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Pickens County Detention Center Overview

The Pickens County Sheriff's Office Detention and Judicial Services Division operates Pickens County Detention Center as a county jail, not as an SCDC prison, Federal Bureau of Prisons site, or private prison. The jail is at 701 South Catherine Street in Pickens and holds people waiting to go before a judge, people who have been convicted, and people held on custody orders from local police departments and state or federal agencies. The detention division page names Captain Kevin Durham as commander of the facility.

The same official detention page says the jail opened in 2019 under Sheriff Rick Clark and was designed to accommodate up to 363 inmates. That history matters because older population figures for Pickens County may refer to prior jail arrangements that predate the current building. The roster configuration also shows a jail layout organized by named areas such as PCDC A Block through K Block, medical, arraignment, kitchen, detention intake, booking cells, and related local cell labels. Those labels help explain why a roster record may show a housing or custody detail without publishing a bed count for each unit.

The official detention division page includes facility photos and a gallery for the detention center. The screenshot below comes from the official detention division page, which is the source for the opening year, design capacity, command reference, and facility overview.

The image source is useful for confirming that this page concerns the county detention center itself, while the live custody status still has to be checked through the roster or detention staff.

Pickens County Detention Center Population

The strongest local capacity number is the sheriff's published design capacity of 363 inmates. The official Zuercher roster returned 343 records in a broad current-roster query inspected on June 29, 2026. That figure should be treated carefully. It is a point-in-time public roster count from the vendor endpoint, not an average daily population, annual booking total, or certified bed census. It can still help a reader understand why confirming custody before travel, visitation, or deposits is important.

The jail houses people in several legal positions. Some are pretrial detainees who have not been convicted. Some are serving local sentences or awaiting transfer. Others may appear because Central, Clemson, Clemson University, Easley, Liberty, or Pickens police departments, South Carolina Highway Patrol, SLED, SCDNR, State Grand Jury, probation, parole, or another agency has a custody order or hold. A jail roster entry is not the same thing as a final conviction.

Pickens County Detention Center Lookup

The official lookup channel is the Zuercher inmate module linked from the sheriff's PCDC Inmate Information page. The direct Zuercher Inmate Search shows the public roster for Pickens County Detention Center. It can display mugshot, name, race, sex, arrest date, held-for-agency, release date, and a hold-reasons line with charges, bond type and amount, judge or magistrate text, and other-agency holds when those details are present.

1. Open the sheriff's PCDC Inmate Information page and select Inmate Search, or open the Zuercher inmate module directly.
2. Search by name first, because the roster sorts by name and can return broad current-custody results.
3. Narrow the result with sex, arrest date, held-for-agency, in-custody date, or release date when many records match.
4. Review the row carefully. Pickens records may show the custody agency, mugshot, release date, and hold reasons in the same row.
5. Call detention or use sheriff records if the person is missing, a release date appears, or the charge and bond text is incomplete.

The Pickens County Detention Center roster is for county jail custody. A person moved to a South Carolina prison should be checked through the SCDC inmate search, which covers currently sentenced state prisoners as of its own update cycle. Federal sentenced inmates use the BOP inmate locator, while immigration detainees use ICE's locator if custody has transferred. For a broader explanation of roster fields and fallback channels, use the Pickens County jail inmate records page.

Pickens County Detention Center Contact

Contact the jail before visiting, sending funds, or relying on a same-day roster entry. New bookings, bond hearings, medical intake, city-charge paperwork, and agency holds can change the practical answer even when a person appears on the roster.

Pickens County Detention Center Visits

Public visits at Pickens County Detention Center are scheduled through Securus, and onsite video visitation must be scheduled 24 hours in advance. Visitors need the inmate's available days and times before scheduling. After the visit is scheduled, the system provides a PIN number. People without internet access may use the lobby kiosk after each visit or come to the lobby during weekday public visitation hours.

Visitor rules are strict. Visitors entering the facility are subject to pat-down search, and refusal ends visitation for that day. Purses, bags, firearms, weapons, chemical sprays, cell phones, and cameras are not allowed inside. Staff may refuse a visit if a visitor lacks identification, appears intoxicated, refuses directions, acts disorderly, or violates the dress code. Children must remain supervised.

Pickens County Jail Mail and Money

The jail changed its mail procedure effective July 22, 2024. Pickens County Detention Center continues to accept legal mail, publications sent directly from a publisher, distributor, or authorized retailer, and money orders. Books, including Bibles and religious materials, must come from the publisher rather than being hand-delivered. The FAQ says the facility does not accept regular property for inmates except prescribed medication.

The official inmate-contact page lists JailPackStore as the quickest way to add commissary funds online. The depositor should use the inmate's name and ID number and have the receipt sent by email. The jail FAQ adds the lobby kiosk option and explains where to find the MNI number for the kiosk.

Pickens County Booking and Bond

Pickens County's official pages do not publish a complete booking manual, but the documented process starts with an arrest or custody order from the sheriff's office, a municipal police department, Clemson University Police, SCHP, SLED, SCDNR, State Grand Jury, or another agency accepted by the jail. Intake normally includes identity confirmation, booking photograph, basic demographic entry, property control, and entry into the jail management system. Medical review follows local intake needs, and official medical care is contracted through Southern Health Partners. Detention staff will not answer inmate medical questions or disclose medical information because of HIPAA.

Bond timing is one of the clearer local facts. The detention FAQ says magistrates set bonds at 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., seven days a week, and eligible arraigned inmates are released at those times. The roster hold-reasons field can show surety bond, cash bond, no bond, judge or magistrate text, and other-agency holds. If a charge is municipal, city paperwork may be required before release. A no-bond entry, probation or parole hold, ICE or DHS hold, General Sessions bench warrant, or other-agency hold can mean that payment at Pickens County Detention Center will not release the person.

Pickens County Jail Contraband

The sheriff publishes a separate Pickens County Detention Center contraband page. It cites SCDC Regulation 33-1 and S.C. Code 24-7-155 and then applies local contraband categories for the jail. Prohibited items include weapons, drugs, alcohol, keys, locks, unapproved tools, money not submitted through the inmate treasurer process, outside food, tobacco products, newspapers, and items that are altered or misused. These rules apply to visitors and mail decisions as well as facility security.

About Pickens County Detention Center

Pickens County Detention Center is the only facility listed in the county facility map for this project. It is the first place to check for current local custody and the facility page on the Pickens County inmate population hub. The jail does not replace the court system, prosecutor, SCDC, BOP, or ICE. Each system answers a different question: the county roster answers who is or recently was held at the jail, the court index answers case activity, SCDC answers state-prison placement, and federal or immigration locators answer custody after transfer.

Official program information for PCDC is limited. Confirmed service areas include medical care through Southern Health Partners, commissary, Securus phone calls and video visits, publisher-direct books and publications, and professional visits during posted weekday windows. No official local source reviewed for this page published GED, vocational, substance-abuse treatment, reentry classes, or a detailed grievance procedure for Pickens County Detention Center, so those programs should not be assumed.