This is a private reference site, not a government office. We cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, release an inmate, post bond, schedule jail services, or retrieve official booking records. For those actions, contact the government office that owns the record or controls the custody decision.
Where to Check First
For Pickens County jail questions, start with the sheriff and detention contacts below. Business-hour questions about sheriff records, FOIA requests, or agency routing should go through the Pickens County Sheriff's Office. Immediate custody questions should go to the detention number.
| Pickens County Sheriff | Tommy Blankenship |
|---|---|
| Sheriff's Office | 216 C. David Stone Rd., Pickens, SC 29671 |
| Non-emergency | 864-898-5500 |
| Detention | 864-898-2940 |
| Business hours | 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. |
| PCSO_MAIL@pickenscountysc.gov | |
| Jail address | Pickens County Detention Center, 701 South Catherine Street, Pickens, SC 29671 |
| FOIA fees | $15/hour, $0.25/page, $5/disk, plus actual postage or shipping |
Use the source that matches the question you are trying to answer:
- For a person currently or recently held in the county jail, use jail inmate records and the sheriff-linked Zuercher roster.
- For booking images and roster photo context, use jail roster mugshots and verify any unclear result with the detention center or Records Management.
- For charges filed after arrest, bond, indictments, or General Sessions case movement, use court records after a jail arrest, the Pickens Public Index, Clerk of Court records, or the Thirteenth Circuit Solicitor. The Pickens solicitor contact is 222 McDaniel Avenue, B-2, Pickens, SC 29671, phone 864-898-5844.
- For facility rules, visitation, mail, commissary, and jail phone context, use the Pickens County Detention Center page and the official detention division pages.
- For a sentenced state prisoner, use the South Carolina Department of Corrections inmate search. SCDC is separate from the Pickens County jail and lists current sentenced state inmates as of its own update cycle.
- For a federal sentenced inmate or immigration detainee, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator or the ICE Online Detainee Locator System. A Pickens roster hold for DHS, ICE, USMS, FBI, DEA, or ATF does not by itself prove the person has transferred to one of those systems.