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Randolph County Jail Overview

Randolph County Sheriff's Office operates Randolph County Jail as the only official detention facility mapped for this Randolph County inmate population project. The jail holds adult males and females in local custody. That includes people awaiting first appearance or trial, sentenced county prisoners, and municipal prisoners transferred to the county jail after arrest by local police. Wadley materials reviewed during research state that the town has no jail and detainees are held at the county jail in Wedowee, which fits the countywide role of this facility.

The facility type matters for lookup. Randolph County Jail is a county jail, not an Alabama Department of Corrections prison, not a federal Bureau of Prisons facility, and not an ICE detention center. Current county custody appears on the sheriff roster. A person sentenced to ADOC after a Randolph County case should be searched in the statewide ADOC locator after transfer, while federal and immigration custody require separate federal systems. The Randolph County jail records page gives a broader roster walkthrough when a user needs more than the facility facts.

Randolph County Jail Population

The county's official jail-history page says the current Randolph County Jail opened for prisoners in February 2021. It reports a rated capacity of 110 inmates and says the building was designed so capacity can expand to 156 without major construction. The same county source describes a 27,181 gross-square-foot jail with a central control system and cameras throughout the facility. It also says the jail houses both minimum-security and maximum-security inmates, along with both male and female prisoners.

A March 24, 2025 county bid document gives a dated population snapshot for the jail. That bid described an average of about 72 male inmates and 6 female inmates, or about 78 inmates total, in the facility at 340 Probuilt Drive. Treat that as a bid-context average, not a live head count. The live roster is still the best official source for current Randolph County Jail custody.

Randolph County Jail Roster Lookup

The official lookup channel is the Randolph County Sheriff's Office current inmate roster. It is free, requires no login, and shows a "Last Updated" timestamp. The roster is current-only, so it should not be treated as a released-inmate archive or a historical booking search. It is also a table, not a form with a booking-number search box. Use browser find or page scrolling to locate a last name, then confirm the person by first name, middle name, age, sex, race, height, weight, and booking date.

The roster table shows a photo thumbnail plus last, first, middle, age, sex, booking date, race, height, and weight. Clicking a row opens a detail page with a larger booking image, demographics, booking date, and charge list. The inspected detail pages did not show booking number, arresting agency, housing unit, court date, warrant number, release date, or release status. Those gaps are important. Call the jail or use the county public-records process when a Randolph County Jail inmate record needs one of those missing fields.

The official roster screenshot below comes from the sheriff's current inmate roster and shows the local table format with photos and booking dates.

The image matches the research finding that Randolph County Jail roster lookup is a current custody table, not a separate full-text database.

1. Open the official sheriff roster and check the timestamp before relying on the list.
2. Use browser find or manual scrolling to locate the last name.
3. Compare first name, middle name, age, sex, race, height, weight, and booking date.
4. Open the detail page for the larger photo and charges.
5. Call 256-357-4545 if the person was just arrested, recently released, transferred, or not shown.

Randolph County Jail Visitation

Randolph County Jail visitation is posted on the sheriff roster-site contact page and in the inmate-information PDF. Visits run every day in two blocks: morning and afternoon. Each inmate receives one 30-minute visit per week. Only two visitors may visit at one time, plus the inmate's legal children under 18. A visitor must be listed on the inmate's visitation list and must bring valid U.S. government-issued identification.

Visitors sign in for the first available visitation slot. Dress rules are part of the jail rules. The inmate-information sheet bars short shorts or skirts, revealing shirts, coats, and headwear. The facility may cancel visitation without notice when security needs require it, so visitors should confirm access before driving to Wedowee. No separate official public visitor-entrance map or parking-rate page was found.

Randolph County Jail Mail and Money

Mail for Randolph County Jail inmates uses the jail's post office box, not the physical Probuilt Drive address. The official format is the inmate name, Randolph County Jail, PO Box 347, Wedowee, AL 36278. Official sources reviewed did not publish a detailed contraband list, legal-mail rule, book-vendor rule, or mail scanning policy for this county jail, so those questions should be confirmed with jail staff before sending items beyond ordinary correspondence.

Commissary money can be placed through the lobby kiosk, by phone, or online through GettingOut. Care packages are ordered through Inmate Care Packages. The inmate-information sheet says store orders normally happen each Monday unless a holiday changes the schedule, so deposits should be made early enough to post before the weekly order window.

During the first 24 hours after arrest, the sheriff's inmate-information sheet allows a narrow set of new unopened clothing items. Male and female inmates may receive three pairs of socks, three pairs of underwear, three tee shirts, one white towel, and one white washcloth. Female inmates may also receive three bras with no underwire. All items must be white or gray and new in unopened packages.

Randolph County Jail Phone Access

The phone and video channel identified in the research is NCIC Inmate Communications at account.ncic.com or 1-800-943-2189. The flyer reviewed for Randolph County Detention Center says phone access starts after completion of booking, phones are in housing areas, and calls may also be made from handheld tablets. It also lists no connection fees and says three-way calls are prohibited.

Because the detailed rate figures came from a communications flyer rather than the main sheriff contact page, families should confirm current charges before funding an account. The flyer listed U.S. calls at $0.20 per minute, Mexico and Canada at $0.25 per minute, other international calls at $0.35 per minute, video at $0.30 per minute, messages at $0.25, and picture or video messages at $0.35 each.

Randolph County Jail Records

The sheriff roster is the fastest public check for current custody, but it is not the only access channel. For booking records, older booking photos, release order details, or fields not shown on the public profile, the formal Randolph County open-records process may be needed. The county open-records page says Alabama residents must submit the request form and proof of residency in person at the Commission Office. It also says requests must identify the public record with reasonable specificity.

The county may require payment of estimated reasonable administrative fees before records are produced, and time-intensive requests may require payment before the search begins. The county page also states that it will not acknowledge or respond to unsolicited email or other electronic public-records communications because of cybersecurity risk. A specific request, made in the required local format, is stronger than a broad request for "all records" about a person.

Alabama law also shapes jail records. The sheriff has charge of county jail prisoners under Ala. Code Section 14-6-1, and Ala. Code Section 36-22-8 requires a public jail book with basic data for each person received into county jail. Those laws support access to core jail-book facts, while juvenile, sealed, expunged, medical, safety, and active investigative material may be limited.

Randolph County Jail vs ADOC

No ADOC state prison, BOP federal prison, or ICE detention facility was found in Randolph County official facility sources. A person held before court, serving a local county sentence, or awaiting local transfer belongs first in the Randolph County Jail lookup chain. A sentenced Alabama state prisoner should be checked through the ADOC inmate search after transfer. Federal sentenced prisoners use the BOP locator, and immigration detainees use ICE's Online Detainee Locator System.

Randolph County Jail History

The county's jail-history page gives useful context for why the current jail replaced older facilities. Randolph County's early jail history reaches back to the first formal jail accepted in December 1839, followed by a brick jail in 1857 and a 1937 jail that was closed by the state fire marshal in June 1980. A later 31-cell jail opened in 1985, but the county history describes crowding, staffing strain, plumbing problems, mold, and riots during that building's service life.

The official jail-history screenshot below comes from the county page that describes the current jail's capacity, construction, and earlier jail sites.

That history explains why the 2021 Randolph County Jail is more than a new address. It is the county's response to decades of capacity and building-condition problems.

The current facility was designed by JMR+H Architecture of Montgomery at an approximate cost of $11.7 million. County materials say planning included a 25-plus-year outlook for projected inmate beds, staffing analysis, and operating budget. A half-cent sales tax approved in November 2016 helped fund construction and operation. No official mobile app for Randolph County, Alabama jail lookup was found, so users should rely on the roster, jail phone, open-records process, and the separate state or federal locators when custody has moved out of the county jail.