Stokes County Jail Roster
The official online custody source for Stokes County inmate records is the Citizen Connect Inmate Confinements portal operated for the Stokes County Sheriff's Office. The county jail page links to that portal as the place to search for an inmate, and the Citizen Connect pages identify the agency as the sheriff's office under Sheriff Joey Lemons. The roster is for Stokes County Jail, the local confinement facility in Danbury. It is not a statewide prison database, a federal inmate search, or a full criminal-history report.
The roster is useful because it is organized around custody status and booking facts instead of only a name box. The public controls include Current Confinements, Admits by Date Range, Charges, and Arresting Agency. That matters in Stokes County because the arresting-agency options include the sheriff's office, King, NC Highway Patrol, Probation, and many other agencies. A person can be booked into the Stokes County jail even when the arrest started with a town police officer, highway patrol stop, probation matter, warrant, or another jurisdiction.
The official Inmate Confinements screen shows the roster tabs, date filters, and arresting-agency options used for current jail records.
The screenshot reflects the public search structure, but individual live records load dynamically, so profile details should be checked in the live portal or with the jail records clerk.
Use Stokes County Inmate Search
Start with the county jail roster when the question is whether someone is in the Stokes County Jail now or was recently admitted. If the person has already been sentenced to a North Carolina prison, has moved to federal custody, or is held for immigration custody, the county roster may be the wrong place. A county booking record is a jail custody record, not proof of conviction.
- Open Citizen Connect Inmate Confinements from the sheriff's site or by using the direct roster URL.
- Choose Current Confinements for a person believed to be in custody now.
- Use Admits by Date Range for recent bookings, and keep any custom date range to 31 days or less because the portal states that limit.
- Use Charges when the alleged offense is known but the name spelling is uncertain.
- Use Arresting Agency when the arrest source is known, such as Stokes, King, NC Highway Patrol, or Probation.
- If the portal stalls, blocks access, or does not show the person, call Stokes County Jail at (336) 593-8117 and ask for jail records.
The sheriff's mobile app is another county channel. The Apple App Store listing and Google Play listing for the Stokes County Sheriff's Office app advertise current jail confinements, wanted and missing persons, and anonymous tips. The app store pages also warn that the app is not for emergencies.
Stokes County Roster Fields
The visible Citizen Connect roster controls are more specific than a simple last-name search. They let a user shift from current custody to recent admits, charge-based browsing, and agency-based filtering. The research pass could not inspect a full individual inmate profile because the site loads live data dynamically and blocks automated traffic, so the safest public-record wording is to describe the confirmed search controls and tell readers to verify profile fields on the live result.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Current Confinements | Tab or filter | No | Shows the current jail population when live data loads. |
| Admits by Date Range | Tab or filter | No | Used for recent jail admissions and booking searches. |
| Custom Date Range | Date range | No | Uses start and end dates, with a stated 31-day maximum range. |
| Last 24 Hours | Quick filter | No | Useful for very recent arrests or overnight bookings. |
| Last 7 Days | Quick filter | No | Useful when the booking date is recent but not exact. |
| Charges | Tab or charge filter | No | Helps when the alleged offense is known. |
| Arresting Agency | Dropdown | No | Includes Stokes, King, NC Highway Patrol, Probation, and other agencies. |
These filters are best read together. A charge search can help identify a broad set of jail records, while an agency filter can explain why someone arrested outside Danbury appears in the Stokes County inmate records system.
Stokes County Inmate Record Details
A confirmed Stokes County jail profile field list was not available from static inspection. The live roster should be treated as the authority for the exact fields that appear on any given day. The public page does confirm that the roster is built around confinement status, admit date range, charges, and arresting agency. The sheriff's official Most Wanted page also confirms that the same public platform can display law-enforcement photos, names, physical descriptors, wanted-for text, and report numbers, although that page is not the jail roster.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Confinement status | Whether the person appears as a current confinement when the live roster loads. |
| Admit date range | Recent jail intake activity by selected dates, last 24 hours, or last 7 days. |
| Charge information | The roster can be browsed by charge, but filed court charges must be verified with the court record. |
| Arresting agency | The agency tied to the arrest or custody event, such as sheriff, town police, highway patrol, or probation. |
| Booking photo | Possible on live jail profiles but not confirmed in the static research pass; wanted-person photos are confirmed on the official Most Wanted page. |
| Release or transfer | Not a permanent history field; a person may drop from current custody after release, sentence, or transfer. |
For court outcomes, use the North Carolina eCourts Portal or the Stokes County Clerk of Superior Court. Jail charges can change after a prosecutor reviews the case. A booking entry can reflect the arrest path, while the court file reflects filed charges, hearings, bond orders, judgments, dismissals, and later dispositions.
Stokes County Records Fallbacks
When the roster does not answer the question, use the local contacts tied to Stokes County Jail. The sheriff contact directory identifies jail contacts and Melissa Ireland, Records Clerk, at the jail number. No separate sheriff-specific online jail-records request form was located, so a focused phone or email request is the practical route for booking-record questions that the roster does not resolve.
Stokes County Jail
1013 N. Main St.
Danbury, NC 27016
(336) 593-8117
Jail records, roster questions, booking status, and records clerk routing.
Stokes County Sheriff's Office
1012 N. Main St.
Danbury, NC 27016
(336) 593-8787
Administrative office hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The sheriff's contact page lists Lt. L. Goins and Sgt. T. Hill for jail contact matters and Melissa Ireland as records clerk. For emergency issues, use 911. For non-emergency communications, the sheriff page also lists (336) 593-8130 and (336) 593-8139. For court case records, do not send the request to the jail. Use the Clerk of Superior Court through the North Carolina Judicial Branch Stokes County contact directory.
Note: Ask for the record type by name, such as booking record, custody status, jail roster correction, or booking-photo request.
Stokes County Jail vs Locators
Stokes County Jail is a local confinement facility. It holds people detained, committed, or confined by local legal process, including recent arrests, pretrial detainees, weekend sentences, local holds, and court transports. A state prison record is different. The North Carolina Department of Adult Correction offender search covers state prison offenders, probationers, and parolees, including historical information back to 1972. NCDAC also says it does not include local county jail records.
| Custody Type | Where to Look | Why It Matters |
|---|---|---|
| County jail custody | Citizen Connect Inmate Confinements and Stokes County Jail phone | Current local custody, recent admits, charges, and arresting agency filters. |
| State prison, probation, or parole | NCDAC offender search | Sentenced state offenders and supervision records, not county jail bookings. |
| Custody notification | North Carolina VINE | Custody-status and criminal-case notification, with 1-877-627-2826 listed publicly. |
| Federal custody | BOP Inmate Locator or U.S. Marshals Middle District | Federal inmates from 1982 to present and federal pretrial custody pathways. |
| Immigration custody | ICE Online Detainee Locator System | Immigration custody after transfer; the county roster may no longer show active confinement. |
The NCDAC offender-search page is the correct next stop once a Stokes County case results in state prison or community-supervision custody.
Use NCDAC for state records, but return to the Stokes County jail roster or jail records clerk for local booking and current confinement questions.
Stokes County Booking Process
Local sources do not publish a full booking workflow or update interval, so timing should not be guessed. The practical path begins with an arrest, warrant, probation matter, failure to appear, child-support order, traffic/DWI matter, or court order. The arresting agency transports the person to Stokes County Jail, where staff process the person into local confinement. Once the jail process and roster update occur, the person may appear in current confinements, admits by date range, charge browsing, or agency filters.
Booking also starts the practical family-contact tasks. The inmate accounts page says a trust account is set up once an inmate is processed. Stokes County uses PayTel Communications for phone service, and each housing area has phones. The property page says the jail does not accept inmate property except money orders, and the inmate accounts page warns that deposits made to the wrong account are not refunded to outside senders.
- Booking
- The jail intake event after an arrest or court commitment.
- Current confinement
- A person presently shown as held in the Stokes County jail roster.
- Detainer
- A hold request from another agency or jurisdiction that may affect release.
- First appearance
- An early court event where charges and release conditions may be reviewed.
Stokes County Jail Visits
Visitation is a separate step from a Stokes County inmate records search. Confirm custody first, then use the jail's official visitation rules. The Stokes County visitation page sends public visitors to PayTel Connect for on-site lobby video visits and remote video visits. It says visits must be scheduled 24 hours in advance and visitors should log in five minutes before the visit time.
| Visit Type | Schedule or Timing | Cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-site public video visit | Schedule 24 hours in advance | Free on lobby monitors | Use PayTel Connect and log in five minutes early. |
| Remote family video visit | Schedule 24 hours in advance | $0.30 per minute | The official page warns cell phone connections may not work well. |
| Professional visitor | Monday through Sunday, 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. | Not stated | Includes law enforcement, detectives, probation, attorneys, paralegals, and interpreters. |
Religious-leader visits are not treated as professional visits under the official page. The Stokes visitation source did not publish a public dress code, child-visitor rule, ID rule, visit length, holiday schedule, or lockdown procedure, so confirm any of those details with the jail before travel.
Stokes County Inmate Contact
Inmate mail and money rules are tightly local. Non-legal mail is not sent to the jail building. It is sent to the Stokes County Detention Center scanning address with the inmate name, inmate ID number, and Facility ID Number 5187. The mail page says envelopes that lack the facility name, inmate name, inmate ID, and Facility ID will not be scanned. It also bans cash, personal checks, money orders, publications, packages, Polaroids, contraband, and several types of altered or explicit material at the scanning center.
| Account Method | Where | Local Rule |
|---|---|---|
| Money order by mail | Mail to Stokes County Jail, not the scanning center | Money-order funds are held for 10 days. |
| Personal delivery | Jail officer on duty | Only money orders are accepted as inmate property. |
| Lobby kiosk | Jail lobby | Kiosk owner charges the fee, not the jail. |
| Online deposit | JailPackStore / McDaniel Supply | Follow vendor prompts and confirm the inmate before paying. |
The property page gives a $200 maximum account balance. Photos through PayTel Connect are charged to the sender at $0.25 per approved photo. None of these account deposits are bond payments. Bond and release conditions are court matters, while account money is for commissary, phones, and jail use.
Note: Confirm custody before sending money, scheduling a visit, or mailing items that may not be returned.