This is a private reference site, not a Lancaster County government office. It cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, release a person, post bond, schedule visits, or retrieve official booking records. Use the official office or record system that matches the type of record you need.
Where to Start
Lancaster Sheriff's Office / local correctional facility
8293 Mary Ball Road, Lancaster, VA 22503
Phone: 804-462-5111
The same address is used for the sheriff's office and the local correctional facility in the official county and sheriff sources. Use the main number for current local custody questions, booking confirmation, visitor-rule questions, bond logistics, and whether a person remains in the Lancaster County Local Correctional Facility. Official sources did not publish a separate booking desk line or public jail roster.
For booking records, jail records, incident records, or mugshots that are not posted online, use the Lancaster Sheriff's Office NextRequest FOIA portal. The portal is the local public-records request channel, and requests made by other means may be logged there.
- For someone held in the county jail, begin with jail inmate records and the sheriff's main number.
- For booking photos, use jail roster mugshots and, when needed, a NextRequest FOIA request under Virginia FOIA and Code of Virginia § 2.2-3706.
- For formal charges after arrest, use court records after a jail arrest, the Virginia court systems, and the clerks listed below.
- For the facility page, use the footer link to the Lancaster County Local Correctional Facility.
- For a sentenced state prisoner or person under state supervision, use the Virginia Department of Corrections locator. VADOC is separate from the county jail and may include prisons, probation, parole, CCAP, and certain state-responsible jail placements.
- For release or transfer alerts, use Virginia VINE. VINE is a notification tool, not the county roster.
- For federal custody, use the BOP inmate locator for federal inmates or U.S. Marshals/court channels for federal pretrial custody.
- For immigration detention, use the ICE Online Detainee Locator System. ICE custody is not shown on a county jail roster unless a local hold or transfer record exists.
Court and prosecutor contacts
Circuit Court Clerk: 804-462-5611
General District Court Clerk: 804-462-0012
Commonwealth's Attorney: 804-462-7240
The Circuit Court Clerk handles circuit court records at the Lancaster Judicial Center, and the General District Court Clerk is the contact for general district criminal, traffic, and civil case records. The Commonwealth's Attorney prosecutes criminal cases for the Commonwealth in Lancaster County, so prosecutor-filed charges may differ from the arrest charge shown at booking.
No official Lancaster County, Virginia sheriff mobile app with an inmate roster, warrant search, or records portal was located. Use the sheriff website, phone number, NextRequest FOIA portal, Virginia Courts, VADOC, and VINE instead.