Supervised by Capt Clayton Edwards

The White County Detention Center is the county jail which houses all detainees for the county, other municipalities and other counties. The purpose of the jail is to hold those detainees who are brought to jail for various crimes until their court dates, they bond out, are sentenced, or are sent to other facilities. We can hold approximately 380 people in our facility. There are four dorms where we house females and we have eleven pods where we house males. We also have a medical area, staffed by a nurse, which has four cells and can house up to eight people. The detainees are brought into our facility through intake, where they are processed, which consists of being booked in our system, fingerprinted, DNA taken if necessary and allowed to contact bondsman, family, clergy and attorneys. If they fail to bond in a certain time frame, they are moved to the housing areas. They will remain in those areas until their court dates, are sentenced to other facilities, such as ADC or they bond out.

The day-to-day operations of the detention center are to take care of the detainees. We make sure they have the proper nutrition in three hot meals a day. We make sure they have clean clothes, bedding and everyday hygiene items. We take them to and from court. They are allowed to have church services, visit with their families on video visitation, write to family or others and make phone calls. Our main goal is to keep our community safe and secure from detainees who might commit crimes. At the same time, we house the detainees in a safe, secure and peaceable environment where they are taken care of until the crime they are accused of has been exhausted through the court system.