What This Site Covers
Charleston County adult bookings are centered on the Sheriff Al Cannon Detention Center at 3841 Leeds Ave. in North Charleston, operated by the Charleston County Sheriff's Office under Sheriff Carl Ritchie. The official inmate search at https://inmatesearch.charlestoncounty.org/ is different from the South Carolina Department of Corrections locator for sentenced state prisoners, the BOP locator for federal custody, and ICE ODLS for immigration custody. This site keeps those paths in plain language, along with facility details, visitation context, and records-request basics tied to local sources such as the CCSO detention page and the Charleston County FOIA portal.
What You Will Find Here
The pages are written for people comparing jail roster information with official custody and court channels.
- Guidance for jail inmate records, jail roster mugshots, and court records after a jail arrest.
- Facility pages for the Sheriff Al Cannon Detention Center and the Charleston County Juvenile Detention Center, with the juvenile page treated separately because juvenile custody records are not public adult roster records.
- Step-by-step context for the county jail roster and the statewide SCDC locator at https://public.doc.state.sc.us/scdc-public/.
- Records-access notes that distinguish booking records, public court records, county FOIA requests, and law-enforcement records held by the responding agency.
Limits of a Private Reference Site
This site is privately run. It is not part of the Charleston County Sheriff's Office, the Sheriff Al Cannon Detention Center, SCDC, a court, or any South Carolina government agency.
- We cannot release, hold, transport, or transfer any person in custody.
- We cannot post bond, schedule visitation, or send money to an inmate account.
- We cannot provide legal advice or interpret a court case for you.
- We cannot control official roster fields, fees, facility rules, or government record updates.
The site explains public lookup paths, but it does not control custody records, release decisions, or the contents of any official database.
Search Partners
Some pages may include search tools supplied by outside providers. Those providers set their own prices, search coverage, and account terms. If a visitor uses a partner tool and that use results in a paid signup, this site may receive a referral fee that helps keep the guide available at no charge. We do not control partner search results, billing, or data handling.