Butler County Jail Roster Overview
The local jail path for Butler County runs through the Butler County Sheriff's Office and the Butler County Correctional Facility in Greenville. The official county sheriff page identifies Sheriff David Scruggs, lists the public office at 801 Walnut Street, Greenville, AL 36037, and gives the main phone number as (334) 382-6521. The same official page did not expose a browser roster, booking search form, release log, jail capacity sheet, or public roster refresh policy in the research file.
The most important local point is what was not found: no official Butler County public web roster was located. The sheriff page links to the Butler County Sheriff's Office app through an OCV app landing page, and the Apple App Store listing and reviews mention inmates, a roster, sex-offender information, weather alerts, commissary, and app issues after updates. Because the current app-only inmate fields could not be inspected from the web, the app should be treated as an official access channel, not as a verified public roster with guaranteed profile fields.
People arrested by the sheriff's office, Greenville Police Department, Georgiana officers, McKenzie officers, or other local agencies may pass through the county jail unless they are cited, released, hospitalized, handled under juvenile procedures, or transferred. Once a person is sentenced to Alabama state prison, the county jail record is not the best current-location source. Search the Alabama Department of Corrections for sentenced state inmates, the Federal Bureau of Prisons for federal sentenced custody from 1982 onward, and ICE ODLS for adult immigration detainees.
The official sheriff page is the source for Butler County's public sheriff contact details: Butler County Sheriff's Office.
Use the sheriff page as the local starting point for current custody questions because it names the office, address, phone, public hours, and app channel, but it does not replace a direct custody confirmation.
How to Search or Confirm Custody
Because Butler County did not publish an official browser roster in the reviewed sources, the practical search sequence is a confirmation chain rather than a single online lookup. Start with the official app if it is available on your device, then call or visit the sheriff's office when the app does not show the person, the roster feature is unavailable, or you need current release, bond, transfer, or records-request instructions.
- Check the Butler County Sheriff's Office app from the sheriff-linked OCV landing page. If the app currently has an inmate or roster tool, search by full legal name and compare any result against the arrest date and agency.
- If the app does not show a result or does not expose a roster, call the Sheriff's Office at (334) 382-6521. Have the person's full name, date of birth, approximate arrest date, and arresting agency ready.
- Ask staff whether the person is in Butler County custody, has been released, is waiting on bond or first appearance, has been transferred to ADOC, or is being held for another agency.
- If staff cannot provide the record by phone, ask how to submit a public-records request for the booking record, jail log entry, release record, or booking photograph.
- Search ADOC inmate search if the person may have been sentenced to state prison. Search BOP inmate locator for federal sentenced custody and ICE ODLS for adult immigration detention.
- Use AlaCourt ACCESS or the Butler County Circuit Clerk for court charges, settings, case status, warrants, and formal charge history.
Butler County Roster and Locator Search Fields
The local county source has no verified public web form. The app may expose a roster, but the research could not confirm current filters, profile fields, photo display, refresh timing, or release retention. For state inmates, ADOC provides a documented public search with AIS number and name fields.
| Channel | Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| County web roster | No official web roster located | Not available | Not available | No county browser form was available to inspect on the official county website. |
| Sheriff app | Roster fields not verified | App-only | Unspecified | App Store reviews mention inmates and jail roster features, but field labels and photo status were not verifiable from browser research. |
| Phone or in person | Name, date of birth, arrest date, arresting agency | Information to provide | Best practice | Use these details when asking whether the person is held, released, bonded, transferred, or under another agency's detainer. |
| ADOC inmate search | AIS # | Text | Optional | ADOC describes AIS as a unique six-digit number. If entered, it takes precedence over name fields. |
| ADOC inmate search | First Name | Text | Optional | Can be searched alone or with last name, but is ignored when AIS is entered. |
| ADOC inmate search | Last Name | Text | Optional | Supports open-ended prefix searching and returns up to 50 records in name order. |
| BOP inmate locator | Number or name fields | Text and select fields | One search path required | Covers federal inmates incarcerated from 1982 to present, not county pretrial jail custody. |
| ICE ODLS | A-number or biographical search | Text fields | One search path required | ODLS searches adults only. An A-number must be exactly nine digits, with leading zeros if needed. |
The sheriff-linked app landing page identifies the official mobile channel for the Butler County Sheriff's Office: Butler County Sheriff's Office app landing.
Install or open the app only as one custody-check route. If the roster tool is missing, broken, or unclear, confirm directly with the sheriff's office before relying on it.
What a Butler County Inmate Record May Show
No official Butler County online profile was available for field-by-field inspection. That means the county page should not promise that a profile shows mugshots, charges, bond, housing unit, booking number, release date, or a current custody flag. Those are reasonable booking-record topics to request from the sheriff's office when they are publicly releasable, but they are not verified web roster fields.
| Record Item | How to Treat It in Butler County |
|---|---|
| Full legal name and aliases | Provide the full legal name when calling. Ask whether aliases or name variants affect the record search. |
| Booking date and time | Request the intake date and time if the person was booked into the Butler County Correctional Facility. |
| Arresting agency | Ask whether the arrest came from the sheriff's office, Greenville Police Department, another municipal agency, or another jurisdiction. |
| Charges and statute or case number | Booking charges may be preliminary. Confirm formal charges and case status through the Circuit Clerk or AlaCourt. |
| Bond or bail status | Ask whether bond is set, whether a hold prevents release, and where bond must be posted. |
| Court of jurisdiction | Ask which court controls the case, then check the Butler County Circuit Clerk or AlaCourt for charge and setting information. |
| Release date and time | Request this for a released person if it is publicly available and needed for a records request. |
| Detainers or holds | Ask whether another county, state, federal, probation, parole, or immigration hold affects release. |
| Booking photo | Photo availability is not verified online. Ask how to request a booking photograph and whether redaction or withholding applies. |
| Confidential material | Medical, juvenile, investigative, victim, property, and security-sensitive details may be withheld or redacted. |
ADOC records are more structured because the state search was inspected. A sample ADOC name search returned table fields for AIS, inmate name, race, sex, birth year, institution, release date, and code. Those fields describe current state-prison custody and should not be confused with Butler County jail booking details.
County Jail, ADOC, BOP, and ICE Are Different Systems
A Butler County arrest usually starts in the local law-enforcement and county jail system. ADOC is for sentenced Alabama state prisoners after transfer to state custody. BOP is for federal sentenced prisoners and covers federal incarceration from 1982 onward. ICE ODLS is a federal immigration custody locator and searches adults only. These systems can overlap when a person has a detainer, but one database will not reliably answer every custody question.
Custody split: Use the sheriff app, phone, or in-person channel for current Butler County jail custody. Use ADOC only after a person is in sentenced state custody. Use BOP for federal sentenced prisoners and ICE ODLS for adult immigration detainees.
| Custody Situation | Where to Look | Important Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Recent Butler County arrest or pretrial hold | Sheriff app if available, then Sheriff's Office phone or in-person confirmation | No official browser roster was located. |
| Sentenced Alabama state prisoner | Alabama Department of Corrections inmate search | Current ADOC inmates only. Historical online data and Youthful Offender Act inmates are excluded. |
| Federal sentenced prisoner | Federal BOP inmate locator | Covers federal inmates from 1982 to present, not county jail bookings. |
| Immigration detainee | ICE Online Detainee Locator System | Adults only. Use the ERO fallback if no ODLS result appears. |
| Victim or concerned-citizen notification | Alabama Victim Notification System | Notification registration is separate from a general jail roster search. |
| Court charges after arrest | AlaCourt ACCESS or the Butler County Circuit Clerk | AlaCourt is paid and tracks court cases, not jail housing. |
The ADOC inmate search page shows the statewide prison locator fields: ADOC inmate search.
Use this locator only when the person may be in Alabama state prison custody. It is not a substitute for confirming a new Butler County booking with the sheriff's office.
Butler County Jail Facility and Contact Card
The facility list for this county has one local detention entry: the Butler County Correctional Facility, operated by the Butler County Sheriff's Office. No separate official jail address, jail lobby hours, jail administrator name, capacity, housing-unit map, mail format, commissary vendor, or visitation desk schedule was located in the official county sources reviewed.
Butler County Correctional Facility
Butler County Sheriff's Office
801 Walnut Street
Greenville, AL 36037
(334) 382-6521
Public office hours: Mon-Fri 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; Sat-Sun closed
Ask staff to confirm jail-specific lobby access, visitation, mail, bond, and records-request instructions before traveling.
Booking Process in Butler County
Butler County's official sheriff page did not publish a detailed booking manual. A localized custody workflow should therefore be framed carefully: after an arrest in Butler County, the person may be taken to the sheriff-operated detention facility for intake unless released by citation, transported for medical reasons, handled through juvenile procedures, or routed under another lawful process. Intake can include identity confirmation, warrant and hold checks, property inventory, search, fingerprints, a booking photo, charge entry, medical or mental-health screening, bond paperwork, phone access, and classification.
The jail record and the court record are related but not the same. The jail side answers whether the person is currently in custody, released, held for another agency, or waiting for bond or a first appearance. The court side answers what formal charges were filed, what settings exist, and what the case status is. For the court side, use the Butler County Circuit Clerk and AlaCourt. AlaCourt ACCESS is a paid statewide trial-court portal with name search, case-number search, case detail reports, case action summaries, court settings, financial history, and document images for additional fees.
Visitation Hours and Rules
The official Butler County sources reviewed did not publish a jail visitation schedule, video visitation vendor, visitor approval process, dress code, child-visitor rules, attorney visit policy, or housing-unit schedule. That absence matters because visiting a jail without confirmation can result in wasted travel, especially when a person has not completed intake, is on hold, has been released, or has been transferred.
| Facility or System | Visit Type | Schedule | Approval or ID | Source Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Butler County Correctional Facility | Not located in official county source | Not published | Not published | Call (334) 382-6521 before visiting. |
| ADOC state prisons | State prison visitation | Varies by ADOC facility | ADOC approval and search rules apply | Use ADOC facility and handbook resources for sentenced state prisoners. |
| BOP federal facilities | Federal prison visitation | Facility-specific | BOP facility rules apply | Use the federal facility, not Butler County, after federal transfer. |
| ICE detention facilities | Immigration detention visitation | Facility-specific | ICE and detention facility rules apply | Use ICE detention resources and the facility contact path. |
Before any visit, ask whether the inmate is eligible for visits, whether visits are in person or video, what schedule applies, whether visitors must be approved, what photo ID is required, and what items may not be brought into the facility. Confirm accessible entrance and visitor parking with the sheriff's office because those details were not located in official county sources.
Mail, Phone, Money, and Records Requests
Mail and commissary information should also be confirmed directly. The official county sheriff page did not publish a jail mail format, book-in number requirement, inmate phone vendor, video visit vendor, money deposit vendor, or fee schedule. The Apple App Store reviews mention commissary access, but the research did not verify a current official vendor or deposit link. Do not send cash, personal checks, stamps, packages, Polaroids, or other restricted items unless jail staff gives current written instructions.
For a booking-record or jail-log request, call or visit the Sheriff's Office and ask how public-records requests are accepted. Because no sheriff records-request form was located on the county page, the practical route is to ask staff whether the request must be written, whether ID is required, whether a fee applies, whether redactions are expected, and how long processing usually takes. Alabama Code 36-12-40 is the general public-records authority discussed in state sources, but records can still be withheld or redacted for juvenile, investigative, privacy, security, medical, or other legal reasons.
Full Access-Channel Chain
A complete Butler County custody search uses more than one channel. Start locally for current jail custody, then move outward only when the facts point to another system. A person can be released before appearing in an app, transferred before a family member checks the jail, held on a warrant from another jurisdiction, sentenced to state custody, or moved into a federal or immigration process.
| Order | Channel | Use It For |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sheriff app | Official mobile access channel if it currently exposes a roster or inmate tool. |
| 2 | Phone, (334) 382-6521 | Current custody, release, transfer, bond, hold, and records-request instructions. |
| 3 | In person, 801 Walnut Street | Records questions during posted public office hours and any staff-directed written request process. |
| 4 | Public-records request | Booking records, jail logs, release records, or booking photos when releasable. |
| 5 | AlaCourt and Circuit Clerk | Formal court charges, court dates, case status, warrants, and case action summary. |
| 6 | ADOC | Sentenced Alabama state-prison custody and ADOC public-records requests. |
| 7 | BOP or ICE | Federal sentenced custody or adult immigration detention. |
| 8 | Alabama Victim Notification System | Notification workflows for victims and concerned citizens. |
The Alabama Victim Notification System provides a separate notification pathway: Alabama Victim Notification System.
Use victim notification for alerts and registration-based updates, not as a replacement for the sheriff's current custody confirmation or the court's formal case record.
Confirm before spending money: Verify custody, visitation eligibility, mail rules, and commissary instructions with the sheriff's office before sending funds or traveling to the jail.