant should ask for counsel at that first hearing. Families can share work records, school records and contact details with the assigned lawyer, which helps when that lawyer argues for a lower bond.

Visiting schedules move around; phone 912-526-1002 a day before driving to Lyons. We have guides on lobby visits in Toombs and remote visiting from Lyons.

Before a hearing, review the charge list with the defense lawyer so the family knows which questions are worth asking afterward. Visits take place at the jail building, 357 N.W. Broad Street Lyons, GA 30436. Visitors need current photo ID plus the prisoner's full name and booking number. Toombs deputies at 912-526-6778 handle approved-visitor questions. Plan the trip around the schedule staff give on the phone, and write down the name of the officer who answered.

Lyons inmates make outgoing calls only, so families wait to be called. Related: Toombs phone accounts, Lyons inmate email, Toombs tablets. A blocked number or a call problem is a matter for the Lyons desk, 912-526-1002. Keep the person's full name and booking date ready, because staff look up accounts by booking record. Families should save case details for the defense lawyer, who is the right person to discuss the charges with the client. The lawyer can also pass along messages about court dates and bond hearings.

An inmate's account pays for Lyons commissary snacks and soap. Deposit through methods Lyons names, and use those alone. See Toombs deposit methods plus the Lyons canteen. Before mailing or wiring money, check current deposit options with Lyons staff at 912-526-1002. Canteen funds and bond are two different accounts, and a commissary deposit never counts toward release. Keep every deposit receipt, since staff use it to trace a missing payment. Ask the jail how any balance left at release is returned.

Lyons envelopes should show the inmate's full name, and the jail address goes beneath it. For Lyons mail, choose plain paper; letters with glitter or tape may come back. Toombs writers should see our mail page.

Updates on a garden, a home project or a local team season give the person inside steady news to look forward to.

Folding in a bookmark or a pressed leaf adds a small personal touch the reader can keep. Once a person moves to a state prison, letters go to that prison, which GDC Find an Offender names.

Juvenile court takes Lyons cases for those under 17. When a Toombs youth is ordered held, DJJ chooses the Claxton Regional Youth Detention Center. Parents may learn a child's location from the sheriff's office at 912-526-6778. Juvenile case records in Toombs are kept by the Clerk of Court at 100 Courthouse Square, Lyons, GA 30436, 912-526-3501, which also serves the Superior, State and Magistrate courts. The Claxton center sits at 3609 Bill Hodges Road, Claxton, GA 30417 and serves eleven counties, Toombs among them.

For diabetes or self-harm danger, warn the Lyons detention center fast at 912-526-1002. Have the desk record each drug and its dose. The sheriff's office at 912-526-6778 is the second line when the jail desk is busy. Ahead of a hearing, the defense lawyer may put a health concern before the judge; Middle Circuit defenders take calls at 478-237-9014. A written medicine list, with doses and the doctor's name, gives that lawyer something concrete to hand the court. Note the date of each call to the jail as well.

Federal prosecutions of Toombs residents go to Statesboro, where the U.S. District Court runs a Statesboro Division within Georgia's Southern District, at 52 North Main Street, Statesboro, GA 30458, 912-650-4020. A Statesboro magistrate judge decides pretrial release.

Federal detainees are held by the U.S. Marshals, now and then in a county jail. Statesboro handles Toombs County in federal court; relatives who know the eight-digit register number get the fastest answer from the BOP inmate search. Whether a Toombs defendant waits for trial at home is decided soon after arrest: a magistrate weighs flight and safety risks in a detention hearing, and anyone not released stays in Marshals hands. Families lacking the number can search by full name instead.

Grandparents and older relatives may appreciate a printed sheet listing the key phone numbers in large type.

Anyone heading to the Statesboro building should call ahead to confirm hours.

• Step 1: Northwest Broad Street jailers in Lyons fingerprint arrestees, and the records become searchable by ICE.
• Step 2: As O.C.G.A. 42-4-14 directs, Lyons jailers confirm the legal status of non-citizens at booking and let ICE make the lawful-presence ruling whenever documents leave doubt.
• Step 3: A detainer (I-247A) lets ICE request that Lyons hold someone 48 extra hours at most after scheduled release, and 8 CFR 287.7(d) excludes Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.
• Step 4: Vidalia, Lyons, Oak Park, Uvalda and the Toombs commission each certify sanctuary-free policies to keep Georgia funding, O.C.G.A. 36-80-23 requires.
• Step 5: Ask the sheriff's office about any Toombs 287(g) arrangement.
• Step 6: A Toombs detainee handed to ICE in Lyons can be traced through the ICE detainee locator; for help, Toombs relatives can turn to the Atlanta field office at 180 Ted Turner Dr SW, Suite 522, Atlanta, GA 30303, 404-893-1290.
• Step 7: Lyons releases the prisoner if no federal officer has arrived by the end of that period. For those ICE does take, the next stop is a federal immigration lockup, quite possibly beyond Toombs or even outside Georgia.

A state prison sentence keeps the inmate in Lyons until GDC transport. GDC routes new prisoners through a reception center first. A permanent prison assignment follows. To follow that move, families can use GDC Find an Offender. State prison questions reach GDC headquarters at 404-656-4661, and its postal address is 300 Patrol Road, Forsyth, GA 31029. Toombs parolees and probationers report to Community Supervision in Swainsboro, 104 South Green St., Swainsboro, GA 30401, 478-289-2409, open weekdays from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Before driving to a prison or posting a letter, check that facility in our Georgia state prisons page.

To find out about a Toombs mugshot, telephone 912-526-1002, the desk at Toombs County Detention Center, 357 N.W. Broad Street, Lyons, GA 30436. Booking photos and arrest records are handled by the sheriff's office at 912-526-6778 on weekdays. A legal name, birth date and booking date let records staff find the file. Lyons records staff walk callers through a copy request. Court files for the same arrest sit with the Clerk of Court at 912-526-3501. Clerk staff at the Lyons courthouse answer questions about court files. Booking images taken in Lyons never go online; 35-1-19 of the Georgia Code rules that out for every arresting agency. A newspaper, TV station or private citizen may receive a copy after putting in writing that no removal-fee website will be given it. Should the Toombs charge later be dismissed, or a jury acquit, section 10-1-393.5 allows a certified-mail demand that forces such a website to drop the picture, without payment, inside 30 days. ICE detainee records are obtainable through ICE's FOIA page, while pictures of federal inmates rest with the marshals.

• Lyons Police Department: 912-526-3638
• Oak Park Police Department: 912-578-3433
• Uvalda Police Department: 912-594-6414
• Vidalia Police Department: 912-537-4123
• Toombs County Sheriff's Office: 912-526-6778

Vidalia, Lyons, Oak Park and Uvalda maintain municipal police; for the stretches between, Toombs deputies answer 912-526-6778. The jail line, 912-526-1002, takes custody and bond questions. Each city department handles arrests inside its own limits, and those detainees are booked into the county jail on Broad Street. For an emergency, dial 911 rather than any office line.