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Madison County Jail Overview

The Madison County Jail sits at 823 SW Pinckney Street in Madison, near the central courthouse area. It is run by the Madison County Sheriff's Office and falls under the direct authority of Sheriff David Harper. Major Bea Livingston serves as the Jail Administrator and supervises daily detention operations. This is the primary jail for the whole county. City police in Madison, Greenville, Lee, and the rest of the county use it for post-arrest custody, since no separate city or regional jail roster was found.

Who is held here? Adults at the arrest stage, pretrial detainees who have not yet had their day in court, and people sentenced to short county terms. Some are held on a no-bond hold or a hold from another agency. A no-bond hold means bail does not authorize release on its own. The official jail page from the sheriff lays out the address, the intake steps, and the visiting rules, and that page anchors most of the facts on this page.

The sheriff does not publish a rated bed count, a construction year, or a housing-unit breakdown for the jail. The Madison County jail information page describes intake, calls, mail, money, and visiting, but not capacity.

That page is the clearest official source for jail contact details and the booking workflow at the Madison County Jail.

Madison County Jail Capacity

The Madison County Sheriff's Office does not publish a rated capacity or a daily population count for the jail. The jail page, the roster, and the county pages carry no bed-count figure. So no capacity number is claimed here. Inventing one would mislead readers, and the research found none in any official sheriff or county source.

For an official population figure, the state collects county jail data under Florida law and publishes it. The Florida Department of Corrections posts monthly county detention facility reports that profile inmate counts for each county. Those reports are the right place to check a sourced Madison number when one is needed, rather than the live roster, which is a lookup tool and not a stable statistic.

How to Look Up a Madison County Jail Inmate

The Madison County Jail roster runs on a system called SmartWEB. The sheriff labels the link "Search Jail Population." The default screen shows people booked in the last 24 hours, so recent arrests appear right away. A dropdown lets you choose current inmates, released inmates, or both. Release-date fields appear only when you pick released or both. You can reach the roster directly or through the official wrapper page.

Here is how to search the Madison County Jail roster step by step.

1. Open the roster directly, or use the public wrapper at madisonjail.org, which frames the same SmartWEB search.
2. Type any known last, first, or middle name. No name field is marked as required. You may also enter a begin and end booking date.
3. In the "Search For" menu, pick Current Inmates Only, Released Inmates Only, or Both Current And Released. Choose both if you are not sure.
4. Set the sort order by Name or Booking Date, then click Submit. Use Reset to clear the fields and start over.
5. Open a result to read the status, visitation status, booking number, MNI number, age, bond, and charges. Click Enlarge Photo for the full booking image, and the [+] sign beside a charge for its longer description.

A roster entry can show a mugshot, the person's status, their visitation status, a booking number, an MNI (master name index) number, the booking date, age at booking, bond amount, and a charge table.

The SmartWEB search returns each booking inline, so you do not have to open a separate detail page to read the charges.

Madison County Jail Address and Contact

If the roster does not answer your question, call the jail. Staff can confirm whether a person is in custody and give the current visiting schedule. The sheriff's main administrative office sits at a different address from the jail, so use the correct one when you visit or send mail. For booking records that are not online, the sheriff's public-records line is the route to take.

For records not posted online, ask the sheriff's public-records unit by phone, email, or mail. Mail goes to Attn: Public Records Custodian, 2364 West US 90, Madison, FL 32340. Florida public-records fees follow Chapter 119.

Visiting Someone at Madison County Jail

Visits at the Madison County Jail run on a schedule that the sheriff says was interrupted by Covid-19 and may change without notice. Because of that, the jail does not post fixed day-and-time rows. Always call 850-973-4002 first to confirm the current schedule before you travel. A few rules stay constant, and they are listed below.

Note: The jail does not publish visitor parking rules or an accessible-entrance description, so confirm parking and access at the facility before you arrive.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Madison County Jail

Inmates at the Madison County Jail can send and receive letters, with limits. Staff open and inspect nonlegal mail for contraband. Legal mail is opened in the inmate's presence. The jail does not accept packages except for legal materials, and it turns away express mail that needs a signature. Mail is delivered Monday through Friday, not on legal holidays.

Phones are outgoing only. Inmates cannot receive calls. They can place collect calls or use a prepaid calling card from the housing units through the jail's phone vendor. Money reaches an inmate's account in a few ways, and the table below sums up each channel.

An older general-inmate page from the sheriff conflicts on a few points, giving a different deposit cutoff and a slightly different Pinckney address. That discrepancy is left as-is here rather than guessed at, so verify the current cutoff and address by phone.

Booking and Intake at Madison County Jail

When someone is brought to the Madison County Jail, a set sequence begins. First comes property intake. Then staff inventory any money the person has. Clothing and other items are logged next. After that, the person gets a medical screening. The booking record is created during this process, and only then is the inmate assigned to general population by their charges.

If a person does not bond out, the sheriff's page says they go before a judge within the first 24 hours. At that first appearance, the judge states the charges and sets the bond amount. The hearing may happen in person, by phone, or by video. Once bond is set, the inmate gets a reasonable chance to call a bondsman or family to arrange release. The charges shown on the roster are booking charges, which can differ from the formal charges the prosecutor later files.

The local bond schedule for Madison comes from the Third Judicial Circuit. Some serious offenses carry no pre-first-appearance release, so a person may wait for a judge even when the roster shows a charge. For the formal court case, the roster is not the authoritative record.

About the Madison County Jail

The Madison County Jail is the front door of the local custody system. After arrest, a person is booked here and appears on the SmartWEB roster. If they do not bond out, they see a judge, and the case moves to the clerk and the State Attorney. The jail handles pretrial and short county-sentence custody only. It is not a state prison.

That distinction matters for inmate lookups. Once sentenced to state prison, inmates transfer from the Madison County Jail to Madison Correctional Institution or another Florida Department of Corrections site, and they are then found through the state offender locator, not the county roster. For more on reading a roster entry and the full access chain, the jail inmate records page goes deeper. Florida jails operate under the Florida Model Jail Standards and are inspected under state law, which sets the floor for conditions at facilities like this one.