The Calhoun County Inmate Population
The Calhoun County inmate population is split across two levels of government. The Calhoun County Sheriff's Office runs the county jail in Blountstown, the county seat, and holds people who are booked on local arrests, held before trial, serving short misdemeanor sentences, or waiting on a hold or transfer. Sentenced state felons are a separate count, kept by the Florida Department of Corrections at Calhoun Correctional Institution and other state prisons. The two groups never appear in the same search, which is why a Calhoun County inmate search almost always means picking the right system first.
The county jail count is reported every month to the state. In its March 2023 county detention report, the Florida Department of Corrections listed an average daily population of 60 for the Calhoun County Jail, with 81.7 percent of those people held before trial. That pretrial share is the most important fact about the local population. The jail fills mainly with people who have been charged but not yet convicted, so the count rises and falls with arrests, bond decisions, and how quickly cases move through court. A handful of bookings or releases can swing a small jail's roster in a single day.
Calhoun County Inmate Population Statistics
The strongest official numbers come from the Florida Department of Corrections County Detention Facilities Average Inmate Population reports, which counties must file under state law. The county's own Long-Term Recovery Plan adds a bed count and a yearly booking estimate. Each figure below carries its source and date, because the reports measure different months and a small jail moves quickly.
| Measure | Figure | Source / Year |
|---|---|---|
| Average daily jail population | 60 | FDC March 2023 county detention report |
| Average daily jail population | 50 | FDC June 2025 county detention report |
| Bed capacity | 50 beds | Calhoun County Long-Term Recovery Plan |
| Annual bookings | About 1,000 | Calhoun County Long-Term Recovery Plan |
| Incarceration rate | 4.4 per 1,000 residents | FDC March 2023 county detention report |
| Share held before trial | 81.7% | FDC March 2023 county detention report |
The county's population is about 13,289 residents in the U.S. Census Bureau's July 2025 estimate, so a jail of roughly 50 to 60 people still produces a high rate per resident. The March 2023 rate of 4.4 per 1,000 was above the statewide county detention rate of 2.4 per 1,000 in the same report. Capacity is harder to pin down. The recovery plan lists 50 beds, while an older national dataset recorded a rated capacity of 66 for 2015 through 2019. The sheriff's jail page itself does not publish a capacity number.
Calhoun County Inmate Population Trends
The monthly state reports show how much a small jail count moves. Over a year and a half the Calhoun County Jail average ranged from the mid-30s to the mid-60s, and the pretrial share stayed high across every month. The swings track arrests and case timing more than any single policy change. The table below pulls the average daily population from the Florida Department of Corrections county detention reports.
| Report Month | Average Daily Population | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| December 2023 | 65 | Rate 4.7 per 1,000; 89.2% pretrial |
| June 2024 | 36 | Rate 2.6 per 1,000; 69.4% pretrial |
| December 2024 | 36 | Rate 2.6 per 1,000; 83.3% pretrial |
| February 2025 | 54 | 94.4% pretrial |
| March 2025 | 45 | 84.4% pretrial |
| June 2025 | 50 | Average-population month, limited detail filed |
The pattern matters for anyone watching the inmate population. A reading taken in one month is not a ceiling or a floor. The roster you see on any given day is a snapshot, not a long-term average, and it should never be read as the jail's capacity.
Who Makes Up the Calhoun County Inmate Population
The detail the state publishes for Calhoun County focuses on legal status rather than a full demographic breakdown. The March 2023 report is the clearest single month. It counted 42 people held on felony charges before trial and 7 on misdemeanor charges before trial, out of the 60-person average. Older high-authority datasets add a rough sex and race split for the local jail in 2019.
- Pretrial vs sentenced - 81.7 percent were held before trial in March 2023, so most of the population had not been convicted at that time.
- Felony vs misdemeanor - 42 felony pretrial holds and 7 misdemeanor pretrial holds in the March 2023 county report.
- Male vs female - a 2019 county dataset recorded about 52 men and very few women in the local jail that year.
- Holds for other agencies - a June 2026 roster entry carried a note to hold a person for federal immigration officers after bond, showing detainers do appear.
Calhoun County Jail Capacity and Overcrowding
Capacity in a small county is a moving target. The Calhoun County Long-Term Recovery Plan describes a jail with about 50 beds, a daily average near 50 inmates, and roughly 1,000 bookings a year. On those figures the jail runs close to its bed count in busy months and well under it in quiet ones. The same plan listed a long-range goal to build a new jail and to expand programs that reduce repeat incarceration, though no funded construction project was confirmed in official sources during research.
No jail overcrowding lawsuit, consent decree, or death-in-custody case for the Calhoun County Jail surfaced in the past two years. The clearest recent custody news in the county involved Calhoun Correctional Institution, the state prison, not the county jail.
Laws Governing the Calhoun County Inmate Population
Florida treats jail and booking information as public unless a narrow exemption applies, and it requires counties to report jail population data to the state. A short set of statutes shapes both the records you can see and the numbers behind the population. Each is linked below with a plain-English note on what it does.
Key Statutes:
Florida Statutes § 119.07 - sets the right to inspect and copy public records, including jail and booking records, and the fees an agency may charge.
Florida Statutes § 951.23 - defines county detention facilities, sets jail standards, and requires the jail to file monthly population data with the state.
Florida Statutes § 951.2302 - requires at least two jail inspections a year, with deadlines and penalties for serious violations.
Florida Statutes § 406.11 - requires a medical examiner to investigate a death that happens in a jail, prison, or police custody.
The monthly numbers in the sections above exist because of section 951.23. It tells county detention administrators to send the state a count of people housed each day, admissions, last-day population, legal status, and basic demographics. The Florida Department of Corrections then publishes the county detention reports that this page draws on.
Calhoun County and the State Prison Population
Once a person is sentenced to state prison, they leave the county count and join the Florida Department of Corrections population. Calhoun County is home to one state prison, Calhoun Correctional Institution in Blountstown, an adult male facility with a rated capacity of 1,221. A state medical authority survey in July 2025 recorded a census of 1,149 there. That prison holds men from across Florida, not only people arrested in Calhoun County, and it is searched through the state inmate locator rather than the county jail roster. The sheriff sentences the local jail population; the state runs the prison count.
How to Search the Calhoun County Inmate Population
The Calhoun County Sheriff's Office links its current jail population through the Kologik Public Jail Roster, reached from the "Jail Log" link on the sheriff's homepage. The roster is free, needs no login, and is keyed to the agency's state identifier, FL0070000. It is a Calhoun County roster only, not a statewide Florida search, and it shows people who are in the county jail now.
The sheriff's homepage is the front door to the official tools, including the jail log and the booking report. You can confirm the agency and the quick links on the official site before searching.
Begin a search at the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office homepage, which carries the Jail Log and Arrest Report links along with the office contact block.
From that page the Jail Log link opens the public roster, where you can run the search by name. The steps below follow the live roster.
- Open the sheriff homepage and select Jail Log, or go straight to the Kologik Public Jail Roster for Calhoun County.
- Allow JavaScript, since the roster will not load without it.
- Start with the recent or current view, then type a last, first, or middle name in the search box to filter the list.
- Open the person's card to read the booking number, charges, bond, arresting agency, and days in jail.
- If the person was sentenced to prison, search the state locator instead, because the county roster drops people after transfer.
Current Inmate Lookup in Calhoun County
The live roster reflects current custody. When research inspected the Calhoun roster on June 3, 2026, it returned only two current records, which shows how short a small county's list can be. The roster filters by name as you type, matching part of a last, first, or middle name. It does not offer a full multi-year jail archive, because the county's history-search mode was switched off when inspected. The table below lists the search controls the public roster accepts.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Name search | Text | No | Filters by last, first, or middle name; partial names can match. |
| Recent / current view | Tab | No | Default starting point for people in custody now. |
| History mode | Select | No | Not enabled for Calhoun, so no public five- or ten-year archive. |
| Sort by days in jail | Select | No | Shortest or longest time in custody. |
If a name is missing, do not treat that as proof the person was never arrested. A missing entry can mean release, transfer, a spelling difference, a court hold under another name, an exempt record, or simple system timing. When the roster fails or the page will not load, call the jail.
Past and Released Inmate Records
The county roster is built for current custody, so a released person usually drops off the public list. For a recent booking, the sheriff's Kologik booking and media report is a separate channel that carries recent arrests and photos. For an older booking that is no longer online, the route is a public records request to the sheriff under Chapter 119, asking for the booking record or arrest report for a specific date and name.
Sentenced inmates follow a different path. Once a person is transferred to state prison, the county roster will not show them and the search moves to the state inmate locator. For ongoing custody and release alerts, VINELink offers statewide notifications so you do not have to recheck a roster by hand.
What a Calhoun County Inmate Record Shows
A Calhoun roster profile is built from the booking record. The fields below come from the live roster data and the sheriff's older booking reports. Charges sit in a per-charge list, so one person can carry several charges, each with its own code, description, bond, and any warrant number or comment.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Booking Number | The custody control number, or CCN, that the jail uses to track the booking. |
| Booking Date | The date and time the person was processed into the jail. |
| Charges | Each charge with its Florida statute code and a plain-language description. |
| Bond Amount | The bond set on each charge, sometimes with a cash-only or hold note. |
| Housing Unit | A cell or housing field that was often blank in the records inspected. |
| Custody Status | A status code, plus arresting agency, days in jail, and any release date. |
County Jail vs. State Prison: Where to Look
The single most common mistake in a Calhoun County inmate search is looking in the wrong system. People held before trial and those serving short county sentences sit in the county jail and appear on the sheriff's roster. People sentenced to state prison time move into Florida Department of Corrections custody and appear only in the state locator. The comparison below keeps the two straight. The fuller roster how-to lives on the jail inmate records page.
| County Jail | State Prison (DOC) | |
|---|---|---|
| Who Is Held | Pretrial and short sentences | Sentenced felons |
| Run By | Calhoun County Sheriff | Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) |
| Where to Look | Kologik jail roster | FDC inmate locator |
| Stays Listed | While in county custody | Through the state sentence and supervision |
State and Federal Inmate Search
Beyond the county jail, three more locators cover the rest of the inmate population. The state locator handles sentenced Florida prisoners, including the men held at Calhoun Correctional Institution. The federal and immigration locators handle people in those systems, even though no federal prison or immigration detention center sits in Calhoun County. The state search form is the right tool once a person has been sentenced.
The Florida Department of Corrections Inmate Population Information Search covers felony offenders sentenced to state prison or state supervision.
That state form does not include people held in a county jail or on county probation, so use it only after a sentence to prison. For federal custody, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator, and for an immigration hold use the ICE Online Detainee Locator. For custody and release alerts across these systems, VINELink provides notifications.
Calhoun County Detention Facilities
Two detention facilities sit in Calhoun County, and they hold very different populations. The Calhoun County Jail is the sheriff's facility in Blountstown for pretrial detainees, misdemeanor sentences, holds, and transfers, and it is searched through the county roster. The Calhoun Correctional Institution is a Florida Department of Corrections state prison for sentenced adult men, searched through the state locator rather than the county roster.
Each facility has its own page with contact details, capacity figures, and the correct lookup tool, so a search starts in the right system instead of the wrong one.
Calhoun County Inmate Terms Defined
A roster mixes jail, court, and corrections words. A few quick definitions make a Calhoun County inmate record easier to read.
- Pretrial
- Held before a case is resolved; the person has been charged but not convicted.
- Sentenced
- A court has imposed a sentence; long state sentences move the person to prison.
- CCN
- The custody control number, the booking number the jail uses to track a person.
- Bond
- Money or security set by the court to allow release while a case is pending.
- Detainer
- A hold placed by another agency that can keep a person in custody even after local bond is posted.
Calhoun County Inmate Population FAQ
How big is the Calhoun County inmate population?
The Florida Department of Corrections county detention reports put the Calhoun County Jail average daily population at 60 in March 2023 and around 50 in June 2025. Monthly readings ranged from the mid-30s to the mid-60s over that span. The state prison in the county, Calhoun Correctional Institution, is counted separately and held about 1,149 men in a July 2025 survey.
How do I search the Calhoun County inmate population?
Start with the sheriff's Kologik Jail Log for people in the county jail now, searching by last name. For sentenced prisoners, use the Florida Department of Corrections inmate locator. For federal or immigration custody, use the Bureau of Prisons or ICE locators. If the roster fails, call the Sheriff's Office at 850-674-5049.
Can I look up a released or past inmate?
The county roster mainly shows current custody, so a released person usually drops off. For a recent booking, check the sheriff's booking and media report. For an older record, file a Chapter 119 public records request with the Sheriff's Office for the booking record or arrest report.
Are Calhoun County jail mugshots public?
Yes, in most cases. The county roster is configured to show booking photos, and booking images appear in the sheriff's media report. Some photos can be withheld under a specific exemption. More detail is on the jail roster mugshots page.