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Main Building Facility Overview

The York County Sheriff's Office Detention page describes the York County Detention Center as a two-building local detention facility. The York County Detention Center Main Building is the larger building in that operation. It is operated by the York County Sheriff's Office, not by the South Carolina Department of Corrections, and it serves as a local county jail for arrests made by York County law-enforcement agencies.

The official detention overview source is shown here.

The Detention page is the controlling source for the Main Building's capacity, operating model, and two-building relationship with the Annex.

The Main Building holds people after arrest until bond, court release, or transfer after sentencing. It also holds people serving local sentences under 90 days, Family Court sentences, U.S. Marshals detainees, and ICE detainees under agreements that compensate the county. A person held in this building may be a pretrial county detainee, a short-sentence local inmate, a federal pretrial detainee housed for the Marshals Service, or an immigration detainee held locally.

Main Building Capacity Stats

The Sheriff's Office lists the Main Building as a 621-bed direct-supervision facility opened in March 1995. Direct supervision means staff work in or near housing areas to manage behavior and safety through active supervision rather than only remote observation. The combined York County Detention Center capacity is 877 beds when the 256-bed Annex is added. The roster inspected on June 29, 2026 showed 439 current bookings across the detention center, not a building-by-building headcount.

The 2025 Sheriff's annual report says the York County Detention Center is the sixth largest detention facility in South Carolina by capacity and seventh largest by current population. That ranking describes the detention center as a whole, and the York County inmate population overview gives detention-wide context beyond the Main Building.

Lookup Main Building Inmates

Use the York County Detention Center current inmate roster to look up inmates connected to the Main Building. The roster is free and official, but it covers current booking information only. It does not provide a released-inmate archive, court disposition, exact housing unit, court date, date of birth, or full warrant file. For a fuller roster walkthrough, use the York County jail inmate records page. If no record appears, the person may have been released, transferred, booked under a different spelling, moved to SCDC, held federally, or held in immigration custody.

1. Open the official current inmate roster linked by the York County Sheriff's Office.
2. Enter the last name or browse with the roster pagination and sort controls.
3. Review the inmate information column for name, booking date, city, race, sex, height, weight, age, and booking photo.
4. Check the bookings and charges column for facility, booking number, release status, total bond, charge description, and arresting agency.
5. Use the Public Index, jail information menu, SCDC, BOP, ICE, or VINELink when the roster does not answer the custody question.

Main Building Address and Contact

The detention address for the York County Detention Center Main Building is the same detention-center address used for legal mail and money orders. The Sheriff's Office administrative address is nearby in the same Moss Justice Center complex. For inmate information, use the detention center phone paths rather than calling emergency lines.

Main Building Visitation Rules

York County visitation is inmate initiated. The inmate must submit an Inmate Visitation Request Form and may list up to six friends or family members for approval. Visitors must be at least 17 years old. Once approved, the inmate receives a specific one-hour time slot on a specific day of the week. Only two approved visitors may visit during that hour, and visitors must present valid government-issued identification.

The York County Visitation and Communication page shows the shared visitation and communication rules for the detention center.

The screenshot reinforces that the Main Building and Annex use one shared visitation approval and communication system.

Main Building Mail and Money

Mail and money rules are centralized for the York County Detention Center. Regular postal mail is sent to the scanning address and made available to inmates through kiosks. Legal mail and money orders go directly to the detention center. Electronic messaging, video visitation, and telephone services use Smart Communications or SmartJailMail. Commissary deposits may be made by money order, lobby kiosk, or the online jailpackstore.com option linked by the Sheriff's commissary page.

Main Building Booking and Bond

Booking at the Main Building creates the public jail record. During intake, the jail records identity information, booking date, charge data, arresting agency, property, booking photo, and classification or housing needs. Inmates receive a phone PIN during booking and may begin making outgoing collect or debit calls. The public roster starts showing current booking information after the person is entered into the system.

Bond hearings are scheduled by booking window. The Sheriff's Court Information page lists hearings at 9 a.m., 1 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 8 p.m., midnight, or 4 a.m., depending on booking time and subject to change. South Carolina law requires a bond hearing within 24 hours for bailable offenses. A total bond field on the roster is helpful, but a hold, detainer, no-bond matter, Family Court sentence, federal hold, or ICE detainer can still affect release.

Use the roster for current booking and total bond fields, the Magistrate Judge path for bond details, the Solicitor's Office for prosecution and court-date questions, and the Public Defender's Office when a represented inmate needs defense contact information.

Main Building Programs and FOIA

The detention mission statement says the center aims to provide a secure, accountable, fair, and effective facility with trained staff, positive physical surroundings, nutritional and physical well-being, and programs that support appropriate behavior. Annual reports give measurable context: in 2025, the detention center reported 2,100 hours of inmate programming, 16,759 inmates attending programs, 19,463 nursing visits, 1,691 mental-health staff visits, 13,875 prescriptions processed, and 413 outside medical-care transports.

For records not visible on the roster, use the Sheriff's FOIA page. Requests go to the Sheriff's Office General Counsel at 1675-2A York Highway, York, SC 29745, or by the FOIA email listed on the official page. Fees may include copies, discs, and search or redaction time, with a possible deposit before records are produced.

The property process is separate. Personal property is not accepted for inmates. If an inmate signs a Property Release Form, authorized pickup is Tuesdays or Thursdays during the posted morning or afternoon windows with valid ID.