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Paulding County Jail Overview

Paulding County Jail, also described by the county as the Sheriff's Office Jail Division, is operated by the Paulding County Sheriff's Office in Dallas. It is the primary local booking and detention facility for adults arrested in Paulding County by the sheriff's office, Dallas Police Department, Hiram Police Department, Georgia State Patrol, and other agencies when they are booked into county custody.

The jail page identifies the building as a 631-bed facility with five housing units. It also routes users to jail-specific topics, including inmate lookup, bonding options, visitation and communication, commissary and trust fund, inmate mail, and open records. Those official pages are the controlling sources for current rules. The county jail is not the same system as the Georgia Department of Corrections probation detention center in Dallas.

Search Paulding County Jail Records

The correct lookup route for this facility is the Paulding County Sheriff Inmate Inquiry. The county's Inmate Lookup page also links to the inquiry and to VINELink. Use the roster for current county jail custody, recent bookings, and searchable booking history. Do not use the GDC offender query as the first search for a newly arrested person unless the person has been sentenced or transferred to state custody.

1. Open the county inmate inquiry or the county Inmate Lookup page.
2. Search by name, subject number, or booking number.
3. Leave In Custody checked for current Paulding County Jail inmates.
4. Expand the booking date range if the arrest was not recent.
5. Open the linked name to review booking, bond, charge, release, and scheduled-release fields.

The search results show name and subject number first. A profile can show booking number, booking date, bond and bail totals, bond table columns, and charge rows. The inspected sample profile did not show mugshot, housing pod, date of birth, court date, or physical description.

Paulding County Jail Address

Use the jail phone for custody, bond, visitation, and record-routing questions when the public roster is unclear. The official page does not publish a separate public counter schedule in the research, so call before traveling for bond, records, or visitation.

Paulding County Jail Visitation

Paulding County publishes a separate Visitation and Communication page. The research did not capture exact visit hours, visit length, vendor names, or fee tables, so those details should be checked on the current official page or by phone. Do not assume county jail rules match GDC prison visitation rules.

Note: Confirm custody and visitation status before driving to the jail, especially after release, transfer, or court action.

Mail and Money at Paulding County Jail

The official jail information area includes Inmate Mail and Commissary and Trust Fund pages. The captured research did not expose full address formatting, deposit vendor, kiosk options, phone rates, or fees. Use those official pages for current rules, and avoid sending funds until the jail confirms the person is still held there.

Bond at Paulding County Jail

The Paulding Bonding Options page explains cash, professional, property, and transfer bonds and distinguishes Superior Court and Magistrate Court handling. Superior Court bonds may need to be posted through the Superior Court Clerk's Office, while Magistrate Court bond handling can involve jail processing after the court sets conditions. A roster bond field is not a release instruction.

Paulding County Jail Records Requests

Use the Sheriff Open Records Requests page when the roster does not show a needed record. A narrow request can seek a booking record, arrest report, incident report, or booking photograph. Include the person's full name, date of birth if known, booking date, subject number, booking number, arresting agency, and the exact record requested.

Georgia's Open Records Act supports public-record requests, but O.C.G.A. § 50-18-72 allows exemptions for law-enforcement, privacy, juvenile, sealed, restricted, and active-investigation material. Fees and turnaround were not captured from the Paulding page, so wait for the agency response before assuming cost or timing.

Paulding County Jail Intake

Booking at this facility begins after a person is transported to the jail and processed into county custody. The public roster shows the outward-facing parts of that process: name, subject number, booking number, booking date, release fields, bond totals, and charge rows. The research did not capture property-return rules, medical screening timing, classification rules, or pod assignment details, so those should not be stated as public facts. It is accurate to say the jail has five housing units, but the inspected public profile did not show a housing unit or pod field.

First appearance and bond are separate from the jail's intake entry. A person may have a booking charge before the prosecutor files a formal court charge, and a bond shown on one charge may not clear another hold. Holds can involve another county, probation or parole, a court order, state custody, federal custody, or immigration detention. For that reason, custody, bond, and release should be checked through the jail and the controlling court before relying on the online profile.

Directions to Paulding County Jail

The jail is on Industrial Way N in Dallas, near Industrial Boulevard and the county public-safety corridor rather than the courthouse square. From US-278 and Jimmy Lee Smith Parkway, route toward Dallas and use local Industrial Boulevard or Industrial Way access roads. From Hiram, use US-278 west toward Dallas, then local navigation to Industrial Way N.

Official parking rates, public-transit routes, and detailed ADA entrance instructions were not published in the captured jail page text. Call 770-443-3030 for entry-specific questions, especially when visiting, posting bond, or asking for records.