Lee County Jail Roster
Lee County local custody is served by the Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center, which is listed through Sumter County's official detention source. The facility books and houses people arrested by law-enforcement officers while they await trial, houses people charged with felony or misdemeanor crimes, and houses or feeds people after trial sentencing when they remain in that facility. This is the first local source for a person recently arrested by the Lee County Sheriff's Office, a Bishopville-area agency, or another local law-enforcement officer.
The official detention page links a CentralSquare inmate inquiry for the Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center. Research could not verify the live field labels because the portal did not render text fields in the research fetcher, so Lee County inmate search copy should not claim exact form fields that were not confirmed. The phone fallback is the detention center at 803-436-2340. For Lee sheriff records or warrant records connected to custody, the Lee Sheriff's Office records contact is Kay Arrants at 803-483-3121.
The official Sumter-Lee detention source provides the jail address, phone, visiting hours, and inmate inquiry link used for Lee County inmate records.
That source supports the local jail roster route before moving to state prison or federal locator searches.
Lee County Inmate Inquiry
The CentralSquare inquiry is the online path for current regional jail custody. It should be used for people who may be held at Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center, not for people already sentenced to the South Carolina Department of Corrections or held by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. A search result, if found, should be read as custody and booking information at a point in time.
- Open the CentralSquare inmate inquiry linked from the official detention page.
- Search with the name or other fields the live portal requests.
- Review any matching jail roster result for identity, booking, charge, bond, or status clues.
- Call the detention center if the result is unclear, missing, or time sensitive.
- Check the Lee County Public Index if a court case, bond paper, hearing, or disposition is needed.
- Use SCDC or BOP only if the person is in state prison or federal custody.
Arrest does not equal conviction. A Lee County inmate record may show charges at booking, while the final case outcome comes from court records in Magistrate Court, General Sessions, or another court that handles the case.
Lee County Inmate Search Fields
The Sumter-Lee CentralSquare portal was confirmed as the official inmate inquiry channel, but the exact search fields were not verified in accessible research. The table keeps that gap visible. It also shows the separate SCDC search fields because state-prison custody is a common wrong turn in inmate searches.
| System | Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sumter-Lee inquiry | Research gap | Web app | Unspecified | CentralSquare did not render text fields in the research fetcher. |
| SCDC search | SCDC Number | Text | Optional if SID or name known | Most precise state-prison identifier. |
| SCDC search | SID | Text | Optional if SCDC number or name known | State Identification number. |
| SCDC search | First Name | Text | Optional | Used when numbers are unknown. |
| SCDC search | Last Name | Text | Optional | Used when numbers are unknown. |
For statewide sentenced custody, the SCDC public inmate search is separate from Lee County jail custody.
Use SCDC when the person has moved from local detention into South Carolina state prison custody.
What Lee County Inmate Records Show
No sample Lee County or Sumter-Lee inmate profile was opened during research. The fields below are possible inmate-profile fields to verify in the live portal, not a claim that every field appears in every Lee County jail record. Public jail records should not be expected to show medical, mental-health, protective-custody, juvenile, or victim-sensitive information.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Name | The person held or booked, subject to identity matching. |
| Booking number | A jail booking identifier if the system displays one. |
| Booking date or time | When the person entered local detention, if released publicly. |
| Arresting agency | The law-enforcement agency tied to the booking. |
| Charges | Booked charges or allegations, not final convictions. |
| Bond | Bond amount or type if set and released by the system. |
| Court date | A listed court date if exported or entered for the custody record. |
| Custody status | Whether the person appears held, released, transferred, or otherwise listed. |
| Housing facility | The facility or unit if the jail publishes that detail. |
For filed court events, use the Public Index and Clerk of Court. For statewide criminal history, use SLED CATCH. For sex offender registration, use the SLED Sex Offender Registry or Lee Sheriff sex offender registry contact Lenetta McElveen at 803-483-3120.
Lee County Jail Facility
The official local jail facility for Lee County inmate searches is the Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center. The research did not locate a separate Lee County-operated jail roster page or a confirmed Lee County Sheriff mobile app with inmate tools. Because the facility serves regional detention needs, the address is in Sumter rather than Bishopville.
Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center
1250 Winkles Rd
Sumter, SC 29153
803-436-2340
Office: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
Visits: Monday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Lee County Sheriff's Office
PO Box 89
Bishopville, SC 29010
803-484-5353
Warrants/Records: 803-483-3121
The detention center phone number is the best fallback when the online Lee County inmate search does not show a person who may have been recently arrested. The Sheriff records contact is better for Lee sheriff records, warrant records, or records tied to the arresting agency rather than day-to-day jail housing.
Lee County Booking Records
Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center books people arrested by law-enforcement officers while they await trial. Booking information is a custody record, not a full court file. A person can be booked before a Lee County court case appears in the Public Index, and a court case can later show different charge language if the Solicitor amends, reduces, dismisses, or prosecutes charges in another form.
Bond, first appearance, and detailed court-date rules were not published in the detention source used for research. For bond paperwork in filed General Sessions matters, use the Lee County Clerk of Court or Public Index. For Magistrate matters, call Lee County Magistrate Court. For prosecution, diversion, or victim-services questions in General Sessions or juvenile Family Court, the Third Judicial Circuit Solicitor is the better source.
Note: Jail charges are not proof of guilt, and the final disposition comes from the court that resolves the case.
Lee County Inmate Visiting Hours
The official detention page gives visiting hours, but it does not publish a full rule set for visitor ID, dress, visit length, child visitors, video visits, attorney visits, lockdowns, or approval steps. Call the detention center before traveling, especially if the person was just booked, transferred, placed under a restriction, or scheduled for court.
| Facility | Visiting Days | Visiting Hours | Source Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center | Monday-Saturday | 9 a.m.-11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. | Official detention page. |
Do not confuse office hours with visiting hours. The detention office hours are Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., while the published visiting windows run Monday through Saturday in the morning and afternoon.
Contact Lee County Inmates
The only confirmed service vendor in the research is Securus inmate phone services, linked from the official detention page. Securus should be described only as the phone-service channel unless a later official source confirms video visits, tablets, commissary, or deposits. The manifest row for Securus did not produce a successful image, so no replacement image is used.
Mail rules, commissary provider, deposit options, dress code, visitor ID requirements, child visitor rules, video visitation, approval process, and attorney visitation rules were not located in official accessible sources during the research pass. Do not mail funds, packages, or other items based on generic jail rules. Call 803-436-2340 before sending mail, arranging deposits, or planning visits.
SCDC and Federal Inmates
SCDC is for people sentenced to and incarcerated in South Carolina Department of Corrections custody. The SCDC disclaimer says the public search displays photographs and public information on inmates currently sentenced to and incarcerated in SCDC as of midnight the previous day. It does not provide information for people released from SCDC, sentenced to county detention facilities, or under parole, probation, or other community supervision.
That distinction is important for Lee County inmate records because a recent arrest may remain a local detention issue even if the person later receives a state sentence. A person under probation, parole, or another community-supervision status may also fall outside both the Sumter-Lee roster and the SCDC incarcerated-person search. When custody level is unclear, start with the most recent event: call the detention center for a recent booking, check Public Index for a filed case, and use SCDC only after state-prison custody is likely.
Federal custody is separate again. The Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator is the correct route when a person is in federal prison custody rather than Lee County local detention or South Carolina state prison.
Use BOP only for federal custody; it will not replace a Lee County jail roster, SCDC state search, or local court record.
The custody split is the key point. Current jail custody points to Sumter-Lee. State prison custody points to SCDC. Federal custody points to BOP. Court case status points to the Public Index, Magistrate Court, or Clerk of Court, depending on where the case is filed.
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