The Baker County Inmate Population
The Baker County inmate population sits inside the Baker County Detention Center at 1 Sheriff's Office Drive in Macclenny. The Baker County Sheriff's Office runs the jail, and Sheriff Scotty Rhoden leads that office. What makes the count here unusual is who shares the building. Three groups are held under one roof. The first is local county inmates, both those waiting for court and those serving sentences. The second is U.S. Marshals inmates. The third is ICE detainees held for immigration cases. The sheriff's own corrections FAQ draws a clear line between these groups, since the office does not have current charges or court dates for people held for the Marshals or for ICE.
Because of that mix, a single "population" number does not tell the whole story. The county is small. Baker County had 28,259 residents in the 2020 U.S. Census, yet the jail serves local, federal, and immigration custody at once. Several things move the daily count. Arrests add people. Bond and first appearances let some go. Sentencing can shift a person into state prison. The sheriff reports local custody through the inmate search, and federal agencies track their own detainees.
Baker County Inmate Population Statistics
Hard numbers for the Baker County inmate population are limited in the official record. The sheriff's site does not post a daily count or an annual booking table, so the figures below stick to what an official source actually states. The clearest sourced number is bed capacity. The ICE detention-facility listing for the Baker County Facility cites 512 beds. The sheriff's own pages did not publish a separate rated capacity, so treat 512 as the ICE-listed figure. The county also has four named detention sites tied to Baker County, and the 2020 Census fixes the county's resident population.
The table below lists only what a source confirms. Where a common jail metric was not found in official Baker County or sheriff material, the row says so rather than guessing. No average daily population, annual booking total, or length-of-stay figure was located in any official source during research, so none is shown.
| Measure | Figure | Source / Year |
|---|---|---|
| Rated / bed capacity | 512 beds | ICE Baker County Facility listing |
| Detention facilities | 4 | Facility Map, 2026 |
| County population | 28,259 | U.S. Census, 2020 |
| Average daily population | Not published in located official sources | - |
Who Makes Up the Baker County Inmate Population
No official source publishes a full demographic breakdown of the Baker County inmate population, so the picture has to be drawn in plain terms. The makeup is what stands out, not the math. Local custody covers two kinds of people. Some are pretrial, which means they have been arrested but not yet judged. Others are sentenced and are serving a county term. On top of that local group sit the federal holds. U.S. Marshals inmates and ICE detainees may live in the same pods, but their charges, bond, and court status are handled by those agencies, not the sheriff.
The public inmate feed does show some detail for each person it lists. A record can carry sex, race, age, height, weight, eye color, and hair color. What the feed does not give is a count by group. There is no posted split by sex, charge level, or jurisdiction. The roster hints at custody level through the GED program. That program serves low and medium custody county and Marshal inmates, but not maximum custody or security-risk inmates.
- Pretrial and sentenced county inmates - local people held before court or serving a county term, covered by the sheriff's inmate search.
- U.S. Marshals inmates - federal holds the sheriff houses but does not track for charges or court dates.
- ICE detainees - immigration holds whose status, bond, and removal cases are run by ICE and DHS, not the county.
- Per-inmate detail only - the feed shows race, sex, and age on each record, but no aggregate breakdown was located.
Note: The sheriff cannot give release dates for anyone held for another agency and only has release dates for county inmates who have been sentenced.
Baker County Jail Capacity and Custody Mix
Bed capacity is the one firm size figure on record. The ICE detention-facility listing for the Baker County Facility cites 512 beds. The sheriff's site did not post its own rated capacity in the pages reviewed, so 512 should be read as the ICE-listed number and not a sheriff-stated cap. Because the building holds county, Marshals, and ICE people at once, the total in custody on any day can blend all three groups. That mix is exactly why raw counts can mislead.
No consent decree, jail-construction bond, or death-in-custody report tied to Baker County was found in official sources, so no overcrowding claim is made here. What the record does show is steady modernization. The sheriff's app and site were updated through 2025 and 2026. The office publishes a weekly arrest-report feed of redacted PDFs, and a file gallery holds PREA audit reports from 2024 and earlier years. In 2025, state immigration-detention expansion drew attention to Florida facilities in the broader context that includes the Baker area, though exact local roles should be confirmed against official pages before relying on them.
Laws Governing the Baker County Inmate Population
Florida law is what makes jail data public and sets the rules the detention center runs by. Chapter 119, the Public Records Act, is the baseline. It opens agency records to the public unless a stated exemption applies, and it is why the sheriff's inmate search and a records request can both reach booking information. Jail conditions are governed by their own standards. Florida Statute 951.23 authorizes minimum standards for county detention facilities and the inspection structure behind them. The Florida Model Jail Standards in administrative rule chapter 63M-2 spell out the day-to-day operational rules. Booking photos carry a separate consumer-protection law that targets commercial publishers.
Key Statutes:
Fla. Stat. Ch. 119 - the Public Records Act opens jail and booking records to the public unless a specific exemption applies.
Fla. Stat. § 951.23 - sets minimum standards and inspection rules for county and municipal detention facilities.
Fla. Admin. Code 63M-2 - the Florida Model Jail Standards that govern confinement, supervision, medical care, and jail security.
Fla. Stat. § 901.43 - bars commercial publishers from charging a fee to remove an arrest booking photo and sets a removal-request process.
Two more laws shape what stays public over time. Florida Statutes 943.0585 and 943.059 allow a court to expunge or seal an eligible criminal-history record, which can limit later access after a qualifying order. Records access and case outcome are not the same thing, so an arrest entry and a court disposition each follow their own rules.
Baker County and the State Prison Population
State prison custody is a separate count from the county jail. Once a person is sentenced to prison, they leave the Baker County Detention Center and enter Florida Department of Corrections reception and classification. At that point the county inmate feed may no longer show them, while the state offender search should show the prison and offender status. Searches for sentenced state prisoners belong in the Florida Department of Corrections offender search, not the sheriff's roster.
Baker County also has state prisons inside its borders, in Sanderson. Baker Correctional Institution, the Baker Work Camp, and the Baker Re-Entry Center are all run by the Florida Department of Corrections. They hold sentenced state prisoners, not new county arrestees waiting on first appearance. The custody story for the state image below shows where that search begins. Here is the Florida DOC offender search entry page used for those state prisoners.
The state locator works by DC number or by name and covers current inmates, released inmates, and supervision status. It is the right tool when a person from Baker County has moved past the jail into prison, and it should not be mixed with the county jail release rules.
How to Search the Baker County Inmate Population
The Baker County inmate search runs through the sheriff's official site and app. The inmate search feature pulls from an OCV feed that lists current county inmates newest booking first. You can reach it from the Quick Links tile on the sheriff site, or open the source feed directly. The roster is free and needs no login. Before you start, have a name ready. A last name is enough to begin, and the inmate ID helps when names are common.
The screenshot below shows where the search lives. The lead-in here is the official Baker County Sheriff's Office site, whose Quick Links include the Inmate Search tile.
From there the steps are short and repeatable.
- Open the sheriff site or app and choose Inmate Search from the Quick Links.
- Type the inmate's last name into the search box and submit.
- Read the results, which sort with the newest booking on top.
- Open a result to view the inmate ID, physical description, and booked date and time.
- If charges, bond, or a court date are missing, call 904-259-3311 for jail and charge details.
- If the person has been sentenced and moved to prison, check the state DOC offender search instead.
Current Inmate Lookup in Baker County
The live county roster is the fastest way to confirm current custody. The feed is set to show entries with a status of in custody and to sort newest first. The search box lets you match on name fields, and each item opens to a record with core booking details. Official Baker pages do not state how fast a new booking appears or how long a released person stays listed, so no refresh time is claimed. When the roster is thin on charges, the phone line at 904-259-3311 is the named fallback for whether someone is in jail and what they are charged with.
The roster's search controls are simple. The table below lists the fields and how each behaves.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Search | Text | No | Matches name fields such as last name and first name; last name first works best. |
| Sort | Control | No | Defaults to newest booking first. |
| Inmate result | Feed item | No | Click to open the record's booking and custody detail. |
Note: The feed carries VINE identifiers, so custody-change alerts can also be set through VINELink for a person in Baker County custody.
Past and Released Inmate Records
Finding someone who is no longer in custody takes a different route. The live roster shows current inmates, and once a person is released or transferred, their record may drop off. Official Baker materials do not state a retention window for released entries, so do not assume an old booking stays online. For recent arrests, the sheriff publishes a weekly arrest-report feed of redacted PDFs named by arrestee and report, which can help with bookings that have already cleared the live list.
When a record is not online at all, the public-records request is the formal path. The sheriff's request form is short, with fields for the information requested, an optional name, and a contact email. No fee is stated on the form. Because the form is brief, a clear request matters. Name the booking record, arrest report, or booking photo you want, and add the person's name, the arrest or booking date, and any report or case number you have.
What a Baker County Inmate Record Shows
A county inmate record carries the basics of who is held and when they came in. The image slot exists on each record, but the entries reviewed used a placeholder rather than a live booking photo, so a current mugshot is not guaranteed online. The fields below come from the public feed itself. Booking photos for current inmates are covered in more detail on the Baker County jail mugshots page.
The lead-in for the record fields is the source feed itself. This is the official Baker County inmate feed that the search reads from.
The fields below reflect what a typical public entry shows.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Name | Listed as last, first, and middle, with separate name fields. |
| Inmate ID | A code in a BCSO and MNI pattern that identifies the record. |
| Physical description | Height, weight, gender, race, age, eye color, and hair color. |
| Booked date | The booking date and time in Eastern time. |
| Custody status | Shows an in-custody status code on current entries. |
| Charges and bond | Charge and bond labels exist in the data but were not shown in sample entries; call 904-259-3311. |
County Jail vs. State Prison: Where to Look
Readers mix up the county jail and state prison all the time, and the two use different search systems. Pretrial detainees and short-sentence inmates sit in the Baker County jail, which the sheriff runs and which the inmate search covers. Sentenced felons move to a Florida Department of Corrections prison, a system with its own statewide locator. Knowing which group a person is in tells you which tool to open.
| County Jail | State Prison (DOC) | |
|---|---|---|
| Who Is Held | Pretrial plus short sentences | Sentenced felons |
| Run By | Baker County Sheriff's Office | Florida Department of Corrections |
| Where to Look | County inmate search | State offender search |
| Stays Listed | While in current county custody | Through the prison term and into supervision |
The same split holds for federal and immigration holds. Marshals and ICE custody are tracked by those agencies, even when the person is housed in the Baker jail.
State and Federal Inmate Search
Each level of custody has its own locator, and using the wrong one is the most common search mistake. Sentenced state prisoners are found in the Florida Department of Corrections offender search. Sentenced federal prisoners are found in the federal Bureau of Prisons locator. Immigration detainees are found in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, and the ICE page for the Baker County Facility gives more on that custody. Each system covers a different slice of the broader inmate population.
For people physically held at the Baker jail under federal authority, the sheriff lists direct contacts because the office does not hold their charge or court data. U.S. Marshals questions go to 904-301-6670. ICE detainee and immigration-bond questions go to the Jacksonville ICE and DHS office at 904-288-4600. For custody-change alerts on anyone in the county jail, VINELink ties into the same VINE system the inmate feed references.
Baker County Detention Facilities
Four facilities tied to Baker County hold part of the wider inmate population, and they do not all serve the same role. The sheriff's detention center handles local jail custody plus federal holds, while the three Florida DOC sites in Sanderson hold sentenced state prisoners. Each one links to its own page below.
- Baker County Detention Center - sheriff-run jail holding Baker County pretrial and sentenced inmates, plus U.S. Marshals inmates and ICE detainees.
- Baker Correctional Institution - Florida DOC state prison in Sanderson for sentenced male state prisoners.
- Baker Work Camp - Florida DOC work camp tied to Baker Correctional Institution for classified sentenced prisoners.
- Baker Re-Entry Center - Florida DOC re-entry center for sentenced prisoners in transition programming.
Key Custody Terms for Baker County
Jail and court records use terms that trip people up. A few short definitions make the rest of the Baker County inmate population data easier to read. Each one ties back to a status you may see while searching for an inmate.
- Detainer
- A hold or request from another agency, such as ICE, the U.S. Marshals, another county, probation, or parole, that can keep a person in custody.
- PR bond
- Release on personal recognizance, meaning the court lets a person out on a promise to appear, usually without paying cash.
- No-bond hold
- A custody status where release on bond is not allowed until a court or agency clears it.
- Classification
- A custody and security assessment that controls housing and program eligibility, such as the GED program's low and medium custody rule.
Baker County Inmate Population FAQ
How big is the Baker County inmate population?
No official source publishes a daily count, an annual booking total, or a length-of-stay figure for Baker County. The one firm size figure on record is bed capacity. The ICE detention-facility listing for the Baker County Facility cites 512 beds. The sheriff's own pages did not post a separate rated capacity. Because the jail holds county, U.S. Marshals, and ICE people at the same time, the daily total can blend all three groups.
How do I search the Baker County inmate population?
Use the sheriff's official inmate search from the Quick Links on the Baker County Sheriff's Office site or app. Enter a last name and review the results, which sort newest booking first. Open a result for the inmate ID, physical description, and booked date. If charges or bond are not shown, call the jail at 904-259-3311. If the person has been sentenced and moved to prison, use the Florida DOC offender search instead.
Can I look up a released or past inmate?
The live roster shows current inmates, and a released person may drop off the list. The sheriff publishes a weekly arrest-report feed of redacted PDFs for recent arrests. For older records, file a public-records request through the sheriff's form, naming the booking record or report you want along with the person's name, the booking date, and any case number. A sentenced person who moved to prison should be searched in the state DOC offender search.
Why does a record not show charges or a court date?
The public feed carries charge and bond labels, but the sample entries reviewed did not display actual charge rows. Court dates are not in the feed at all. For charges, call 904-259-3311. For court dates, use the Baker County Clerk or the Online Court Records Search. The sheriff does not have current charges or court dates for U.S. Marshals inmates or ICE detainees, so use the federal contacts for those holds.