South Carolina Inmate Search

South Carolina holds state prisoners under the South Carolina Department of Corrections at the Broad River, Kirkland reception and evaluation and Camille Griffin Graham women's institutions in Columbia, Lee in Bishopville, Perry in Pelzer, Lieber in Ridgeville, McCormick, Evans, Turbeville, Tyger River and Trenton, among others. County detention centers run by the sheriffs or county governments hold pretrial detainees and sentences of up to a year, and the Richland County jail in Columbia, the Greenville County Detention Center and the Charleston County jail are the largest.

The SCDC Incarcerated Inmate Search is the state lookup. It covers people in state custody, keyed to the SCDC number or the name.

Official sources on this page were checked on September 25, 2026.

• South Carolina Department of Corrections
• South Carolina Inmate Search
• South Carolina Visitation
• South Carolina Division of Victim Services

The South Carolina Incarcerated Inmate Search returns the SCDC number, name, photograph, date of birth, race and sex, the current location, the admission date, each offense with the county, the sentence, the projected release date and the parole eligibility date. The SCDC number stays with the person through transfers and returns. People on probation or parole are supervised by a separate agency and do not appear in the search.

• SCDC Incarcerated Inmate SearchSearch South Carolina state prison inmates by SCDC number or name, checked September 25, 2026
• South Carolina Department of CorrectionsInstitutions, visiting, mail, phone and money deposits, checked September 25, 2026
• Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon ServicesParole hearings, supervision offices and pardons, checked September 25, 2026
• VINELink South CarolinaCustody alerts for South Carolina detention centers and state prisons, checked September 25, 2026

The Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center in Richland County serves Columbia and posts an inmate search with booking dates, charges and bond. The Greenville County Detention Center, the Sheriff Al Cannon Detention Center in Charleston County, the Spartanburg County Detention Center, the J. Reuben Long Detention Center in Horry County, the Lexington County Detention Center and the York County Detention Center in York publish rosters as well. Columbia Police, Charleston Police and the South Carolina Highway Patrol book into the county detention center of the arrest.

• South Carolina County Sheriff DirectorySheriff offices and detention center rosters for all 46 counties
• South Carolina Police DepartmentsCity police records and arrest logs
• South Carolina Criminal RecordsCATCH criminal record checks through the State Law Enforcement Division
• South Carolina Most WantedFugitives and outstanding warrants

The South Carolina Freedom of Information Act, S.C. Code section 30-4-10 and following, makes the custody record public, and the SCDC posts photographs, offenses, sentences and release dates. Detention centers publish booking photos, though South Carolina law bars websites from charging for their removal. Medical and mental health records, the pre-sentence investigation, classification and disciplinary files and parole case files are exempt. The State Law Enforcement Division sells a name based criminal record check called CATCH to anyone online for a fee, and county clerks of court post public case indexes.

The Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services is a separate agency from the prison system. Its Parole Board hears eligible prisoners after a quarter or a third of the sentence depending on the offense, and its agents supervise parolees and probationers from offices in every county, which is why supervision cases are not in the SCDC search. South Carolina requires 85 percent of the sentence for no parole offenses. The judgment sits with the clerk of court of the county of general sessions where the case was heard.

• South Carolina Court RecordsGeneral sessions and magistrate court case searches by county
• South Carolina ExpungementsExpungement through the solicitor's office under S.C. Code 17-22-910

If the SCDC search returns nothing, check the detention center search for the county of arrest, starting with Richland, Greenville, Charleston, Spartanburg or Horry, since pending cases and sentences of up to a year stay in the county. A probationer or parolee is supervised by the Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services. Check the county clerk's public index for the case, the federal Bureau of Prisons locator for a federal case, including the federal prisons in Edgefield, Estill and Bennettsville, and VINELink for a recent release.

These federal and national sources complement South Carolina's state-level records. They are the authoritative sources you should cross-check when South Carolina state records are incomplete or out-of-state activity matters.

Federal BOP, Inmate Locator The Federal Bureau of Prisons locator returns federal inmates held since 1982 in any BOP facility, contract facility, or community corrections center.

VINELink, Victim Notification Operated by Appriss for the U.S. Department of Justice's victim-notification program. Free, anonymous registration for custody-change alerts across participating states.

U.S. Marshals, Prisoner Tracking The USMS Prisoner Tracking System is the authoritative source for federal detainees in pre-trial custody (before BOP designation).