Webster County Jail Overview
Webster County Jail is documented through the Webster County Sheriff's Office and the county government's sheriff pages rather than through a separate jail command page. The official county page lists the sheriff's location at 40 Cemetery Road in Preston and identifies the office as the primary law-enforcement agency for the county. The sheriff's own site says the office provides law enforcement, court, and correctional services. That is the researched basis for treating the jail as a sheriff-operated county jail.
The facility map found no separate Webster County work-release annex, city jail, regional jail, state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention facility inside Webster County. Local arrestees, warrant arrests, bond-related holds, and short local custody questions should begin with Webster County Jail. Sentenced Georgia prisoners are searched through the Georgia Department of Corrections, not through a county jail roster.
The official county sheriff page is the clearest county source for the jail contact point, and the Webster County Sheriff's Office site names Sheriff Randy Dely and describes the office's public-safety role.
The screenshot reinforces that the official address and phone come from Webster County sources, not third-party jail listings with conflicting addresses.
Webster County Jail Population
The sheriff does not publish a current bed count or daily inmate count. The available population data comes from Vera Incarceration Trends, which reports county-level jail data. Vera's 2024 Webster County row lists total_jail_pop 13.27 and jail_rated_capacity 18.49. The 2019 row lists total_jail_pop 13.3 and jail_rated_capacity 19.15. These are trend figures, not a live booking desk count.
| Year | Total Jail Population | Rated Capacity | Pretrial Custody | Sentenced Custody |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13.27 | 18.49 | 12.38 | 0.89 |
| 2023 | 12.22 | 18.57 | 10.87 | 1.35 |
| 2022 | 11.39 | 18.74 | 9.3 | 2.09 |
| 2019 | 13.3 | 19.15 | 9.97 | 3.34 |
Check Webster County Jail Custody
No official Webster County Jail online roster, current inmate list, booking feed, or mugshot gallery was found on the official county or sheriff websites. The correct local lookup path is phone, in person when appropriate, and open records for written documents. That no-roster fact should be kept clear because Georgia's GDC locator covers sentenced state prisoners and does not replace the Webster County jail contact.
- Call Webster County Sheriff's Office at (229) 828-7503 and ask whether the person is currently in Webster County Jail custody.
- Provide full legal name, date of birth or age, arrest date, incident location, possible charge, and any known warrant or case number.
- Ask whether booking is complete, bond has been set, the person was released, or a hold from another agency blocks release.
- If a written booking record is needed, use the sheriff's online open-records request form.
- If staff say the person was sentenced or transferred to state prison, search GDC Find an Offender.
Webster County Jail Contact
The sheriff's address is also the open-records pickup location. The researched pages do not publish a separate jail lobby number, booking desk number, detention commander, or jail records unit. Use the main sheriff phone for jail custody, bond direction, visitation questions, mail rules, and records routing.
Webster County Jail
40 Cemetery Rd.
Preston, GA 31824
(229) 828-7503
Office hours: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Fax: (229) 828-8870
Email: sheriff@webstercosheriff.org
Visit Webster County Jail
No official Webster County Jail visitation schedule, visitor approval page, video visitation vendor, dress code, child visitor rule, or attorney-visit procedure was found in the county and sheriff sources. That gap should be handled as a call-first instruction. Do not use GDC prison visitation rules for a Webster County Jail detainee.
| Topic | Published Webster Detail | User Action |
|---|---|---|
| In-person visits | Not published | Call (229) 828-7503 before visiting. |
| Video visits | Not published | Ask whether video visits are available. |
| Visitor ID | Not published | Bring government photo ID and confirm local rule. |
| Visitor entrance | Not published | Ask staff for the public entrance and parking location. |
| Attorney visits | Not published | Attorneys should call the sheriff/jail to schedule access. |
Webster County Jail Services
The county research did not locate a Webster County Jail mail format, inmate phone provider, commissary vendor, deposit vendor, kiosk rule, property release policy, or phone-rate page. The safe instruction is to call before mailing anything, sending money, or traveling to drop off property. GDC uses Securus, JPay, MoneyGram, and state-prison visitor approval rules, but those details apply only after a person is in GDC custody.
| Service | Webster County Jail Detail | What to Ask |
|---|---|---|
| Not published | Ask for exact name, ID, address format, and allowed items. | |
| Phone calls | Provider not published | Ask for phone provider, setup steps, rates, and call limits. |
| Money deposits | Vendor not published | Ask whether deposits are accepted at the jail, by mail, kiosk, or vendor. |
| Commissary | Vendor not published | Ask whether the inmate can receive funds and what limits apply. |
| Property | Rules not published | Ask whether clothing or property release needs preapproval. |
Webster County Jail Booking
Webster County does not publish a local booking-process page, so the intake sequence should be described only from researched sheriff duties, Magistrate Court jurisdiction, and Georgia jail-record law. A person may enter Webster County Jail after arrest by a sheriff's deputy, warrant service, court order, transfer, or another law-enforcement action in the county. Jail staff create the custody record after intake and identity work.
Georgia law requires the sheriff to keep a jail record with the person's name, age, sex, race, process under which committed, court issuing the process, crime charged, date committed, date discharged, discharge order, and court issuing discharge. Additional items such as housing unit, bond amount, or booking photo were not available through a public Webster roster in the researched sources. Ask the sheriff what can be released by phone and what must be requested in writing.
- Booking
- Administrative intake after arrest, including identity and jail record creation.
- First appearance
- An early court appearance for rights, charge advice, and possible bond review.
- Detainer
- A hold or request from another county, GDC, ICE, probation, or federal authority.
- GDC
- Georgia Department of Corrections, the state prison system for sentenced offenders.
Webster County Jail Records
For written booking records, incident records, jail records, or booking photos, the local route is the sheriff's open-records form. The form asks for requestor contact information, documents requested, case numbers, incident date or date range, incident location, whether the case is pending, and any added details. If a case number is unknown, call first or give the best available identifiers in the narrative fields if the form allows it.
The open-records page states that staff respond within three business days with estimated completion time and cost. It cites O.C.G.A. 50-18-71 for fee practice, including possible research fees, $0.10 per page copies, and $1 discs or tapes. Approved documents and materials are picked up at 40 Cemetery Road.
The Webster County Sheriff's open-records form is the official local written channel found for Webster County Jail records.
That form does not guarantee every record will be released. Pending criminal investigations, security-sensitive details, medical information, and booking-photo restrictions can affect the response.
Webster County Jail Court Pathway
Jail custody and court records move on parallel tracks. The sheriff can answer current custody, release, transfer, and booking-record questions. Webster County Magistrate Court handles arrest and search warrants, bond hearings, and preliminary hearings. The Superior Court Clerk maintains official court records and provides public inspection at the courthouse from Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
For Webster Superior online access, Georgia Courts E-Access routes users to PeachCourt and says an account is required. Formal charges may differ from the booking charge because the prosecutor can amend, reduce, dismiss, or add counts after review. Use the sheriff for jail status and the courts for filed cases.
Webster County Jail Directions
Use the sheriff-published address, 40 Cemetery Road, Preston, GA 31824. Preston is the county-seat area and is reached by U.S. 280/Hamilton Street and Georgia State Route 41. From Plains or Sumter County, use U.S. 280 westbound. From Richland or Stewart County, use U.S. 280 eastbound. From north or southwest approaches, GA-41 is the main route into the area.
No official visitor-parking, public-transit, visitor-door, or accessible-entrance instructions were located. Call before traveling to confirm the correct public entrance, parking, records pickup process, and whether any jail visit or property appointment is allowed.
Historic Webster County Jails
Webster County has historic jail buildings in Preston identified in National Register materials, including older wooden and brick jail structures. Those facts add local history, but they should not be mixed with current operations. The research did not confirm that the historic structures are the current operating jail, and they should not be used for current capacity, housing, visitation, or safety claims.
Note: Confirm custody, visitation, mail, money, and records pickup with the sheriff before traveling to Webster County Jail.