Albemarle District Jail Lookup

Albemarle District Jail Overview

Albemarle District Jail is the primary adult detention facility for Perquimans County because Perquimans participates in the regional jail serving Pasquotank, Perquimans, and Camden Counties. The official jail is located at 210 Executive Drive South in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, outside Perquimans County. That location matters for families in Hertford, Winfall, and other Perquimans communities: an adult arrested by local deputies may be taken east toward Elizabeth City instead of held beside the Perquimans County courthouse.

The jail is operated by a Jail Administrator under the Albemarle District Jail Commission. Official county research identifies Perquimans County Commissioner Kathy Treiber as part of the commission representation, along with Pasquotank and Camden county representatives. The facility is a regional adult local confinement facility for pretrial detainees and local-sentence detainees. It is not a North Carolina Department of Adult Correction prison, and it is not the Perquimans Juvenile Detention Center.

The official Albemarle District Jail homepage identifies the regional service area for Pasquotank, Perquimans, and Camden Counties.

The screenshot is useful because it confirms the adult Perquimans County custody pathway at the source: the jail is regional, and the public lookup path should begin with Albemarle District Jail or North Carolina VINE.

Albemarle District Jail Capacity and Population

Official jail history and the Pasquotank County Albemarle District Jail page describe the current jail as a 248-bed facility that opened at its present Pasquotank County Commerce Park location in 2010. The same history says the 2006 construction project included infrastructure for future expansion to 500 beds. Earlier versions of the district jail were much smaller: the original 1972 facility had 44 beds, later expansion and double bunking brought rated capacity to 90, and overcrowding led to the current building project.

No official current average daily population, annual bookings total, average length of stay, or Perquimans-only detainee count was found in the accessible official pages reviewed. Because the jail serves three counties, the 248-bed capacity should not be read as a Perquimans County-only jail population. A jail population count would need a source separating people by sending county before it could be described as a Perquimans-only figure.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Albemarle District Jail

The official jail site routes its inmate lookup menu item to VINELink, and the North Carolina VINE page is the adult custody-notification channel documented for county jail inmates. For a current Perquimans County adult detainee, use Albemarle District Jail and VINE first. Do not start with the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction search unless the person has been sentenced to state prison, is on probation or parole, or has moved into another state correctional status.

1. Open the Albemarle District Jail site or go directly to North Carolina VINE through VINELink.
2. Search for the person using the available VINE person-search controls. The static research did not expose every field label, so avoid assuming the exact roster layout before using the live system.
3. Confirm the facility is Albemarle District Jail and that the custody status matches the Perquimans County adult case you are checking.
4. If VINE does not show the person, call Albemarle District Jail at (252) 335-4844. The person may still be processing, released, transferred, listed under a different spelling, or held under another agency name.
5. If the arrest was by the Perquimans County Sheriff's Office but the jail cannot locate the person, contact the sheriff at (252) 426-5615 for the arresting-agency public information channel.

North Carolina Department of Adult Correction records are separate. The NCDAC Offender Public Information Search covers state prison offenders, probationers, and parolees, and the research specifically notes that NCDAC does not include county jail information. Federal custody is also separate: use the BOP Inmate Locator for sentenced federal inmates and the U.S. Marshals Service Eastern District of North Carolina for federal pretrial custody questions when applicable.

Albemarle District Jail Address and Contact

For Perquimans County adult jail questions, the facility contact is Albemarle District Jail. Call the jail for custody status that is not clear in VINE, bond or hold confirmation, visitation scheduling questions, jail-account issues, and other facility-specific matters. For arresting-agency reports, the Perquimans County Sheriff's Office remains the local law-enforcement records contact; for filed court cases, the Perquimans Clerk of Superior Court is the court-record custodian.

Visiting Someone at Albemarle District Jail

Albemarle District Jail documents social visits as video visits through Securus at videovisitanywhere.com. Family, friends, and clergy are treated as social visits. Off-site visits cost $12.95 for a 30-minute visit, and appointments must be scheduled 24 hours ahead. The official page also says anyone released from the jail must wait at least six months before visiting someone at the jail. Legal counsel and legal representatives are privileged visits and should use the appropriate legal-visit channel rather than the social-visit process.

The Albemarle District Jail visitation page is the source for the Securus video schedule, cost, advance scheduling rule, and former-inmate visitor restriction.

Before relying on any visit time, check the current jail page or call the facility because the homepage also carried a health-related visitor notice that may change day to day.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Albemarle District Jail

Albemarle District Jail allows inmates to send and receive mail Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. Mail should be addressed to the inmate by name at the jail address. Non-legal mail is searched for contraband. Legal mail is privileged; if contraband is suspected, it is opened in the inmate's presence, checked, and not read. All incoming and outgoing mail must include a return address, and outgoing inmate mail must show Albemarle District Jail as the return address.

The jail operates a cashless inmate-account system. An account is opened in the inmate's name at admission, and funds may be used for canteen purchases and other debits. The official funds page documents online credit-card deposits through Access Corrections and mailed money orders or cashier's checks. It also says accounts may be debited for routine non-emergency health care appointments, prescription medications, and restitution for damage to county property. Remaining balances are returned by debit card when an inmate is released or transferred from the facility for more than 24 hours.

The official pages reviewed did not publish a phone-call vendor, tablet program, voice-mail rules, or call pricing. Do not infer those details from the video-visit vendor without confirmation from the jail.

Booking and Intake at Albemarle District Jail

A Perquimans County adult arrest may begin with a deputy, Hertford or Winfall-area officer, warrant, court order, probation or parole hold, or sentence commitment. If the person is not released at an earlier citation or magistrate stage, the adult detainee is transported to Albemarle District Jail. The jail's inmate policies page says each inmate receives a handbook after processing. The funds page says an inmate account is opened at admission, and cash, money orders, or checks from other correctional facilities in the inmate's possession at admission are deposited into that account.

North Carolina pretrial release conditions are set by a judicial official, not by the jail as a discretionary favor. Under N.C. G.S. 15A-534, the release decision may involve a written promise, custody release, unsecured bond, secured bond, or other legally authorized condition. A hold from another county, state supervision authority, federal agency, or immigration authority can prevent release even after a local bond issue is addressed. Confirm bond, holds, and release timing with the jail, magistrate, or court clerk before traveling.

Public Records and Adult-Juvenile Boundaries

North Carolina public-records law affects what can be requested from the sheriff, jail, and courts. N.C. G.S. 132-1 broadly defines public records, while G.S. 132-1.4 separates public arrest information from criminal investigative records. Public arrest facts can include the arrested person's identity, alleged violation, and circumstances of arrest, but that does not mean every investigative file, booking photo, or jail-management record must be published online.

Adult Albemarle District Jail records should not be confused with Perquimans Juvenile Detention Center. The juvenile center in Hertford is a state juvenile facility, not the adult jail roster for Perquimans County. A juvenile custody question should be handled through juvenile court, assigned juvenile justice staff, and the facility phone listed by NCDPS, not through the adult VINE jail-search workflow unless a specific adult-transfer custody issue is involved.

About Albemarle District Jail

The district jail concept began in October 1969 when Camden, Pasquotank, and Perquimans Counties authorized a study for a joint jail. The original jail opened in 1972 with 44 beds. A later project added cells ready for occupancy in 1990, and double bunking brought rated capacity to 90 before overcrowding led to the current 248-bed building. The present facility opened in the Pasquotank County Commerce Park area in 2010.

Official static pages reviewed did not publish current average daily population, exact booking-photo release rules, roster refresh frequency, phone-call pricing, or a detailed program schedule. They did document key daily-life rules for video visitation, mail, inmate accounts, processing handbooks, account debits, and release or transfer account balances. A 2026 local news report also showed a Perquimans County drug-trafficking defendant being taken to Albemarle District Jail without bond, reinforcing that serious Perquimans adult arrests are routed to this regional jail.