Horry County Jail Roster Overview
The official local roster is the Horry County Bookings and Releases app, linked from the county detention-center booking page. It covers people booked at the J. Reuben Long Detention Center and booking records involving the City of North Myrtle Beach. The app is free, no login was found in the public interface, and Sheriff Phillip E. Thompson's office operates the detention center through the Horry County Sheriff's Office.
The roster is a booking and release search, not a complete statewide criminal-history system. It can show still-incarcerated records, released records, and home-detention status, but the county app warns that Horry County cannot validate every posting or be responsible for all inaccuracies. A person sentenced to South Carolina state prison belongs in the SCDC locator, a sentenced federal prisoner belongs in the BOP locator, and immigration custody belongs in ICE ODLS. VINELink South Carolina is useful for notification, especially when release timing matters.
The county app also exposes current count and last-collected information. During research on June 29, 2026, the official inmate-count endpoint returned 843 total inmates, with 697 male and 146 female, and the last-updated endpoint returned 2026-06-29T10:16:42.4135686. Those figures are dated because the jail population changes, and the official county pages inspected did not publish a rated bed capacity.
How to Use the Horry County Inmate Roster
For the question "how do I find someone in the Horry County jail," start with the county booking app and then use phone, in-person, FOIA, state, federal, ICE, VINELink, or the sheriff mobile app only if the roster does not answer the custody question.
- Open the county Bookings and Releases page or go directly to the booking app.
- Search by last name, booking date, or release date. The app defaults to a booking-date search for the current date when it loads.
- Review the result row for name, ethnicity/sex, age, booking date, release date, booking number, arresting agency, and mugshot thumbnail.
- Open the booking photo overlay or read the charge rows below the result for charge description, charge number, bail amount, disposition, and count.
- If the person is not found, call the Detention Center at (843) 915-5140, file a public-records request through HCSO Public Information, or check SCDC, BOP, ICE, and VINELink based on the custody type.
The official Horry County Sheriff's Office Public Information Office page also documents a free sheriff mobile app. The app offers bookings/releases lookup, sex offender registry search, forms, eviction-process information, employment opportunities, and notifications. The county page links the Apple App Store listing; the web roster is still available, so the app should be treated as an additional mobile channel rather than the only way to search.
The screenshot below comes from the official roster interface at https://www.horrycountysc.gov/apps/bookings/.
Horry County Roster Search Fields
The county app accepts three public search inputs and sends Horry as the county mode. A search with no last name, booking date, or release date does not run. Date fields are datepicker controls that the app converts before submitting the search to the official county API.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last Name | Text | No | The app trims the entry and sends it only when populated; a SMITH test returned released records. |
| Booking Date | Datepicker | No | The app automatically runs a current-date booking search when it loads. |
| Release Date | Datepicker | No | Use when checking whether a person has left J. Reuben Long Detention Center. |
| County | App mode | Yes | The Horry version sends county value "horry" to the booking API. |
| Search / Reset Form | Buttons | n/a | Search runs the query; Reset Form clears last name, booking date, and release date. |
What a Horry County Inmate Profile Shows
For the question "what does a roster record show," Horry's booking app is unusually specific. Result rows can be sorted by Name, Ethnicity/Sex, Age, Booking Date, Release Date, Booking #, and Arresting Agency. Charge rows appear below the main result, and the booking photo opens in an overlay with previous, next, close, and keyboard controls.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Booking Number | Horry booking number for the custody event, such as the inspected HC plus date-like sequence format. |
| Booking Date | Date and time of booking; the API stores an ISO timestamp and the app displays a formatted value. |
| Name / Age / Ethnicity / Sex | Public identity and demographic fields shown in result rows when available. |
| Arresting Agency | Agency tied to the booking, such as Horry County PD, Myrtle Beach PD, Conway PD, HCSO, Surfside Beach PD, or South Carolina Highway Patrol. |
| Charges | Charge objects can include description, charge number, disposition, bail amount, and count; some inspected bookings had no charge rows yet. |
| Bond Amount | Displayed by charge as a dollar amount or as values such as NO BAIL SET when no public amount is posted. |
| Custody Status | The app prints Released with a date, Out to Home Detention, or Still Incarcerated based on releaseDate and homeDetention fields. |
| Mugshot | Thumbnail and larger overlay image loaded through the county mugshot route using the internal record id. |
Finding County, State, and Federal Inmates
Horry County does not have a verified SCDC prison or BOP institution in the official lists reviewed. J. Reuben Long Detention Center is the local county-jail layer for pretrial detainees, local sentenced inmates, holds, and people awaiting bond, release, transfer, or court action. Once a person moves to another custody system, the Horry County roster may stop being the active-location source.
| Custody | Where to Look |
|---|---|
| Pretrial, local custody, current or released booking | Horry County Bookings and Releases app, Detention Center phone (843) 915-5140, or in-person detention-center contact. |
| Sentenced South Carolina state prisoner | South Carolina Department of Corrections inmate search, using SCDC ID, SID, first name, last name, or phonetic match. |
| Sentenced federal prisoner | Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator; newly arrested federal pretrial defendants may not appear in BOP until later. |
| Immigration custody | ICE Online Detainee Locator System, using A-Number/country of birth or biographical search information. |
| Victim or release notification | VINELink South Carolina, used for notification rather than as a replacement for the county, SCDC, BOP, or ICE locators. |
The screenshot below is from the SCDC public locator at https://public.doc.state.sc.us/scdc-public/.
Horry County Jail Facilities
The facility map verifies one local detention facility for this project: J. Reuben Long Detention Center. It is operated by the Horry County Sheriff's Office in Conway. The official county pages inspected did not publish a rated capacity on the main detention page; the best sourced population number is the dated live app count described above.
J. Reuben Long Detention Center
4150 J. Reuben Long Avenue
Conway, SC 29526
(843) 915-5140
Confirm visitation and time-sensitive custody details with the facility before travel.
Booking Process in Horry County
A person arrested by Horry County Police, 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, captures the booking photo, records public demographics, and links charges when they are available.
Charges can appear after the booking record is created, so an empty charge list is not proof that no case, hold, warrant, ticket, or court matter exists. The roster may later show release, transfer, discharge, or home-detention status. Horry's bond page says bond hearings and guilty pleas typically occur at 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., but schedules vary; the Magistrate Office at the detention center can be reached at (843) 915-5145.
Cash and Dash is a local Horry County term for bondable pay offenses that do not require the offender to go before a magistrate judge for the bond. The bondable amount paid is the fine amount, but the person must still appear in court on the ticket date. For Cash and Dash charge qualification questions, Booking is listed at 843-915-6911.
Visitation Hours and Rules
Horry County publishes an official visitation page, but the research did not capture a complete schedule, visit length, visitor-ID rule, or parking rule from the page text. Do not rely on a fixed schedule unless the facility confirms it. For time-sensitive visit planning, call J. Reuben Long Detention Center at (843) 915-5140.
| Topic | Officially Located Detail | Where to Confirm |
|---|---|---|
| Schedule | Official visitation page exists; no schedule text was captured in the research output. | Visitation page or Detention Center phone. |
| Visitor ID | Not located in captured official text. | Confirm with J. Reuben Long Detention Center. |
| Visitor parking | Not published in captured official text. | Confirm before arrival in Conway. |
| Attorney visits | Not located in captured official text. | Call the detention center or the responsible court contact. |
| Emergency changes | Not located in captured official text. | Use the detention phone for current conditions. |
How to Contact a Horry County Inmate
The detention-center communication channel is changing. Horry County's detention pages state that starting November 12, 2025, inmate communications transition to NCIC Correctional Services and users should create an account at NCIC.com. Older vendor references should be treated cautiously unless the official county page still names them.
Medical, dental, and mental-health requests are handled through inmate kiosks. A nurse alerts correctional officers about inmates to be seen for sick call, and inmates are assessed at scheduled sick-call times. HIPAA limits what family members can receive without inmate authorization; medical privacy questions can go to Heather Lee, RN, at (843) 915-6899.
Commissary and Inmate Funds
Horry County has an official Deposit Funds page under inmate services. The research confirmed that the page exists but did not capture a named online vendor, fee schedule, deposit limit, or commissary limit. Those details should be checked on the official page or through the detention center before money is sent.
Note: Confirm custody status with J. Reuben Long Detention Center before sending funds, scheduling a visit, or relying on a release date.