Cabarrus County Detention Center Inmate Lookup

Cabarrus County Detention Center Overview

Cabarrus County Detention Center is operated by Sheriff Van Shaw and the Cabarrus County Sheriff's Office. The public jail contact page lists the detention center at 30 Corban Avenue SE, Concord, NC 28025, while the county's FY2024 detention program narrative identifies the main detention facility at 40 Corban Avenue SE. Those addresses describe the same Corban Avenue government and justice campus, so visitors should confirm the correct entrance before travel, especially for visitation or lobby kiosk use.

The main facility is a maximum security local confinement facility. Cabarrus County materials say it opened in 2011, contains six housing units with four pods in each unit, and provides 569 beds. The jail receives state pretrial detainees, county prisoners serving one- to 30-day sentences, sentenced state prisoners held more than 30 days, civil contempt and compliance detainees, custody orders, State Misdemeanant Confinement Program inmates, and short-term ICE/287(g) detainees who may be held up to 72 hours with federal reimbursement.

The official Cabarrus Sheriff's Detention Center page is the source for the public jail contact block and inmate-service links.

Use that official page as the starting point for the county roster, visitation policy, mail rules, canteen deposits, phone accounts, inmate programs, and PREA reporting links.

Cabarrus County Detention Center Capacity and Population

The main detention center's rated capacity is 569 beds, according to Cabarrus FY2023 Jail Program and FY2024 Detention Center Program materials. The nearby annex adds 96 beds, giving the sheriff's detention operation a total stated capacity of 665 beds, but the main building and annex should not be collapsed into one number when a reader is trying to understand where a person may be housed.

Cabarrus described a COVID-era average daily population of about 200 to 230 inmates in FY2023, then projected 345 to 360 daily inmates for FY2024 as the new courthouse increased courtroom capacity. A live P2C roster inspection on June 23, 2026 returned 454 current records. That roster count is a current-custody snapshot rather than an official average daily population, but it matches the county's later budget discussion about rising jail populations and new detention staffing.

The Cabarrus FY2024 Detention Center Program gives the clearest official summary of the facility's bed count, inmate categories, annex repairs, mental-health pressures, and population trend.

That budget narrative is also the source for the 40 Corban Avenue facility address and the county's explanation that detention demand is driven by arrests, court activity, sentencing, transfers, and outside custody requirements.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Cabarrus County Detention Center

Current county jail custody is searched through the Cabarrus Sheriff P2C Inmate Inquiry. The roster is current-custody focused and does not replace North Carolina state prison, federal prison, immigration, or court disposition systems. If a person has been sentenced to North Carolina Department of Adult Correction custody, use NCDAC's Offender Public Information Search. If the person is in federal sentenced custody, use the BOP locator. If an immigration hold becomes an ICE transfer, use ICE ODLS. VINELink and NC SAVAN are notification channels, not a complete substitute for the jail roster. The Cabarrus County Sheriff mobile app also advertises an inmate search feature, along with alerts, tips, contact information, and sex-offender tools.

1. Open the Cabarrus Sheriff P2C Inmate Inquiry page from the sheriff's Find an Inmate link.
2. Enter the last name and, if known, first name. The basic public form does not require a booking number.
3. Review the result grid for name, primary charge, arrest date, and booking agency. The advanced filter can narrow by race, sex, age, middle name, charge, arrest date, or booking agency.
4. Open the inmate detail page and verify status with the jail at 704-920-3058 when custody, release, or housing information matters.

The Sheriff warns that roster charges can change through court disposition. For the current court outcome or case status, cross-check with the Clerk of Court or the NC eCourts Portal; the jail record and the court case are related but not identical. More context is available on the Cabarrus County inmate records page.

Cabarrus County Detention Center Address and Contact

The jail information line is the practical fallback when the online roster is unavailable, when a name search produces no result, or when a family needs to confirm whether someone is housed in the main center or the annex. The public jail page lists phone, fax, and email contact information for the detention center.

Visiting Someone at Cabarrus County Detention Center

Cabarrus visitation runs Tuesday through Saturday from 9 AM to 8 PM and is appointment-only. Visits may be scheduled up to one week ahead and must be scheduled at least 24 hours in advance. The official policy says visits are 45 minutes and begin on the hour. Each inmate may receive one visit per day, up to three onsite visits per week, and one offsite visit every day. One adult and up to two minors may attend; children under 18 must be with a parent or guardian, and visitors age 16 or older need valid DMV-issued state ID.

The official Cabarrus visitation policy explains scheduling limits, ID rules, clothing standards, minor rules, recorded video visitation, and suspension levels.

For visitation questions, call 704-920-3023 during visitation hours; visits are not normally scheduled by phone unless a preapproved exception is made by detention administration.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Cabarrus County Detention Center

Mail for people held at the Cabarrus County Detention Center uses the inmate's name and PO Box 790, Concord, NC 28026. The jail accepts only a regular-size envelope, and it will not accept correctional-facility mail. Up to five pictures are allowed. Paperback books require preapproval from detention administration, must be shipped from a publisher or bookstore, and are limited to three at a time. Officers screen incoming mail for contraband and return mail that violates the listed format, content, or materials rules.

The Sheriff's inmate phone account page documents the NCIC setup options and the published per-minute rates.

Those phone rules matter because jail staff do not pass incoming personal calls to inmates, and three-way calls can interrupt or suspend phone access.

Booking and Intake at Cabarrus County Detention Center

After a Cabarrus County arrest, detention intake creates the custody record that later appears in the P2C roster. The public grid can show the person's displayed name, primary charge, arrest date, and booking agency. Detail pages may show age, race and sex, arrest date, release date, next court date, a mugshot area, and total bond amount. Because the roster is a custody record, it should be checked against court records when a charge has been amended, dismissed, continued, indicted, or resolved by plea or judgment.

The detention center also receives custody categories that do not start as a simple street arrest. The official county categories include civil contempt and compliance detainees, custody orders, sentenced state prisoners with over 30-day sentences, State Misdemeanant Confinement Program inmates serving 91-day-or-more misdemeanor sentences including DWI, and short-term ICE/287(g) detainees. Those categories explain why a person may be physically in Cabarrus custody while another agency, court order, or sentence controls the next step.

About Cabarrus County Detention Center

Cabarrus describes the detention operation as self-contained. Food, laundry, minor health care, mental-health assessments, recreation, visitation, mail, telephone access, and access to legal representation are provided inside jail confines. Inmates under detention staff supervision clean housing units, wash inmate laundry, and perform other internal services. Health care is provided by Southern Health Partners, and food service is provided by Skillet Kitchen, a Kimble's Food Service subsidiary, under North Carolina jail and health standards.

Programs are a notable part of the Cabarrus detention record. FY2023 materials listed 42 community volunteers, 21 classes per week, Bible studies, Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous, Inside Out Dad, Circle of Parents, WRAP, Employment Readiness, Building U Up, Adult-Teen Challenge "Stepping into Freedom," and Stepping Up transition appointments. FY2024 materials also emphasized severe mental-health challenges, Special Watch Rounds at least every 15 minutes for qualifying inmates, body-worn cameras, transport vehicle cameras, and top-tier enclosure work intended to reduce suicide attempts while preserving staff visibility.