Albemarle Jail Overview
Albemarle District Jail is the primary local detention facility for Pasquotank County, but it is not a Pasquotank-only jail. It is a regional local jail serving Pasquotank, Perquimans, and Camden Counties. The operator is the Albemarle District Jail Commission, with daily management by the jail administrator and staff. People arrested in Pasquotank County who are not released at the first stage may be taken to Albemarle for booking, local detention, pretrial custody, and locally committed sentences.
The regional setup matters for lookup work. A person may be arrested by the Pasquotank County Sheriff's Office, Elizabeth City Police Department, or another agency, yet the custody record points to Albemarle District Jail rather than a county-run sheriff jail. The jail's own official pages route public inmate lookup to VINELink. They do not publish a local roster page with a browsable list of inmates, booking photos, charges, housing unit, or bond fields in the reviewed official material.
Albemarle Jail Capacity
The strongest facility-specific population fact is capacity, not a live daily headcount. The official history says the current Albemarle District Jail building is a 248-bed facility with infrastructure that can expand to 500 beds. The former jail began as a 44-bed facility in 1972. After a 1988 project and 1990 occupancy of added cells, approved double-bunking brought the former rated capacity to 90 beds.
Pasquotank County trend data should be read with care because the jail is regional. Vera county-level data estimates Pasquotank's 2024 jail population allocation at 123.27, but that is not the physical headcount inside Albemarle District Jail. It is a county allocation for a county using a regional jail. For a facility page, the official 248-bed capacity is the clean facility number, while county trend estimates are useful only as background.
| Measure | Figure | Source Note |
|---|---|---|
| Current facility capacity | 248 beds | Official jail history and Pasquotank County jail page |
| Expansion infrastructure | 500 beds | Official history of the 2006 construction project |
| Former original jail | 44 beds | Original 1972 regional jail |
| Former expanded rating | 90 beds | 1988 project, 1990 occupancy, approved double-bunking |
Albemarle Jail Inmate Lookup
The official online path for Albemarle District Jail inmate lookup is the jail homepage's Inmate Lookup link, which sends users to VINELink. VINELink and NC SAVAN are used for custody status and notification in North Carolina. NCDAC states that NC SAVAN includes county jail inmates, state prisoners, probationers, parolees, and registered sex offenders, with notification options by phone, email, text, or TTY.
VINELink is the right first step for local jail custody, but it is not the only access channel. New bookings may lag behind intake, names may be misspelled, and a released or transferred person may not appear where expected. If the online search does not answer the custody question, call Albemarle District Jail. If the person has already been sentenced to state prison, use NCDAC Offender Public Information instead. NCDAC explicitly excludes county jail information, so it should not be used for a fresh Pasquotank County jail arrest.
- Open Albemarle District Jail's official website and use the Inmate Lookup route to VINELink.
- Select North Carolina or NC SAVAN if the interface asks for a state or notification system.
- Search by the person's name, and add an ID or date detail only if VINELink offers that filter.
- Call the jail when a new arrest, spelling issue, release, or transfer may explain a missing result.
- Use NCDAC only for sentenced state-prison custody, probation, parole, or older state offender records.
Note: For a broader custody-path overview, the Pasquotank County jail inmate records page separates local jail, court, state prison, federal, and ICE searches.
Albemarle Jail Contact
The public visitor and records contact point is the jail itself. The Pasquotank County Sheriff's Office is an arresting-agency and law-enforcement records fallback, but the official sources do not describe the sheriff as the regional jail operator. For custody confirmation, visitation questions, mail rules, and account questions, start with Albemarle District Jail unless the matter is clearly a sheriff report, warrant, or court record.
Albemarle District Jail
210 Executive Drive South
Elizabeth City, NC 27909
(252) 335-4844
Secondary contact page phone: (252) 335-1579
The jail is in the Pasquotank County Commerce Park area, separate from the downtown courthouse and sheriff offices. Official pages did not publish a named visitor entrance, transit route, public parking rate, or ADA-entry note. Visitors should confirm check-in instructions before travel, especially when a video visit, legal visit, or special accommodation is involved.
Albemarle Jail Visits
Albemarle District Jail social visitation is video-based. The jail states that visits with family members, friends, or clergy are social visits and that all social visits are conducted by video. Off-site social video visits use Securus Online at videovisitanywhere.com. Visitors must create an account, and off-site appointments must be made 24 hours in advance. On-site visitors also schedule through the same site.
Legal visits are different. Visits with legal counsel or legal representatives are privileged visits, so they should not be treated like ordinary social video appointments. The official pages did not publish a separate attorney schedule in the reviewed material. Former inmates also face a jail-specific limit: a former inmate must have been released from Albemarle for at least six months before visiting a current inmate.
| Visit Type | Days | Hours | Fee / Rule |
|---|---|---|---|
| Off-site social video | Monday-Friday | 5:30 p.m.-9 p.m. | $12.95 per 30-minute visit; schedule 24 hours ahead |
| Off-site social video | Saturday | 5:30 p.m.-11 p.m. | $12.95 per 30-minute visit; schedule 24 hours ahead |
| Off-site social video | Sunday | 8 a.m.-11:30 a.m.; 12:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.; 5:30 p.m.-11 p.m. | $12.95 per 30-minute visit; schedule 24 hours ahead |
| On-site video | Not separately listed | Not separately listed | Schedule through videovisitanywhere.com |
| Attorney or legal representative | Not published | Not published | Privileged visit; call jail for procedure |
The Albemarle visitation rules page shows the video visit rules and schedule. The schedule matters because the state prison in Elizabeth City does not use this Albemarle social video schedule.
The screenshot ties the visit rules to the local jail source, including the vendor, fee, and advance scheduling requirement.
Albemarle Jail Mail Money
Inmates may send and receive mail Monday through Friday except holidays. Non-legal mail is searched for contraband. Mail should be addressed with the inmate's name and the jail address. Legal mail to or from legal counsel, courts, and other legitimate legal officials is privileged and generally not read. If contraband is suspected in legal mail, the jail may open it in the inmate's presence and check it without reading it.
Albemarle District Jail uses a cashless inmate account system. Funds can be deposited online through Access Corrections or mailed as a money order or cashier's check. Cash and personal checks by mail are not accepted. Routine non-emergency health-care visits, prescriptions, and restitution for damaged county property may be debited from the account. Remaining balances are returned by debit card when an inmate is released or transferred for more than 24 hours.
| Service | Accepted Route | Important Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Mail address | Inmate name, 210 Executive Drive South, Elizabeth City, NC 27909 | Return address required |
| Online money deposit | Access Corrections | Jail does not publish a local fee table in the research |
| Mailed funds | Money order or cashier's check | No cash and no personal checks by mail |
| Account return | Debit card on release or qualifying transfer | Applies when transferred for more than 24 hours |
| Health or restitution debit | Deducted from inmate account when applicable | Routine non-emergency care, prescriptions, and damage restitution |
Albemarle Jail Intake
The official jail pages do not publish a full booking workflow, so the safe details are the ones the jail actually documents. The Inmate Policies page says inmates receive a handbook after processing. The funds page says an account is opened in the inmate's name at admission and that money in the inmate's possession, including money orders or checks from other correctional facilities, is deposited into that account.
Those facts support a narrow intake summary: a person is arrested or committed, transported to Albemarle District Jail if detention is required, processed under jail rules, assigned an inmate fund account, and given facility rules after processing. North Carolina jail standards support contraband control and security classification, but the reviewed Albemarle pages do not publish exact screening steps, pod assignments, booking-photo publication rules, or release-retention timing for online records.
- Pretrial detainee
- A person held before conviction or final case disposition.
- Locally committed inmate
- A person serving a local sentence or held under local commitment authority.
- Detainer
- A notice or hold from another agency that may affect release from jail.
- Classification
- The jail's internal risk and housing assignment process.
About Albemarle Jail
The jail's history is unusually specific. Camden, Pasquotank, and Perquimans Counties authorized a preliminary study in October 1969 and proceeded with a regional jail pilot program. The original jail opened in 1972. Later crowding led to expansion, double-bunk approval, and then a larger building project. The current facility moved into the Pasquotank County Commerce Park in 2010.
Public program detail is thin for Albemarle District Jail. The jail homepage includes a mission that refers to returning offenders to society as contributing members, but the reviewed inmate pages do not list GED, vocational, substance-use, religious, work-release, tablet, or reentry programs. Medical and mental-health process details are also not published, beyond the funds-page note that routine non-emergency health-care appointments and prescriptions may be charged to the inmate account.
Note: Confirm custody, visit status, and schedule changes with Albemarle District Jail before making the trip to Elizabeth City.