The Taylor County Inmate Population
Taylor County sits in Florida's Big Bend region, with Perry as the county seat. Its custody map is small but split across two systems. The Taylor County Sheriff's Office operates the county jail. The Florida Department of Corrections operates two adult male prisons west of town. The county jail and the state prisons do not share a roster, a visitation system, or a mailing address. So the term "inmate population" points at very different groups depending on which list you read.
The county jail is the number that changes from one day to the next. New arrests push it up. Bond payments, dropped charges, and transfers to state prison pull it back down. The sheriff's jail page says the facility holds pre-trial, pre-sentenced, county sentenced, and state sentenced men and women, so one roster can show people at very different points in a case. Sentenced felons leave the county count once they move into a state prison, where a separate locator takes over.
Taylor County Inmate Population Statistics
The clearest county jail numbers come from the Florida Department of Corrections monthly County Detention Facilities reports. The report for April 2024 listed a Taylor County Jail average daily population of 88. Of that group, 61 people were held as felony pre-trial and 5 as misdemeanor pre-trial, and the pre-trial share reached 75.0 percent. A Taylor County Commission packet for a jail generator project describes the building at 184 beds. Set side by side, the recent daily average has run near half of that rated capacity.
| Measure | Figure | Source / Year |
|---|---|---|
| Jail average daily population | 88 | FDC County Detention Facilities report, April 2024 |
| Felony pre-trial held | 61 | FDC report, April 2024 |
| Share of jail that is pre-trial | 75.0% | FDC report, April 2024 |
| Rated bed capacity | 184 | Taylor County Commission packet |
| Jail incarceration rate | 4.2 per 1,000 residents | FDC report, December 2023 |
These figures describe the county jail only. They do not count the thousands of state prisoners housed at the two Florida Department of Corrections institutions inside the county, which are measured a different way.
Taylor County Inmate Population Trends
The county jail count has eased downward over the past few years. Florida Department of Corrections monthly reports list a Taylor County average daily population of 102 in November 2023 and 90 in December 2023, then 88 in April 2024. An older Florida Legislature profile recorded a June 2020 jail average of 126. Some 2023 monthly tables also show 126 for Taylor, but with a "date reported" stamp of May 2017, which the report itself treats as substituted data rather than a current figure.
| Period | Average Daily Population | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | 126 | Florida Legislature EDR criminal justice profile |
| November 2023 | 102 | FDC monthly report; rate 4.7 per 1,000 |
| December 2023 | 90 | FDC monthly report; rate 4.2 per 1,000 |
| April 2024 | 88 | FDC report; 75.0 percent pre-trial |
The safe reading is that the recent average sits below 100. The stale 2023 entries marked with a 2017 date should not be read as current.
Who Makes Up the Taylor County Inmate Population
The county jail does not hold one kind of person. The sheriff's jail page lists pre-trial, pre-sentenced, county sentenced, and state sentenced men and women. The clearest published breakdown is the pre-trial share. In April 2024, with an average of 88 in the jail, the state report counted 61 felony pre-trial and 5 misdemeanor pre-trial, which works out to three out of four people held before a verdict.
- Pre-trial vs sentenced - About 75.0 percent were pre-trial in April 2024, per the FDC County Detention Facilities report.
- Men and women - The sheriff's page states the jail holds both male and female inmates.
- Felony vs misdemeanor - The same report counted far more felony than misdemeanor pre-trial holds.
- Held on other holds - A separate holds line can keep a person in custody for another agency, court, or warrant.
A few terms come up again and again on the roster. Knowing them makes the count easier to read.
- Pre-trial
- In custody before a conviction or final case outcome.
- County sentenced
- Serving a sentence inside the county jail rather than a state prison.
- State sentenced
- Sentenced to Florida Department of Corrections custody, usually for a felony prison term.
- Hold
- A separate legal reason a person stays in custody even if local bond is posted.
Taylor County Jail Capacity and Overcrowding
The capacity figure found in official sources is 184 beds, drawn from a Taylor County Commission packet about a jail generator project. Compared with recent averages, the jail has run well under that line. An April 2024 average of 88 is about 48 percent of 184 beds. December 2023 at 90 is roughly 49 percent, and November 2023 at 102 is near 55 percent. Those percentages are calculated from the published average and the bed count, not an official occupancy rate.
No Taylor County jail consent decree, capacity lawsuit, or overcrowding order turned up in official sources. The recent numbers do not point to a crowded jail, but bookings can spike on any given week, so a single day can look different from the monthly average.
Laws Governing the Taylor County Inmate Population
Florida law is the reason the county jail count is public at all. The state open-records chapter makes booking and jail records available unless an exemption applies. A separate statute defines county detention facilities and sets the standards and reporting that produce the monthly population figures. Together they explain both why you can look an inmate up and why the sheriff sends average-population data to the state each month.
Key Statutes:
Florida Statutes § 119.07 - Requires records custodians to let the public inspect and copy nonexempt records, including most jail and booking records, at reasonable times.
Florida Statutes § 951.23 - Defines county and municipal detention facilities and requires operators to follow the Florida Model Jail Standards and report population information.
Florida Administrative Code 33-210.101 - Sets routine inmate mail rules used at the state prisons in the county.
The Florida Model Jail Standards sit behind section 951.23 and shape day-to-day jail operations and the data the county passes upward.
Taylor County and the State Prison Population
Taylor County also carries a large state prison population that is separate from the jail. The Florida Legislature's criminal justice profile reported 2,239 Department of Corrections inmates physically housed in the county on June 30, 2020, which was about 2.6 percent of all state prisoners at the time, against a county population estimate near 22,436. Those people are held at Taylor Correctional Institution and its Annex, not the county jail. They were sentenced from courts across Florida, so a person counted in the prison total is not necessarily a Taylor County case. To track a sentenced prisoner, use the Florida Department of Corrections inmate search rather than the county roster.
How to Search the Taylor County Inmate Population
The official county tool is the Taylor County Jail roster, a SmartCOP/CTS "JAIL View" page linked from the sheriff's jail information page. It is free and needs no login. One thing to watch: the default view is labeled "BOOKED Last 24 Hours," so a blank screen can simply mean the person was not booked in the last day, not that no record exists. Use the search fields to look beyond that window.
A last name is enough to begin. A booking number or a booking date range helps narrow a common name.
- Open the roster at jail.taylorsheriff.org.
- Enter the inmate's last name, and add a first or middle name if the name is common.
- To search a time window, set a begin and end booking date with the calendar fields.
- Submit, then open a booking entry for the photo, charges, bond, and housing.
- If the person was sentenced to prison, check the state Department of Corrections locator instead.
The sheriff's homepage gathers recent arrests, warrants, jail information, and public records in one place, which makes it a useful second stop when the roster comes up short. A capture of that homepage shows how the inmate-related links are grouped.
The Taylor County Sheriff's Office homepage lists the jail and recent-arrest tools next to its public-records links.
From that page the "Recent Arrests" and "Taylor County Jail" links both lead to the same official roster used for a Taylor County inmate search.
Current Inmate Lookup in Taylor County
The roster is built for current and recent bookings. Each result is a full booking block, not just a name, so a single match can show the photo, booking number, charges, bond, and housing at once. The search form accepts the fields below, and it can sort the results so a long list is easier to scan.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last Name | Text | For a name search | Free-text field for the surname. |
| First Name | Text | No | Narrows a common last name. |
| Middle Name | Text | No | Optional extra filter. |
| Begin / End Booking Date | Date | No | Calendar fields for a booking window. |
| Sorted By | Dropdown | No | Name or Booking Date. |
| Order | Dropdown | No | Ascending or Descending. |
The official roster search form shows these fields in a plain table layout rather than a modern card view.
A phone visitor may need to zoom or scroll sideways, since the page uses an older WebForms table rather than a phone-first design. The same roster powers the deeper how-to on the jail inmate records page.
Past and Released Inmate Records
Finding a released person is harder than finding a current one. The Taylor County roster is recent-booking oriented and does not publish a last-updated time, so an older booking may not appear once the person leaves custody. The roster's underlying form does include release-date fields, but the public default view is the last-24-hour bookings list.
When an old booking is no longer online, the path is a public-records request to the sheriff's records custodian. Include the booking number if you have it, plus the full name, an approximate booking date, and a case or offense number. Active reports or reports sent to court for review may be held back from anyone but the victim until the case closes. A person who was sentenced to prison will have moved off the county roster and onto the state locator instead.
What a Taylor County Inmate Record Shows
A Taylor County booking entry is unusually detailed for a small county. The public view renders a whole card per booking. It does not show every demographic field that larger Florida rosters list. In sampled records, full date of birth, height, weight, and a full street address were not visible.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Booking Number | The jail identifier for one booking, seen in a format like TCSO26JBN000###. |
| Booking Date | Date and 24-hour time the person was booked. |
| Charges | A table of statute, court case number, charge, degree, level, bond, bond type, fees, and arresting officer. |
| Bond Amount | A total bond near the header, plus a separate cash-only amount when one applies. |
| Housing Unit | Facility, dorm, pod, and cell, with a visitation schedule link. |
| Custody Status | A status value such as "In Jail" at the time the page loaded. |
The charge labels can be short, so a "[+]" control expands a fuller description. Booking photos appear on the same card, which the jail roster mugshots page covers in detail.
County Jail vs. State Prison: Where to Look
The most common mistake is searching the wrong system. Pre-trial detainees and short-term inmates sit in the county jail, run by the sheriff. Sentenced felons move to a Florida Department of Corrections prison, which has its own statewide locator. The county roster will not show a state prisoner, and the state locator will not show a county pre-trial inmate.
| County Jail | State Prison (DOC) | |
|---|---|---|
| Who Is Held | Pre-trial and short sentences | Sentenced felons |
| Run By | Taylor County Sheriff's Office | Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) |
| Where to Look | County jail roster | FDC inmate population search |
| Stays Listed | While booked, recent-booking view by default | Through the sentence, updated weekly |
State and Federal Inmate Search
Three more tools cover people the county roster cannot. The Florida Department of Corrections offender search handles sentenced state prisoners and state supervision. The federal Bureau of Prisons locator covers federal inmates from 1982 forward. The ICE detainee locator covers adults in immigration custody. Each one answers a different slice of the question, and none of them includes county jail bookings.
The state offender menu links every Florida corrections database in one place, with notes on how often each updates.
For victim notification, VINELink can track custody status and send alerts once a Taylor County or Florida record is found in the system.
Taylor County Detention Facilities
Three facilities make up the county's custody map, and each holds a different group. The sheriff runs the county jail. The state runs the two prisons on the Hampton Springs Road campus. The pages below give the address, lookup tool, and visitation rules for each.
- Taylor County Jail - The sheriff-run county jail in Perry, holding pre-trial, pre-sentenced, county sentenced, and state sentenced men and women.
- Taylor Correctional Institution - A Florida Department of Corrections adult male state prison with a rated capacity of 1,301.
- Taylor Correctional Institution Annex - A separate FDC adult male annex on the same campus, with a rated capacity of 1,409.
Taylor County Inmate Population FAQ
How big is the Taylor County inmate population?
The county jail averaged 88 people a day in the April 2024 Florida Department of Corrections report, with a rated capacity of 184 beds. That is the jail count only. The two state prisons in the county hold thousands more, but they answer a different question and are tracked through the state locator, not the county roster.
How do I search the Taylor County inmate population?
Use the Taylor County Jail roster at jail.taylorsheriff.org. Enter a last name, and add a first name or a booking date range to narrow the result. Remember the default view shows only the last 24 hours of bookings, so search the fields rather than reading the front page as a full census.
Can I look up a released or past inmate?
Sometimes. The roster is recent-booking oriented and may drop a record after release. For an older booking, file a public-records request with the sheriff's records custodian and include the booking number, name, and approximate date. A person sentenced to prison will appear on the state locator instead.
What does the county roster not show?
It does not show sentenced state prisoners, federal inmates, or immigration detainees. Those belong to the Florida Department of Corrections, the federal Bureau of Prisons, and ICE. A hold line on a county booking can flag another agency's interest, but the other case is searched in that agency's own system.
Are booking photos part of the record?
Yes. The Taylor County roster shows a booking photo on each public booking card, with an enlarge link tied to the booking number. How long a photo stays online is not published, so older photos may need a records request.
Who do I call when timing matters?
Call the jail at (850) 584-4333 for current custody, bond, or release timing, since the roster carries no last-updated stamp. For booking records that are not online, contact the sheriff's records custodian at (850) 584-4225.