Search Pike County Inmate Records

Pike County Jail Roster

The official Pike County inmate roster is run through the Pike County Sheriff's Office OCV site and app. The jail menu includes Inmate Roster and Recent Releases. The public website route at pikecountyalsheriff.com/roster.php renders through JavaScript, while the official current inmate data is also exposed through the OCV current inmate feed. The released-inmate channel uses the OCV recent releases feed. The roster is free and does not require a public login.

Use the county roster for people held at Pike County Jail in Troy after arrests by the Pike County Sheriff's Office, Troy Police Department, Brundidge Police Department, Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, probation or parole authorities, and other agencies using the jail. The same roster is not the right tool for sentenced Alabama prisoners after transfer, federal prisoners, or immigration detainees. Those searches move to the Alabama Department of Corrections, BOP, ICE, or VINELink channels described below.

The official OCV current inmate feed is the source screenshot for the current roster data shown here.

The feed view matters because Pike County inmate records are card-style records, not a traditional court docket or spreadsheet.

Use Pike County Jail Records

The fastest way to answer how do I find someone in the Pike County jail is to start at the sheriff site, then move to the app roster or feed. The app configuration found in the research shows that search and sort are enabled for the inmate roster feature, with the default sort by date descending. Names are usually formatted last name first, so a last-name search is the practical first pass.

1. Open the Pike County Sheriff's Office site and choose Inmate / Jail Information, then Inmate Roster. If the web route appears blank, enable JavaScript or use the Pike County Sheriff AL app.
2. Use the roster search box to filter by name. Last-name search usually works best because the feed titles are formatted as LAST, FIRST MIDDLE.
3. Open or expand the inmate card. Write down the booking number, exact name spelling, booking date, arresting agency, charges, and bond lines.
4. Read charge and bond fields as jail booking data. Formal court charges may differ after prosecutor review, grand jury action, amendment, or dismissal.
5. If the person is not listed, check Recent Releases. If there is still no match, call the jail or sheriff line before assuming the person was never booked.
6. For a person sentenced to state prison, use the ADOC inmate locator. For federal or immigration custody, use BOP or ICE instead of the county roster.

Note: A missing roster card can mean release, transfer, spelling mismatch, feed delay, sealed status, or custody in a different system.

Pike County Roster Search Fields

The Pike County roster is an OCV feed interface, so it does not work like a clerk's case search with mandatory fields. The research found a visible search feature and sorting in the app configuration, but the exact placeholder text was not exposed in the JSON. The raw feed itself is a list of cards with a name title and HTML content. The public should treat the search box as a filter for visible roster content rather than a warrant, court, or criminal-history search.

Pike County Inmate Profile Fields

What does a roster record show in Pike County? A current inmate card includes the local booking number, booking date and time, demographics, arresting agency, booking photo, charge descriptions, and bond amount fields. The recent-release feed has a similar base record, but sampled released cards used a release date and did not include charge and bond sections. Neither feed is a full court file.

The public feed does not show housing pod, cell, floor, full date of birth, home address, court date, warrant number, court case number, medical status, classification flags, or final disposition. For those record types, use the jail phone line, a written records request, or the Pike County Circuit Clerk and Alacourt process, depending on which agency holds the record.

Pike County Records Requests

If a Pike County inmate record is not visible online, submit a specific written request to the Pike County Sheriff's Office. Alabama public-records access is based on Code of Alabama Section 36-12-40, which gives citizens a right to inspect and copy public writings unless another law creates an exception. The Alabama resource manual also discusses broad public-record definitions, and the Pike sheriff audit cites Code Section 14-6-1 as the sheriff's jail-custody authority.

Ask for identifiable records. A strong request names the person, booking number if known, approximate booking or release date, arresting agency, and the exact records sought, such as the booking sheet, jail log entry, release record, or booking photograph. Do not ask the sheriff for formal court pleadings, case action summaries, or dispositions. Those are court records, and the custody-to-court path is covered separately on the Pike County arrest records and court charges page.

Pike County Custody Channels

Pike County Jail records cover county-level custody. A person may leave that system after release, transfer, sentencing, federal pickup, or immigration transfer. The Alabama Department of Corrections locator covers currently incarcerated ADOC inmates and uses AIS number, first name, and last name. The BOP locator covers federal custody, and ICE ODLS covers immigration detention. VINELink Alabama is a notification and search supplement, not a full historical archive.

Pike County Jail Contact

Pike County has one primary local detention facility in the facility map: Pike County Jail. The official contact data distinguishes the jail from the Sheriff's Office address, even though both are on North Three Notch Street in Troy. Use the jail address for inmate mail, visitation questions, and detention matters. Use the sheriff address when submitting a written public-records request to the Sheriff's Office.

Jail administration named in the official divisions feed includes Jail Administrator Kelley Barron, Assistant Jail Administrator Emmanuel Giles, and Sgt. Tad Frazier. Sheriff Russell Thomas is the elected sheriff identified in the official sheriff history feed and Alabama Secretary of State county-official listing.

Pike County Booking Process

Pike County's public roster does not publish a full booking manual, but the fields show the practical sequence. A person is arrested or held by a sheriff deputy, municipal police officer, ALEA, probation or parole authority, or another agency. If detention is required, the person is taken to Pike County Jail for intake. The jail creates a booking number, records the booking date and time, takes a booking photo, logs demographics, lists the arresting agency, enters charge descriptions, and adds bond amounts when available.

The roster's booking time is not always the exact arrest time or court filing time. It is the best public jail-side timestamp. Some entries also show probation violations, parole revocations, failure to appear, court orders, and courtesy holds. Those phrases matter because a dollar bond on one charge may not free a person if another agency or court order controls release.

Booking number

The local Pike County Jail identifier for one booking event.

Detainer or hold

A request or legal reason for custody that may prevent release even when other charges show bond.

First appearance

An early court or magistrate event where rights, charges, and bond may be addressed.

ADOC

The Alabama Department of Corrections, which handles sentenced state-prison custody after transfer.

Pike County Jail Visitation

The official Pike County app links Inmate Phone and Visitation to NCIC. The inmate mail page says citizens may correspond with inmates by mail, texts or email, telephone calls, and video visitation. It does not post a local visit schedule, visit length, remote-video rate, dress code, or on-site kiosk rule. Call the jail before traveling or funding a visit.

Note: Official Pike County web data did not publish a day-by-day visit schedule, so do not rely on third-party hours.

Pike County Commissary Funds

The sheriff app links Add Money to Commissary to VendEngine for Pike County Jail. The local sheriff data did not post a deposit fee schedule, accepted cards, refund rule, or spending limit. VendEngine may show transaction details during checkout, so review the payment screen before paying and confirm the person is still held in Pike County custody.

The official state audit gives useful local context. It reports a jail store fund, prisoner money on deposit, inmate withdrawals, telephone commissions, and jail store profits or commissions during the audited period. It also found prisoner-money accounting issues for June 1, 2018-May 31, 2024. That audit detail supports the fact that inmate money is tracked through a dedicated jail accounting process, but it should not be read as an individual account balance or a current consumer fee.