Franklin County Jail Inmate Lookup

Franklin County Jail Overview

The Franklin County Jail is operated by the Franklin County Sheriff's Office at 270 State Road 65 in Eastpoint, FL 32328. It holds local pretrial detainees, people serving short county sentences, and fresh arrests. Those arrests come from the sheriff's office, the Apalachicola Police Department, and the Carrabelle Police Department. The jail also holds people who are waiting for a court date or for transport to the Florida Department of Corrections after sentencing.

This is a short-term intake, pretrial, and sentencing-transition facility. It is not a state prison. People who get a prison sentence do not stay here long. Once a judge rules, the jail either releases the person, keeps holding them, or hands them over for transport. The sheriff's 2024 Annual Report frames corrections as one of the office's core jobs, alongside patrol, dispatch, and administration.

It helps to know the difference between three kinds of custody. A county jail like this one holds local and pretrial detainees. A state prison holds people already sentenced to long terms. Federal and immigration custody are separate systems again. Mixing them up sends families to the wrong locator. If someone has been moved to state custody, the search shifts to the Florida Department of Corrections rather than the county arrest log.

Franklin County Jail Capacity and Population

The jail is a small rural facility, and its own numbers show it runs below the line drawn for it. The sheriff's 2024 Annual Report lists a rated capacity of 100 beds and an average daily population of 66. That works out to roughly two-thirds full on a typical day, based only on the office's published figures. The term average daily population, often shortened to ADP, means the mean number of people held across the year.

Turnover is the real story at a county jail. The same report counts 671 people booked in 2024, far more than the beds on hand, because most people cycle through fast. It also records 153 court escorts for felony and misdemeanor hearings and 32 transports to the Department of Corrections after sentencing. Those figures come from the FCSO 2024 Annual Report.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Franklin County Jail

The sheriff publishes an FCSO Arrest Log online, and that is the main public window into recent bookings. Read it carefully, though. It is a paginated arrest publication, not a fielded live roster. There is no search box that takes a last name and returns a custody status. Instead, you browse pages of arrest entries and match the person by eye. The sheriff's office under Sheriff A.J. "Tony" Smith posts these entries for arrests across the county.

1. Open the FCSO Arrest Log and start with the most recent page of entries.
2. Page through the log, since older arrests sit on later pages of the archive.
3. Match the person using the fields shown: booking photo, full name, city, race, sex, age, arresting agency, arrest date, and charges.
4. Treat any match as an arrest record, not proof of current custody, because the log does not show release status, bond, or housing.
5. Confirm whether the person is still held by calling the jail at 850-670-8500, or file a Chapter 119 public-records request for booking details not posted online.

The log shows arrests from the sheriff's office, the Apalachicola Police Department, and the Carrabelle Police Department. It does not list a booking number, bond amount, court date, or warrant number. For those, the phone line and the records channel are the honest routes. A broader guide to pulling these records lives on the jail inmate records page.

The sheriff also names a leadership team that families sometimes want to picture before they call. You can read more about the office on the Sheriff A.J. "Tony" Smith biography page.

That bio page sits on the same official site that hosts the arrest log, so it is a safe starting point for verifying who runs the jail.

Franklin County Jail Address and Contact

To confirm custody, ask about a booking, or reach the records counter, use the office's published lines. The jail shares an address with the sheriff's office. Public-records requests go to a named records contact, not the front desk.

The records hours above are for the records counter only. They are not visitation hours and not booking-lobby hours. Under Florida's public-records law you do not have to give your name to make a request, but the office still needs a way to send the response.

Visiting Someone at Franklin County Jail

Plan a visit by confirming the details first, because the sheriff does not publish a local in-person schedule or dress code in the pages reviewed. What the office does publish is a link from its Resources menu to HomeWAV for video visitation. HomeWAV is the named vendor, so a remote video visit is the documented option. Account setup, ID rules, and any on-site times must be confirmed with the jail or the vendor before you travel. The table below states only what could be verified.

You can set up a free account and learn how remote visits work on the HomeWAV video visitation site. Confirm that this jail is active on the vendor before paying for anything.

Because the local schedule was not posted, a quick call to the jail saves a wasted drive to Eastpoint.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Franklin County Jail

Three needs come up after a booking: sending a letter, paying for calls, and adding money to an account. The sheriff links the vendors for two of them but does not publish a mail format with a booking-number rule. So use the general facility address for mail and confirm any extra format with the jail. The table sums up what is documented.

The sheriff's Resources menu sends families to CommissaryDeposit.com for inmate accounts. Deposit fees and accepted methods were not published on the sheriff's pages, so check the running total at the vendor before you send funds.

Using the official vendor link, rather than a search-engine result, helps make sure the money reaches the right account.

Booking and Intake at Franklin County Jail

Intake follows a steady order, even at a small jail. The trip starts with an arrest and ends with a court-driven outcome. Booking means the formal recording of a new arrest: the staff log identity, take a photo, and enter the charges. Here is the documented sequence for Franklin County.

1. Arrest by the sheriff's office, the Apalachicola Police Department, or the Carrabelle Police Department.
2. Transport to the jail complex in Eastpoint for local processing.
3. Identity collection, covering name, age, race, sex, and related fields.
4. Booking photo, which may appear on the public arrest log.
5. Charge entry, listing the statute citation and a plain-language charge phrase.
6. Medical and mental-health screening, part of the care the office logged as 1,172 nursing visits and 4,004 prescriptions in 2024.
7. Classification and housing assignment, which the office does not publish in detail.
8. Court routing for required hearings, reflected in the 153 court escorts counted that year.
9. Release, bond, transfer, or sentence, with 32 people moved to state custody after sentencing.

Specific housing pods are not listed in the public materials, so this guide does not name them. The screening and care counts above all come from the FCSO 2024 Annual Report.

About Franklin County Jail

Life inside this jail is not idle, at least by the office's own account. The FCSO 2024 Annual Report counts 268 inmates attending programs and 26,800 pounds of trash picked up by work crews. Medical care runs through Northwest Florida Health, which provides in-jail telehealth via Access Discount Health Care for behavioral-health assessments and outpatient therapy. The report puts the average daily cost at $89.42 per inmate. Once sentenced, inmates may transfer from the Franklin County Jail to Florida DOC custody such as Franklin Correctional Institution in nearby Carrabelle.

The care side of the operation goes beyond basic checks. Through Northwest Florida Health, the office runs a community outreach role that links incarcerated people to behavioral-health services before release. The same report describes mobile response teams for people in crisis and a meth-prevention curriculum for local schools. These programs aim to cut repeat arrests in a small, rural county.

No American Correctional Association accreditation claim for this jail was located in the official sources reviewed, and no death-in-custody data was found. Those points are left out rather than guessed. For a wider view of records and lookups across the county, the home page ties the facilities together.