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Moore County Detention Center Overview

The Moore County Detention Center is operated by the Moore County Sheriff's Office as a county jail and local confinement facility. It holds Moore County pretrial detainees, people committed by court order, sentenced misdemeanants, and people held on local warrants, bonds, court dates, or other agency holds when those holds appear on the public roster. The facility is not a state prison, federal prison, ICE detention center, or separate city jail.

The official Detention Center page is mainly a jail information and safety-policy page. It links to inmate information, commissary, care packages, visitation, and phone information. It also publishes the Sheriff's Office PREA policy, which states zero tolerance for inmate-on-inmate sexual assault, staff sexual abuse, sexual misconduct, and sexual harassment. The county says allegations will be investigated, people believed to be at substantial risk will be protected, and retaliation for reports is not tolerated.

The official detention page below is linked by Moore County for jail functions such as inmate information and vendor services.

Because that county page routes users to the roster and vendors, the facility page should be read together with the roster search and phone confirmation channels.

Moore County Detention Center Capacity

The North Carolina Jail Administrators' Association directory lists the Moore County Detention Center with a rated capacity of 272. The county FY2026 dashboard shows detention as a major county operation, with a mission to provide a safe and secure environment for inmates and staff in compliance with federal and state detention regulations. The same dashboard lists detention staffing and budget figures for FY26. The dashboard chart tracks average daily population against maximum capacity, but the exact monthly values were not text-extracted in the research, so no current average daily population number is stated here.

Historical context shows why capacity matters. A 2013 correctional population table recorded 126 people in the Moore County local jail population, and older local news reported that the former downtown jail was much smaller. The current 272-capacity facility reflects a larger modern detention operation, but capacity is not the same as the count of people in custody on a given day. County-level custody figures and lookup context are summarized in the Moore County inmate population hub.

Lookup Moore County Detention Inmates

Use the official Moore County Detention Center search application for current county jail custody. The search home supports three modes: Inmates by name, Charges by charge description, and Days over the last number of days. The current inmate grid displays Full Name, Age, Race, Sex, and Admit Date, with filters and profile links. Profiles can show the mugshot, date of birth, physical descriptors, admit date and time, address, confining agency, charges, court dates, docket numbers, bond, bond type, charging agency, and arresting agency.

1. Open the Moore County Detention Center search application and choose the Inmates tab.
2. Search by name, or select View all inmates to open the full roster grid.
3. Use Full Name, Age, Race, Sex, or Admit Date filters if the result set is large.
4. Open the linked full name to confirm the profile details, booking photo, charge table, court date, and bond data.
5. Call the Detention Center if the person may have been booked very recently, released, transferred, or held under a name variation.

The Moore County roster covers local custody only. After a state sentence or transfer, the person may appear in the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction locator instead. Federal prisoners use the BOP locator, and immigration detainees use ICE's detainee locator. The Moore County inmate records page explains the full fallback chain across those systems.

Moore County Detention Contact

The public roster contact modal gives the Detention Center address in Carthage, and the NCJAA directory confirms the same facility address. The county Detention Center page gives the main jail phone and fax. The NCJAA directory also lists detention leadership and the Records Unit contact. Use the main jail number for custody, visitation, and facility questions that are not answered by the roster or vendor systems.

Moore County Detention Visits

Moore County's official Detention Center page does not publish a full visitation rule sheet, schedule, dress code, ID rule, child visitor rule, or visit length table. Instead, the county links inmate visitation and inmate phone information to NCIC. NCIC's public instructions say a visitor creates an account, selects a facility and resident, and schedules a date and time. ConnectNetwork's Moore County NC page also lists services as Visitation Scheduling and Video Visitation and points to the county's visitation scheduling site.

Bring government photo ID unless the scheduling system or jail gives different instructions. The county did not publish visitor parking rules, locker rules, or a public transit route for jail visitors. The nearby courthouse page says courthouse parking is very limited, but that should not be treated as jail parking permission. Call the Detention Center before leaving if accessibility, parking, entry point, or visitor-rule questions matter for the visit.

Moore County Detention Money

The official county detention page links Inmate Commissary to JailATM and Inmate Care Packages to the Moore County JailCanteen storefront. JailCanteen displays categories such as Food/Drink, Candy/Pastry, Chips/Snacks, Beverages, Clothing, Hygiene, Miscellaneous/Postal, Seasonal/Baskets, and New Items/Seasonal. The storefront states that delivery can take up to three weeks. The county research did not locate public Moore-specific fee amounts, deposit limits, refund rules, or accepted payment details outside the vendor account flow.

The NCJAA directory lists PO Drawer 159 as a mail-to address, but the research did not locate an official inmate-mail format rule sheet. Do not assume that a general directory mailing address can be used for personal inmate mail, books, photographs, or money orders. Mail rules can change because of scanning vendors, contraband policies, and legal mail handling.

Moore County Booking Records

Moore County does not publish a detailed intake walk-through, but the roster and state law show the basic records path. A person is arrested or committed by court process, transported to the Moore County Detention Center, identified, photographed and fingerprinted when required, screened, classified, and assigned into custody. North Carolina G.S. 15A-502 governs law-enforcement photographs and fingerprints for charged people in arrest, detention, imprisonment, or conviction contexts.

The public profile confirms several intake outputs. It can show admit date, admit time, mugshot, personal descriptors, address, confining agency, charges, court type, court date, docket number, bond, bond type, charging agency, and arresting agency. North Carolina first-appearance law also matters after booking. G.S. 15A-601 requires an in-custody defendant charged by magistrate's order or criminal process to be brought before a district court judge within the statutory time frame if the person is not released first.

Booking

Administrative entry into jail custody after arrest or court commitment.

Confining Agency

The agency responsible for confinement as shown on the jail profile.

Secured Bond

A release condition backed by cash, property, or surety when ordered by a judicial official.

Detainer

A hold or request from another agency or jurisdiction that can affect release or transfer.

Moore County Detention Conditions

Official program detail for the Moore County Detention Center was limited in the research. The county Detention Center page publishes PREA policy and vendor links rather than a program catalog. The county FY2026 dashboard states the detention mission as providing a safe and secure environment for inmates and staff in compliance with federal and state regulations. North Carolina local confinement law and jail inspection rules provide the broader operating frame for local jails.

G.S. 153A-221 requires minimum standards for local confinement facilities, including secure and safe facilities, design, space, heat, light, ventilation, supervision, personal hygiene, medical care, mental health care, substance-abuse care, sanitation, food, and prisoner safekeeping. G.S. 153A-225 requires medical care plans and death reporting. The state DHSR Jails and Detention Unit conducts semiannual inspections and uses documents such as operation manuals, medical plans, dietitian reports, sanitation reports, fire inspections, and drill logs during inspection work.

Moore County Transfer Lookups

A Moore County detainee can move out of the county roster after release, transfer, sentence, or a change in custody authority. If the person is sentenced to state prison, use the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction offender search. NC DAC says its database covers state prison offenders, probationers, and parolees and does not include county jail information. If the matter is federal, the Federal Bureau of Prisons locator covers federal inmates from 1982 to the present. Immigration detention uses ICE's Online Detainee Locator.