Dallas County Jail Inmate Lookup

Dallas County Jail Overview

Dallas County Jail is operated by the Dallas County Sheriff's Department and serves as the county's main adult jail. Official county material identifies the current public location as the temporary facility at 4805 US-80 in Selma. That location matters because older third-party directories may still point people toward Selfield Road or other historical jail references. For custody questions, bond questions, or a current jail inmate search, the official county jail page and the sheriff flyer point users to the US-80 temporary jail channel.

The facility holds adult county jail inmates, including pretrial detainees, local sentenced inmates, people held on warrants, and people awaiting transfer. The sheriff flyer also describes transport duties involving state inmates, juveniles, and fugitives, which explains why a person may appear in Dallas County custody briefly and then move to another system. The sheriff's administrative office at 102 Church Street is separate from the jail counter, so a caller or visitor should confirm which public counter handles the specific request before traveling.

The official Dallas County Jail page is the source for the current jail contact block, temporary facility address, average population statement, staff count, and warden listing.

The screenshot is useful because it confirms that Dallas County publishes contact information for the jail, but does not publish a searchable online adult roster from that page.

Dallas County Jail Capacity and Population

Dallas County's official jail materials state that the jail houses an average of 180 inmates and that the jail has a staff of 28. The sheriff page and sheriff flyer repeat the same average population and staffing figure. No rated-bed capacity, pod count, daily census dashboard, male/female split, pretrial/sentenced split, or bond-status breakdown was located in the official material reviewed.

Those are operating figures, not a live headcount. Dallas County does not publish a public dashboard that shows today's jail population, release count, overcrowding measure, or demographic categories. For a current custody answer, use the jail phone numbers, the statutory prisoner record channel, or VINELink when the person's status is eligible for notification.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Dallas County Jail

Dallas County does not publish an official online adult jail roster, booking report, mugshot gallery, or inmate-search form. The practical lookup route is a phone or in-person inquiry through the jail or sheriff, followed by court, state, federal, or immigration locators if the person is no longer in county custody. Alabama also requires the sheriff to keep a public prisoner record book during office hours, so the in-person record channel is important when a web search produces no result.

For Dallas County, the absence of an online roster changes the order of work. A name search on a commercial site may return old arrest material, similarly named people, or records from another Dallas County in another state. The official path is narrower but more reliable: confirm current custody with the jail, then use court and correctional locators only when the local jail says the person is not there or has moved.

1. Call the temporary county jail at (334) 690-1203 or the jail page number at (334) 690-1200. The county phone directory also lists the jail at (334) 874-2585.
2. Give the person's full legal name, date of birth or approximate age, arresting agency if known, and approximate arrest date or time.
3. Ask whether the person is currently held at Dallas County Jail, has been released, is waiting on bond, or has been transferred.
4. If the arrest involved Selma Police Department, call Selma Police at (334) 876-1259 or the 24-hour incident number at (334) 876-1220 to ask whether the person was moved to the county jail.
5. If county custody cannot be confirmed, check ADOC Inmate Search for sentenced state prison custody, Alacourt for case status, BOP for federal prison, ICE ODLS for immigration custody, and VINELink for notification registration.

For in-person public records, start with the sheriff office at 102 Church Street or the jail at 4805 US-80, but call first because the adult jail operates from a temporary facility and the public counter may differ by request type.

Dallas County Jail Address and Contact

Use the current official jail address for custody, visitation, and mail questions unless jail staff direct you to another mailing format. The county jail page lists public office hours, while the sheriff flyer describes the jail function as operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Those are not the same thing: public counter hours can differ from detention operations.

Visiting Someone at Dallas County Jail

Dallas County does not publish adult jail visitation schedules, dress code rules, video visitation vendor, visitor approval procedures, attorney visit instructions, or lobby entry rules on the official jail page. Before traveling to the temporary facility, call the jail and ask whether the person is eligible for visits, whether visits are in person or video, whether the visitor must be on an approved list, what photo ID is accepted, and where visitors should enter.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Dallas County Jail

The official adult jail sources reviewed do not publish a mail format, commissary vendor, deposit portal, lobby kiosk details, phone vendor, tablet program, money order rule, or fee table. Do not send money, property, or mail based on an old directory listing. Call the temporary jail and ask for the exact inmate mailing address format, whether mail is scanned or inspected, the accepted deposit methods, whether a vendor handles phone or video accounts, and what fees apply.

Booking and Intake at Dallas County Jail

A typical Dallas County adult arrest moves from the arresting agency to transport, intake, booking record creation, bond or first-appearance processing, and either release, continued county-jail custody, transfer, or court case progression. Official Dallas County pages do not publish a step-by-step adult booking policy, booking duration, medical screening process, property-release form, or roster-posting delay.

Alabama's sheriff record-book statute gives the clearest public-field baseline. The sheriff must keep a public prisoner book showing the prisoner's name, age, sex, color, distinguishing marks, charge held for, commitment order and date, and release order and date. That statutory record is not the same as an online profile, and Dallas County has not published public mugshot, bond, housing-unit, or booking-number fields online.

Bond and first-appearance questions should be separated from custody confirmation. The jail can usually tell a caller where to ask about current bond status, but the charge, warrant, magistrate order, judge's order, or hold can control whether release is available. If the case has already moved into the courts, the Dallas County Circuit Clerk and Alacourt records may show the formal case path after the arrest.

About Dallas County Jail

Dallas County Jail is part of the sheriff's broader public-safety operation in Alabama's Black Belt region. The sheriff's department patrols nearly 980 square miles, handles warrants and subpoenas, provides courthouse security, transports prisoners, supports elections, and works through central dispatch. The adult jail is one piece of that system, separate from the Dallas County Juvenile Detention Center, Perry and Carolyn Varner Educational and Treatment Facility, and Selma Police Department's short-term arrest channel.

No official Dallas County adult jail program page, GED page, work-release page, reentry page, accreditation page, consent decree, DOJ investigation, or public adult jail litigation page was located in the county or sheriff materials reviewed. The safest public wording is that the county publishes basic facility and contact information, while detailed conditions, programming, visitation, and commissary questions must be confirmed with the jail.