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Bradford County Jail Overview

The Bradford County Jail is operated by the Bradford County Sheriff's Office Corrections Bureau at 945-A N. Temple Ave. in Starke. It opened in 1995 and houses both male and female inmates in different sections. The jail holds a mix of people: newly booked arrestees, pre-trial detainees waiting for first appearance or trial, people serving local jail sentences, and people held for another agency on a hold. It is the facility the county roster covers, so it is the right starting point for a Bradford County inmate search.

Custody is sorted into Maximum, Medium, and Minimum classifications. The sheriff's page states the jail keeps documented compliance with the Florida Model Jail Standards and the Prison Rape Elimination Act, and that it is subject to inspections by the Department of Juvenile Justice and the Fire Marshal. A rated bed capacity is not published in official sheriff sources, so this page does not state one.

Bradford County Jail Capacity and Population

The sheriff's office does not publish a rated capacity or a daily census for the Bradford County Jail. The most defensible county count comes from the Vera Institute Incarceration Trends project, which reports 173 people in the Bradford County jail for 2024. That figure is a county-level jail count, not an official sheriff capacity number. Vera also reports a Bradford jail incarceration rate of 932 per 100,000 residents ages 15 to 64 for 2024, and a 10-year jail change of plus 50 percent, so the local count clearly grew over the decade. An annual booking total and an average length of stay were not located in official county sources. The stats below give the sourced figures available.

Who Is Held at the Bradford County Jail

The Bradford County Jail population is local. It is mostly pre-trial, meaning charges are still being decided, plus people serving short county sentences. That is the key difference from a state prison. A sentenced felon does not stay here; after conviction and a state sentence, a person is transferred into Florida Department of Corrections custody and is found through the state locator, not the county roster.

The jail can also hold someone for another agency. When a neighboring county or another jurisdiction places a hold, the roster shows it in a separate holds table above the charges. A hold can keep a person in custody even when a local charge is bondable. During research, one record showed an Alachua County hold, a reminder that "in the Bradford County Jail" does not always mean the person is held only on Bradford charges.

How to Look Up an Inmate at the Bradford County Jail

Use the Bradford County SmartWeb jail roster, the sheriff's public inmate search. It needs no login and covers current and recently released county bookings. The official jail page, shown below, carries the facility details and links to the search.

From the jail page you reach the roster. The steps below find a person in county custody.

1. Open the SmartWeb jail roster or the sheriff's Jail/Inmate Search page.
2. Search by the inmate's last name, adding a first name if needed.
3. Confirm the entry is at the Bradford County Jail by reading the booking record.
4. Open the entry for charges, bond, holds, and custody status.

The full field-by-field walkthrough of a roster entry is on the jail inmate records page. If a person has been sentenced and moved to state prison, switch to the Florida Department of Corrections locator instead.

Bradford County Jail Address and Contact

The jail sits on North Temple Avenue beside the sheriff's office and the courthouse. Be careful with the building letter, because the jail, the sheriff's office, and the clerk share the 945 address with different letters. The card has the jail's direct contacts.

Mail to inmates goes to P.O. Box 310, Starke, FL 32091. The jail fax is 904.966.6172. For release dates, call the jail; for court dates, contact the Clerk of Court or the inmate's attorney.

Visiting Someone at the Bradford County Jail

Routine visitation runs through video, using the HomeWAV vendor, either onsite at the jail or offsite on a personal device. The sheriff's policy does not list fixed day-by-day hours, so confirm a time with the jail before you plan. Onsite visitors need a photo ID, may not bring cell phones or other property into the visitation area, and may not bring food or drink. Only one adult visitor per inmate is allowed onsite, and children must be supervised. The table summarizes the documented options.

Mail, Phone, and Money at the Bradford County Jail

The jail uses outside vendors for communication and deposits. Phone service runs through HomeWAV, messaging through Inmate Inbox, and account deposits through commissarydeposit.com or the jail lobby kiosk. The kiosk takes cash or a Visa or MasterCard debit or credit card during normal business hours. The sheriff's page does not publish call rates, deposit fees, or commissary limits, instead linking each vendor for pricing. The table lists the channels.

Booking and Intake at the Bradford County Jail

After an arrest, a person is transported to the Bradford County Jail and booked. Intake creates the booking number, MNI number, booking date and time, a photo, the age at booking, charges, any holds, and an address given. Classification then sets the custody level and housing section. First appearance before a judge is held daily around 10:00 a.m.

Bond often lags the booking. The sheriff warns that a bond amount may not be available until the judge's written first-appearance order reaches jail staff, so a record can show no bond at first. The jail does not accept personal property for inmates; an inmate may authorize someone to pick up their property between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays. These local timing rules catch families off guard, so it helps to call ahead before making a trip for property or bond questions.

Records, Releases, and Victim Notification

Some questions the roster cannot answer go to other channels. For booking reports or records not posted online, the sheriff's Records Unit handles public-records requests at 945-B N. Temple Ave., reachable at 904.966.6312. To speed a request, give a case number, date and time, incident location, deputy name, or the names of people involved. Copies run $0.15 per page, with certified copies at $1.00 per document on top of duplication.

For release dates, the jail asks that you call rather than rely on the roster alone. Victims who want to be told when someone is released can register with VINELink, which the jail links for that purpose. These channels round out the lookup when the public roster does not show what you need, and they keep official answers coming from the sheriff rather than a third party.

About the Bradford County Jail

The Bradford County Jail anchors a compact government complex in Starke, with the sheriff's office at 945-B and the clerk's courthouse at 945 N. Temple Ave. The sheriff's office serves a small, rural county of roughly 30,000 residents, about 45 miles southwest of Jacksonville and 25 miles northeast of Gainesville. The jail's documented compliance with the Florida Model Jail Standards and PREA, plus DJJ and Fire Marshal inspections, frames how it is held to account. Public records that are not on the roster come from the sheriff's Records Unit under Florida's open-records law.

Bradford County also sits in a heavy correctional corridor near Raiford and Lawtey. The county jail is the local front door, but once a person is sentenced to state prison they move into a Florida Department of Corrections facility such as Florida State Prison. That transfer changes both the custody system and the lookup tool, which is why the county jail roster and the state locator should never be treated as the same search.