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Charles Durst Detention Center Overview

The Charles Durst Detention Center is operated by the Toombs County Sheriff's Office and is also referred to by official sources as the Toombs County Detention Center. The sheriff says the facility was renamed after former Sheriff Charles Durst after his death in 1997. That local name matters because many generic references call it only the county jail, while the official page uses the Charles Durst name for the actual detention building.

The jail is located in the eastern part of the sheriff complex in Lyons and is the primary holding facility for Toombs County Sheriff's Department arrests, Lyons Police Department arrests, Vidalia Police Department arrests, and arrests made by state agencies in Toombs County. It is a county jail, not a state prison. People sentenced to the Georgia Department of Corrections may remain at the jail while awaiting transfer, but the GDC locator becomes the right search tool after they enter state custody.

The jail population can include pretrial arrestees, people convicted and waiting for sentence or transfer, state or misdemeanor probationers, parolees pending revocation, municipal arrestees, and people held for another agency. Inspected roster examples also showed immigration holds, out-of-county holds, child support pickup orders, revoked bond, court production, felony probation, misdemeanor probation, parole holds, and bench warrants. Those are custody reasons, not proof of conviction.

Charles Durst Detention Center Population

The sheriff's detention page identifies Charles Durst Detention Center as a 220-bed facility. The public Toombs current-inmates roster returned 161 current records on June 4, 2026. That produced a point-in-time capacity use of about 73.2 percent, but it should not be treated as an average daily population or annual trend. Jail counts shift after bond, release, transfer, court action, and new arrests.

Official annual bookings, average length of stay, full demographic totals, and average daily population were not located in the research sources. The facility page should preserve that gap. The current roster is useful for a custody check, but it is not a full jail-statistics report.

Look Up Charles Durst Detention Center Inmates

Use the Toombs current inmates roster for people physically held at Charles Durst Detention Center. The public roster is current-custody oriented. It accepts a single Name search and optional Race and Sex filters. It shows age rather than full date of birth. It does not expose public booking-number, charge, cell-block, or release-date search fields in the inspected configuration.

1. Open the current-inmates roster linked by the sheriff detention page.
2. Search by full or partial name, then narrow with Race or Sex only if needed.
3. Read the public row for name, race, sex, age, arrest date, and hold reasons.
4. Use the hold-reason text to identify charges, warrants, bond terms, court references, or outside agency holds.
5. If no result appears, call detention administration, file an open-records request, or search GDC, BOP, ICE, or VINE depending on custody status.

The official current roster source is shown on the public portal screenshot captured from the sheriff-linked system.

The roster is the fastest current-custody path, but older booking records and released-inmate details require the records request process.

Charles Durst Address and Contact

Use the detention-center phone line for current jail administration questions, custody confirmation, visitation scheduling conflicts, and practical lobby issues. Use the sheriff main number for sheriff office routing, and use open records when the request is for a booking report, incident report, jail record, or releasable copy. Emergency calls should go to 911.

The sheriff contact directory lists detention administration, records fax, dispatch, investigations, sex offender registration, and open-records routing. The detention records fax is listed as 912-526-5015, while the sheriff open-records fax is 912-526-3310.

Visiting Charles Durst Detention Center

The sheriff's helpful information page gives remote and on-site video visitation rules. Remote visits are available from a phone or computer when the inmate kiosk is available. On-site video visits use free kiosks in the Detention Center lobby and must be scheduled in advance. The page warns that the jail schedule fills quickly and that court schedules, holidays, or facility closures can cancel visits.

Official vendor information is not perfectly synchronized. The 2022 brochure references HomeWAV for video visits, while the current helpful-information page references JailATM and Correct Solutions. Confirm the current provider before creating or funding an account.

Mail Phone and Money at Charles Durst

Toombs County official pages document several family-contact and money paths, but they do not publish a full ordinary mail policy. Use the jail address and the inmate's full name for mail, and call before sending anything other than ordinary correspondence or a money order. The sheriff's money page says money orders can be mailed to the inmate and are deposited within 48 business hours after receipt by the jail.

The detention page also notes store call twice each week, commissary access for grocery and healthcare items, and three meals daily. It says the front office does not accept underclothes drop-offs because inmates may buy underclothes through store call.

Booking at Charles Durst Detention Center

Arrests by sheriff deputies, Lyons Police, Vidalia Police, and state agencies route to Charles Durst Detention Center. After arrival, jail staff create a custody record, enter the charge or hold reason, and place the person under the custody responsibility of the Toombs County Sheriff. The public roster can show the intake result through fields such as name, race, sex, age, arrest date, and hold reasons.

The hold-reason field can include the charge category, warrant or citation number, statute code, bond type, bond amount, setting source, and court reference. It can also identify non-charge custody reasons, such as probation holds, parole warrants, out-of-county holds, court production, child support pickup orders, immigration holds, or revoked bonds. A "No Bond" entry means no payable release amount is shown for that hold in the public row.

Hold reason

The local roster's summary of why a person is held in the jail.

Bench warrant

A warrant from a judge or court, often for failure to appear.

Detainer

A custody request or hold from another agency, such as another county or immigration authority.

Revoked bond

A prior release condition was withdrawn or changed by the court.

Bonding From Charles Durst

The detention guide lists approved bonding companies from an older source date and says bonds over $15,000 must be approved during business hours. For those higher property bonds, the guide says to have the property address ready, be willing to sign a lien for the bond amount, and have ownership verification. Because the bondsman list was older, confirm the current approved list with the detention front office before paying anyone.

Roster examples show property bonds, cash bonds, cash probation payoff, child support release payment, no bond, revoked bond, and bond set by warrant, citation, first appearance, or Superior Court. A person may still remain in custody after one bond is paid if a separate hold exists.

About Charles Durst Detention Center

The jail provides state-mandated needs that the sheriff page names as medical care, meals, and an online law library. The same page describes communications systems for family, legal counsel, and courts, plus commissary, store call, substance-abuse recovery resources, mental-health resources, and reentry resources. Personal property can be released only after the inmate fills out a kiosk property release within 8 business days, and pickup requires proper identification. Clothing is not released.

VINE is also part of Toombs custody status. The sheriff's Georgia VINE page says the jail uses VINE for free, confidential, multilingual custody tracking and notification of release or transfer. VINE is a notification system, not a complete court record or prison locator.