Dorchester County Inmate Search

Dorchester County, SC Jail Inmate Search

DORCHESTER COUNTY is located in South Carolina with an average daily population of 1004. The county has approximately 1038 confined in facilities with 917 male and 74 female prisoners. That means that 88% of the confined population are male, and 7% are female.

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(Jails)

1063

(Prisoners)

1004

(Average Daily Population)

How Does Dorchester County Inmate Search Work?

Inmate records for Dorchester County are freely accessible. All detention facilities in Dorchester County are governed by the Freedom of Information Act which provides publicly available information about inmates in the county.

Dorchester County Parole and Probation

Dorchester County Parole

If a prisoner has adhered to the regulations while serving their term, they may be granted parole and be released early. Who is granted parole and who is not is decided by a parole board. You may learn a lot about a parolee by looking through the Dorchester County parole records. There may be information regarding their sentence and offences in the Dorchester County parole files. You could also get to look through information regarding their detention location and parole conditions.

Dorchester County Probation

You should also be able to access Dorchester County probation records, which list men and women who were placed on probation rather than being imprisoned, in addition to those parolees who have already been freed. There are regulations that come with being on probation. In addition to adhering to other conditions, probationers are required to meet their probation officer once per week. Typically, Dorchester County criminal records will list the inmate's offences, probationary term, and the specifics of the justice department that sentenced them. You may also be able to view photographs, fingerprints, the probationer's physical characteristics, and other information in addition to these facts.

Dorchester County Booking

When researching statistics on whether or not a stranger has been arrested, Dorchester County bookings can help. A perpetrator's Dorchester County booking record is basically created when an officer arrests them, fills out the necessary papers, and places them in an imprisonment cell. It could also contain information such as fingerprints, photographs, physical characteristics, their name and address, the officer in charge, the specifics of the crime, the scene, and any trucks that were involved. The general public can access the copies of a person's Dorchester County booking records without requiring any kind of authorization.

Dorchester County Confined Population Statistics

In the past 6 years, the confined population in DORCHESTER COUNTY has dropped by 31.71% from 1520 each year to 1038 inmates. Men are still confined about 917 per 100,000 U.S. residents annually in DORCHESTER COUNTY, despite the fact that women are the group confined at the fastest rate of growth.

Inmate Population in Dorchester County, SC

DORCHESTER COUNTY has only 1038 of the 1063 inmates are actually put in jail; the other 25 are under supervision; they are not currently confined.

Dorchester County Jail Inmate Population, Jail Pretrial Population and Confined Population, for 2016-2021 years

	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total Population	1520	1453	1416	n/a	958	1063
Confined Population	1520	1453	1416	n/a	958	1038
Non Confined Population	0	0	0	n/a	0	25

Dorchester County Confined Population by Gender

In DORCHESTER COUNTY, there are 917 confined male inmates for every 100,000 male U.S. residents, and 74 confined female inmates for every 100,000 female U.S. citizens. The confined population of male prisoners dropped by 33.74% between 2016 and 2021, while the confined population of female dropped by 37.82%.

Dorchester County Female Confined Population for
2016-2021 years

	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Adult Females	119	143	156	125	80	74
Females Under 18	0	1	1	0	0	5
Female ADP	115	102	138	n/a	127	80

Dorchester County Male Confined Population for
2016-2021 years

	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Adult Males	1384	1283	1237	1231	878	917
Males Under 18	17	26	22	16	0	42
Male ADP	1259	1303	1252	n/a	1155	924

Breaking Down Dorchester County Inmates By Race

In DORCHESTER COUNTY, the average confined population for White inmates is 332 per 100,000 white citizens, which is 68.77% lower than the confined population for Black or African American inmates. The number of Black or African American inmates who were confined went from 809 to 680 for every 100,000 black population of the United States between 2016 and 2021. The average Hispanic or Latino confined population in DORCHESTER COUNTY is 17 per 100,000 Hispanic Americans, while the average Asian confined population is 1 per 100,000 Asian Americans, accounting American Indian/Alaska Natives for just 4 residents of the county's confined population.

Dorchester County Confined Population by Race, for 2016-2021 years

	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
White Inmates - Confined	472	456	512	n/a	348	332
Black or African American Inmates - Confined	809	839	862	n/a	592	680
Hispanic or Latino Inmates - Confined	197	24	40	n/a	12	17
American Indian/Alaska Natives Inmates - Confined	0	2	0	n/a	1	4
Asian Inmates - Confined	3	2	1	n/a	2	1
Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander Inmates - Confined	0	0	0	n/a	0	0
Two or more Races Inmates - Confined	0	0	0	n/a	0	0
Not Known (Race) Inmates - Confined	39	130	1	n/a	3	4