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York County Inmate Population Overview

The York County inmate population is centered at the York County Detention Center, a two-building county jail operation at the Moss Justice Center. The York County Sheriff's Office runs both the Main Building and the Annex. The Sheriff's Office detention page says the Main Building is a direct-supervision facility opened in March 1995, while the Annex is the former York County Prison that was folded into detention-center operations in July 2021. Together they form the local jail system for Rock Hill, Fort Mill, York, Clover, Tega Cay, Lake Wylie, and other communities in York County.

People counted in the local York County inmate population are not all in the same legal posture. The jail holds people arrested by York County law-enforcement agencies until bond, court release, or transfer to a state institution after sentencing. It also holds local sentences under 90 days, Family Court sentences, U.S. Marshals detainees, and ICE detainees under agreements with the county. State-sentenced prisoners from York County are no longer counted on the local roster once they move to the South Carolina Department of Corrections.

York County Inmate Population Statistics

Official York County inmate population numbers come from two local sources: the Sheriff's Office detention page for rated bed capacity, and annual reports for bookings, inmate days, medical workload, transfers, and program activity. The public roster adds a point-in-time current-booking count. That roster count is useful for a searcher, but it is not the same as an annual average daily population because it changes as people are booked, released, bonded, sentenced, or moved.

York County Inmate Population Trends

York County's annual reports show a busy jail even when the daily count sits well below total bed capacity. The 2025 annual report reported 177,432 inmate accumulated days, which yields a derived average daily population of about 486.1. The 2024 report listed 188,351 inmate accumulated days, a derived average daily population of about 516.0. Using the current 877-bed capacity, those annual averages equal about 55 percent of combined capacity in 2025 and about 59 percent in 2024.

The annual figures also show workload beyond headcount. In 2025, York County reported 476,620 meals served, 19,463 nursing visits, 1,691 mental-health staff visits, 13,875 prescriptions processed, 413 outside medical-care transports, 2,100 programming hours, and 16,759 inmates attending programs. Those data points show how the York County inmate population affects food service, medical care, transport, court movement, and reentry programming.

York County Jail Capacity

The York County Detention Center is not a single-building jail. The Sheriff's Office describes a 621-bed Main Building and a 256-bed Annex. The Annex was formerly York County Prison, but the Sheriff's Office obtained custody of it in July 2021 and merged it into the detention center operation. That local history matters because older references may use "prison" language or lower capacity figures, while the current Sheriff's Office detention page controls the present county jail description.

The Sheriff's 2025 annual report describes the York County Detention Center as the sixth largest detention facility in South Carolina by capacity and seventh largest by current population. That ranking refers to the county jail operation, not a separate state prison. No standalone SCDC prison, BOP prison, ICE detention center, or city-run long-term jail roster was identified inside York County during the research sweep.

York County Jail Records Law

South Carolina law shapes how the York County inmate population is reported and requested. The free roster gives quick public access to current booking information, but records not shown online may need a Sheriff's Office FOIA request. Some records can also be withheld or redacted for law-enforcement, safety, privacy, juvenile, body-worn camera, or active-investigation reasons.

York County and State Prison

Sentenced state prisoners from York County leave the county jail count after transfer to the South Carolina Department of Corrections inmate locator. SCDC says its public search displays photographs and public information for people currently sentenced to and incarcerated in SCDC as of midnight the prior day. It does not cover county jail inmates, released SCDC inmates, probation or parole, community supervision, juvenile offenders held by SCDC, or current SCDC fugitives.

York County annual reports show this transfer path in numbers. The jail transported 374 inmates to SCDC after sentencing in 2025, 410 in 2024, 496 in 2023, and 382 in 2022. Those people may have started on the York County jail roster, but the current lookup shifts to SCDC after state-prison admission. The SCDC inmate information line, 1-866-727-2846, is the phone fallback when the public locator does not answer the question.

Search York County Inmates

The official York County inmate search begins with the York County Detention Center current inmate roster. The page is county-hosted, free, and does not require a login. Its own notice states that only current booking information is available. A no-result search can mean release, transfer, spelling differences, federal custody, ICE custody, or that the person was never booked into York County Detention Center.

1. Open the current inmate roster and start with the last-name box.
2. Use "Search by Last Name" for a specific name, or browse page links and "Sort by Last Name."
3. Read the Inmate Information column for name, booking date, city, state and ZIP, race, sex, height, weight, and age.
4. Open the booking photo only when the full-size official image is needed.
5. Review the Bookings/Charges column for facility, booking number, release status, total bond, charge sequence, charge description, and arresting agency.
6. If the person is not listed, use the phone, FOIA, court, SCDC, BOP, ICE, or VINELink channels based on the custody stage.

The current roster screenshot from the official county page shows why the roster is the first lookup stop. The York County current inmate roster displays result count, name search, booking photos, booking numbers, charges, and bond fields in one table.

Because the roster is current-booking only, it works best for people believed to be inside York County Detention Center now.

York County Roster Fields

The York County roster has fewer search fields than many statewide systems. It does not show a public first-name field, booking-number search, release-date filter, or facility dropdown. The visible search route is last name, plus browsing and sorting. That simple design makes spelling and custody stage important.

Released York County Inmates

The York County inmate population visible online is a current roster, not an archive of every past booking. The roster notice says only current booking information is available. For older booking records, released inmates, incident reports, booking photos no longer shown, or records tied to a court case, use the Sheriff's Office FOIA process and the York County public court index. FOIA requests go to the York County Sheriff's Office, Attention: General Counsel, at 1675-2A York Highway, York, South Carolina 29745, or through the FOIA email listed on the Sheriff's FOIA page.

The Sheriff's Office FOIA page lists fees that may matter for older inmate records: $0.25 per copy, $10 per data disc, and search or redaction time at a minimum of $17.44 per hour, charged at the rate of the lowest-paid employee with the skill and training to respond. The office may require a 25 percent deposit before searching, retrieving, redacting, or reproducing records.

York County Inmate Record Fields

A York County inmate record on the public roster is a row-style profile. It shows enough information to identify a current booking, but it is not the full court file, warrant packet, housing record, or medical record. Court dates, exact housing, date of birth, magistrate name, warrant numbers, attorney information, and bond type were not visible in the inspected public roster entries.

York County Jail vs Prison

Searchers often miss a person because they use the wrong custody system. York County Detention Center is the local jail for current bookings, short local sentences, Family Court sentences, federal pretrial holds, and some ICE detainees held locally. SCDC is for people sentenced to South Carolina state prison. BOP is for federal sentenced inmates. ICE ODLS is for immigration detention. VINELink can help with notification, but it is not a full court or booking database.

York County Detention Facilities

The York County inmate population uses one integrated detention-center system across two buildings. Both facility pages should be read as parts of the same Sheriff's Office detention operation, not as separate public rosters. The public roster, inmate information phone path, mail rules, video visitation, commissary, property release, FOIA process, and court information path are shared unless an inmate-specific instruction says otherwise.

• York County Detention Center Main Building holds current local detainees and short-sentence custody in the 621-bed direct-supervision building opened in March 1995.
• York County Detention Center Annex is the 256-bed former York County Prison folded into the detention center in July 2021.

The official York County Sheriff's Office Detention page shows the two-building operation, bed counts, mission statement, and detention command contact.

The same source is the controlling reference for Main Building and Annex capacity in this build.

York County Bond Court

Bond Court sits inside the York County Detention Center at the Moss Justice Center and is open every day with a judge on duty. York County schedules bond hearings by booking window, with hearing times that may include early morning, afternoon, evening, midnight, and 4 a.m. The Sheriff's Office Court Information page directs bond-hearing questions to the Magistrate Judge path at 803-628-3083, option 5. South Carolina law also requires a bond hearing within 24 hours for bailable offenses.

York County Inmate Population FAQ