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Franklin County Detention Center Overview

Franklin County Detention Center is operated by the Franklin County Sheriff's Office as the county jail and detention center for Franklin County. The official detention center page is published at franklinsheriff.org/detention-center. The jail is used for people booked into Franklin County custody, including current detainees, local jail inmates, and people who may be listed briefly after release. The public roster is tied to this facility rather than to a separate city jail, state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention center in Franklin County.

The detention center opened March 17, 2008, and the sheriff's detention page says it can house approximately 220 inmates. On-site medical services are provided through Southern Health Partners. The research file did not locate a published housing-unit map, male and female bed count, classification chart, work-release unit, or accreditation statement. For public use, the important distinction is simpler: the Franklin County Detention Center is the local jail source for recent arrests and county custody, while ADOC, BOP, ICE, and court-record systems answer different questions after transfer, sentencing, or federal involvement.

Franklin County Detention Center Capacity and Population

The facility's capacity and roster counts should be read as different kinds of numbers. The approximately 220-inmate figure is the sheriff's published housing capacity, accessed in the project research on May 27, 2026. The current roster count of 120 was observed on the public Franklin County roster that same day, and the 48-hour release roster count of 2 was also a point-in-time observation. Those roster counts are not annual averages, official average daily population figures, or a promise that the number is still current when a reader checks.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Franklin County Detention Center

Use the official Franklin County Sheriff's Office current roster at franklinsheriff.org/roster.php for people believed to be in current custody. Use franklinsheriff.org/roster.php?released=1 for the 48-hour release list. The roster displays booking-style information such as mugshots, names, booking numbers, booking dates, charges, bonds, and profile links. A full profile can add age, gender, race, address summary, arresting agency, booking date and time, charges, and bond details.

1. Open the current inmate roster for someone believed to still be at Franklin County Detention Center.
2. Use the Search By Name box, or sort by name or booking date when browsing a recent arrest.
3. Check the 48-hour release list if the person may have bonded out, transferred, or otherwise left jail custody recently.
4. Open the View Profile link to review the booking number, charges, bond entry, arresting agency, and profile details.
5. Call the jail at 256-332-8425 before relying on a roster bond amount, charge list, or case number.

The sheriff's roster disclaimer treats the website as informational. Charges and bail amounts can change after court appearances, and a $0.00 bond entry or a hold for another agency may require a direct jail call. The public interface does not publish a date-of-birth search, charge filter, agency filter, housing-unit filter, or exact refresh schedule, so name spelling, booking number, and direct phone confirmation matter.

Franklin County Detention Center Address and Contact

The jail and sheriff's office share the Walnut Gate Road complex in Russellville. The detention center phone is the number to use for jail custody, bond confirmation, charges, and case-number questions tied to a roster entry. The broader sheriff's office also publishes a 24-hour non-emergency number and an administrative line. For jail-lobby business such as visitation and kiosk deposits, the sheriff identifies the Mike Green Center entrance at the double glass doors of the jail. Incident-report pickup uses the Larry H. Plott Administrative Annex side entrance marked as the Sheriff's Office entrance.

Visiting Someone at Franklin County Detention Center

Franklin County publishes visitation limits and status rules, but the research file did not locate a day-by-day public visiting schedule. Inmates receive two free 30-minute visits per week, for a total of one free hour. After the free visits are used, additional visits cost $7.50 each. Paid-visit money is deposited into the Telmate kiosk in the detention center lobby. A visit may be denied if the inmate or the entire pod is locked down, and new inmates cannot visit until booking is complete and the inmate has been placed in a cell.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Franklin County Detention Center

Mail should be addressed to the inmate by name at the jail address. The sender's name and return address are required, and mail without sender information may be destroyed. The jail does not forward inmate mail after transfer. Books must be new and shipped from a supplier. Money orders payable to the inmate are accepted through the mail, but loose cash and personal checks are not accepted.

Franklin County's mail restrictions are detailed. Do not send cards, blank paper, envelopes, padded or bubbled envelopes, perfume, powder, cologne, body fluids, hair, staples, paperclips, glue, tape, glitter, stickers, crayon, markers, highlighter, labels, correction liquid, food, gum, wrappers, obscene images, tattoo images or ideas, violent content, sexual content, gang material, third-party letters, cash, or personal checks. If the item is decorative, loose, contaminated, unlisted, or sent in a prohibited format, assume it can be rejected.

After booking, the inmate account is set up and the inmate receives a six-digit PIN for phone use. That PIN belongs to the inmate and should be protected. Commissary categories described in the research include snacks, hygiene items, stationery such as stamped envelopes, and some clothing items.

Booking, Holding, and Bond at Franklin County Detention Center

Booking begins when a person is brought to the detention center by the Franklin County Sheriff's Office, a municipal police department, or another agency. The local booking record can include identity details, a booking number, booking date and time, arresting agency, charges, bond entry when available, and a booking photo. The jail also has on-site medical services through Southern Health Partners. New inmates do not become eligible for visitation until booking is complete and they have been placed in a cell.

Franklin County places newly booked people in holding for at least 72 hours. During that holding period, the jail accepts only listed new, unopened, basic white or clear items in original packaging: one medium clear see-through storage container, six solid white T-shirts, six solid white underwear, six solid white socks, six solid white bras with no underwire, one solid white towel, one solid white washcloth, one toothbrush, one see-through stick of deodorant, one see-through bottle of shampoo, and one see-through bottle of body wash. Once the inmate is in general population, those outside items are no longer accepted and supplies must be ordered from commissary.

Franklin County describes three bond methods: cash bond, property bond, and bail bondsman. A cash bond is paid at the clerk's office inside the courthouse, and the receipt is brought to the jail. A property bond requires a Revenue Commissioner's property assessment printout, jail review, enough property value to meet or exceed the bond, and signatures from all people listed on the assessment. A bail bondsman must be licensed in Franklin County, and the sheriff's instructions describe a ten percent payment to the bondsman. All bonds also require a $35.00 bond-filing fee by money order payable to the Franklin County Circuit Clerk, with no cash or personal checks accepted for that fee.

Jail Records, Court Records, and Other Custody Systems

The Franklin County Detention Center roster is a jail custody record, not the complete court file. It can help identify who is in jail, when they were booked, what charges were entered at booking, whether a bond entry appears, and whether the person has a public profile. Court records after an arrest are handled through the Alabama court system and Franklin County court channels, including Alacourt/Just One Look and court-clerk records. An incident report is also different from a jail roster entry; the sheriff FAQ routes eligible incident-report pickup to the Sheriff's Administrative Office with photo ID.

No separate state prison, BOP prison, ICE detention facility, regional jail, or published city jail facility was located in Franklin County in the project research. A person arrested locally may start on the Franklin County Detention Center roster, but a sentenced state prisoner should be searched through the Alabama Department of Corrections. Federal sentenced custody belongs in the BOP locator. Immigration detention belongs in ICE ODLS. A Franklin County roster note such as holding for another agency can affect release, but it does not by itself prove long-term state, federal, or immigration custody.

About Franklin County Detention Center

The detention center is the single mapped detention facility for this Franklin County inmate-population project. The facility page is built around the sheriff's detention center rules, the current roster, the 48-hour release list, and the local instructions for visitation, mail, commissary, phone accounts, holding-period property, and bond. The jail's public-facing details are specific enough to be useful, but several items are not published in the available official source material, including a full visiting calendar, roster refresh interval, pod schedule, parking detail, and transit guidance.