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St. Clair County Jail Overview

The St. Clair County Sheriff's Office Corrections page identifies one sheriff-operated jail for the county. It is located in Pell City and houses both pre-sentenced and sentenced people committed to county jail custody. That makes St. Clair County Jail the facility tied to local arrests, first jail booking, bond questions, local holds, release processing, and short county sentences. The sheriff page does not publish a formal jail security level, pod list, bed count, or public inmate classification chart.

The official corrections material gives more useful day-to-day detail than many county jail pages. It says the lobby is open to the public at all times, names Captain Phillip Barnard as Jail Administrator, and names Lieutenant Greg Walker as Assistant Jail Administrator. It also sets out mail rules, commissary deposit rules, phone and video vendor details, and property bond requirements. For current custody research, the jail page and the official inmate roster should be read together because the roster gives the current booking snapshot while the corrections page explains how families use jail services.

The live roster count is not the same thing as a certified average daily population. Vera/BJS-derived county data in the research file reported a 2023 jail population figure of 155 and a rated capacity figure of 192, while the sheriff's current page did not publish an official rated capacity. Those figures should be cited by source and date rather than blended into one timeless count.

St. Clair County Jail Roster Lookup

The sheriff roster is the best first stop for a person booked into St. Clair County Jail. It has Current, Released, and Archived Inmates paths, date and name sorting, a Search By Name field, and booking cards that show a mugshot, name, booking number, age, booking date, charges, bond, and a profile link. A disclaimer appears in the roster flow, and the sheriff warns that the office cannot certify every displayed charge or bond amount as current.

1. Open the St. Clair County inmate roster and accept the roster disclaimer if it appears.
2. Start with Current for someone believed to be in the county jail, or use Released if the person may have left custody.
3. Use Search By Name, or browse by Date and sort newest to oldest for recent bookings.
4. Open View Profile to check the booking number, arresting agency, booking date, release date if listed, charges, bond, and VINELink option.
5. Call the jail before posting bond or making a trip if the record shows a hold, a zero-dollar bond, or a recent court event.

The roster is a county jail record source, not an Alabama state prison locator. If a person was sentenced to ADOC and moved from the jail, the next search path is the ADOC inmate search. For a full county roster walkthrough, the separate St. Clair County jail inmate records page focuses on roster fields and fallback channels.

St. Clair County Jail Record Fields

A sample St. Clair County roster profile inspected in the research showed a public booking photo, VINELink link, full name, booking number, age, gender, race, arresting agency, booking date, release date, charge text, and bond amount. It did not show height, weight, date of birth, home address, housing unit, court date, case number, statute code, or projected release date. That difference matters because the county roster is a jail custody snapshot, not the full court case file.

The sample roster profile captured in the research also included the sheriff's bond warning. Charges and bail can change after court appearances. Bond companies and people trying to post bail are told to contact detention staff for current bail amount, charge, and case number information.

For booking photos tied to these roster records, the St. Clair County jail mugshots page explains what is visible online and how to request a booking photo if it no longer appears.

St. Clair County Jail Contact

Use the jail phone when the roster is unclear, the person was just booked, a bond amount might have changed, or a hold appears. Use sheriff administrative offices for property bonds and public-record matters when the official instructions require those channels. The research did not locate official visitor parking, transit, ADA entrance, or separate visitor-door instructions, so callers should confirm entrance and security rules before travel.

St. Clair County Jail Visits

The current sheriff corrections page did not publish an official in-person visitation schedule. It did publish the county jail phone/video pathway: friends and family use InmateSales.com for inmate phone deposits and video visitation appointments, and the phone service is through Combined Public Communications. Because the official in-person schedule was not located, do not rely on older unofficial weekend schedules without calling the jail.

The sheriff page says special arrangements must be presented to and approved by Sheriff Billy J. Murray and Captain Phillip Barnard. That language should be treated as an exception path, not a general visit schedule.

St. Clair County Jail Mail and Money

Mail and commissary rules at St. Clair County Jail are specific. Inmate mail goes to the jail address, except release funds from another agency. The sheriff says all mail except legal mail is searched before delivery. Allowed mailed items listed in the research are legal mail, postcards sized 3 inches by 5 inches, and photos when the envelope is marked photos. General letters were not listed in the official captured text, so the safer rule is to follow only the posted items or call first.

The sheriff also says the jail does not accept cash or money orders for inmate commissary deposits. Deposits are made through the lobby kiosk or JailATM. JailATM can be used to send money, email an inmate, make video calls, and send gift packs. Commissary orders can be placed through the week, and orders received on time are delivered Friday, subject to holiday changes.

Deposits may be applied first to a negative inmate balance. Remaining account funds are released by debit card or check when the person leaves custody.

St. Clair County Jail Bond Rules

The sheriff's bond rules distinguish property bonds, surety bonds, and cash bonds. A property bond uses real property and requires sheriff approval. A surety bond uses a licensed bail bonding company, whose fees are nonrefundable and are not applied to later fines, costs, or restitution. A cash bond requires the full bond amount in cash and is held by the court pending the criminal case.

Property bonds must be made at the sheriff's Ashville office or Pell City office. For misdemeanor charges, one signer may be allowed if only one owner appears on the deed or tax records. For felony charges, two property owners are required on all felony bonds, and both can be owners of one property. The defendant may not use his property. All owners or signers must be present with property ID. St. Clair County property cannot be combined, out-of-state property is not accepted, and out-of-county property must be approved by that county's sheriff. Out-of-county property bonds over $50,000 also need approval from a St. Clair Sheriff's Office captain or above.

Note: A zero-dollar bond entry can still mean a hold, warrant, probation issue, court order, or another agency release block.

St. Clair County Jail Services

The screenshot captured from the official sheriff corrections page shows the jail service information that supports mail, commissary, video visitation, and bond instructions.

That source is useful because it keeps county jail services separate from ADOC prison services. JailATM and InmateSales apply to St. Clair County Jail, not to St. Clair Correctional Facility.

St. Clair County Jail vs Prison

St. Clair County contains both the county jail and an ADOC state prison, but they are not interchangeable. The jail is for local arrests, pretrial custody, county sentences, and local holds. St. Clair Correctional Facility is a male state prison for sentenced ADOC prisoners. Once a person is sentenced and transferred to ADOC, the sheriff roster may stop being the current custody source except for released or archived county booking history.