Tennessee County Jail Rosters & Inmate Search
This directory currently covers 14 Tennessee counties and 7,471 custody records pulled from official county booking sources. The largest published roster in Tennessee is Shelby County, with 2,828 people listed in custody.
Tennessee counties in this directory
| County | Records | Most recent booking | Facility |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shelby County | 2,828 | 1/31/2025 1:01:00 am | Shelby County Jail |
| Sullivan County | 852 | 2026-10-13 | Sullivan County Jail |
| Madison County | 828 | 10/13/2026 12:38:00 CDT | Madison County Jail |
| Washington County | 522 | 2026-10-13 | Washington County Jail |
| Putnam County | 488 | 10/13/2026 04:31 AM | Putnam Co. Jail |
| Robertson County | 421 | 10/13/2026 05:00 | Robertson County Jail |
| Sevier County | 321 | 10/13/2026 02:22 AM | Sevier County Jail & Minimum Security Facility |
| Rhea County | 285 | — | Rhea County Jail |
| Carter County | 231 | 10/13/2026 06:33:00 EDT | Carter County Jail |
| Roane County | 204 | 10/13/2026 | Roane County Jail |
| Loudon County | 147 | 2026-10-13T11:03 | Loudon County Jail |
| Wayne County | 135 | 10/13/2026 | Wayne County Jail |
| Humphreys County | 129 | 10/13/2026 12:52:00 | Humphreys County Jail |
| Fayette County | 80 | 2026-10-12 | Fayette County Jail |
Booking activity across Tennessee
Across the 14 Tennessee counties in this directory, 105 people were booked within a day of the latest sync, and 339 within the past week. That is 5% of everyone currently listed, which is a useful measure of how fast these rosters turn over: a name can appear and disappear inside a week.
Counted from each county's own booking dates as of its most recent successful sync, not from the time you are reading this. Counties that publish no booking date are not counted.
County jail or state prison?
The rosters on this page are county facilities. In Tennessee, as in every state, a county jail holds people awaiting a first appearance, awaiting trial, serving short sentences, or being held for another agency. People serving longer sentences are transferred into the state corrections system, which publishes its own separate offender search and is not part of this directory. If someone disappears from a county roster without being released, a transfer to state custody is one of the common explanations.
How current is Tennessee roster data?
Each county page is rebuilt from its official source on a recurring schedule; the most recent successful sync across Tennessee was 2026-10-13 19:30 UTC. Booking data moves faster than any directory can follow: people are booked, bonded out, transferred and released around the clock, and some county systems publish updates only a few times a day. Treat everything here as a snapshot and confirm anything time-sensitive with the facility or the court.
What the records do and do not tell you
A roster entry establishes that a person was recorded in custody, when they were booked, and what they were booked on. It does not establish guilt. Charges shown are the allegations recorded at intake by the arresting agency; prosecutors routinely amend, reduce or drop them, and rosters are rarely updated to reflect that. Bond amounts appear only after a judge sets them, and a listed bond does not guarantee release when another agency has placed a hold.
Counties not listed here
A Tennessee county that does not appear above does not yet have a published page in this directory, which usually means its sheriff's office does not publish roster data in a format we can verify. For those counties, contact the detention center directly. We add counties as their sources become available, so a county missing today may appear later.
An arrest is not a conviction. This directory is informational and is not a consumer reporting agency; it may not be used for employment, housing, tenant, credit or insurance screening. If a record here is inaccurate or should not be published, use our corrections and removal page — there is never a fee.