• Frederick County Adult Detention Center, 7300 Marcie's Choice Lane, Frederick, MD 21704, 301-600-2550.
• Commissioner on site: 301-600-2009.

The Marcie's Choice Lane center confirms custody by phone, or use a free VINELink lookup, or a phone call to the center. Charges and dates live on Case Search.

The on-site commissioner sets terms quickly, and a judge reviews them if needed. See our bail guide.

Call the Frederick County Sheriff's Office at 301-600-1046, answered 24 hours. City officers and the Brunswick and Thurmont departments take care of warrants from their own arrests.

A defense lawyer can help time a surrender at the Marcie's Choice Lane detention center, where the commissioner holds hearings. If the warrant is over a missed court date, the clerk may set a new one: both courts are at 100 W. Patrick Street, with the Circuit Court clerk at 301-600-1976 and the District Court at 301-600-2000.

The Judiciary's online case search shows filed charges and dates, while warrants stay out of view.

Marcie's Choice Lane houses the commissioner too, so decisions come quickly: recognizance, conditions, a bond, or detention. Held cases get a judge next court day on Patrick Street. To pay, get the amount from the commissioner, 301-600-2009, and ask the detention center, 301-600-2550, which payment types it takes. See our bail in this county page.

Marcie's Choice Lane bookings are on VINELink, which costs nothing. Find the booking record, add a phone or email, and you will hear about release or transfer.

The commissioner is the first stop after booking, at 7300 Marcie's Choice Lane, 301-600-2009, held within 24 hours. A warrantless arrest needs probable cause or the person is released. Then come the charges, counsel rights and release terms. A judge at W. Patrick Street reviews held cases next session, 301-600-2000. Our court process page has more.

District Court at W. Patrick Street, 301-600-2000. Felonies: Circuit Court, W. Patrick Street, 301-600-1976.

File form DC-099 with any commissioner, or online through Guide & File. After approval, call the public defender at 100 W. Patrick Street, 301-600-1988.

Search the name on Maryland Judiciary Case Search, or call the clerk, 301-600-1976. Some Frederick defendants never see jail; their summons sets a preliminary inquiry, five business days if undated.

At the Marcie's Choice Lane jail, juveniles visit Thursday 12:30 to 7 p.m., females Saturday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and males Sunday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sign-in opens 30 minutes before the start and closes 30 minutes before the end. Each person gets one 30-minute visit a week with up to four visitors. Bring a government photo ID; every visitor is photographed, and anyone who refuses does not visit. Visits are recorded. The Work Release Center allows video visits only. On-site video booths are free; remote video visits cost 30 cents a minute and last up to 15 minutes. The visitation officer is at 301-600-3031. See our visitation guide.

• The Frederick center's phone system is outgoing only; see our phone guide.
• Messages, if offered: our messaging guide.
• Letters: our mail guide.
• Deposits can be made by mail or online: our money page and commissary page.

Requests go to the Sheriff's Office at 301-600-1046. ICE booking photos must be requested through ICE's FOIA office. Federal booking photos are not released to the public or the press, except that the U.S. Marshals Service may publish one while looking for a fugitive.

1. If so, the W. Patrick Street courts are out of it; those charges go to the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland; clerk 410-962-2600 in Baltimore or 301-344-0660 in Greenbelt.
2. A magistrate conducts the detention hearing.
3. Federally charged people are kept for the U.S. Marshals, 410-962-2220, who hold defendants until trial.
4. Post-sentence, the BOP inmate locator lists the prison.

• Intake at Marcie's Choice Lane can lead ICE to send Form I-247A.
• It requests custody up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)). Posting bond leaves that request open.
• Agents may pick up at Marcie's Choice Lane in that window; otherwise release.
• ICE chooses where next. Check the ICE detainee locator. The ICE Baltimore Field Office is at 31 Hopkins Plaza, 6th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21201, 410-637-4000.

Someone sent from the Frederick center to state prison shows on the DPSCS locator; also see our Maryland prisons directory.

The Department of Juvenile Services intake office is at 130 Thomas Johnson Drive, Suite 5, 301-745-6080. A case manager decides, with the youth and a parent, to end the matter, oversee it informally, or refer it to prosecutors. Youths charged as adults may be housed apart from adults at the county center.

Pre-Trial Services, 301-600-3023, supervises people a court releases before trial. Home Detention is at 301-600-2856, Alternative Sentencing at 301-600-1928, and Work Release at 301-600-1727.

Men, women and juveniles have different visiting days and hours, so check first with the jail at 301-600-2550. Phones are outgoing only. Commissary money can be sent by mail or online. See our visit guide, phone page and money page.

It's a scam. Sheriff: 301-600-1046. Report: 888-743-0023.

Marcie's Choice Lane jail staff at 301-600-2550, plus medication questions.

The Central Booking Unit, 301-600-1790, is in the detention center's Security Division. The Offender Intake Unit answers at 301-600-2533, and Offender Records at 301-600-3015. For immigration holds, call 301-600-6829.

Most letters go to an off-site scanning service, then show up on the jail's tablets. The address is on the Sheriff's visitation and mail page. Put your full name and return address on the envelope. Keep it to 10 pages, no bigger than 8.5 by 11 inches. Do not send cash, checks, books, packages, Polaroids, glitter or tape, or original papers such as a birth certificate, since they cannot be returned. Legal mail marked "Legal Mail" and newspaper or magazine subscriptions go straight to 7300 Marcie's Choice Lane, Frederick, MD 21704; for the Work Release Center use 7281 Marcie's Choice Lane.

• Frederick Police Department, 301-600-2101.
• Brunswick Police Department, 301-834-9101; after hours, dispatch at 301-600-2071.
• Thurmont Police Department, through county dispatch at 301-600-2071 (Alternative number: 301-271-0905).
• Mount Airy Police Department, 410-386-2860.
• Frederick County Sheriff's Office, 110 Airport Drive East, Frederick, MD 21701, 301-600-1046.
• Maryland State Police, Frederick Barrack B, 110 Airport Drive East, Frederick, MD 21701, 301-600-4150.

Burkittsville, Emmitsburg, Middletown, Myersville, New Market, Rosemont, Walkersville and Woodsboro lack town police, so the Sheriff's Office and the Frederick barrack cover them. Frederick Community College Campus Police, 301-846-2453. Hood College Campus Safety, 301-696-3548. Mount St. Mary's University Public Safety, Emmitsburg, 301-447-5357. MTA Police, for MARC trains and stations, 410-454-7720. Emergencies: 911.