Murray County Jail Inmate Lookup

Murray County Jail Overview

Murray County Jail is operated by the Murray County Sheriff's Office. The Georgia Department of Corrections lists the facility as Murray County Jail and classifies it as a county jail, not a state prison. Murray County's quarterly Criminal Alien Track and Report Act materials use another official name, "Murray County Sheriff's Office Detention Center." Both names point to the same local custody function in Chatsworth.

The jail holds people arrested in Murray County, people waiting for a release decision, people held until bail is posted, people released later by citation or recognizance, short local-sentence detainees, and people whose cases may move on to court, state prison, federal custody, or immigration review. Sheriff Jimmy Davenport is listed as the county sheriff, and the sheriff's office is the operator. GDC's listing confirms the jail's county-jail status but does not mean GDC operates the facility.

GDC's official Murray County Jail location page is the cleanest source for the facility name, classification, address, and primary phone.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Murray County Jail

No official online Murray County jail roster was located in the county, sheriff, or GDC sources reviewed. The official lookup path is phone-based. Murray County's FAQ says to contact the jail for information about someone who was arrested; the jail can advise whether the person was arrested, what charges were brought, whether release is by bail, citation, or own recognizance, and the bail amount.

1. Call Murray County Jail at (706) 695-4593 and ask whether the person is currently held at Murray County Jail or the Murray County Sheriff's Office Detention Center.
2. Have the person's full legal name, spelling, approximate age or date of birth, arrest date, and arresting agency ready if known.
3. Ask whether booking is complete if the arrest was recent. The official sources do not publish a roster refresh schedule, so very recent arrests may require a follow-up call.
4. Ask whether the person is still in custody, eligible for bail, cited, released on recognizance, transferred, or awaiting a court step.
5. If a copy of a booking sheet, report, or other record is needed, ask the sheriff's records staff about the Georgia Open Records Act request process.

The county FAQ is especially important because it names the release outcomes that families often confuse. A person can be arrested and later cited, released on recognizance, bonded out, transferred, or moved into another system. That means the absence of a current jail hold does not always mean the case disappeared.

Murray County's official FAQ explains the jail phone route for arrest, charge, release, and bail information.

Murray County Jail Address and Contact

Use the jail phone for current custody questions and the sheriff's main phone for general sheriff's office business. The sheriff's office public hours are listed as Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm, but those are public office hours, not a published limit on jail custody operations. Call before a time-sensitive trip, visit, bond question, records request, or attempt to send property, mail, or money.

Murray County Jail Booking Volume

The official capacity and average daily population for Murray County Jail were not located in the reviewed county or GDC sources. The most useful facility-specific numbers are the detention center's quarterly booking reports under Georgia's Criminal Alien Track and Report Act. These are intake counts for the period shown. They are not a current roster count, not rated capacity, not average daily population, and not a count of unique people.

The 2025 quarterly reports total 1,684 bookings for the calendar year. Q1 2026 reported fewer bookings than any 2025 quarter in the located series, while detainers were higher than the 2025 quarters. Those trends can help describe jail activity, but they should not be used to estimate how many people are inside the jail today.

Visiting Someone at Murray County Jail

The official Murray County pages reviewed did not publish a jail visitation schedule, visitor handbook, approved visitor process, dress code, ID rule, video visitation vendor, or holiday schedule. Treat that as a practical warning: confirm the person's current custody and the current visit rules with the jail before traveling. Ask whether visits are onsite, remote video, professional-only, scheduled by housing unit, temporarily suspended, or subject to approval after booking.

Before a visit, ask whether the inmate is fully booked, whether the visitor must be on an approved list, what government photo ID is accepted, whether minors may visit, what clothing is prohibited, and whether phones, keys, bags, medication, watches, food, or drinks are allowed in the visitor area.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Murray County Jail

Murray County's official pages reviewed did not publish a mail policy, inmate ID format, commissary vendor, online money vendor, phone provider, video provider, fee table, refund rule, or money-order procedure. Do not send funds or mail based on a commercial jail-directory page unless the jail confirms the instruction. The safest order is custody confirmation first, then exact inmate name or booking number, then the current mail or deposit method.

The phone check matters because Murray County's FAQ already says the jail can confirm whether release is by bail, citation, or recognizance. A person who has been released, bonded out, transferred to GDC, moved to another county, or placed in federal or immigration custody may no longer be able to receive mail or funds through Murray County Jail.

When Murray County Jail Is Not the Right Lookup

Murray County Jail is the local source for recent county arrests and current county-jail custody. Other systems matter when the person has moved beyond local booking or was never held by the county jail in the first place. Keeping these systems separate prevents wasted calls and incorrect conclusions.

GDC's offender query can search by name, description, GDC ID, case number, county, offense, and active or inactive status. BOP searches by register number or name and may show a federal facility, projected release date, actual release date, or "not in BOP custody." ICE ODLS is the official immigration-custody locator, but the research environment could not inspect the live form because the official site returned an access-denied response.

Records Copies and Georgia Open Records Act Requests

For immediate custody, start with the jail call. For copies, identify the record custodian before making a request. A booking confirmation, arrest report, incident report, 911 record, warrant, bond order, court docket, accusation, indictment, sentence, GDC offender record, BOP record, and ICE record can all live in different systems.

The Georgia Attorney General's Open Government page links the Georgia Open Records Act. The Act generally covers inspection and copying of public records unless a law, court order, or exemption applies. For sheriff or jail records, ask the Murray County Sheriff's Office or jail how to submit a written request. For court filings, use the Clerk of Superior Court, Magistrate Court, or other court that holds the file. For 911 audio or call records, use the public-safety records path for those records rather than treating the jail as the custodian of every public-safety document.

Include the person's full name, arrest or incident date, case number if known, report number if known, arresting agency, and the exact record requested. Ask about fees before ordering copies. Redactions can apply to juvenile information, protected personal details, active-investigation material, medical information, and victim or witness information.

Directions and Map for Murray County Jail

The official address for Murray County Jail and the sheriff's office campus is 810 1/2 G.I. Maddox Parkway, Chatsworth, GA 30705. The county and GDC pages do not publish a cross-street description, public transit route, parking rule, or accessibility entry instruction. Use the verified address in a navigation app and call the jail or sheriff's office before a time-sensitive visit.

Magistrate Court is nearby on G.I. Maddox Parkway, while the Clerk of Superior Court and Superior Court are in the downtown Chatsworth court area. If a jail lookup turns into a court-record search, verify the correct office before driving between locations.

About Murray County Jail

The official sources reviewed confirm the jail's county-jail function, sheriff operation, public phone channel for arrest and bail information, GDC county-jail listing, and quarterly detention-center booking and immigration-status reporting. They did not locate an official capacity, pod layout, female-unit detail, work-release annex, medical or mental-health housing description, trustee program, visitor parking rule, public transit route, construction history, recent expansion, consent decree, or jail-conditions litigation source.

No official Murray County sheriff mobile app with an inmate lookup was located in the official county or sheriff materials reviewed. The sheriff's office page links public-safety resources such as sex-offender registries and victim resources, but those are separate from a current Murray County Jail inmate search.