J. Reuben Long Detention Overview
J. Reuben Long Detention Center is the primary Horry County detention facility. The Horry County Sheriff's Office operates it as a county jail and detention center. Its custody population includes people booked at the facility, people shown in booking records involving the City of North Myrtle Beach, pretrial detainees, local sentenced inmates, holds, people awaiting bond or court action, and people awaiting release or transfer.
The sheriff's office assumed control of J. Reuben Long Detention Center on July 1, 1999. Sheriff Phillip E. Thompson is the sheriff named on the official county bio page, and Marcus Rhodes has served as Director of Detention since February 2020. The facility's mission language emphasizes safe custody, direct supervision, staff and inmate safety, professional conduct, and local criminal-justice partnerships.
The official detention-center page is shown on the county site at the source linked above.
The page is the main public starting point for detention-center services, PREA information, and facility contact details.
J. Reuben Long Capacity and Population
Horry County did not publish a rated bed capacity in the official detention pages inspected. The official live count from the county app is the best sourced population number found for the facility. On June 29, 2026, the county inmate-count endpoint returned 843 total inmates, split between 697 male and 146 female inmates. That count must be dated because bookings, releases, transfers, home-detention status, and court outcomes change the population.
| Population Measure | Official Detail |
|---|---|
| Total count | 843 from the Horry County inmate-count endpoint on June 29, 2026. |
| Male count | 697 from the same county count source. |
| Female count | 146 from the same county count source. |
| Capacity | No rated capacity found in the inspected official detention pages. |
Look Up J. Reuben Long Inmates
The correct search tool for this county jail is the Horry County Bookings and Releases app. It is linked from the county's Booking and Releases page and searches records for people booked at J. Reuben Long Detention Center or by the City of North Myrtle Beach. The app is a booking and release search, so it can return some released records as well as current inmates.
- Open the official Horry County Bookings and Releases app.
- Search by last name, booking date, or release date. The app does not run a blank search.
- Use booking date, release date, booking number, and arresting agency to separate people with similar names.
- Open the result overlay for the larger booking photo, booked date, and status.
Search results can show name, ethnicity, sex, age, booking date, release date, booking number, arresting agency, mugshot, charge descriptions, bail amounts, charge numbers, disposition, and status. If the person was sentenced to state prison after a Horry County case, the active custody search should move to the SCDC locator. For federal or immigration custody, use BOP or ICE instead of the county roster.
J. Reuben Long Address and Contact
The detention center is the right contact point for custody and facility timing questions. The county page lists an email address, but it also warns that email is only responsive during normal business hours, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Time-sensitive, emergency, or official detention-center business should go through the detention-center phone number.
J. Reuben Long Detention Center
4150 J. Reuben Long Avenue
Conway, SC 29526
(843) 915-5140
Email: hcg.JRLDetention@horrycountysc.gov
Horry County Sheriff's Office
1301 Second Avenue
Conway, SC 29526
(843) 915-5450
FOIA mail may be routed to Attn. Brennan Cavanagh.
Visiting J. Reuben Long Detention
Horry County has an official visitation page, but the captured research did not locate a full schedule in the official text. Do not rely on third-party schedules for this facility. Confirm visit timing, identification rules, visitor limits, dress rules, and whether in-person or video visits are available through the county page or by calling the detention center.
| Topic | Officially Located Detail |
|---|---|
| Schedule | Visitation page exists; schedule text was not captured in the official output. |
| Visitor ID | Not located in captured official text; confirm with the facility. |
| Visitor parking | Not published in captured official text; confirm before arrival. |
| Attorney visits | Not located in captured official text; call detention or court contacts. |
| Lockdown or emergency changes | Use the detention phone for time-sensitive questions. |
The official visitation source is shown in the county inmate-services page.
Because the published details can change, the facility should confirm the current rule before a visitor drives to Conway.
Phone, Mail, and Money
Horry County publishes separate inmate-service pages for communications, deposit funds, medical services, home detention, and visitation. The communications page states that Horry County transitions to NCIC Correctional Services for all inmate communications starting November 12, 2025, and directs users to create an account at NCIC.com. Older vendor names should not be used for this facility unless the county updates the official page again.
| Service | Provider or Detail |
|---|---|
| Phone / communications | NCIC Correctional Services transition begins November 12, 2025, per county pages. |
| Money deposits | Official Deposit Funds page exists; vendor and fees were not captured in research text. |
| Medical requests | Inmates use kiosks for medical, dental, and mental-health sick-call requests. |
| Medical privacy | HIPAA limits release of inmate health details without authorization. |
| Home detention | GPS and SCRAM monitoring may be ordered by courts as a bond condition. |
The county communications source is available from the Horry County inmate communications page.
The transition notice is important because it prevents reliance on stale phone-account vendor information.
Bond at J. Reuben Long
Bond and first-appearance questions connect the detention center to the Magistrate Office at the Detention Center. Horry County's bond page says magistrate judges may take guilty pleas on charges assigned to their court, but cannot set bonds for murder, accessory before the fact of murder, or criminal sexual conduct with a minor. Those serious hearings are scheduled by the Solicitor's Office and set by a Circuit Court judge in General Sessions Court.
Magistrate Office hours are listed as Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and Saturday, Sunday, and holidays, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Bond hearings and guilty pleas typically happen at 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., but the official instruction is to contact the Magistrate Office at (843) 915-5145 to confirm. Cash, money orders, and major credit cards are accepted for bond. Personal checks are not accepted, and exact cash is required when paying in cash.
Cash and Dash: Horry County uses this term for some bondable pay offenses where the bondable amount is the fine amount, but the court date still matters.
Booking and Intake at J. Reuben Long
A person arrested by Horry County Police, the Horry County Sheriff's Office, municipal agencies such as Conway, Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach, or Surfside Beach, or state agencies such as South Carolina Highway Patrol may be booked into J. Reuben Long Detention Center. Intake creates the booking number and custody record. The county app then displays booking date, public demographics, arresting agency, charges when available, bond amount, mugshot, and release or home-detention status.
Booking photos load through the county mugshot route by record id. Status can read Released with a date, Out to Home Detention, or Still Incarcerated. If a record has no charges shown, that should not be treated as proof that no court case or hold exists. It may mean the app record is incomplete, not yet tied to a charge display, or tied to a separate court or warrant process.
Programs and PREA Reporting
Horry County publishes pages for inmate programs, medical services, home detention, PREA compliance, notification process, and victim assistance. The programs page says local partnerships with community agencies, faith-based groups, and professional organizations help inmates with personal growth, reentry, recidivism reduction, and population management. The chaplain handles death notifications, book requests, and spiritual mentoring.
Sheriff Thompson's official bio adds one of the strongest facility details: Horry County created an in-house drug-treatment program for inmates in South Carolina. The program is described as a therapeutic community that addresses addiction and criminogenic thinking, with an intensive three-phase model inside the detention center and further halfway-house work. The bio reports an average 70 percent success rate.
PREA reporting can go to staff, be made in writing, or be made by calling (843) 248-1520. The official PREA page says sexual acts, contact, or harassment are not tolerated between inmates or between an inmate and an employee, and reports are kept confidential as circumstances allow.
Note: Confirm custody, visit status, and account rules with J. Reuben Long Detention Center before traveling or sending funds.