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Crisp County Jail Overview

Crisp County Jail is operated by the Crisp County Sheriff's Office under Sheriff H.W. "Billy" Hancock. The sheriff publishes the jail and sheriff campus at 196 GA Hwy 300 South, Cordele, GA 31015. The Georgia Department of Corrections location entry lists the same county jail at 130 Rehab Road, Cordele, GA 31015, with the same jail phone number. Those two official address labels appear to describe the same jail campus.

The sheriff's jail operations page says the modern jail was constructed in 1991 and has 224 beds. It includes holding cells, suicide watch, four isolation cells, an intoxication tank, a secure sally port for intake, medical services, an interior visitation area, additional fencing, and 24-hour video surveillance. The jail holds adults booked on local charges, local sentenced inmates, low-risk inmate labor participants, and prisoners held for the United States Marshals Service or Bureau of Prisons under contract.

Crisp County Jail Capacity

The facility's rated capacity is one of the clearest sourced numbers in the research. The sheriff's jail operations page states that Crisp County Jail is a 224-bed facility, and Vera's county CSV also lists 224 beds in recent rows. Vera's 2025 row lists a jail population of 198.5, while the 2024 row lists 207.75. Those figures are annual jail population data, not a live count.

Look Up Crisp County Jail Inmates

No official public online Crisp County Jail roster or current-inmate search form was located in the official sheriff or county sources. Current custody checks should start with the jail phone lines. If a booking sheet, release record, or booking photo is needed, the written route is the sheriff's open-records email. Sentenced state prisoners should be checked through GDC, while federal prisoners may require BOP channels even if they were housed locally.

The facility's federal contract role makes lookup questions more complex than a normal small county jail. A federal defendant or prisoner can be housed at Crisp County Jail but still have a federal custody record. A Georgia state-sentenced inmate can pass through the jail before transfer, then appear in GDC rather than a county source. Ask the jail what custody authority applies before assuming the local charge path is the only record path.

1. Call Crisp County Jail at 229-276-2646 or 229-276-2647 for current custody status.
2. Wait for intake if the arrest just happened; the sheriff says booking may take two to eight hours.
3. Email openrecords@crispcounty.com for booking sheets, release dates, or legally releasable photos.
4. Use GDC offender search for sentenced state prisoners and BOP inmate locator for federal custody.

Crisp County Jail Contact

Use the jail phone numbers for custody status, visitation questions, booking timing, and immediate facility questions. The sheriff's administrative office phone is separate from the jail lines. Administrative office hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, except county holidays, but jail custody work continues around the clock.

Crisp County Jail Visitation

Visits are non-contact and occur in the Inmate Visitation Room. Each inmate is allowed one hour of visitation per week. A visitor traveling more than 175 miles can receive an additional half hour with travel verification. Only one child is allowed per visitation day, and children age 16 or older need ID. Dress-code violations can cause denial of a visit.

Mail Phone and Money

Non-legal personal mail must be sent to the Stewart Distribution mail center, not straight to the Cordele jail campus. Use: Crisp County Jail, Full Inmate Name & ID Number, P.O. Box 1759, Waycross, GA 31502. The sender must include a return name and address. Mail is scanned into Inmate Inbox and reviewed by the jail administrator or designee. Packages, magazines, newspapers, and documents larger than 8.5 by 11.5 inches are not accepted under the sheriff's posted rules.

Booking at Crisp County Jail

The sheriff's general information page says arrested people go through intake and booking before placement in the inmate population. The process can take two to eight hours. It includes medical screening, verbal mental-health screening, identification, warrant checks, clerical processing, contraband search, photograph, fingerprints, computer entry, bail determination by a judicial official, and court-date setting. A private medical screening by jail medical staff occurs within seven days of intake.

If an inmate will not make bail immediately, the jail assigns housing based on classification and other criteria. Inmates receive a uniform, shoes, mattress, towel, washcloth, sheets, toothbrush, toothpaste, tissue, and soap before being escorted to the unit. Intoxicated inmates may be held up to 24 hours or longer until safe release or housing is possible.

Those steps affect families trying to call soon after an arrest. The sheriff notes that newly arrested people may be hard to contact while intake is underway. Booking and release times depend on the charges, the volume of offenders being processed, and cooperation during intake. Current custody questions should account for that delay.

Classification also affects housing, visits, and facility handling after intake.

The facility's holding cells, isolation cells, suicide watch, and intoxication tank are part of that intake and housing control system.

Crisp County Jail Programs

The sheriff's office points returning citizens and families to Rise4Me, a free resource directory with local, regional, and national listings for housing, food, clothing, health care, mental health, substance-abuse treatment, education, and employment. Crisp County collaborated with Rise4Me to customize local listings.

The jail also uses an inmate labor detail for low-risk inmates screened for nonviolent history, model behavior, low escape risk, and nearing sentence end. The sheriff's inmate labor page says labor-detail inmates contributed more than 41,000 hours in 2017, with minimum-wage value estimated at $325,926 in taxpayer savings.

The Crisp County Sheriff's Office Rise4Me page documents the reentry partnership for people leaving custody and their families.

That reentry source is specific to Crisp County Jail and helps distinguish the facility page from a generic jail description.