Search Glades County Jail Inmates

Glades County Jail Roster Overview

The Glades County Sheriff's Office runs the county jail and the online inmate search. The roster is branded JAIL View and runs on the SmartWEB portal built by SmartCOP and CTS America. It is a free public web page with no login. You reach it at the sheriff's site or directly at the search URL. The roster holds records for people booked into the Glades County Detention Center at 1297 East State Road 78 in Moore Haven. It supports a current-custody search and a released-inmate search, so it can show some past bookings as well as people held right now.

The county roster does not cover everyone. People sentenced to state prison move out of county custody and into the Florida Department of Corrections system, where a separate FDC locator tracks them. Federal prisoners are found through the Bureau of Prisons. Immigration detainees are searched through an ICE locator, even when held at the same Moore Haven address. The page does not publish how often the roster refreshes, so a brand-new booking may not show up at once. If someone should be in the jail but does not appear, call the jail at (863) 946-1600 to confirm.

The official inmate-information page from the Glades County Sheriff's Office lays out the jail's role and the booking basics that feed each record.

View the sheriff's corrections and inmate information page for the agency's own summary of the jail.

That page confirms the detention center address, the booking fee, and the 24-hour first-appearance rule that shape what a Glades County inmate record reports.

How Do I Find Someone in the Glades County Jail

Start with the online roster. The JAIL View search is the fastest way to check current custody, and it is free. You need at least one piece of information, usually a last name. The page will not run a fully blank search, and it shows the message "Please fill in at least one search criteria" when no field is filled. A booking date range works too if you know roughly when the arrest happened but not how to spell the name.

The sheriff's own homepage carries the inmate-search link in its main navigation, alongside the office address and phone.

Open the Glades County Sheriff's Office homepage to reach the inmate-search link and contact block.

From that homepage you click into JAIL View, where the name and date fields described below let you pull a Glades County inmate record.

The roster is not the only channel. Several routes back it up when the online search comes up short:

• Phone: call the jail at (863) 946-1600 to confirm whether a person is in custody.
• In person: visit the Sheriff's Office and detention center at 1297 East State Road 78, Moore Haven.
• Sheriff records request: ask for a booking record not posted online, in person or by U.S. Mail.
• FDC locator: search the state prison system for sentenced felons after they leave county custody.
• BOP and ICE locators: search federal prisoners and immigration detainees.
• VINELink: register for custody and release notifications where the agency reports.

The Glades County Sheriff's Office also has a free mobile app on the Apple and Google stores. The listings advertise tips and public safety news, but neither store description shows an inmate search, so the app does not replace the JAIL View roster for a custody lookup.

How to Use the Glades County Inmate Roster

The JAIL View page opens to a result area labeled "BOOKED Last 24 Hours," but you still must enter a search term to pull records. The steps below walk through a normal custody lookup.

1. Open the official JAIL View roster from the sheriff site's inmate-search link, or go to the search page at smartweb.gladessheriff.org.
2. Enter at least one search criterion. A last name is the most common starting point, and a blank search returns the "fill in at least one search criteria" message.
3. For a person held now, leave the Search For menu set to Current Inmates Only.
4. To check a release, choose Released Inmates Only or Both Current And Released. The release-date fields appear once you pick one of those options.
5. To search by a recent arrest date instead of a name, use the booking-date fields and pick the dates from the calendar picker.
6. Set Sorted By to Name or Booking Date, then set Order to Ascending or Descending. For recent bookings, Booking Date with Descending order lists the newest first.
7. Click Submit. If there are more matches than the first batch, click Load more results, and use Print only after records are on screen.

If the right person still does not appear, the booking may not have posted yet, or the person may be in state, federal, or ICE custody rather than the county jail. Call the jail at (863) 946-1600 to confirm before you assume the search failed.

Glades County Roster Search Fields

The JAIL View form accepts a small set of fields. The three name boxes and the booking-date range are visible by default. The release-date boxes stay hidden until you choose a released or both search. The table lists each field, its type, and what to know about it.

The action buttons are Submit and Reset. Once results show, Load more results pulls the next batch, and Print opens a printable view. The page lists 1-863-946-1600 as the contact line for help with the search.

Note: The release-date fields stay out of sight until you pick a released or both search, so switch the Search For menu first if you want them.

What a Glades County Roster Record Shows

A roster record starts with the booking event. When the official SmartWEB page was reviewed, the public default view showed the search form but did not expose individual inmate rows, so the most reliable account is the confirmed page elements plus the booking facts the sheriff publishes. The table below lists what the official page and the sheriff's booking pages confirm.

Many county rosters of this type also list an arrest date, the arresting agency, bond amount, charges, and a housing location on each profile. Those details may appear on a Glades JAIL View record once you submit a name and open a result. The official static capture did not confirm them, so treat them as likely rather than promised. When the roster does not show what you need, the sheriff records request is the fallback for booking records that are not online. Booking photos for current inmates are covered on the Glades County jail mugshots page.

County, State, Federal, and ICE Inmate Records

People confuse these systems all the time, and using the wrong one wastes time. The county jail roster covers pre-trial detainees and people serving short local sentences. Once a person is convicted and sentenced to prison, custody shifts to the state, and the search moves to the FDC locator. The FDC system holds felony offenders sentenced to the Department of Corrections and people on state supervision. It does not include anyone sentenced to county jail or county probation, so the county roster and the state locator do not overlap.

Federal custody splits into two tracks. The Bureau of Prisons locator finds sentenced federal inmates and people released since 1982, but a person just arrested on a federal charge may sit in U.S. Marshals pretrial custody and not show in BOP until designation. Immigration cases use the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, which searches by A-Number and country or by biographical data for detainees age 18 and older. The Glades County Detention Center holds ICE detainees at the same 1297 address, so an immigration search should use ICE, not the county roster. For notifications across these systems, VINELink at vinelink.com lets you register for custody-status and release alerts where the agency reports to it.

Note: A person can move from the county roster to the state locator after sentencing, and the two systems update at different speeds during that transfer.

Glades County Detention Facilities

Two facilities sit almost next to each other on East State Road 78 in Moore Haven, and their addresses are easy to mix up. The Glades County Detention Center at 1297 is the county jail, run by the sheriff and searched through JAIL View. The Moore Haven Correctional and Rehabilitation Facility at 1282 is a state prison run by GEO under a Florida contract, and its inmates are found through the FDC locator, not the county roster. Use the exact street number when you call so you reach the right place.

The county jail also serves an ICE and DHS detention role at the same 1297 address, so an immigration custody check should run through the ICE locator. The state prison at 1282 is a 985-bed medium-custody facility for adult male state inmates, and it never appears in the county jail roster.

Booking Process in Glades County

The sheriff describes the local intake sequence directly. After an arrest, the person is brought to the Glades County Detention Center for intake. Property intake comes first: money is deposited, and clothing and other items are inventoried. A medical screening follows before the person is housed. The booking process then creates the jail record that feeds the roster. The page does not publish a refresh interval, so a new booking may take time to show online.

Money matters at intake too. The sheriff charges a $25 booking fee for non-federal inmates. That fee is refundable if the case is dismissed or the person is found not guilty, but only after the inmate gives the Sheriff's Office the court documents that prove it. The fee does not apply to ICE or federal detainees, since the sheriff applies it to non-federal bookings.

If the arrested person does not bond out, a judge sees them within the first 24 hours of arrest. At that first appearance, the judge states the charges and the bond amount. The sheriff notes that first appearance can happen in person before the judge or by Poly Com video court, so not everyone appears in the same room as the judge. Booking and arrest records that the roster does not show can be requested through the sheriff records process, though active investigations may be withheld.

Note: A booking does not appear in the online roster the instant an arrest happens, so check the roster and then call (863) 946-1600 if the person should be listed.

Visitation Hours and Rules

The Glades County jail uses video visiting through HomeWAV, both on site and remotely. There is no contact visitation under any circumstances. The daily windows are the same seven days a week, but visits are scheduled by inmate location on rotating days, so the day your visit is offered depends on the housing unit. Call ahead to confirm the scheduled day before you plan a trip. A valid government-issued photo ID is required, and social visits are recorded and monitored.

Each visit runs in 2-hour blocks. Remote video visits go through the HomeWAV web browser or mobile app and need a computer with high-speed internet, a webcam, microphone, and speakers, or the phone app. The sheriff's visitation page lays out the schedule, the ID rule, and the conduct rules in full.

Read the Glades County jail visitation and HomeWAV page for the current hours and visitor conduct rules.

That page also lists the HomeWAV support contacts and the behavior rules that can end a visit, such as gang symbols or threatening language.

How to Contact a Glades County Inmate

Phone, video, and messaging all run through HomeWAV. The system handles video calls, voice calls, and messaging, plus account management and funds. You can add money on the HomeWAV web site, at the lobby kiosk, or by phone at 844-394-6639. To block future calls from an inmate, contact the jail at 863-946-1600 ext. 2159. HomeWAV support runs every day of the year and answers at the same 844 number.

Mail is the one channel without a clear published format. The sheriff navigation includes an Inmate Mail link, but the current pages do not lay out the exact address format, book-in number requirement, or prohibited-item rules. Rather than guess, call the jail at (863) 946-1600 to confirm how to address mail and what items are allowed before you send anything.

Commissary and Inmate Funds

The jail uses Keefe for commissary. Inmates buy approved items from the Keefe stock available to the facility population. You can put cash on a commissary account at the Keefe kiosk in the front lobby, and inmates can buy phone time from commissary carts. For commissary-only deposits online, the sheriff page points to AccessCorrections.com. Money sent by mail must be a U.S. Postal Money Order, since personal checks are not accepted under any circumstance.

The commissary page from the sheriff's office names each vendor and deposit route in one place.

Open the Glades County jail commissary and deposit page for the Keefe, HomeWAV, and Access Corrections details.

Keep the communications funds separate in your mind: HomeWAV money is for phone, video, and messaging, while Access Corrections deposits are for commissary only.