Choctaw County Jail Status
The controlling local jail fact is that the Choctaw County Jail was permanently closed on July 17, 2019. The sheriff's jail-visitation page says Choctaw County does not have a jail and that all inmates are housed in neighboring counties' jails. It also says inmates housed in neighboring counties follow that county's visitation rules. Do not treat the old Choctaw jail rules as proof of a current local jail facility.
At the same time, the Sheriff's Office still publishes a Who's in Jail page and a MobileSO current-inmates report. That report is the best official public lookup found for Choctaw County custody rows, bond amounts, and charge text. It is a roster-style report, not a full booking profile with mugshots, birth dates, arresting agency, housing unit, or release date.
The Sheriff's Who's in Jail page shows the local route into the roster.
That sheriff page embeds the current inmates report, so it is the local starting point before checking state prison records.
Use Choctaw County Inmate Roster
The roster does not work like a searchable jail portal with name fields. The public iframe showed a static table of current rows. A reader should scan the report and then verify unclear custody, bond, visitation, or release details with the Sheriff's Office because physical housing may be in a neighboring county jail.
- Open the Sheriff's Who's in Jail page or the embedded current inmates report.
- Scan the NAME column for the person. Names appear in all caps and may use last name first.
- Read the DATE, BOND AMT, and CHARGES columns together because one person can have several charges and several bond lines.
- Call the Sheriff's Office if the roster row is unclear, if release timing matters, or if the receiving jail must be identified.
- Use ADOC only when the person may be in state prison rather than county pretrial or local custody.
The current inmates report is the official iframe source for the visible roster.
The report's simple columns make it useful for quick checks, but limited for full case or jail-location details.
Choctaw County Roster Fields
The public roster field inventory is narrow. No public search box appeared in the public iframe HTML. The visible report had four main columns and did not display a profile page. That makes the Choctaw County inmate roster closer to a current custody report than a full inmate management system.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Options / Format Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| NAME | Result column | n/a | Names appear last name, first or middle, in all caps. |
| DATE | Result column | n/a | Date appears as M/D/YYYY and likely reflects booking or custody date. |
| BOND AMT | Result column | n/a | Multiple amounts can appear on separate lines; blanks or .00 may appear. |
| CHARGES | Result column | n/a | Multiple charges appear line by line, including FTA, probation, and traffic labels. |
| Search box | Not visible | n/a | No public search input appeared in the inspected iframe source. |
Choctaw County Inmate Record Fields
A sample visible roster row showed a name, date, bond amounts, and charge lines such as criminal trespass, criminal mischief, fail to appear, obstructed windshield, burglary, and attempted eluding police. The missing fields are just as important as the fields shown. That absence matters because many jail sites show far more data than Choctaw's public report.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Name | The person listed in the current inmates report, generally formatted last name first. |
| Date | A date tied to the roster entry, likely booking or custody date. |
| Bond amount | Bond lines by charge when bond is shown; some charge lines may be blank or .00. |
| Charges | Public charge labels such as failure to appear, probation revocation, theft, or traffic FTA. |
| Jail location | Not displayed publicly, even though a location column existed in HTML comments. |
| Profile details | Mugshot, age, race, sex, booking number, court date, housing unit, and release date were not visible. |
Choctaw County Sheriff Contact
Sheriff Scott Lolley is listed in county and state sources. The sheriff's public office is in the courthouse complex, while inmate housing is handled by neighboring counties after the jail closure. That split is why the sheriff contact remains the first local point for roster, booking, and bond questions, even when the visit or mail rule may come from another jail.
Choctaw County Sheriff's Office
117 South Mulberry, Suite 11
Butler, AL 36904-2557
(205) 459-2166
Fax: (205) 459-4666
Emergency: 911
The sheriff jail-visitation and mail page documents the closure notice and the older published rule set.
Use that page as sheriff-published guidance, then confirm the receiving jail's current rules before a visit or mailing.
Choctaw County Visitation Rules
The published schedule is best treated as legacy or sheriff-provided guidance because the jail is closed. The controlling rule is that neighboring counties' visitation rules apply to inmates housed there. The old Choctaw page still gives useful warnings about appointment calls, visit length, children, property, and dress code, but it should not be used without verification.
| Topic | Published Choctaw Rule | Important Caveat |
|---|---|---|
| Jail status | Permanently closed July 17, 2019 | Neighboring county rules control for housed inmates. |
| Visitation card | Inmate may list two names | Confirm with the receiving jail. |
| Visit day/time | Wednesday, 1 p.m.-3 p.m. | May be obsolete for housed-out inmates. |
| Visit length | One 15-minute period each week | Attorney visits are excepted from the non-contact rule. |
| Appointment calls | Call 205-459-3937 Monday-Tuesday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. | Verify current routing because the jail is closed. |
| Children and property | No one under 18; no phones, purses, or bags | Receiving jail rules may differ. |
| Dress code | Conservative clothing, sleeves, and knee-length pants or skirts | The page says the dress code is strictly enforced. |
Note: A visitation plan should start by asking where the inmate is physically housed.
Choctaw County Mail and Bonds
The sheriff's mail rules list many rejected items. Mail may be rejected if it threatens security, order, health, or well-being. The page says not to send third-party letters, cash, personal checks, blank paper, envelopes, padded mailers, perfume, powder, cologne, body fluids, hair, kissed mail, glue, tape, glitter, stickers, labels, food, gum, wrappers, photos, or material involving violence, sex, or gang affiliation. Because Choctaw County houses inmates in neighboring jails, confirm the current mail vendor and address before mailing.
Bond rules are also specific. No one is released by bond between 4:30 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. Cash bond is paid for the full amount at the clerk's office inside the courthouse, and the receipt is brought to jail staff. All bonds require a $35 bond-filing fee as a money order payable to the Choctaw County Circuit Clerk. Cash and personal checks are not accepted for that fee.
The approved bonding companies page reflects the sheriff-published bond company channel.
That list should be reconciled against the sheriff's current page before relying on a bondsman name or phone number.
ADOC vs Choctaw County Inmates
The Alabama Department of Corrections search is not the same as the Choctaw County jail roster. ADOC is for people incarcerated by the state prison system. It is not the right first search for ordinary pretrial detainees, short local holds, or people just booked on a county warrant. ADOC also says youthful offenders are not included in its public search.
ADOC search rules are different from the sheriff roster. The AIS number is a unique six-digit number assigned to an inmate, and it controls the search. If the AIS number is entered, first-name and last-name fields are ignored and only an exact AIS match is returned.
The ADOC homepage shows the statewide corrections route.
Use that state source after the local roster when the custody may have moved from county-level handling to prison custody.
The ADOC inmate search page shows the AIS, first-name, and last-name lookup route.
ADOC results should be read as state-prison records, while the Choctaw roster remains the local custody report.
Request Choctaw County Booking Records
When the roster is not enough, request booking or jail-docket records from the Sheriff's Office. Alabama public-records law can support access to public writings, but it does not override exemptions, active investigations, juvenile confidentiality, sealed court files, medical records, or restricted personal identifiers. Use enough detail to let the office identify the record: full name, approximate date, charge, case number if known, and the copy format requested.
The request should also state whether the person needs a plain copy, a certified court-related record, or only current custody confirmation. Those are different tasks. The Sheriff's Office is the local law-enforcement contact for booking and custody records, while the Circuit Clerk is the court contact for a case action summary, disposition, sentence, financial history, or certified court paper. If a charge line came from a traffic failure to appear, the Traffic Service Center, Alapay, or the District Court case file may also be part of the record trail.
For court outcomes, do not rely only on the roster. A charge line in the inmate report is not the full case file. Disposition, sentence, payment, and case action entries belong in the court record maintained by the Circuit Clerk or in statewide Alacourt records. Bond and release data can also change fast, so phone verification is often needed for same-day decisions.
No official Choctaw County sheriff mobile app was located in the research. The public access channels documented for inmate records are the sheriff web pages, the MobileSO current-inmates report, the Sheriff's Office phone line, in-person office contact, ADOC for sentenced state inmates, and public-records requests subject to Alabama limits. That absence matters because a reader should not keep searching for an app-only roster when the researched local source is a web report.