Detention Center Release Destinations
The Colleton County Detention Center is the county’s only verified operating jail. Ending this jail’s custody does not answer where a person went. Someone who satisfies bond, completes a local sentence, or receives a court release order may return to the community. Another person may move directly to SCDC, a holding county, federal custody, or ICE. The portal’s Held For Agency field makes that distinction visible, but the receiving agency or jail record must confirm the destination.
Bond is pretrial release under court-set conditions, not a dismissal. Time served means the custodial part of a sentence has been met, though supervision or another sentence can remain. A transfer ends one agency’s custody while another begins it. Full discharge occurs only when all custody and supervision obligations have ended. These outcomes should not be grouped as “back home.”
| Departure | Next check |
|---|---|
| Bond or court order | Jail release record and Public Index |
| SCDC transfer | SCDC inmate search |
| Other agency hold | Held For Agency and receiving office |
| ICE transfer | Jail confirmation and ICE locator |
Confirm Detention Center Releases
The official Zuercher portal combines current results with exact-date release searching. The default roster concerns present custody. For someone believed released, use Release Date and never treat a missing current result as proof.
- Search the full name and compare the arrest date.
- Select the likely day in the Release Date control.
- Read Release Date, Held For Agency, and hold reasons together.
- Try adjacent dates if processing may have crossed midnight.
- Call 843-549-5742 for actual time and destination.
- Request a custody sheet for durable proof.
A positive row proves the portal recorded an end to Colleton custody on that date. It does not publish release time, release type, releasing authority, transfer destination, or property return. The Colleton County released inmate search explains the related court, state, VINE, and federal paths.
The official division page below identifies detention and records contacts.
Use that county source to confirm current personnel because assignments can change. Verify the release record before relying on it.
Detention Center Records Contact
Same-day questions belong with the Detention Center. Ask whether Colleton custody ended and whether the event was community release or transfer. Give the full name, booking or arrest date when known, and the custody episode at issue.
22 Klein Street
Walterboro, SC 29488
Phone: 843-549-5742
Fax: 843-549-4321
Captain Wanda Taylor: wtaylor@colletoncounty.org
CCSO Records is reachable at 843-549-1203 and ccso-records@colletoncounty.org. The county advertises inspection of reports under fourteen days from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on weekdays excluding holidays. Ask whether the release sheet falls within that service. Formal requests use CCSO FOIA and ccso-foia@colletoncounty.org.
Detention Center Release Records
The portal can show Mugshot, Name, Race, Sex, age, Arrest Date, Held For Agency, Release Date, and hold reasons. A hold reason is not a court outcome. The internal custody record may also contain actual time, disposition code, releasing authority, receiving agency, and acknowledgments for property or money.
Ask for “the booking/custody sheet, booking photograph, actual release date and time, release/disposition code, releasing authority or court order, and transfer destination, if any” tied to the name, booking number, and arrest date. Request existing electronic files. South Carolina FOIA requires a response within ten business days for records less than twenty-four months old, but that response may give a production schedule.
Posted charges include $20 per staff hour after the first 15 minutes, $0.25 per black-and-white page, $0.50 per color page, and actual media, mailing, or vendor cost. A 25-percent deposit may be required. Ask for an estimate first. Online disappearance does not mean the underlying record was destroyed.
Colleton Release Processing Times
The county states bond hearings are usually held from 9:00 to 10:30 a.m. and 3:00 to 4:30 p.m., with rare hearings at other times. These windows explain when release authority may be considered. They are not exit times. Payment or conditions, hold checks, paperwork, and jail processing follow a decision.
Published lobby hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on weekdays excluding holidays, plus weekend and holiday windows of 7:30 to 9:00 a.m. and 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. These are not release-processing hours. No official source establishes an exit door, waiting place, fixed release hour, property process, or jail-specific transit stop. Call first.
Active Colleton Detention Address
County records also refer to an “Old Jail Building.” It is government meeting space, not the active detention operation. Release calls, records questions, and pickup planning belong at 22 Klein Street. The county meeting reference confirms the old building’s civic use, while the Sheriff’s division page identifies the active jail.
Court sites are separate. Bond Court is at 40 Klein Street. Circuit Court and the Clerk are tied to the courthouse at 101 Hampton Street. Court staff can explain an order, but the jail confirms physical departure.
Detention Center ICE Transfers
An ICE detainer requests advance release notice and up to forty-eight hours of added custody so ICE can assume custody. A Colleton Release Date can therefore appear even though the person did not enter the community. The ICE detainer explanation describes this process.
After a confirmed handoff, search the Online Detainee Locator System. ICE says it includes current detainees and people released from ICE custody within sixty days. The end of Colleton custody and the later end of ICE custody are distinct events. A blank result is not conclusive because data can lag and the released window is limited.
About Colleton Detention Operations
The Sheriff’s Detention Center Division runs this county jail. It holds pretrial people, locally sentenced people, and people held for other agencies. No source located a separate operating municipal jail, SCDC prison, BOP institution, or ICE detention center in Colleton County. A municipal court does not prove a town operates a jail.
No official source established gate money, a set release hour, an online archive duration, or a sheriff inmate app. The portal is useful because Release Date is a first-class filter and Held For Agency reveals possible transfers. Yet it remains partial. Exact time, authority, and destination may require a call and custody record.
A mugshot in a Colleton release row helps distinguish a booking but does not prove guilt, current appearance, or return to the community. A court docket explains legal authority but does not provide real-time gate data. When destination matters, compare the custody sheet with the receiving agency instead of relying on one screen. The portal also publishes no fixed retention period. Preserve the access date on a positive result and request the underlying record when proof must last.
If a spelling search fails, try the full legal name and adjacent release dates before calling. A blank result remains weaker than an affirmative release record. Check Held For Agency before describing someone as free in the community, then verify any named receiving agency through its official locator or records office. This added check is especially important after a state sentence, an out-of-county warrant, or a federal detainer. Record the date of each portal check and the name of the agency contacted so later updates can be reconciled with the earlier result.
- Release
- The end of one agency’s custody episode.
- Transfer
- A move to another custodian, not necessarily a return home.
- Discharge
- The end of the applicable custody or supervision duty.
- Detainer
- Another agency’s request for notice or continued custody.