Autauga County Metro Jail Inmate Lookup

Autauga County Metro Jail Overview

The Autauga County Sheriff's Office operates the Autauga County Metro Jail as the county jail for local arrests, pretrial detention, short local sentences, warrant bookings, and people awaiting transfer. The official facility map places the jail at 136 North Court St. in downtown Prattville, near the Autauga County Courthouse at 134 North Court Street and the sheriff's office at 162 W. 4th St. That cluster matters because jail custody, court charges, bond information, warrant questions, and report-copy requests may point to different offices even when they arise from the same arrest.

The Metro Jail is the only local detention facility identified in the Autauga County facility map for this build. Research did not locate a separate official county work-release annex, city jail roster, Alabama Department of Corrections prison, Bureau of Prisons facility, or ICE detention center physically located in Autauga County. People sentenced to Alabama prison after an Autauga County case should be searched through ADOC, while federal and immigration custody use separate federal systems.

The official OCV map data at the Autauga County Sheriff's Office map feed supports treating the Metro Jail as the local custody point while routing court and records questions to the proper nearby office.

Autauga County Metro Jail Capacity and Population

The capacity and population numbers require careful wording. A county jail information page located during research describes the Metro Jail as a 138-bed facility that opened in 2004 and replaced a 1970 jail, with about 40 employees. The current OCV sheriff site inspected for this project did not publish that capacity figure in its visible current jail content, so the 138-bed number should be treated as a sourced facility-history figure rather than a live certified rating.

A dated local population point came from an Associated Press report on June 6, 2024. AP reported that Sheriff Mark Harrell evacuated the Autauga County Metro Jail because of unspecified health and safety issues, that inmates were transported to other facilities, and that the sheriff website listed 164 people on the inmate roster at the time. That 164 roster count was a June 6, 2024 snapshot, not a current daily population. The comparison between 164 listed people and the 138-bed figure suggests why capacity should be discussed with caveats, but it does not support a legal conclusion or a current overcrowding claim by itself.

Current daily population, gender breakdown, custody-status breakdown, annual bookings, and average daily population were not located in official Autauga County sources during the research sweep.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Autauga County Metro Jail

The local custody lookup starts with the sheriff's web roster route, but that route presented a JavaScript requirement during static research. The OCV inmate-search feature feed at the sheriff inmate-search JSON page also showed a placeholder message telling users to check back later. Because of that limitation, the official app is especially important in Autauga County: sheriff news says the current Jail Roster is under the Metro Jail tab in the Autauga County Sheriff's Office AL app.

The roster screenshot source is the sheriff's web roster route at autaugasheriff.org/roster.php.

The JavaScript warning is the reason a user should keep the sheriff app and the Metro Jail phone line in the lookup sequence instead of relying on one static web page.

1. Open the sheriff roster route in a current browser with JavaScript enabled.
2. If the route does not render or does not show the person, open the official sheriff app and choose the Metro Jail tab because sheriff news identifies that tab as the current Jail Roster location.
3. Search by the best available name spelling. If a roster allows browsing, compare booking date and charge context where those fields are available.
4. Call the Metro Jail at (334) 361-2600 before traveling, mailing anything, posting bond, or assuming a person has been released.
5. If the person was sentenced to state prison, use the Alabama Department of Corrections inmate search rather than the county roster.
6. If a federal or immigration custody path is involved, use the BOP inmate locator after federal designation or ICE ODLS for immigration detention.
7. Use Alabama VINELink for custody notifications after confirming the correct person and custody system.

A person may not appear online because the booking is fresh, the person has been released, the person was transferred, the name spelling differs, the record is restricted, or the person is now in a state, federal, or immigration system. Court charges, bond amounts, and case status may also require Alacourt or Circuit Clerk contact instead of a jail roster result.

Autauga County Metro Jail Address and Contact

Use the jail phone for local custody and before any visit, mail, or money decision. Use the sheriff office number for general sheriff routing and report-copy procedures. Use the courthouse and Circuit Clerk for court charges, bond amount, payments, warrants, and case records.

Visiting Someone at Autauga County Metro Jail

Official Autauga County sources inspected did not publish a current Metro Jail visitation schedule, visitor entrance, approved-list rule, dress code, ID rule, video-visit option, or holiday schedule. The safest researched instruction is to call the Metro Jail at (334) 361-2600 before traveling. This is especially important because the June 2024 evacuation showed that people listed in the jail population may be temporarily housed outside the Metro Jail building when operational conditions require it.

Visitors should confirm whether the person is still in Autauga County custody, whether the person is physically at the Metro Jail, whether visits are in person or by video, what photo ID is accepted, whether minors may visit, what items are prohibited, and whether attorney visits follow a separate process. The research did not locate official answers for those local details, so the table below preserves the verified gap rather than inventing a schedule.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Autauga County Metro Jail

The current sheriff OCV material inspected did not publish a county jail mail format, mail scanning policy, postcard-only rule, inmate phone vendor, video provider, tablet program, commissary vendor, deposit fee, or deposit schedule for the Metro Jail. Do not use ADOC money-order forms for someone still held in the Autauga County Metro Jail. ADOC money and mail rules apply after a person has been transferred to Alabama state-prison custody.

Before mailing a letter or sending funds, confirm custody through the app, roster, or Metro Jail phone line. A person who has been released, transferred to ADOC, moved to another agency during a facility issue, or held on a federal or immigration matter may follow different mail, visit, and money rules.

Booking and Intake at Autauga County Metro Jail

Autauga County booking starts when a person is arrested by the sheriff's office, a municipal police department, or another law-enforcement agency and is placed in county custody at the Metro Jail. The sheriff is required by Alabama Code Section 36-22-8 to keep a public jail record book for prisoners received into the county jail, including identifying description, charge, commitment, and release information. Alabama Code Section 36-12-40 supplies the broader public-records framework, but exceptions and local procedures still matter.

Booking records and court records are different. A jail booking can identify custody status and booking charges, but formal court charges, bond amount, payment questions, warrant handling, and case status belong with the court system. The sheriff FAQ says known-warrant defendants can contact the Circuit Clerk's Office to learn the bond amount before surrendering, and it also says warrants are not verified by phone. A person who needs to verify a suspected warrant is routed to the sheriff office in person with valid ID.

Sheriff App and Metro Jail Tab

The official Autauga County Sheriff's Office AL app share page is part of the jail lookup path because sheriff news says the app has the current Jail Roster under the Metro Jail tab. The sheriff site metadata identified iOS app id 6746164969 and Google Play app id com.ocv.a1352. App and site configuration visible during research also showed Inmate Search, FAQs, Most Wanted, Recent News, Map, Employment, and download/notification features.

The app share screenshot comes from the official OCV app share route for the sheriff app.

The app is not a third-party roster. It is an official sheriff channel, and the researched sheriff news made it the clearest current access path for the Metro Jail roster when the web route is thin.

Research did not confirm an app-only warrant search, booking-photo gallery, records request portal, bond payment tool, or commissary deposit function. The Most Wanted feed existed in OCV configuration, but the current content inspected was a placeholder. Treat the app as a roster and notification channel first.

About Autauga County Metro Jail

The Metro Jail sits in the downtown Prattville justice complex near the courthouse and sheriff office. A county jail information page located during research says the facility opened in 2004, replaced a 1970 jail, was managed by Captain Larry Nixon, had about 40 employees, and had 138 beds. Because the current sheriff OCV content did not expose a full jail-operations page during research, those history and staffing details should be read as sourced background rather than as a complete current operations manual.

The strongest recent jail-conditions item located was the June 6, 2024 AP report about the jail evacuation. AP reported that Sheriff Mark Harrell moved inmates to other agencies until health and safety issues could be addressed and that the County Commission said it was aware of issues and working with the sheriff and staff. No official DOJ consent decree, federal civil-rights investigation, or final court order about the Autauga County Metro Jail was located in the research sweep.