Greene County Detention Center Overview
Greene County Detention Center is a county jail and local confinement facility operated by the Greene County Sheriff's Office. The jail is listed at 301 N. Greene Street in Snow Hill, the same street address used by the Greene County courthouse complex. It is not a state prison, federal prison, or immigration detention center. Its day-to-day custody role is local: new arrests, pretrial detainees, people waiting for magistrate or court action, and people held on local sentences or other approved housing arrangements.
The official Greene County jail page says the Sheriff's Office and Detention Center facility has a 96-bed capacity and the ability to house females. The same county page also says the detention center may rent extra bed space through the State Misdemeanor Confinement Program and may rent bed space to neighboring counties. That matters for searches because not every person housed in the building necessarily has a Greene County arrest or a Greene County court case.
Greene County's official jail page showing capacity, visitation, and the detention center location is the matching source image for this facility page.
Greene County Detention Center Capacity and Population
The most reliable local population figure in the research is capacity, not a live inmate count. Greene County's county jail page lists a 96-bed capacity, female housing ability, State Misdemeanor Confinement Program bed rental, and rented beds for neighboring counties. No official public daily population, annual booking count, average length of stay, or demographic table was located for the jail. For that reason, the capacity should be read as a facility size measure, not as a statement that all 96 beds are occupied.
A 2025 NC jail administrators directory search result listed an alternate rated capacity of 86. The county jail page is the live public county source, so this page uses 96 beds as the main figure and treats the 86-rated-capacity reference as a verification note rather than the headline number.
How to Look Up an Inmate at Greene County Detention Center
No browser-based public jail roster or searchable current-inmate table was located on the official Greene County jail page. The practical lookup path is therefore a chain of official and near-official channels: check the official Greene County Sheriff app if you use it, call the jail, ask in person, use the county public-information process, and switch to state, federal, or immigration lookup tools if the person has moved out of local custody.
- Start with the Greene County Sheriff app on Apple or Google Play. Local reporting says the app may include inmate confinements, but the app-only fields were not visible from the public web during research.
- Call Greene County Detention Center at 252-747-4700 with the person's full legal name and date of birth if known. Newly arrested people may not appear immediately while transport, intake, booking, or magistrate review is still underway.
- If staff cannot confirm custody, ask whether the person may have been released, transferred to another county, sent to a hospital, moved to NCDAC state prison, or held under federal or immigration paperwork.
- Use the Greene County public-information request process for booking records or arrest public information that is not available online.
For state prison custody, use the NCDAC Offender Public Information Search. For release alerts and custody notifications, use NC SAVAN / VINELink. For sentenced federal custody, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locator. For immigration custody, use the ICE Online Detainee Locator. These systems are separate from Greene County's local jail records.
Greene County Detention Center Address and Contact
Use the detention center number for current custody, visitation confirmation, mail ID questions, inmate-account questions, bond/property questions, and whether a person is still in local custody. The sheriff's administrative office is a separate office at 110 SE First Street, Snow Hill, with main phone 252-747-3411, fax 252-747-5079, and email gcso@greenecountync.gov.
Greene County Detention Center
301 N. Greene Street
Snow Hill, NC 28580
252-747-4700
Call before arriving for jail-specific entrance, visitation, bond, property, or inmate-information questions.
Visiting Someone at Greene County Detention Center
The county jail page publishes video visitation on weekends, split by the inmate's last name. It also still contains a COVID-era statement saying there is currently no visitation. Because those statements conflict, treat the schedule as published but not guaranteed. Call 252-747-4700 before making plans, especially before travel to Snow Hill.
| Day | Hours | Type | Published Rule |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday | 1:00-3:00 p.m. | Video conference | Inmates with last names A-J |
| Sunday | 1:00-3:00 p.m. | Video conference | Inmates with last names K-Z |
| Other days | Not published | Not published | Call the jail for current availability |
The public jail page does not publish a full visitor rulebook, visitor ID requirements, dress code, number-of-visitors limit, visit length, remote-visit price, attorney-visit process, or child-visitor rules. Do not rely on third-party jail directories for those details when the county has not posted them. Confirm directly with jail staff before scheduling or traveling.
Mail, Phone, and Money at Greene County Detention Center
The strongest published service detail for Greene County Detention Center is the official inmate mail policy. Non-legal mail does not go to Snow Hill. It is sent to a Greensboro processing address, scanned, and made available on inmate tablets. Physical mail is destroyed after scanning. Legal mail goes directly to the facility and must be marked as legal mail.
| Service | Provider / Detail |
|---|---|
| Non-legal mail | Greene County Detention Center, inmate name and inmate ID number, Facility ID Number 5077, PO Box 18247, Greensboro, NC 27419. |
| Legal mail | Mail directly to Greene County Detention Center, inmate name and inmate ID number, 301 N. Greene Street, Snow Hill, NC 28580. Mark it "Legal Mail." |
| Phone / messaging | Pay Tel Communications. The policy lists www.paytel.com and 1-800-PAY-TELL. |
| Money / commissary | No official deposit vendor, commissary ordering schedule, kiosk location, or fee table was located in the reviewed county sources. |
The mail policy says the processing-center envelope must include the facility name, inmate name, inmate ID number, and Facility ID Number 5077. It also limits mail to 10 pages or fewer per envelope, pages no larger than 8.5 by 11 inches, and bars items such as cash, personal checks, money orders to the processing center, Polaroids, glitter, glue, tape, 3D elements, electronic components, contraband, sexually explicit material, gang-related content, nude or partially clothed photos, publications, packages, and originals of important documents.
Booking and Intake at Greene County Detention Center
Greene County does not publish a detailed booking manual on the jail page, so intake should be understood through the known jail role and North Carolina criminal process. A local arrest by the Sheriff's Office, Snow Hill Police, another municipal agency, state law enforcement, or another agency may lead to transport to the detention center, magistrate review, fingerprints and photo when required, property collection, medical or safety screening, bond conditions, and a first court appearance if the person remains in custody.
The detention center's population can include people with different case paths. Some are Greene County pretrial defendants. Some may be sentenced misdemeanants housed through the State Misdemeanor Confinement Program. Some may be in rented-bed status for another county. A custody search should therefore separate "housed in Greene County" from "charged in Greene County." Court records should be checked through the North Carolina eCourts Portal or the Greene County Clerk of Superior Court when the question is about charges, hearings, or disposition.
About Greene County Detention Center
The detention center is a small-county jail with several features that affect inmate population interpretation. The county page confirms female housing ability, a 96-bed capacity, State Misdemeanor Confinement Program housing, and rented beds for neighboring counties. Official sources did not publish education, GED, substance-abuse treatment, work release, medical, mental-health, grievance, religious-service, PREA, or accreditation details for the jail. Those details should be requested from the Sheriff's Office or county public-information channel rather than inferred.
State law still shapes the local jail's operations. North Carolina statutes and administrative rules address minimum jail standards, continuous supervision, inspections, and medical-care planning for local confinement facilities. Those laws do not create a public web roster, but they explain why local confinement facilities are supervised public custody settings rather than informal holding rooms.
Before you go: Verify custody, visitation status, entrance, and mail or money instructions with Greene County Detention Center at 252-747-4700.