Locate Screven County Correctional Institution Inmates

Screven Correctional Overview

Screven County Correctional Institution is listed by the Georgia Department of Corrections as a County Correctional Institution, with the lookup route of a state-prison custody page. The 2025 PREA audit also identifies the facility as Screven County Prison. It is located at 859 Rockyford Road in Sylvania and is separate from Screven County Jail at the sheriff's office. That distinction drives the whole lookup process. A person held here is searched through GDC, while a new local arrestee at the county jail is routed through the sheriff's office.

The facility's operator and governance are local and state connected. The GDC location page is the state profile, while the 2025 PREA audit lists the agency as Screven County Commissioners. The audit names Steven Scroggins as warden, jail administrator, sheriff, or director for the audit form, with Vickie Brown as primary contact and Bennett Kight as PREA compliance manager. Those audit titles should not be read as a county jail roster path. They identify facility leadership and compliance contacts for a GDC-listed county correctional institution.

The GDC location profile for Screven County Correctional Institution is the subject-matched source for the facility's public address and phone listing.

The image supports the facility-specific contact route and helps separate the GDC-listed institution from the sheriff-run Screven County Jail.

Screven Correctional Population

The 2025 PREA final audit provides the most concrete facility figures found for Screven County Correctional Institution. The designed capacity was 148, the current population was 148, and the average daily population for the prior 12 months was 120. The audit also reported five housing units, a Medium/Minimum custody level, male population designation, an age range of 20 to 64, no youthful inmates, and no over-capacity finding for the prior 12 months.

Screven Correctional Lookup

Use the Georgia Department of Corrections Find an Offender page for Screven County Correctional Institution. Do not use a Screven County Jail roster for this facility. Georgia.gov explains that adult offenders can be searched by name, ID or case number, age, and other identifying information. GDC also warns that photos display automatically if available and that users should verify records by written correspondence before treating them as complete.

1. Open the GDC offender search page or the GDC offender query service.
2. Search by name, GDC ID, case number, age, or other identifiers that are available.
3. Open the offender result and confirm the current facility assignment shows Screven County Correctional Institution if listed.
4. Review status, sentence, photo, and custody fields with the GDC accuracy warning in mind.
5. For formal verification, write GDC Inmate Records and Information at PO Box 1529, Forsyth, GA 31029.

The GDC Find an Offender page is the proper statewide lookup source for sentenced offenders assigned to this institution.

That statewide locator is the point where Screven County Correctional Institution custody should be checked before contacting the facility.

Screven Correctional Contact

The GDC location page publishes the institution's physical address, mailing address, phone, and fax. The PREA audit adds the county commissioners as the agency listed for the audit and names the administrator and compliance contacts. For routine custody, visitation, mail, and facility-specific questions, use the institution's phone number first and then GDC central contacts when state-level record verification is needed.

Screven Correctional Visits

The research did not locate a facility-specific public visitation schedule on the Screven County Correctional Institution GDC location page. The safe route is to use GDC statewide friends-and-family rules and confirm with the institution before travel. State prison and county correctional institution visits are not the same as county jail weekend visits. Approval, scheduling, identification, dress rules, security screening, and lockdown changes may apply.

People often confuse the two Screven facilities because both are in Sylvania and both are county-connected. The sheriff FAQ's Saturday and Sunday jail visitation window applies to Screven County Jail. It was not documented as the schedule for Screven County Correctional Institution.

Screven Correctional Mail

GDC publishes a mail address for Screven County Correctional Institution: P.O. Box 377, Sylvania, GA 30467. The research did not capture a full inmate mail format, money vendor, deposit fee schedule, phone vendor, commissary limit, or video-provider rule from the location page. Because state facilities often require exact offender name and ID formatting, confirm the proper mail format and current money process with the facility or GDC before sending mail or funds.

Screven Correctional Custody

Screven County Correctional Institution holds adult male Georgia correctional offenders assigned to a county correctional institution. It does not serve as the public intake route for every new Screven County arrest. A person may start in Screven County Jail after arrest, move through bond and court, then enter state custody after conviction and sentencing if the sentence requires that placement. At that stage, GDC custody records and sentence records matter more than the county jail booking path.

• New Screven arrest: contact the Screven County Sheriff's Office because the county jail handles local pretrial custody.
• Sentenced state offender: use GDC Find an Offender because the state locator covers GDC assignments.
• Federal sentence: use the BOP Inmate Locator for BOP custody and federal records.
• Immigration detention: use the ICE Online Detainee Locator System for current immigration detention.

For local jail custody and booking questions, use Screven County Jail. For the broader inmate population split between jail and state custody, the Screven County inmate population page separates these systems.

Screven Correctional Records

GDC offender records and Screven County court records answer different questions. The GDC locator can help confirm whether a sentenced offender is currently assigned to Screven County Correctional Institution, whether a photo appears in the state system, and what custody status is shown. The court record, by contrast, explains the case path that led to the sentence. For Screven criminal cases, research points to Georgia Courts E-Access, PeachCourt, and the Screven County Clerk of Superior Court for filed charges, case events, and dispositions.

GDC also gives a verification warning that matters for family, employers, landlords, victims, and record researchers. The public locator is useful for quick custody checks, but GDC says information should be verified by written correspondence with Inmate Records and Information before it is treated as complete. That warning is one reason a Screven County Correctional Institution inmate lookup should not be used as a final criminal-history report or a consumer-screening file.

• Current state custody: check the GDC offender locator, then account for the GDC verification warning.
• Filed Screven charges: use Georgia Courts E-Access, PeachCourt, or the clerk because a provider account may be required.
• County jail booking: contact the Screven County Sheriff's Office because no official county roster was found.
• Victim release alerts: use VINELink when the person and facility listing can be confirmed.

Screven Correctional Conditions

The 2025 PREA final audit is the strongest conditions source found for this institution. It reported 45 standards met, zero standards not met, and zero standards exceeded. The audit also listed 15 staff with inmate contact, one contractor with inmate contact, and no volunteers with inmate contact. The health service administrator was listed as Lakeshia Hughes, and Bennett Kight was listed as PREA compliance manager.

Research also found a March 2026 Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles offender-engagement item involving Screven County Correctional Institution and Effingham County Correctional Institution. That item supports a limited statement that parole and release education occurred at the Screven facility in 2026. It does not create a complete program list, a release schedule, or a promise that any specific offender met with parole officials.

County correctional institution

A Georgia facility that holds state offenders under county and GDC arrangements.

GDC

The Georgia Department of Corrections, which maintains the statewide sentenced-offender locator.

PREA

The Prison Rape Elimination Act, audited through facility compliance standards.

Classification

The process used to assign custody level, housing, and supervision needs.