This is a private reference site, not a government office. It cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, release a person, post bond, change a court date, or retrieve an official booking record. Use the official office listed below for the specific record or custody question.
Where to Ask for Jail and Record Information
For Washington County Jail custody questions, start with the sheriff's detention line. The Sheriff's Office and jail function are listed at the Washington County Courthouse in Plymouth.
Washington County Sheriff's Office / Washington County Jail
120 Adams Street, 4th Floor
Plymouth, NC 27962
Mailing address: PO Box 969, Plymouth, NC 27962
Detention: 252-793-1107
Business / Non-Emergency: 252-793-2422
Fax: 252-793-3716
Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Washington County Court Contacts
Clerk of Superior Court / courthouse main line: 252-791-4000
Magistrates: 252-791-4019
Use the route that matches the kind of record or custody system involved.
- For someone believed to be held in Washington County Jail, use jail inmate records guidance and call Detention at 252-793-1107.
- For booking-photo availability and public-record limits, review jail roster mugshots before making a request.
- For charges, hearings, warrants returned to court, or dispositions after booking, use court records after a jail arrest and contact the clerk when needed.
- For the local facility page, see Washington County Jail.
- For a sentenced North Carolina prisoner, use the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction offender locator because NCDAC does not cover county jail detainees.
- For federal custody, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons locator for sentenced federal inmates and the U.S. Marshals route for federal pretrial custody questions.
- For immigration detention, use ICE Online Detainee Locator System. For custody alerts, use North Carolina VINELink as a notification supplement, not as a full county roster replacement.