Lookup Cherokee County Adult Detention Center Inmates

Cherokee County Adult Detention Overview

Cherokee County Adult Detention Center is a county jail and adult local detention facility operated by the Cherokee Sheriff's Office. The sheriff contact page lists the jail, sheriff headquarters, and visitation center at 498 Chattin Drive in Canton. The facility is the main local detention point for people arrested by the Cherokee Sheriff's Office and by agencies that use the county jail after arrest, including Canton, Woodstock, Holly Springs, Ball Ground, Georgia State Patrol, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, and Cherokee County School District Police.

The 2025 ACA Visiting Committee Report says the ADC is the only full-service jail operating in Cherokee County, even though most municipalities have temporary holding areas. That is the key facility fact for inmate lookup: a person arrested by a city police department may still be searched through the county JailList once booked into the ADC. The jail holds adult male and female inmates and has a maximum-minimum custody range.

The sheriff contact page lists the jail campus and public contact cards for Cherokee County Adult Detention Center functions.

The contact page supports using the Canton jail campus as the main address for custody, visitation, and jail information questions.

Cherokee County Adult Detention Population

The 2025 ACA report gives the best sourced population and capacity figures for Cherokee County Adult Detention Center. It lists rated capacity at 1,122 and an audit population of 447 male and 108 female. It also lists a 12-month average daily population of 561, 8,221 bookings in 2024, and an average length of stay of 30 days. Those figures describe the county jail, not state prison custody or federal custody.

Look Up Cherokee County ADC Inmates

The correct lookup system for this county jail is the sheriff's Cherokee County JailList search. It is a name-contains search with one visible text field and a Go button. It covers current local jail custody and recent booking data shown by the sheriff. It is not the Georgia Department of Corrections offender query, the BOP locator, or ICE ODLS.

1. Open the JailList search form from the sheriff's jail list menu.
2. Enter the person's name, or part of the name, in the inmate-name field.
3. Check each matching result for inmate ID, booking date, arrest agency, and charges.
4. Use the View button for the modal with charge costs and the JailATM commissary link.
5. Call the jail at 678-493-4200 when current custody, release, or hold status must be verified.

Note: The inspected JailList did not provide stable public profile URLs for individual inmates.

Cherokee County ADC Address

The sheriff contact page lists the jail and visitation center at the same Chattin Drive address as headquarters. For general jail information, the main sheriff and jail phone number is 678-493-4200. More specific jail functions have separate numbers in the research, including Bond Administration, the Inmate Records Manager, the property deputy, medical inquiries, and PREA contacts.

Visiting Cherokee County ADC Inmates

Cherokee County ADC uses on-site and remote video visitation. On-site visits are free at the Visitation Center, must be scheduled one day in advance, and are limited to 30 minutes with no more than two visitors per terminal. Each inmate is allowed one on-site visit per day on the assigned day. Remote visits are handled through iWebVisit, may be scheduled the same day up to one hour before the start time, and may be scheduled up to three weeks in advance.

The sheriff visitation page shows the Cherokee County ADC video-visit schedule and rules.

The schedule is housing-group based for on-site visits, so the roster or jail staff may be needed before a visit is planned.

Mail Phone and Money at Cherokee ADC

Personal mail for Cherokee County ADC inmates goes to a central scanning facility and is delivered electronically inside the jail. Legal and governmental mail is different. It is privileged mail, goes directly to the ADC, and may be opened only in the inmate's presence to check for contraband. Mail from other inmates or other detention facilities is not accepted, and mail without a return address is not accepted.

Inmate phone service is through Inmate Sales. Research notes say inmates may make collect calls from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., while disciplinary segregation inmates may not make general phone calls. Commissary and account deposits can be made by money order, online, or through the ADC lobby ATM. Cash and personal checks are not accepted for money-order deposits.

Booking at Cherokee County ADC

Booking at Cherokee County ADC creates the local jail record that may later appear in JailList. The public record may include the inmate ID, name, booking date, arrest agency, charges, charge amounts, and bond-type text. The roster may also include custody notations such as other-agency holds, ICE holds, violation entries, bond-revoked status, or failure-to-appear entries. A zero-dollar line is not always a release without conditions because the roster code can map it to recognizance, bond-off-bond, contact-agency, or no-bond text.

Money in the inmate's possession is taken by the booking officer, receipted, and placed in the inmate account. The funds can be used for commissary, medical services, and related account charges. Upon release, credited account funds are returned during normal business hours, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Property release requires the inmate to complete a property-release form first, and the named recipient must show government-issued photo identification.

About Cherokee County Adult Detention

The facility opened in 1989, expanded in 2002 and 2021, and is managed daily by a Major under the sheriff's oversight. Research notes describe an original facility with six direct-observation housing units and a 27-bed medical infirmary. The expansion added 14 housing units, 21 dayrooms, internal control towers, three adjacent exercise yards, and electronic security routed to Master Control.

Cherokee Sheriff's Office participates in ACA, NCCHC, and PREA accreditation processes. The sheriff accreditation page says the office first achieved ACA accreditation in August 2019 and reached National Sheriff's Association Triple Crown status. It also states that the most recent ACA re-accreditation audit took place April 21-23, 2025, with the next ACA audit in April 2028. The sheriff PREA page lists reporting channels and contacts, including third-party reporting to the PREA Coordinator.

Programs described by the sheriff include GED/adult education, Alcoholics Anonymous, and chaplaincy services. In-house medical, dental, and mental-health treatment is provided through Correct Health. These services affect facility operations but do not replace the public roster, the jail phone line, or open-records requests for records access.