The Horry County Inmate Population
The official local jail count comes from the Horry County Bookings and Releases app, the same county system used to search people booked at J. Reuben Long Detention Center or by the City of North Myrtle Beach. At research time, the county's inmate-count endpoint reported a current Horry County inmate population of 843 people on June 29, 2026. That figure is a live jail count, not a rated bed capacity and not an annual average. It changes as people are booked, released, transferred, or placed on home detention.
J. Reuben Long Detention Center is the only detention facility verified in the Horry County facility map. It is operated by the Horry County Sheriff's Office. The Horry County inmate population therefore centers on one county jail in Conway, while sentenced state prisoners move to the South Carolina Department of Corrections search and federal or immigration custody uses separate national locators.
Horry County Inmate Population Statistics
The strongest official population source found for Horry County is the county app's current-count data. The main detention pages inspected did not publish a bed capacity, annual booking total, or average daily population. For that reason, the table keeps missing measures explicit instead of filling gaps with estimates. The count is still useful because it is local, dated, and split by sex.
| Measure | Figure | Source / Date |
|---|---|---|
| Current total inmate count | 843 | Horry County inmate-count API, June 29, 2026 |
| Current male count | 697 | Same county count source, June 29, 2026 |
| Current female count | 146 | Same county count source, June 29, 2026 |
| Data last collected | 2026-06-29T10:16:42.4135686 | Horry County last-updated endpoint |
| Rated capacity | Not published in inspected official pages | Main detention and inmate-service pages |
| State prison facilities in Horry County | None identified | SCDC institution list review |
Male custody made up about 82.7 percent of the dated jail count, while female custody made up about 17.3 percent. The county API did not publish an aggregate by age, charge class, race, bond status, hold type, or pretrial status. Individual records can show age, gender, ethnicity, arresting agency, charges, bail amount, and status, so the public can inspect a record but cannot derive every official demographic measure from the app alone.
Horry County Inmate Population Trends
Horry County did not publish a multi-year average daily population table in the official pages reviewed. The dated current count should not be treated as a trend line by itself. It is a point-in-time count from the county app. The facility pages do show policy and operations that affect jail population management, including bond hearings, home detention, medical screening, jail programs, and a treatment program described in Sheriff Phillip E. Thompson's official bio.
| Year or Date | Population / Count | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-29 | 843 total | County inmate-count endpoint, male 697 and female 146 |
| 2026-06-29 | Data last collected at 10:16:42 timestamp string | County last-updated endpoint |
| 2025 | Not located | No official annual ADP located in inspected county pages |
| 2024 | Not located | No official annual ADP located in inspected county pages |
The inmate programs page says programs are meant to support personal growth, reentry, lower recidivism, and reduced overcrowding. Sheriff Thompson's bio says Horry County created an in-house drug-treatment program for inmates in South Carolina, with a therapeutic community model and a reported average success rate of 70 percent. Those are not bed counts, but they are local population-management facts from official pages.
Horry County Inmate Record Laws
South Carolina public-record law shapes access to Horry County jail records. The sheriff's Public Information Office points requesters to South Carolina FOIA and says some information can be released because HCSO is a public entity. It also notes that the office does not actively release personal information except for legal process or public safety, and it may deny requests from people who are not South Carolina citizens.
Key access rules:
S.C. Code Title 30 Chapter 4 governs public access to non-exempt records, including many jail and booking records.
S.C. Code Title 24 Chapter 5 covers county jails and jailers, the local detention framework for Horry County custody.
S.C. Code Title 17 Chapter 1 provides criminal-procedure context for arrest records and later record-clearing questions.
S.C. Code section 44-23-1150 is cited in Horry County's PREA policy text for inmate sexual misconduct and reporting context.
These laws do not mean every field, photo, medical detail, investigative record, or court document is public at all times. The county roster is the first search path. Missing or older records may require a FOIA request through the Horry County Sheriff's Office Public Information Office or the county public information request route.
Search Horry County Jail Records
The Horry County Bookings and Releases app is the official county jail roster. It searches by last name, booking date, or release date, and the app defaults to today's booking-date search when loaded. The app states that it covers people booked at J. Reuben Long Detention Center or by the City of North Myrtle Beach, and it warns that Horry County cannot validate every posting or be responsible for every inaccuracy.
The official Booking and Releases page opens the public app. The app is free and no login was found. It is useful for current bookings, recent booking history, and some released records, but it is not the system for sentenced state prisoners, federal prisoners, or ICE detainees.
The county roster screen is shown in the official Horry County bookings app.
The roster screenshot matters because the search form and result table are the same public-facing path used to check a Horry County jail booking.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Options / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last Name | Text | Optional | App trims input and sends lastName only when populated. |
| Booking Date | Datepicker | Optional | Date is converted to an ISO string before the API search. |
| Release Date | Datepicker | Optional | Useful for older released bookings when a release date is known. |
| County | Hidden app mode | Required by API | The Horry app sends county value horry. |
| Reset Form | Button | N/A | Clears last-name, booking-date, and release-date entries. |
How to Search Horry County Inmates
A clean Horry County inmate search starts with the county app, then checks fallback channels if the name is not found. Use the full last name when possible. For common names, add a booking date or release date. Results can be sorted by name, ethnicity and sex, age, booking date, release date, booking number, and arresting agency.
- Open the official Horry County Bookings and Releases app from the county detention page.
- Search by last name, booking date, or release date. A blank search with no criteria does not run.
- Review the results table for name, age, booking number, booking date, status, and arresting agency.
- Open the photo or result overlay to see a larger booking photo, booked date, and current status.
- If no county jail result appears, call J. Reuben Long Detention Center, file a FOIA request, or check SCDC, BOP, ICE, and VINELink based on custody type.
The phone fallback is important. Custody questions go to the detention center at (843) 915-5140. Bondable Cash and Dash charge questions can go to Booking at 843-915-6911. Bond-hearing schedule questions can go to the Magistrate Office at the detention center at (843) 915-5145. For records that are not visible online, the Public Information Office identifies FOIA filing online or by mail to Horry County Sheriff's Office, Attn. Brennan Cavanagh, 1301 Second Ave, Conway, SC 29526.
What Horry County Inmate Records Show
Horry County roster records are booking records, not full criminal-history reports. A record may show a public booking photo, name, age, sex, ethnicity, booking number, booking date, release date or status, arresting agency, charge descriptions, charge numbers, bail amounts, dispositions, and counts. A sample June 29, 2026 record showed the app can display Pre-Trial disposition, a money bail amount, a charge number, and a status of Still Incarcerated when releaseDate is blank.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Booking number | Horry tracking number for the custody event, such as an HC date-and-sequence format. |
| Booking date | Timestamp for jail intake, displayed by the app in public result rows. |
| Release date | Release timestamp if present; blank records can show Still Incarcerated. |
| Home detention | Boolean status that can display Out to Home Detention. |
| Charges | Charge descriptions, charge numbers, bail amounts, dispositions, and counts when available. |
| Mugshot | Thumbnail and overlay image loaded from the county mugshot route by booking record id. |
Some inspected records had empty charges arrays. That does not prove that no court case, warrant, hold, or later filing exists. For court filings after a jail arrest, use the Horry County court records after jail arrest path and the Judicial Branch Public Index.
Horry County Jail vs State Prison
Many failed inmate searches happen because the wrong custody layer is searched. J. Reuben Long Detention Center handles county jail custody, including many pretrial detainees, local custody cases, people awaiting bond, and people waiting for transfer or release. A person sentenced to state prison leaves the county jail lookup layer and should be searched through SCDC. Federal and immigration records use still other tools.
| Custody Type | Where to Look | What It Covers |
|---|---|---|
| Horry County jail custody | Horry Bookings and Releases | County bookings, current custody, released records, mugshots, charges, bond values. |
| Sentenced state prison | SCDC incarcerated inmate search | SCDC ID, SID, location, photo, sentence fields, projected release data. |
| Federal custody | BOP inmate locator | Federal inmates in BOP custody, generally sentenced or committed cases. |
| Immigration custody | ICE Online Detainee Locator | ICE detainee search by A-Number or biographical details. |
| Release notification | VINELink South Carolina | Custody and notification service, not a substitute for the official roster. |
The Horry Warrant Division states that it works with FBI, ICE, the U.S. Marshals Service, and other agencies. That supports a local coordination note, but no separate federal, BOP, ICE, or SCDC detention facility was verified inside Horry County.
Horry County Detention Facilities
The facility map resolves one local detention page for this build. The primary jail is the county detention center in Conway. It is the correct local facility page for people booked into Horry County custody, people shown in the county bookings app, and records involving City of North Myrtle Beach bookings shown by the county system.
- J. Reuben Long Detention Center - county jail and detention center operated by the Horry County Sheriff's Office for pretrial and local custody.
The official detention center page is the core source for the facility's public contact block, PREA links, and service buttons.
That county page anchors local facility facts before a reader moves into roster, bond, visitation, communications, medical, or PREA subpages.
Horry County Jail Programs
Population work is not only a count. Horry County's official pages describe programs, medical care, home detention, PREA reporting, victim assistance, and notification processes tied to custody. Home detention is court ordered as a bond condition and uses GPS and SCRAM monitoring. The research notes that defendants on Horry home detention are considered incarcerated, even though monitoring lets them live at home under strict control.
- Home detention
- Court-ordered monitoring as a bond condition using GPS and SCRAM, monitored at all times.
- Pre-Trial
- A charge or custody status before final court disposition, not a conviction.
- Cash and Dash
- Horry term for some bondable pay offenses where the bondable amount is the fine amount, but court appearance is still required.
- SCDC
- South Carolina Department of Corrections, the state prison system for sentenced inmates.
The official medical page says inmates request medical, dental, and mental-health services through kiosks. HIPAA limits family access to medical details without authorization. PREA reports may be made to staff, in writing, or by phone at (843) 248-1520.
Horry County Inmate Population FAQ
How large is the Horry County inmate population? The official county count endpoint returned 843 total inmates on June 29, 2026, with 697 male and 146 female inmates. That is a dated current count from the county app, not a fixed capacity.
Does Horry County publish a rated jail capacity? The official detention pages inspected did not publish a rated bed capacity. Any claim that the jail is over or under capacity needs a separate official capacity source.
Can released inmates still appear in Horry County records? Yes. Research found released records from earlier in 2026 through name searches. The app should be treated as a bookings and releases search, not only a current-inmate list.
Where are Horry County jail mugshots? Booking photos appear in the county Bookings and Releases app when available. The Horry County jail mugshots page explains the photo route, public-record limits, and FOIA request path.
What if the person is sentenced to prison? Use the SCDC locator for sentenced South Carolina prisoners. No SCDC institution was verified inside Horry County, but Horry cases can move into the statewide prison system after sentencing.
Is there a mobile app? The Horry County Sheriff's Office Public Information Office links an Apple App Store listing for its app. The app includes bookings/releases, sex offender registry search, forms, eviction information, employment opportunities, and notifications.