Whitfield County Jail Located in Dalton, Georgia, serves the surrounding areas that do not have the capacity to hold prisoners. The jail is a medium-security facility operated and managed by Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office. The jail was built in 1962 for a capacity of 540 prisoners. To conduct a Whitfield County Jail inmate search, click here.

Whitfield County Jail Address

Whitfield County Jail
805 Professional Boulevard
Dalton, GA 30720

Jail Contact Information

Phone: (706) 272-0827

Whitfield County Jail Inmate Search

The jail’s website allows family and friends to search incarcerated persons. Some information related to the prisoner, such as name, age, gender, or race, may be required to locate the inmate. To conduct a Whitfield County Jail inmate search, click here.

Visitation / Whitfield County Jail Inmate Search

Visitation with inmates is permitted at the facility. According to the jail’s inmate handbook, visitation with facility inmates is conducted via video conference both onsite and from home. To schedule a video visit and to access the video visitation software, click here. Visitors have the option to either visit onsite or pay a small fee to conduct the visit by video at home. All visits with inmates are subject to requirements and regulations of law and policy. However, before you schedule a visit with an inmate, it is highly recommended that you first confirm the inmate’s presence by conducting a Whitfield County Jail inmate search here. Each inmate is permitted to have one on-site visit each week, but inmates are allowed to visit numerous times using external visits. Each visit is limited to a maximum of twenty minutes.  On-site visitation at the jail is limited to the following times on each day of the week except for Tuesday and Friday:

8:00 am to 10:30 am

1:00 pm to 3:30 pm

6:00 pm to 9:30 pm

Inmates are permitted to participate in external visits from 5:30 am until 11:30 pm each day of the week.  

Inmate Mail / Whitfield County Jail Inmate Search

Inmates may receive mail at the jail. However, the facility checks all mail for security breaches while making sure it does not contain any prohibited material. Before sending mail to an inmate, it is highly recommended that you first confirm the inmate’s presence by conducting a Whitfield County Jail inmate search here. To send mail to an inmate, address it like so:

(Inmate’s full name)
(Inmate’s assigned inmate number)
(Inmate’s block number)
Whitfield County Jail 
805 Professional Blvd.
Dalton, Ga. 30721

Inmate Work Force

The Detention Division allows prisoners to help maintain the facility and provide services to other prisoners and county residents. This volunteer-based workforce provides many opportunities for prisoners to be active and contribute to their community. Prisoners may work in the kitchen, laundry, or runarounds (internal Inmate General Labor) or in the Outside Inmate General Labor (Inmate Work Crew) facility. Prisoners who work in these detail areas are all hired through the security and medical background check process performed by inmate Work Crew Personnel.

The utilization of prison labor has a significant impact on both the cost of the facility and the county government.

The internal use of prison labor alone equates to more than sixty thousand hours of unpaid labor annually.

Additionally, outside work details such as mowing of the Miracle Field and mowing of county property are provided. Furthermore, manual labor is provided for numerous community projects, such as cleanup and safety work at local schools. Basic maintenance services are also provided at the jail and 911 Center as well as the Courthouse and other local locations. In 2013 alone, the prison work crew provided more than 10,000 man-hours for county projects, despite only utilizing approximately one-third of the available employee time.

Sheriff’s Office Address

Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office
805 Professional Blvd,
Dalton, GA 30720

Sheriff’s Office Contact

Phone: (706) 278-1233

About the County / Whitfield County Jail Inmate Search

The carpet industry is a major contributor to the economic prosperity of the county, which as a population of 83,525. The county seat, Dalton, is renowned as the “Carpet Capital of the World” and has been at the forefront of the 20th century’s tufted textile revolution. Whitfield County’s history has been shaped by other more violent forces, such as the forced removal of the Native American population and the Civil War, in the past century. White settlers first arrived in the region in the early 19th century and interacted with the Native American population until the Cherokee were forced to leave in the early 1850s. There are numerous Cherokee-related sites located in the region, and Dalton serves as a hub for Chieftains Trail heritage tourism, a route that highlights the area’s Indian history.

Whitfield County had a significant impact on the Civil War, as it was the starting point for the Union Army’s Atlanta Campaign. Several significant battles were fought in the county, and it is home to the largest collection of untouched Civil War defenses in the United States. In 2002, the county and City of Dalton jointly acquired a large portion of Rocky Face Ridge battlefield in order to ensure its conservation.

The county has also benefitted from Transportation Enhancement Funding to support the preservation of the historic Western and Atlanta Tunnel. This tunnel, which was the site of one Civil War battle and is one of the oldest railway tunnels in the South, has been restored and is now a heritage tourism destination, with an interpretive center being established. Further, there is a jail located in the county, and the jail’s website makes it possible to conduct a Whitfield County Jail inmate search. To conduct a Whitfield County Jail inmate search, click here.

Demographics

As of the year 2020, the county was home to 102,864 people, 25,351 families, and 34,518 households. The county’s racial makeup during this period was as follows:

• White (non- Hispanic): 56.26%
• Black or African American: 3.45%
• Native American: 0.18%
• Asian: 1.36%
• Pacific Islander: 0.02%
• Other or mixed: 2.84%
• Hispanic or Latino: 35.89%