Search the Rockingham County Inmate Population

The Rockingham County Inmate Population

The Rockingham County inmate population is centered on the Rockingham County Detention Center, the adult county jail operated by the Rockingham County Sheriff's Office under Sheriff Samuel Scott Page. The official county detention page says the jail holds people in pending-trial status and people serving short-term misdemeanor sentences. That means the local jail count is not the same as the sentenced state-prison count, the federal prison count, or any juvenile secure-custody population.

The county jail also supports transport, property, medical screening, and computerized inmate records. People arrested by the sheriff's office or by municipal police departments in Reidsville, Eden, Madison, Mayodan, Stoneville, Wentworth, and nearby communities may be booked into the same county facility. After a case changes, a person may be released, moved to another county, sent to court, taken to a hospital or treatment facility, transferred to NCDAC after sentencing, or held under another agency's process.

Rockingham County Inmate Population Statistics

Rockingham County publishes solid capacity and budget figures, but it does not publish a live jail population dashboard in the official sources reviewed. The most reliable local number is the jail's rated capacity. The county detention page, the FY2026/27 adopted budget, and the North Carolina Jail Administrators Association directory all identify the adult jail capacity as 232 inmates. A separate 2022 Prison Policy Initiative phone-rate appendix listed an average daily population of 192 for Rockingham County Jail; that figure is useful as a dated research point, not a current live count.

Rockingham County Jail Trends

The available trend record is uneven, so Rockingham County inmate population trends should be read with source labels attached. A historical local snapshot listed 163 people in the Rockingham County Jail on December 31, 2013. The 2022 phone-rate appendix listed 192 ADP. The FY2026/27 county budget did not publish an average daily population, but it did say jail-fee rental revenue decreased because the jail population increased and less bed space was available for reimbursement.

The county's 2025 news release adds conditions context. It described jail inspection issues from an April 2024 NCDHHS inspection, ongoing county monitoring, insurance changes, and continued improvements. The release did not identify a court-ordered population cap or a federal consent decree.

Who Counts in Rockingham County Custody

Rockingham County's adult jail population is made up of local detainees, not every person with a Rockingham County case. The official detention page describes people awaiting trial and people serving short misdemeanor sentences. The research did not locate a county-published breakdown by sex, race, age, charge level, or pretrial percentage. It also did not locate a separate adult state prison, federal prison, ICE detention center, or public municipal jail roster inside Rockingham County.

Pending trial

A person is held while the criminal case is still moving through court.

Short misdemeanor sentence

A local jail sentence that does not place the person in state prison custody.

Transfer

Movement to court, another jail, a hospital, treatment, state prison, federal custody, or another agency.

NCDAC custody

State prison or state supervision custody handled by the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction.

Rockingham County Jail Capacity

The Rockingham County Detention Center was built in 2010 and has a documented capacity of 232 inmates. Compared with the 2022 ADP figure of 192, that historical data point would equal about 82.8 percent of rated capacity. That comparison mixes a current official capacity figure with a dated outside ADP dataset, so it should not be treated as today's crowding level. It is still useful because it shows that Rockingham County's inmate population has been large enough to matter for phone costs, budget planning, bed space, staffing, and medical-service projections.

Capacity also affects operations that do not show up in a public roster. The FY2026/27 budget notes that the jail transports prisoners to and from court, hospitals, treatment facilities, out-of-county facilities, and prison units. It also reports increased routine rounds as a future focus. These details explain why a head count is only one part of the Rockingham County inmate population picture.

Rockingham County Jail Record Laws

North Carolina public-records law controls much of what can be requested about Rockingham County jail records. The sheriff's office can release public information, but it can also redact or withhold protected criminal-investigation details, juvenile records, medical information, security content, and other confidential material. Court records, jail records, state prison records, and federal records have different custodians.

Search Rockingham County Inmates

No official public online Rockingham County jail roster or inmate-profile database was located on the county or sheriff's official site during the research pass. That is the central search fact for this county. The best current-custody path is to start with the Rockingham County Detention Center phone line shown on the official sheriff contact page, then use the Records Division or Public Information Officer when the request is for copies or public-record material.

1. Call the Rockingham County Detention Center at 336-634-3236 for current custody questions.
2. Use the sheriff's main number, 336-634-3232, if the question needs routing beyond detention.
3. Contact Records Division at 336-634-3235 or 336-634-3234 for incident reports and public-information copies during business hours.
4. Route formal public-records requests through the Public Information Officer, as the official PIO page instructs.
5. Check VINELink or NC SAVAN for custody-status notification when notification, not a record copy, is the goal.

The county does not publish a roster field list, but a caller should be ready with the person's full legal name, date of birth or approximate age, and the approximate arrest date. If staff say the person is not in local custody, the next check depends on whether the person was released, transferred to state custody, charged federally, detained for immigration purposes, or only appears in court records.

Rockingham County Roster Fields

Because no official online jail roster was found, there is no county-published search-field table for public users. That absence should not be filled with fields from third-party pages. The local record exists inside the sheriff's and detention systems, while public access runs through phone, records, PIO, and court channels.

The NCDAC Offender Public Information Search is different. It accepts state offender status, name, soundex, offender number, gender, race, ethnic group, birth date, birth-date range, and age range. NCDAC also says its system is for state prison and supervision records, not county jail records.

Rockingham County Inmate Records

The official county site does not show a sample public inmate profile. It does state that detention duties include maintaining computerized inmate records, securing personal property, addressing medical needs, and transporting inmates. Public versions of those records may be narrower than the internal jail file, especially when the request touches investigation details, juvenile matters, medical information, security issues, or court-sealed content.

Rockingham County Detention Facilities

The Facility Map identifies the adult county jail and one juvenile state facility in Rockingham County. They should not be blended. The county jail handles adult local confinement. The youth development center is a juvenile secure-custody facility under NCDAC's juvenile justice division and does not function as an adult public inmate-search page.

State and Federal Inmate Search

Sentenced state-prison custody in North Carolina is handled by the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction. NCDAC's public records page makes the boundary clear: it has records for people who have served in NCDAC prison or who are under state probation or parole supervision. It does not have county jail, police, traffic, or local court records.

Rockingham County Jail Operations

The Rockingham County inmate population also affects medical, mental-health, staffing, and facility operations. The FY2026/27 budget says the jail continued its Medication Assisted Treatment program for inmates with substance-use disorder. It also reports a medical-service projection increase of $205,000, or 25.86 percent, compared with the FY26 adopted budget. The county says mental-health contracted services are funded by Vaya and are not reflected in the jail budget, while people identified as needing mental-health treatment are referred to Daymark.

The adult jail has a strict medication rule. The public cannot bring medication to the facility for an inmate, including over-the-counter medication. Approved medication sources are the facility pharmacy, a pre-approved contracted pharmacy when needed, and hospital pharmacy during authorized outside medical visits.

The county's detention page is a useful visual source for the local facility. The official detention-center page shows the local jail purpose, address, capacity, and administrator.

The screenshot reinforces the local custody boundary: the detention center is the county jail, while state, federal, and immigration custody require separate locator systems.

Rockingham County Visit Rules

Visitation and money rules are part of a practical inmate search because a person should be confirmed in custody before a family member schedules a visit or sends funds. Rockingham County uses HomeWAV for video visitation. On-site visiting is concentrated on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday periods. Visitors must be on the inmate's visitation list, must be at least 16, must sign in before the end cutoff, and only four visitors are allowed per inmate each week.

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