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Accomack County Jail Overview

Accomack County Jail is a county jail and local correctional facility operated by the Accomack County Sheriff's Office. The sheriff's public contact page lists the jail at 23323 Wise Ct., Accomac, VA 23301, with the direct jail phone number of (757) 787-1095. The county's corrections page describes the jail as a maximum-security jail for adults. Its local role is broad: it can hold male and female detainees before trial, people committed after a magistrate or court hearing, and some short-sentence local inmates.

The county corrections page says people in the jail may face charges that range from murder to shoplifting, which helps explain why the facility is not limited to one offense level. A later county medical-services RFP adds that the jail houses both male and female detainees and some sentenced inmates generally serving sentences of less than three months. That does not make the facility a state prison. Sentenced state prisoners from Accomack are searched through VADOC when they move into state custody.

The official sheriff contact page is the most fitting Accomack image source for this facility page. It shows the published jail phone and sheriff contact path used for local custody questions.

The Accomack Sheriff's Office contact page is the source for the jail phone, sheriff office phones, mailing address, and FOIA links tied to Accomack County Jail.

The screenshot supports the facility contact section because Accomack County Jail does not have a separate public roster page in the official pages reviewed.

Accomack County Jail Capacity

The state and county sources use different measures for Accomack County Jail, so the figures should not be collapsed into one number. The 2023 Board of Local and Regional Jails capacity report lists 103 permanent beds, a rated capacity of 46, and an average daily population of 88.17 for the period from July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023. The county corrections page lists an average daily inmate population of 95. The 2026 county medical-services RFP uses 110 as the prior 12-month average daily population and the planning figure for the next year.

Permanent beds, rated capacity, and average daily population mean different things. Permanent beds describe physical bed count. Rated capacity is the state capacity measure used in the BOLRJ report. Average daily population is an operational count across a period of time. The important local point is that the state rated capacity of 46 is far lower than the reported ADP figures of 88.17, 95, and 110 from later or different source types.

Lookup Accomack County Jail Inmates

No official Accomack County Jail online roster was located on the inspected county or sheriff pages. That means the correct lookup path is a chain of official sources, not a single public roster profile. Start with the direct jail phone. Then use VINE for custody status and notifications. If a person may have moved to Eastern Shore Regional Jail, check that facility. If the person was sentenced to state custody, use the VADOC locator. Federal or immigration custody requires BOP, U.S. Marshals, or ICE tools rather than the county jail.

1. Call Accomack County Jail at (757) 787-1095 and ask whether the person is currently held there or has been transferred.
2. Use Virginia VINELink to search custody status and sign up for release or transfer notifications.
3. Check Eastern Shore Regional Jail if the person may be held regionally for Accomack or Northampton.
4. Search the VADOC Inmate and Supervisee Locator if the person has moved into state custody or supervision.
5. Email a sheriff FOIA request to Captain Carl Wright at cwright@co.accomack.va.us for existing jail records not available by phone.

Accomack County Jail Contact

The sheriff's office and jail share the Wise Court government location. The direct jail line is the first phone number for current custody, visiting questions, and jail-specific records routing. The sheriff's main numbers are useful for arresting-agency questions, incident reports, warrants, civil process, and general sheriff records. Written public-record requests go through the sheriff's FOIA contact, not through a public roster portal.

Accomack County Jail Visits

Official Accomack County pages reviewed did not publish a public visitation schedule, dress code, visitor registration window, or video visit vendor rules for Accomack County Jail. Those details should be confirmed with the jail before any trip. Do not import the Eastern Shore Regional Jail housing-unit visitation schedule onto the Accomack County Jail rules because that facility is run by Northampton County and has its own rules. A visitor should treat Accomack County Jail as a secure local correctional facility and call ahead for the correct day, time, entrance, identification rules, and any current restrictions.

Accomack County Jail Mail Money

Accomack County Jail mail format, commissary deposit methods, deposit fees, and public phone rates were not published in the official pages reviewed. County procurement records show related services: an inmate telephone service RFP was awarded to Legacy Inmate Communications, and a tablet services RFP covered services at the county jail on Wise Court. Those procurement notes support that communication services exist, but they do not publish consumer instructions, rates, mail limits, or public deposit steps.

Accomack County Jail Intake

After an Accomack arrest, the person may be brought before a judicial officer without unnecessary delay if a summons is not used. The judicial officer conducts the initial bail or commitment review. If committed to jail, the person is booked at Accomack County Jail or another authorized holding facility. Booking can include identity work, property handling, fingerprints, a photograph when authorized or required, medical or mental-health screening, classification, and housing assignment. The county medical-services RFP supports the need for a correctional health care system at the jail, but it does not publish the exact intake forms or nurse schedule.

Booking charges can differ from formal court charges. A charge listed at intake may later be amended, dismissed, reduced, indicted, or replaced after prosecutor review and court action. For the court side of an arrest, use Virginia court systems and local clerk records. For custody status, use the jail, VINE, and facility-specific contacts. A court record can show the case path, but it does not prove current housing inside Accomack County Jail.

Accomack County Jail Records

The Accomack Sheriff's FOIA page is the local route for jail records that are not available online. Requests should identify existing records with reasonable specificity. For a booking record, useful details include full name, date of birth, arrest date, booking date, arresting agency, charge, incident number, warrant or capias number, and court case number if known. FOIA does not require the office to create a new record, answer general research questions, or build a custom roster.

The sheriff's page states that the office responds within five business days, excluding weekends and holidays. It may provide the record, withhold it with a written explanation, provide it in part with redactions, state that the record cannot be found or does not exist, or invoke seven additional working days when the first five days are not enough. Published charges include $40 per hour for staff time depending on time involved after the first hour, $0.08 per printed page, and a half deposit if the estimated cost is more than $200.