Search the Duplin County Inmate Population

Duplin County Inmate Population Snapshot

The active local custody map for Duplin County is centered on the Duplin County Detention Center, the sheriff-operated local confinement facility in Kenansville. The county detention page states that the facility is responsible for care, control, and custody of Duplin County inmates, and that no person is held except by court order or other lawful authority. That point matters for the Duplin County inmate population because the jail count is not a general police list. It is a custody count for people booked into the county detention workflow.

The 2026 North Carolina Jail Administrators Association directory lists the current Duplin County Jail at 208 Duplin Street with a rated capacity of 97 beds. The Citizen Connect current-confinements roster showed 141 inmates during the research inspection on June 23, 2026. That live number changes, so it should be read as an observed count, not a permanent daily average. The same research found no active state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention facility inside Duplin County. Sentenced state prisoners from Duplin cases move into the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction system after transfer.

Duplin County Jail Population Data

Duplin County does not publish a full monthly jail dashboard on the county site. The strongest local population sources are the live Citizen Connect count, the state jail administrators directory, the Vera county trend series cited in the research, Census QuickFacts for the resident base, and local reporting on the replacement jail project. The figures below keep the source and date attached because the Duplin County inmate population can differ from a bed count, an annual average, or a project planning number.

The Census QuickFacts page for Duplin County gives useful resident context for the jail figures.

Resident population is not the same as the jail population, but it gives scale when reading observed custody counts and confinement rates.

Duplin County Inmate Population Trends

The multi-year data in the research shows that Duplin County's average daily jail population has moved above and below the current rated capacity for years. Vera's county series listed an average daily population of 129 in 2018, 114 in 2019, 84.25 in 2020, 112.5 in 2021, 105 in 2022, 105.25 in 2023, and 103 in 2024. Those annual averages do not replace the live roster, but they show why a single current count should not be treated as the whole story.

Duplin County Jail Capacity

Local reporting gives the Duplin County inmate population an important facility context. Duplin Journal reported in 2024 that county commissioners moved forward with a new detention center project in the $44.1 million range. WCTI reported the July 2024 groundbreaking and expected 2026 completion. Correctional News described a 57,000-square-foot replacement detention center designed by Moseley Architects with 250 beds, six housing units, and two segregation units. Duplin Journal also reported that Sheriff Stratton Stokes said 38 inmates were housed outside the county during the project period.

Those project reports should not be blended into the current jail count. The current capacity source in the research is the 2026 jail administrators directory, which lists 97 rated beds for the Duplin County Jail. The replacement project may change future capacity, housing, and classification options, but the county detention page and Citizen Connect roster remained the official custody channels in the inspected sources.

Duplin County Inmate Population Laws

North Carolina law explains why selected Duplin County inmate population information is public while other material stays restricted. G.S. 132-1 broadly defines public records made or received in public business. G.S. 132-6 requires public inspection and copies as promptly as possible, subject to lawful fees and exceptions. G.S. 132-1.4 treats criminal investigation files differently but identifies public law-enforcement and court information, including returned warrants and indictments unless sealed.

Search Duplin County Jail Roster

The official search channel starts at the Duplin County inmate-search warning page, which routes to Southern Software's Citizen Connect Inmate Confinements portal. The county page says the search provides selected offender information under the spirit of the North Carolina Public Records Act. It warns that information may change quickly, that some offenders may be excluded at law-enforcement discretion, and that released-inmate searches are limited to the previous 24-hour time frame.

The Citizen Connect current confinement page is the core lookup screen for the Duplin County inmate population.

The roster supports current confinement, recent admits, date ranges, charge search, and arresting-agency search, which is useful when the arrest came from Wallace, Warsaw, Beulaville, Kenansville, Rose Hill, Magnolia, Faison, Highway Patrol, SBI, or another listed agency.

1. Open the county inmate-search page, read the warning, and continue to Citizen Connect.
2. Use Current Confinements for people held now in the Duplin County Detention Center.
3. Use a last name or partial name when the list is long.
4. Use Admits by Date Range, Charges, or Arresting Agency when the name search is unclear.
5. Open View Full Details to read the booking card fields.

Duplin County Roster Fields

The roster is more useful than a static PDF because it provides several search paths. It can show people currently held, people admitted in recent time windows, charge-based results, and agency-based results. The county warning still applies. A missing online result does not prove a person was not arrested or is not held somewhere else.

What Duplin Inmate Records Show

A Duplin County inmate record in Citizen Connect is a booking and custody record, not a conviction record. Current cards inspected in the research showed a full name, mugshot or fallback image, age, race abbreviation, sex abbreviation, date of birth, booking date, arresting agency, arrest date and time, bond total, charge count, charge names, and per-charge bond when present. The public detail did not show housing pod, cell, address, warrant number, court date, projected release date, medical notes, or narrative reports.

Booking

The jail intake event that creates a custody record after an arrest, warrant, court remand, or lawful hold.

Bond

A release condition set by a magistrate or court, such as secured, unsecured, cash, or promise to appear.

Detainer

A notice or request from another agency that may affect release after local charges are addressed.

NCDAC

The North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, used for state prison, probation, and parole records, not county jail records.

State Federal ICE Searches

The county jail roster covers Duplin County Detention Center custody. It does not cover sentenced state prisoners, federal prisoners, or immigration detainees unless the person also has a county booking record. Use the NCDAC Offender Public Information Search for North Carolina state prison offenders, probationers, and parolees. NCDAC states that its database does not include county jail information. Use the BOP inmate locator for federal inmates from 1982 to present, and use ICE ODLS for immigration detention.

Duplin County Detention Facility

The Facility Map identifies one active local detention facility for Duplin County: Duplin County Detention Center. It holds pretrial detainees, people booked after Duplin County arrests, locally sentenced inmates when ordered to local custody, and holds from other lawful agencies when they appear in the jail workflow. No active NCDAC prison, BOP facility, or ICE detention center was found inside the county in the current official lists.

Duplin County Jail Services

After a person is found in the Duplin County inmate population, the next questions often involve visits, phone calls, mail, money, and medical care. The county names HomeWAV as the primary video visitation channel. PayTel handles inmate phone service. Non-legal mail is scanned through a Greensboro processing address using Facility ID 5055, while legal mail goes directly to the detention center mailing address. Commissary and care packages use an outside vendor, with lobby kiosk and online deposit options.

The official visitation page shows HomeWAV as the primary visit channel for Duplin County inmates.

On-site visits are limited to special circumstances with prior approval of the Chief Jail Administrator, so callers should verify approval before traveling to Kenansville.

Duplin County Public Records

When the roster does not answer a records question, the documented county public-records fallback is Duplin County's public-records request page. The page directs requesters to email publicrecordsrequest@duplinnc.gov for county information deemed public by law. A useful jail records request should include the person's full name, date of birth if known, booking date, BookingID if known, and the exact record requested, such as a booking record or booking photograph.

For court records after a booking, use the North Carolina Judicial Branch rather than the jail. Duplin County is an eCourts county, and the Judicial Branch announced eCourts went live for Duplin on February 3, 2025. The NC eCourts Portal and Duplin courthouse contacts are the proper channels for case numbers, criminal calendars, charging documents, dispositions, and court dates.

Duplin County Inmate FAQ