• Kent County Detention Center, 104 Vickers Drive, Unit A, Chestertown, MD 21620, 410-778-6025.
• The Sheriff's Office is next door in Unit B.

A VINELink search, which offers alerts, or a call to 410-778-6025. Court information is on Case Search.

Via commissioner terms set on Cross Street, then bail review if still held. See our bail guide.

Kent's Sheriff's Office, 410-778-2279, can confirm a warrant; it is on Vickers Drive in Chestertown. Chestertown or Rock Hall officers check their own cases.

A Chestertown lawyer can plan a surrender at the Vickers Drive jail. Missed court? The clerks at 103 N. Cross Street take calls about a new date: Circuit Court, 410-778-7460, or District Court, 410-810-3360.

The state's case lookup shows the charges, hearing dates and outcome once a Kent case is filed. Warrants do not appear on it, so the Sheriff is the one to ask.

Cross Street's commissioner sets first terms, from promise-to-appear up to a bond. Kent detainees still held see a District Court judge. Visit our the bail set page for paying.

Yes. VINELink provides free Kent alerts by phone, SMS or email.

Yes. Inside 24 hours, a commissioner at the Cross Street District Court (410-810-3370) covers the charges, counsel and release. Those kept in jail are reviewed by a judge at Cross Street, 410-810-3360. Details: court guide.

Cross Street, Circuit Court, 410-778-7460. Start may be at Cross Street, 410-810-3360.

Ask a commissioner for DC-099 and bring income proof. With approval in hand, call 400 S. Cross Street, Suite 1a, 410-778-0809.

Usually; the Cross Street courts post within hours on Maryland Judiciary Case Search. Clerk: 410-778-7460. Handed a Chestertown summons rather than jailed? Show up for the preliminary inquiry it lists, or in five business days at most.

Ask the jail at 410-778-6025 for current times and rules, then read our visitation guide.

• Vickers Drive calls are prepaid and recorded; see our phone guide.
• Letters must be addressed completely; see our mail guide.
• Electronic messages, if offered: our messaging guide.
• Deposits go online, by phone or at a lobby kiosk; see our money page and commissary page.

Ask the Sheriff's Office at 410-778-2279. 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.

Kent federal charges are filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland: clerk 410-962-2600, Baltimore; 301-344-0660, Greenbelt. A magistrate decides detention. Marshals for the District of Maryland, 410-962-2220, keep pretrial custody. The BOP inmate locator follows sentenced people.

• Vickers Drive may receive ICE Form I-247A.
• Requested: up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)); the bail set leaves it pending.
• Agents can collect in Chestertown during that time. Otherwise the jail releases.
• ICE decides placement. Use the ICE detainee locator. The ICE Baltimore Field Office is at 31 Hopkins Plaza, 6th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21201, 410-637-4000.

Once someone leaves Chestertown for state custody, the DPSCS locator. Our Maryland prisons directory lists each prison.

Youth cases begin with the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services, 217 E. Redwood Street, Baltimore, MD 21202, 410-230-3100.

At the Vickers Drive jail, people may send and receive unlimited mail if it follows postal rules. Photos larger than 4x6 and perfumed letters are not allowed, and legal mail is opened only in front of the person. Money can be mailed as a money order or left at the lobby kiosk by cash or card. See our mail page and money page.

Call the jail at 410-778-6025 about visit times and ID. The jail also runs a home detention and pretrial unit. Our visit guide has general tips.

Sheriff: 410-778-2279. Fraud: 888-743-0023.

Ask 410-778-6025; Vickers Drive jail also explains property release.

Kent County Detention Center, 410-778-6025, takes money three ways: a money order by U.S. mail, filled in completely and made out to the person; online or by phone with the person's name and ID number; or using the lobby kiosk, which takes cash or cards. Phone time is a separate prepaid account. See our money guide and commissary page.

Kent County Detention Center wants the sender's full name and address on every envelope, sent to Unit A, 104 Vickers Drive, Chestertown. Each envelope may hold at most four photos, none larger than 4 by 6 and no Polaroids. Oversized cards are refused. See our mail guide.

Kent's agencies, including the Sheriff's Office, 410-778-2279, and Chestertown police, 410-778-1800, reported 152 serious crimes in 2020, by the Maryland open data county crime table built from State Police reports. That was 26 violent and 126 property crimes, a rate of 789 per 100,000 people. In 2010 the county logged 419.

Ask the clerk at Kent's District Court, 410-810-3360, or Circuit Court, 410-778-7460, since you file in the court that heard the case. Maryland expunges a case for free when it ended in acquittal, dismissal, probation before judgment, nolle prosequi or stet. An eligible guilty case costs $30 per case, and the fee can be waived if you cannot pay. Cases where every charge was dropped or found not guilty on or after October 1, 2021 are erased on their own after three years.

• Chestertown Police Department, 410-778-1800.
• Rock Hall Police Department, 410-639-7222.
• Kent County Sheriff's Office, 104 Vickers Drive, Unit B, Chestertown, MD 21620, 410-778-2279.
• Maryland State Police, Centreville Barrack S, 311 Safety Drive, Centreville, MD 21617, 410-758-1101.

Betterton, Galena and Millington have no town force; deputies and Centreville troopers handle calls. Emergencies: 911.