Washington County Jail Inmate Lookup

Washington County Jail Overview

Washington County Jail is the primary local jail reference point for Tyrrell County inmate-search work because official sources do not show an operating Tyrrell County jail roster. The North Carolina Sheriffs' Association profile for Tyrrell County lists the jail field as N/A, and the North Carolina Jail Administrators Association 2023 directory notes that Tyrrell inmates are being housed in Washington County Jail. The facility is operated by the Washington County Sheriff's Office at 120 Adams Street in Plymouth.

The jail is local adult detention, not a state prison. It can involve pretrial detainees, people serving short local sentences, and people arrested on Tyrrell County matters who require jail housing. A person may have a Tyrrell County criminal case, a Tyrrell County court date, and a physical custody location in Plymouth. That split is the central detail to keep straight before calling, visiting, mailing, or trying to interpret court records.

The Washington County Sheriff's Office page lists the official detention number and identifies the office's duties as including custody and control of arrested persons. The screenshot below shows the official Washington County source used for the detention contact.

Washington County Jail Capacity and Population

The sourced bed count for Washington County Jail is 42 rated beds in the NCJAA detention resource guide. That number is a rated capacity figure, not a current population count and not a Tyrrell-only count. No official average daily population, current daily roster total, or Tyrrell-specific detainee count was located for 2025 or 2026. Capacity questions should be treated as Washington County operational questions because Tyrrell detainees are housed through that facility.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Washington County Jail

No official Washington County NC online jail roster, custody search form, or booking report was located. For a Tyrrell County arrest, the reliable lookup path is phone confirmation followed by court-record checking. Start with the Tyrrell County Sheriff's Department if the arrest just happened or if the arresting agency is unclear, then call the Washington County detention desk when the person may have been transported to Plymouth.

1. Call Tyrrell County Sheriff's Department at 252-796-2251 to ask whether the person was arrested, released, or transported for housing.
2. Call Washington County Jail detention at 252-793-1107 and ask for current custody status, bond status, and whether the person is held on a Tyrrell case.
3. Search the North Carolina eCourts Portal for court case or hearing information, because a Tyrrell court case may exist even while the person is physically in Plymouth.
4. Use the NCDAC offender locator only if the person may have been sentenced to state prison, placed on probation or parole, or transferred to state custody.

For readers who only need custody-status alerts, North Carolina VINE may be useful. VINE is separate from the detention desk and should not be treated as a substitute for calling when a person was newly arrested, has a bond question, or may be in intake before public systems update.

Washington County Jail Address and Contact

Use the detention number for jail housing questions and the sheriff business number for nonemergency administrative routing. Washington County's official page lists the sheriff's office at the Washington County Courthouse and gives Monday through Friday office hours for the sheriff's office. It also identifies Clinta Blount as Chief Jail Administrator with the same detention phone number. Call before traveling because the sheriff's administrative office and detention function share the courthouse address but may use different entrances or procedures.

Visiting Someone at Washington County Jail

No official Washington County NC jail visitation schedule, online scheduling page, video-visitation vendor, or visitor-rule page was located in the research. Do not rely on visitation rules from similarly named counties or private jail-directory pages. The safe procedure is to call the detention desk before leaving for Plymouth, ask whether the person is eligible for visits, confirm the visitor approval process, and ask what identification is required. A government photo ID is normally expected in secure public buildings, but the exact local schedule was not published in the located official sources.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Washington County Jail

Official Washington County NC pages did not provide a jail mail format, commissary vendor, deposit-fee schedule, phone vendor, tablet provider, or video vendor. That means family members should not mail money, send packages, or create vendor accounts until the detention desk confirms the current rule. Ask whether personal mail is accepted at the jail address, whether mail is scanned by a vendor, whether books or publications must come from a publisher, and whether the person must be fully booked before funds can be accepted.

Booking and Intake at Washington County Jail

For a Tyrrell County arrest, the sequence may involve arrest in Tyrrell County, local law-enforcement processing, transport or housing coordination, booking at Washington County Jail if custody is required, and then court processing through Tyrrell County District or Superior Court. The research did not locate Washington County's booking publication delay, booking number format, booking-photo policy, intake hours, or public booking report. Phone confirmation is therefore important for recent arrests and for anyone whose court case has not yet appeared in eCourts.

Ask the detention desk for custody location, bond amount if set, release conditions, holds, and whether the person has an upcoming magistrate or court appearance. For court-specific questions, Tyrrell County Courthouse remains the local court channel. A person held in Plymouth may still have court in Columbia, and court records should be checked separately from jail custody.

About Washington County Jail

Washington County Jail's importance to Tyrrell County comes from the inter-county housing arrangement documented in the NCJAA directory. The available official material is contact-oriented rather than a full jail operations page. It gives the detention phone number and sheriff office information, but it does not publish a roster, daily booking feed, visitation calendar, mail vendor, or commissary vendor. Local jail programs for Tyrrell or Washington detainees were not located in official public sources, so program claims such as GED, work release, tablets, religious services, or treatment should be confirmed by the jail before being relied on.

State law still places local confinement facilities under statewide minimum standards and inspection requirements. For a member of the public, the most practical effect is simple: treat Washington County Jail as the custody-confirmation point for local detention and treat Tyrrell County courts as the court-record point for Tyrrell cases. The split can be confusing, but it prevents wasted time with unofficial roster sites that appear in search results without official backing.