Tyrrell Prison Work Farm Inmate Search

Tyrrell Prison Work Farm Overview

Tyrrell Prison Work Farm is operated by the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction. It is a male minimum-custody state prison on Snell Road near Columbia, with a mailing address at P.O. Box 840, Columbia, NC 27925. NCDAC lists the facility phone as 252-796-1085 and identifies Linwood Etheridge as warden in the facility material captured for this project. The facility is part of North Carolina's state prison system, so its records, visitation rules, mail rules, and money rules follow NCDAC procedures.

The local distinction matters. A person arrested in Tyrrell County on a new criminal charge is not automatically at Tyrrell Prison Work Farm. County arrestees who need jail housing are routed through the local sheriff and Washington County Jail. Tyrrell Prison Work Farm holds sentenced adult male state prisoners assigned by NCDAC. If a searcher is unsure whether the person is pretrial, sentenced, on probation, or in another system, the NCDAC locator should be checked for state custody while the local jail phone path is used for recent arrests.

The NCDAC facility page for Tyrrell Prison Work Farm provides the strongest facility-specific source for capacity, custody level, and physical plant details. The screenshot below is from that official facility page.

Tyrrell Prison Work Farm Capacity and Population

NCDAC lists Tyrrell Prison Work Farm with capacity for 620 offenders and a male minimum-custody classification. That is a state-prison capacity number, not a Tyrrell County jail population count. The facility page does not provide a current daily population total, and no current population count was located in the research. Use the capacity figure to understand the size of the prison, but use the NCDAC offender search to confirm whether a specific person is assigned there.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Tyrrell Prison Work Farm

Use the NCDAC Offender Public Information Search for Tyrrell Prison Work Farm. NCDAC states that its public database contains current and historical information for state prison offenders, probationers, and parolees back to 1972, and that it does not include county jail information. That warning is critical in Tyrrell County because the prison is physically in Columbia while local detainees are handled through a different jail path.

1. Open the NCDAC Offender Public Information Search rather than a county jail roster.
2. Search by last name, first name, offender number, or identity filters such as birth date, age range, race, gender, or status.
3. Confirm the profile shows active state custody and a current facility assignment to Tyrrell Prison Work Farm.
4. Use the profile for public conviction, sentence, admission, release, and facility information, while recognizing that medical, classification, and internal prison records are confidential.

The official search form shown below is the correct lookup channel for a sentenced state prisoner at this facility. If the person does not appear, they may still be in county jail, released, federally held, under immigration custody, misspelled in the query, juvenile or confidential, or not in NCDAC custody.

Tyrrell Prison Work Farm Address and Contact

Use the prison phone for facility-specific questions such as visitation scheduling, approved visitor status, attorney visit routing, and general facility information. Do not call Washington County Jail for state offender profiles unless the question involves a separate new arrest or local hold. Legal visits can be requested by attorneys through the NCDAC visitation contact identified for the facility.

Visiting Someone at Tyrrell Prison Work Farm

NCDAC prison visitation is approval-based. The incarcerated person obtains blank applications from the facility and mails them to proposed visitors. Each adult and minor needs an application. Visitors age 16 or older must include an approved picture ID copy, and minors under 16 need a birth certificate copy. Video and in-person visits are limited to people on the approved visitor list. In-person visits are by appointment only, and NCDAC instructs visitors to schedule with the facility and call the day before to confirm that visitation status has not changed.

The NCDAC prison visitation rules source documents the approval, scheduling, search, contraband, and dress-code requirements. The screenshot below is the successful manifest image for those statewide prison rules.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Tyrrell Prison Work Farm

Non-legal mail for NCDAC prisons goes through TextBehind scanning and is delivered electronically. The mail must include the offender name, OPUS number, facility name, and the TextBehind Phoenix, Maryland address. Mail not addressed correctly is returned. The sender's return address must include the sender's full first and last name, not initials. Legal mail should not be sent through TextBehind; attorneys should contact the prison for instructions.

The NCDAC offender mail page documents TextBehind scanning and prohibited content. NCDAC also states that only approved visitors may deposit funds to an offender account, with ConnectNetwork, ViaPath phone assistance, Western Union, and TouchPay money-order options.

The NCDAC send-money page is the source for the approved-visitor deposit rule and the ConnectNetwork, ViaPath, Western Union, and TouchPay options. The official money page is shown below because deposits are handled through statewide NCDAC rules rather than a county jail commissary counter.

Admission and Classification at Tyrrell Prison Work Farm

Tyrrell Prison Work Farm is not a street-arrest booking jail. New Tyrrell County arrests do not go there for first booking, bond setting, or local magistrate processing. State-prison admission happens after a criminal case has reached a sentence or after NCDAC has custody or supervision authority. NCDAC records can show public information such as conviction, sentence length, time served, admission date, release date, and current facility, while internal classification, behavior, medical, and many prison records are confidential.

If a person has a new local charge while already in state custody, there may be both a state-prison profile and a separate county court matter. In that situation, use NCDAC for the prison assignment and use the North Carolina eCourts Portal or the county clerk for the court case.

About Tyrrell Prison Work Farm

NCDAC describes Tyrrell Prison Work Farm as a minimum-security prison for adult males on 200 acres near Columbia. It was built as a $9 million work farm and was the second North Carolina prison work farm constructed after Dan River Prison Work Farm. NCDAC says both facilities were built by prison work crews and designed with modern architecture that differed from traditional prison structures and cost less to build and maintain.

The physical plant is unusually well documented. NCDAC lists an administration building, central complex buildings with food service, staff offices, a visiting area, clothes house, central control, and produce warehouse. The dormitory is described as 60,000 square feet with 10 offender housing areas, 10 day rooms, two canteens, 10 shower and lavatory areas, medical and programs departments, a barber shop, library, classroom, chaplain's office, and two control rooms. That work-oriented design is why this facility should be described as a state prison work farm, not as a county jail.

Programs and work assignments are state-prison matters. NCDAC's rehabilitative program material includes education, jobs, facility-based programs, tablets through HOPE University, life-skills content, career development, and other catalog items, but availability depends on staffing, eligibility, schedules, case plans, risks, needs, and the specific facility. Recent news in the research included a June 2023 WRAL report on an offender death after an assault, with DAC, the Tyrrell County Sheriff's Department, and the State Bureau of Investigation involved in the response. That news concerned the state prison and should not be treated as county jail reporting.