Winston County Jail Overview
Winston County Jail is the only detention facility identified for Winston County from the official and high-authority facility lists reviewed. The facility is a county jail, not a state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention center. The 2024 Alabama Law Enforcement Directory lists the Winston County Jail address, jail phone, jail fax, officer count, and capacity. The official county pages and the Alabama Secretary of State list a separate sheriff and county office address, so the two addresses should not be merged into one unqualified location.
The Winston County Sheriff's Office operates the jail. The sheriff audit filed in July 2024 describes the office as responsible for jail operation and administration, custody, and feeding of county prisoners. That same audit documents work release, jail store activity, jail inmate commissary funds, prisoner feeding funds, municipal prisoner feeding, and prisoners' money-on-deposit accounting. Those details matter for inmate lookup because the jail is not just a booking desk. It handles local detention, money accounting, work-release custody, and coordination with courts and other custody systems.
The jail serves Double Springs and the rest of Winston County. No official county jail page was found with a public housing-unit map, classification guide, construction history, visitor entrance diagram, parking rules, or ADA entrance details. Use the published jail phone before travel, especially when the purpose is visitation, bond, property pickup, mail, commissary, or inmate money.
Winston County Jail Capacity
Two high-authority sources support the same rated capacity for Winston County Jail. The 2024 Alabama Law Enforcement Directory lists a 120-bed capacity, and the Vera Institute's 2022 county jail data also reports a rated capacity of 120. Vera reported a total jail population of 125 for Winston County in 2022, with 90 male inmates, 35 female inmates, 24 pretrial inmates, and 101 sentenced inmates. That 2022 count was about five people above the reported rated capacity.
The Vera count is a data point, not a live roster. Winston County did not publish a daily jail population dashboard, a current inmate list, or a current occupancy report on the county pages reviewed. A person may be booked, released, transferred, or held on another agency's authority between public reports. Current custody at Winston County Jail should be confirmed with the jail before relying on older arrest lists, news reports, or annual statistics.
Find Winston County Jail Custody
No official Winston County Jail online roster, inmate-search form, recent-booking list, booking-photo gallery, or released-inmate feed was located on the official county site. For that reason, the lookup path starts with the jail phone rather than a web form. The broader Winston County jail inmate records process also separates county jail custody from state prison, federal custody, immigration custody, and court records.
- Call Winston County Jail at (205) 489-5205 for current custody, booking status, inmate ID questions, bond instructions, release status, visitation, mail, or property questions.
- If the question is administrative, contact jail administrator Lajonna Berry at (205) 489-2032 or use the sheriff office main line at (205) 489-8765.
- If the person was sentenced to state prison and transferred, search the ADOC inmate search by AIS number, first name, or last name.
- If the issue is formal court charges, settings, or case status, use Alacourt or the Winston County Circuit Clerk rather than the jail.
- If federal or immigration custody is possible, use the BOP inmate locator, U.S. Marshals district contacts, or ICE ODLS as a separate fallback.
ADOC is not a Winston County Jail roster. It covers current state prisoners in Alabama Department of Corrections custody and excludes county pretrial detainees. BOP and ICE tools are also separate systems. A local arrest in Winston County can move through several channels after booking, so the best search path depends on whether the person is still in the county jail, has moved to state prison, is in court proceedings, or has been transferred to another custody system.
Winston County Jail Contacts
The jail-specific address comes from the law-enforcement directory, while the sheriff and county office address comes from the county site and the Alabama Secretary of State. Treat the Highway 195 address as the jail address and Blake Drive as the published sheriff or county office address unless an official local source gives newer instructions. Call the jail before travel to confirm the entrance for visits, bond, money, property, or records.
Winston County Jail
25166 Highway 195
Double Springs, AL 35553
(205) 489-5205
Fax: (205) 489-1778
Winston County Sheriff's Office
11 Blake Drive
Double Springs, AL 35553
(205) 489-8765
Administrative office hours: 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM, Monday through Friday
Jail Administration
Lajonna Berry, Jail Administrator
l.berry@winstonal.gov
(205) 489-2032
Use the jail line first for live custody questions.
The official sheriff department contact table is the strongest current county source for jail administration, jail phone, corrections, dispatch, work release, and investigations contacts.
The table supports using the direct jail line for inmate status and the jail administrator or sheriff office for administrative routing when a web roster is not available.
Winston County Jail Visits
Winston County did not publish an official visitation schedule, visitor registration page, video-visit vendor, dress code, minor-visitor rule, attorney-visit rule, or holiday schedule in the sources reviewed. Do not rely on third-party jail pages for visit times. The safe local process is to call the jail and ask for the current schedule, ID requirements, approval rules, visit length, arrival time, allowed property, and any lockdown or holiday change.
| Visitation item | Winston County Jail finding |
|---|---|
| In-person visit days | Not published in official sources |
| In-person visit hours | Not published in official sources |
| Video visit vendor | Not published in official sources |
| Scheduling website | Not published in official sources |
| Visitor ID rule | Not published in official sources |
| Minor visitor rules | Not published in official sources |
| Attorney visits | Not published in official sources |
A government photo ID is commonly requested at jails, but no Winston County visitor-entry policy was found that lists exact rules. Confirm the current rule with the jail before bringing children, property, books, photos, medications, or payment. The sheriff administrative office hours do not prove jail visitation hours, intake hours, or bond-posting hours.
Note: Confirm custody, visit approval, entrance location, and schedule with Winston County Jail before driving to Double Springs.
Winston County Jail Mail Money
No official Winston County page was found with a mail-address format for inmates, an inmate ID requirement, book or magazine rules, photo rules, legal-mail rules, mail-scanning policy, jail phone vendor, video vendor, commissary vendor, lobby kiosk, online deposit site, or deposit fee table. The sheriff audit does, however, document jail inmate commissary funds, prisoners' money-on-deposit funds, a jail store fund, pay-telephone commissions, and work-release wage accounting.
| Money or service item | Documented detail |
|---|---|
| Commissary | Jail inmate commissary fund documented by the sheriff audit |
| Jail store | Jail store fund documented by the audit; audit finding questioned statutory authority |
| Online deposit vendor | Not located in official sources |
| Lobby kiosk | Not located in official sources |
| Phone deposit | Not located in official sources |
| Deposit fees | Not located in official sources |
| Work-release wage deduction | Audit says the Work Release Fund accounts for 25% of gross wages for inmates in work release under Ala. Code Section 14-8-31 |
Call before mailing anything or sending funds. Ask whether the inmate must have a booking number or inmate ID on mail, whether photos or publications are allowed, whether legal mail uses a different address, and whether money must be deposited in person, by mail, by phone, or through a vendor. Vendor rules and fees can change, and the research found no official Winston County public fee schedule.
Winston County Jail Booking
A person arrested by the Winston County Sheriff's Office, a municipal police agency, ALEA, or another law-enforcement agency may be taken to Winston County Jail if local custody is appropriate. Booking is the intake process after arrest. It can include identity checks, arrest authority review, property inventory, medical or safety screening, and a custody decision. Winston County did not publish a local booking checklist, intake timeline, housing-unit guide, or online roster refresh schedule.
Bond, holds, and court settings should be checked through the jail and court channels. A bond is tied to a court appearance or release order. A hold or detainer is a notice from another court, jail, probation office, parole authority, federal agency, or immigration agency that may stop release even when local bond appears available. Court charges can differ from arrest or booking charges because a prosecutor may file, amend, reduce, dismiss, or replace charges after the first booking event.
- Booking
- Administrative jail intake after arrest.
- Detainer
- A hold or notice from another agency or jurisdiction.
- Work release
- A sheriff-operated program for eligible inmates to work under jail rules.
- ADOC
- Alabama Department of Corrections, the state prison agency for sentenced state prisoners.
Winston County Jail Operations
The July 2024 sheriff audit covers a long audit period and gives unusually specific insight into jail operations. It describes funds for jail operation, prisoner feeding, state prisoner feeding allowances, municipal feed bills, work release, commissary, jail store activity, and prisoners' money on deposit. It also says the sheriff operates the work-release program under Alabama Code Section 14-8-31. The county contact table separately lists a work-release contact and a corrections email, which supports the audit's description of active jail programming and money accounting.
The audit made two findings tied to money controls. One finding said the sheriff operated a jail store without statutory authority and recommended seeking local legislation. Another involved timely receipting and depositing money in all funds. Those findings should not be read as a public commissary menu or deposit rule. They do show why families should confirm current money procedures directly with the jail before paying a vendor, mailing funds, or assuming an older process remains in use.
Recent local reporting also noted that inmate medical-service costs were a live county issue in 2024, including reports that the county was asked to pay more for inmate health care and later reached a new medical-services agreement at a higher annual cost. Those news items do not create patient-care instructions for inmates or families. Medical requests, grievance rules, medication delivery, and emergency procedures were not published in the official county sources reviewed.
Winston County Jail Records
The sheriff is the starting point for jail custody and jail records because Alabama law gives the sheriff custody and charge of the county jail and prisoners committed there. Alabama's public-records law gives Alabama residents a general right to inspect and copy public records unless another law creates an exception. That does not mean every jail record is released. Active investigations, juvenile or youthful-offender records, sealed records, expunged records, security-sensitive records, and court orders can limit access.
For formal court charges after a Winston County Jail booking, use the Circuit Clerk or Alacourt. For sentenced state-prison custody after transfer, use ADOC. For federal prisoners, use the BOP locator. For immigration detention, use ICE ODLS. For county-level custody trends, capacity, and lookup context, the Winston County inmate population hub explains how the jail count and search channels fit together.