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Sumter-Lee Jail Overview

Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center is published by Sumter County government and the Sumter County Sheriff's Office as the detention center serving the Sumter-Lee inmate inquiry. The official facility address is 1250 Winkles Road, Sumter, SC 29153, with the main detention phone at 803-436-2340 and fax at 803-436-2428. For Lee County users, that matters because the research did not locate a separate Lee County jail page or a separate Lee-only jail roster. The Lee County Sheriff's Office remains a local law-enforcement contact in Bishopville, but the active public jail custody channel runs through this regional jail and its CentralSquare inmate inquiry.

The sheriff's detention materials describe the facility as part of the local criminal justice system. It receives and processes arrested persons, holds accused law violators while they wait for court, houses lower-level sentenced offenders, holds civil-contempt remands, and keeps people held for other jurisdictions or awaiting transfer. That mix makes the Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center jail roster broader than a simple arrest list. A person may appear because of a new Lee-area arrest, a Sumter-area charge, a warrant hold, a federal marshal hold, a civil order, or a pending transfer to state prison.

The Sumter County Sheriff's Office detention center page shows the official facility description and its 560-bed jail statement.

That source is the local basis for treating Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center as the primary regional jail facility for Lee County inmate lookup.

Sumter-Lee Jail Population

Official local statistics support three different population numbers, and each one means something different. The sheriff's detention center materials list 560 beds as the facility capacity. The Sumter sheriff office overview lists 340 as the average daily population and 35 sworn detention-center personnel. A live CentralSquare query inspected on June 29, 2026 returned 471 current roster records, but that is a point-in-time public roster count. It should not be treated as the official annual average because the live roster can include holds, timing differences, agency definitions, and people counted under more than one custody reason.

The facility's public configuration also supports the regional nature of custody. Agency and cell-block values include local and outside-agency labels, including Bishopville Police and federal marshal-related entries. The public site does not show every internal field as a visible column, but the configuration and sample records showed mugshots, name, race, sex, date of birth, arrest date, hold reasons, warrants, bonds, judge text, release date, cell block, and held-for agency. Those fields are useful for identification, yet detention staff should confirm custody before a family member travels or sends money.

Sumter-Lee Inmate Lookup

The correct current-custody tool for Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center is the CentralSquare inmate inquiry. It is the jail roster channel linked from official Sumter detention sources. It is also the practical Lee County jail roster route when a Bishopville or Lee-related arrest is routed to the regional detention center. For a broader explanation of current jail records, the Lee County jail inmate records page can help separate jail custody from court records and state prison custody.

1. Open the CentralSquare inmate inquiry and search by last name, first name, race, sex, or current in-custody date.
2. Use the closest legal name spelling. If the person was just arrested, wait and search again because booking data can lag.
3. Check the result for mugshot, name, race, sex, date of birth, and arrest date before relying on a match.
4. Open the record details when available and review charges, warrant text, bond entries, hold reasons, and release status.
5. Call 803-436-2340 when the roster result affects pickup, court timing, bond, medication, or visitation.

Note: SCDC state-prison records are separate from the Sumter-Lee jail roster once a person is sentenced and transferred.

Sumter-Lee Jail Contact

Use the detention center phone for custody verification, visit scheduling questions, property release questions, and urgent inmate-location checks. Use Lee County Sheriff's Office contacts for Lee County law-enforcement matters that are not handled by the regional jail lobby. The research also found a visitation and housing schedule phone number, which is different from the main jail number.

Sumter-Lee Jail Visits

Social visits at Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center are non-contact and first come, first served. The sheriff's visitation rules describe visits as a privilege, not a right. General population inmates may receive no more than two 30-minute social visits per week and one 30-minute visit per day. Each session is limited to two visitors, either two adults or one adult and one juvenile who is at least 12. Adults need photo identification. For juveniles 12 or older, the supervising adult must bring the child's birth certificate and school ID if the child has one.

Visitors must sign in 15 minutes before the session. The final sign-in is 10:30 a.m. for morning sessions and 4 p.m. for afternoon sessions. Only photo IDs, car keys, and cash, debit, or credit cards for deposits are allowed. Cellphones, handbags, care packages, and other items are prohibited, and all visitors are subject to search. The jail dress code bans revealing clothing, short skirts or shorts more than three inches above the knee, exposed underwear, swim attire, offensive graphics, see-through clothing, and body-accenting clothing.

The official Sumter-Lee visitation schedule shows the pod-based visit rules and current social, clergy, professional, and video visit notes.

Because the schedule is pod-based, a visitor should confirm the inmate's housing unit before relying on a day or time.

Sumter-Lee Mail and Money

Mail for Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center must use the inmate's full booked name and housing unit location number. The detention FAQ gives the address format as the inmate name and housing unit, followed by Sumter County Sheriff's Office Detention Center, 1250 Winkles Road, Sumter, SC 29153. Sender name and return address are required. Incoming mail is inspected for contraband, and contraband mail can be held, returned, or used in a disciplinary or criminal case.

Money may be deposited through the lobby kiosk or Access Corrections. The detention FAQ says the kiosk is available at 1250 Winkles Road from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Sunday. It accepts cash, credit, and debit deposits, charges a $4 fee, does not accept $1 bills, and does not make change. Access Corrections deposits are available online and by phone at 1-866-394-0490. The same FAQ names Securus Technologies for phone accounts, while the visitation page names IC Solutions for video visitation.

The detention FAQ for mail, money, phone, and bond questions is the source for the deposit methods and phone-account details.

The FAQ also covers property release, bond hearings, and the rule that inmates receive personal call privileges on request during intake.

Sumter-Lee Booking Records

Booking at Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center is the administrative process after arrest or transfer. A person is identified, searched, classified, assigned a housing area, and entered into jail records. The public portal can show booking-related data such as name, mugshot, race, sex, date of birth, arrest date, hold reasons, charge text, warrant number, issuing jurisdiction, bond type or amount, judge text, and release information. A booking record is not a conviction. It records jail custody and allegations or holds known to the detention center at that time.

Some records move fast. Bond can change after a hearing. A hold can be added by another agency. A person can be released, transferred to Lee Correctional Institution after a state sentence, moved for court, or held for federal transport. That is why court users should match the jail roster against the Lee County Public Index or the appropriate court. Families should call the jail before traveling for pickup, especially when the roster shows bond but also lists another agency hold.