Charleston County, SC Inmate Search

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Charleston County, SC jails hold prisoners after an arrest or people who have been transferred to the county from a detention center. Charleston County holds 2 jails with a total of 262,620 inmates. These correctional facilities have private cells for extremely violent criminals or controversial suspects. Charleston County jails are subject to health and medical restrictions and have to provide medical care to all its inmates.

Charleston County Quick Facts

1,148

Charleston County Population Total

118,321 / 120 / 142

Female Population, Rate & Count

113,693 / 1,188 / 1,351

Male Population, Rate & Count

$50,792

Median Income

5,555.5

Arrest Rate

402.9

Local Jail Rate

1,068

Local Jail Count (the average # of people in jail for one day)

1,148

Population Total Confined

272

Pretrial Rate

7,948

Admit Rate

21,069

Admit Count

262,620

Yearly Prisoner Count

County Crimes by Type

The Timeline of the County Crime Trends

Charleston County Jail Demographics

The county has 389,291 people confined with a jail population density of 289 prisoners per jail. When breaking down the population by gender, females are a majority compared to male prisoners, being 135,847 women and 126,773 men.

Charleston County Prison Records by Race & Ethnicity

County Jail Statistics

The county has an arrest rate of 5,555 and a local jail rate of 403 inmates per year and a pretrial rate of 272 pre trials per 100,000 residents aged from 15 to 64. The jail admit rate for the area equals 7,948, which is lower compared to the statistics of 2005 - 9,124 incarcerations a year.

Local Jail, Pretrial and Admit Rates

The average jail count for Charleston is 1,068 incarcerations in a day. The numbers have decreased during the last 10 years, when there were on average 1,335 imprisonments a day.