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Nassau County Jail Roster Overview

The Nassau County jail roster is maintained by the Nassau County Sheriff's Office Division of Corrections, the unit that runs intake, housing, and inmate care at the Nassau County Jail & Detention Center in Yulee. The sheriff publishes an online inmate search portal linked from the NCSO Corrections page. According to that page, the search lets the public view a person's current in-custody status and bond information. The roster is the right tool for a recent local arrest. It shows who is held in the county jail right now, not who has been moved on to a state prison or a federal facility.

It helps to be clear about what the county roster does not cover. It is not a statewide prison database, so a person who has been sentenced to state prison is tracked through the Florida Department of Corrections instead. It is not a federal tool, so someone in federal custody belongs in the Federal Bureau of Prisons locator, and an immigration detainee belongs in the ICE detainee locator. The county roster is a county jail tool. Match the person to the right system and the search goes much faster.

How to Use the Nassau County Jail Roster

The roster portal is the first stop for a Nassau County arrest. The official New World inmate inquiry could not be inspected directly during research because the county portal sits behind a Fortinet web application firewall, which blocks automated tools. That does not affect a normal visitor in a browser. The practical takeaway is simple: follow the field labels shown on the official NCSO portal rather than expecting a fixed last-name-only form. The steps below cover the search and the booking desk fallback when the page will not load or a brand-new arrest has not posted yet.

1. Open the official NCSO inmate search portal linked from the sheriff's Corrections page, and follow the search labels the page displays.
2. Enter the inmate's name or the booking details from the arrest notice, using the exact spelling where you can.
3. Review the result for current in-custody status and bond information, the two outputs the sheriff confirms the search provides.
4. If the search will not load, or the arrest is very recent, call the jail booking desk at 904-548-4006 for processing and bond questions.
5. For a person who may already be in state prison, switch to the FDC offender search, since the county roster will not show that custody.
6. For booking records or reports that are not online, file a records request with NCSO Records at 904-548-4009.

A new booking can lag while the jail completes property inventory, booking, medical screening, and cell assignment. The sheriff does not publish a fixed refresh time for the roster, so a search that comes up empty right after an arrest is a normal reason to use the booking desk number instead.

Nassau County Roster Search Fields

Because the county portal was blocked from automated inspection, the exact search fields and their formatting could not be confirmed. Rather than invent a field list, the honest guidance is to use whatever labels the official NCSO page presents at the time of your search. What the sheriff does confirm in writing is the output side: the search returns current in-custody status and bond information. The table below reflects that confirmed state, with a note about the portal block so expectations stay accurate.

A roster screenshot helps set expectations before you visit the live search. The image below comes from the official NCSO inmate search portal.

That portal is the live front door for the Nassau County jail roster, and its results carry the current custody and bond status the sheriff describes.

What a Nassau County Inmate Record Shows

The full New World profile layout could not be opened during research, so this page does not claim the roster displays mugshots, charge statutes, housing units, or release dates. Those fields were not confirmed. What can be stated comes from the sheriff's own pages, which describe the confirmed roster outputs and the surrounding intake, bond, and release process. The table below frames these as elements NCSO confirms or that its published process supports, not as invented roster columns.

Anything beyond these confirmed elements, including a booking photo, belongs to a records request rather than an assumption about the roster. The Nassau County jail mugshots page covers how booking photos work and how to request one.

County, State, and Federal Inmate Custody

Readers mix these systems up constantly, and the mix-up wastes time. The Nassau County jail roster covers people held locally before trial, people awaiting first appearance or case processing, and people serving short county sentences. Once a person is sentenced to state prison, the Florida Department of Corrections offender search becomes the right tool, because FDC explicitly excludes county jail, county probation, and other local supervision. Federal prisoners use the BOP locator, and immigration detainees use the ICE system. The quick reference below shows which custody type maps to which search.

There is also a gap period worth knowing about. After a felony sentence in Nassau County, a defendant may wait at the county jail before transfer to FDC reception. During that wait the person can still appear in county custody, then move to the state locator once FDC admits and updates the record. If the county roster shows nothing for a sentenced person, the state search is usually the next stop.

State and Federal Inmate Search Tools

When a Nassau County case ends in a state prison sentence, the Florida Department of Corrections takes over as the source of record. The FDC offender network menu links separate searches for current inmates, releases, escapes, supervised offenders, and absconders, each with its own update rules. Current inmate information and photos refresh weekly, while release dates and location changes update nightly. Unlike the county roster, the FDC search-field set is fully published, so a name-and-number lookup behaves predictably.

The FDC offender network menu shows every statewide search choice in one place, drawn from the official FDC offender search menu.

For someone who left the Nassau County jail after a state sentence, this menu is where the inmate record continues, with a DC number, photo, offenses, and release-date information that the county roster does not carry.

Federal and immigration custody sit further out. The BOP locator handles people sentenced to federal prison and certain historical federal custody, and it does not work like a county booking gallery. Federal pretrial detainees are often held in U.S. Marshals custody and may be housed under contract in local jails, so the county booking desk can sometimes confirm a temporary local hold even when the long-term placement is federal. Immigration custody is separate again: a person can be booked into the Nassau County jail and also carry an ICE detainer, but the immigration detention status lives in the ICE locator, not the sheriff's roster.

Every Way to Check Nassau County Custody

The online roster is the headline tool, but it is not the only one, and a single channel can fail at the wrong moment. A full picture of the access chain keeps a search moving when the portal is down, when an arrest is too fresh to show, or when the record has aged off the live roster. Each channel has a clear job.

• Online roster: the official NCSO inmate search for current in-custody status and bond information on a recent local arrest.
• Booking desk: call 904-548-4006 for inmate processing and bond questions when the search is down or the arrest is brand new.
• In person and records counter: the NCSO Records Department at 77151 Citizens Circle, Yulee, open weekdays 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. excluding holidays.
• Public-records request: the NCSO JustFOIA portal for booking records, reports, and material not shown online.
• State and federal locators: FDC for state prison, the BOP locator for federal, and the ICE locator for immigration detention.
• VINELink: a custody-status and notification fallback where participating agencies share data, used as a supplement rather than the official roster.

For a records request, NCSO suggests including the case number, the date and time, the incident location, the deputy's name, and the names of anyone involved, since those details help the office find and release the record faster. One more channel deserves a careful note. The official Nassau County Sheriff app may include inmate-search access, but the web roster and booking desk remain the primary sources. A user review on the official App Store listing reported the app's inmate search as temporarily disabled, so verify current app availability before relying on it.

Note: The sheriff will not release outstanding warrant information by phone, so warrant questions must be handled in person or through the Criminal Division at the courthouse.

Nassau County Jail Facility Contacts

Adult custody in Nassau County centers on one facility, the Nassau County Jail & Detention Center in Yulee, run by the sheriff's Division of Corrections. The jail uses one address for inmate mail and booking and a separate address for the sheriff's records counter, so the contact card below lists both functions. A separate regional juvenile facility serves Nassau youth through a different state system and is not searched the same way as the adult roster.

An official rated bed count for the Nassau County jail was not published on the pages reviewed, so this site does not cite a capacity figure. The state does report population: the FDC County Detention Facilities report for October 2025 listed an average daily population of 249, of which 164 were felony pretrial and 33 were misdemeanor pretrial, about 79.1 percent of the count awaiting case resolution.

Booking and Intake in Nassau County

The path from arrest to a roster listing follows a set order. After an arrest in Nassau County by NCSO or another agency, the person is brought to the booking desk at the jail. Before release or visitation can be considered, the jail completes property inventory, booking, medical screening, and cell assignment. The sheriff says intake processing and identification clearance are finished as soon as possible, but no fixed number of hours is promised, which is why a fresh arrest may not appear in a search right away.

Classification follows intake. That is the jail's decision about housing and security level based on risk, charges, health, and behavior. First appearance is the early court step where a judge reviews custody and sets or adjusts bond conditions. A pretrial detainee is simply someone held before the case is resolved, and in Nassau County most of the jail population fits that description. If a search turns up nothing for a recent booking, the booking desk at 904-548-4006 is the reliable way to confirm that intake is still in progress.

Nassau County Jail Visitation Schedule

The Nassau County jail uses video visitation for friends and family rather than in-person contact visits. Visitors set up an account and schedule through GettingOut before the visit, and children may take part when an adult accompanies them. Attorneys and public defenders are allowed to visit at any time, outside the regular video windows. The schedule below reflects the hours published by NCSO.

Visits can be denied for safety or security reasons, for a victim or no-contact relationship, for an injunction, or for a judge's order. Visitors must dress appropriately and behave during a video call, and a call can be ended for violations. Bringing contraband into a detention facility is a third-degree felony under Florida Statutes section 951.22, and inmates can lose video privileges for up to 90 days.

How to Contact a Nassau County Inmate

Mail to the Nassau County jail works differently than many people expect. Inmates may receive unlimited regular mail from family and friends, but that mail is not delivered at the facility in paper form. Instead, regular mail goes to a GTL drop box, is inspected for contraband under Florida Model Jail Standards, and is scanned into the GTL tablet system for the inmate to read. Non-legal envelopes sent directly to the jail are returned unopened to the sender, so the drop-box routing matters. Legal mail from attorneys, courts, and public officials is accepted at the jail itself.

The correct mailing format addresses the drop box to the inmate's name and number:

• Nassau County Jail & Detention Center
• Attn: Inmate name and number
• 76212 Nicholas Cutinha Road
• Yulee, FL 32097

Phone service runs through GTL, also known as ConnectNetwork. Each housing area has a phone for collect calls, except calls to a public defender, and phone time is generally available from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. except during feed-up, count, discipline, or facility conditions. Inmates cannot receive incoming calls, three-way calls are prohibited, and calls may be monitored or recorded. Account help is available through the ConnectNetwork portal, and video visits are arranged through GettingOut.

Commissary and Inmate Funds

Commissary at the Nassau County jail is provided by Keefe, and items are delivered to inmates once a week. Funds can be added in a few ways: a cash kiosk in the jail lobby, a phone deposit to Keefe, or an online deposit through the Access Corrections portal. The sheriff's pages list these deposit methods but do not publish a set fee schedule, so deposit fees are not stated here. Prices for commissary items appear on the kiosk machines available to inmates.