Look Up Union County Inmates

Union County Jail Roster

The official online roster is the Union County Sheriff P2C Inmate Inquiry. It is free, public, and powered by Superion P2C. The sheriff's inmate inquiry page redirects users to this P2C roster. The form is direct: search by Last Name and First Name, then review the result table. The roster covers people currently held in the Union County Jail, not every person ever arrested in Union County and not people who have moved to NC DAC, BOP, or ICE custody.

Union County Jail is operated by the Union County Sheriff's Office under Sheriff Eddie Cathey. The jail is the public local confinement facility for adults arrested by county deputies and municipal agencies, including Monroe Police arrests that move into county custody. The roster should be read as a current local custody tool. For court charges after booking, use NC eCourts and the Union County Judicial Center. For booking photos, use the details icon and public-record route described on the Union County jail mugshots page.

For a visual check, the P2C Inmate Inquiry page screenshot shows the Union County roster search form and result table.

The image matches the research finding: Union County's public roster starts with name fields and a row-based result table, not a broad multi-filter jail database.

Search Union County Jail Records

A good Union County inmate records search starts narrow enough to avoid false matches but broad enough to catch spelling issues. The visible P2C form does not offer a booking-number search, charge filter, facility selector, date range, or wildcard instructions. Start with what the form actually accepts. If a search does not work, do not assume the person is free or was never booked. New bookings, releases, transfers, and spelling variations can all affect the result.

1. Open the Union County Sheriff P2C Inmate Inquiry.
2. Enter the last name first, especially if the first name may be shortened or misspelled.
3. Add the first name only if the roster returns too many close matches.
4. Review the result row for name, race/sex/age code, primary charge, arrest date, booking agency, and details.
5. Use the details report icon if the portal opens the row-level report.
6. If no result appears, call the jail or check the other custody systems before reaching a conclusion.

The P2C page did not publish a refresh schedule or a released-inmate retention rule. Treat it as a current inmate inquiry and use the Daily Bulletin, Arrest / Incident Search, public-record request, court record, or state/federal locator for records outside current county custody.

Union County Roster Search Fields

The Union County roster search-field table is simple, and that simplicity affects how searches should be run. Last name is the best starting point because the result table uses last-name-first formatting. First name can narrow common names. The details icon is not a direct stable profile URL in the page source, so it should be described as an in-page report action rather than a bookmarkable inmate page.

Union County Inmate Record Fields

The visible Union County inmate profile fields are limited at the top level. A result row shows the inmate's name with a parenthetical race, sex, and age code, one primary charge, the arrest date, booking agency, and a details icon. The inspected result table did not show a housing unit, bond amount, full charge list, court date, or stable profile URL. Some detail may appear after the report icon opens, but the public table alone should not be treated as the full jail file.

The P2C Daily Bulletin is different. It can show arrest events with case type, case number, charge text, person, location, date and time, and officer. It also warns that some events may not be reported the same day. That makes it useful for arrest context, but not a substitute for a current-custody roster.

Union County Inmate Lookup Fallbacks

Union County inmate records have several access channels because custody can move quickly. The jail roster is first for current local custody. The jail information line is next when the roster is silent, a booking is new, a spelling may be wrong, or a release or transfer is possible. The Sheriff's Office app is another public route because UCSO advertises Jail and Inmate Information and Inmate Search as app features. Records copies that are not online go through Union County's public-record process.

• County roster: use P2C Inmate Inquiry for current Union County Jail custody.
• Phone: call the jail information line at (704) 292-2600 or Union County Jail at (704) 283-3641.
• In person: call first because official inmate-record lobby hours were not located.
• Public records: use Union County NextRequest for existing records not available online.
• App: use the official UCSO app as an added sheriff information channel.
• Notifications: use VINELink for custody-status and release notification where available.

County, State, Federal Records

Union County Jail records and NC DAC records serve different purposes. The county jail holds local pretrial detainees and short-term local inmates. NC DAC covers sentenced prison offenders, probationers, parolees, and historical state offender records. The BOP locator covers federal inmates from 1982 to present, while ICE ODLS covers immigration detainee searches. A person can start in Union County Jail and later appear only in a state, federal, or immigration locator.

For a statewide visual reference, the NC DAC Offender Public Information search screenshot shows the broader search fields used after a Union County case moves beyond local jail custody.

Those fields, including offender status, offender number, race, birth date, and age range, make the state locator a different tool from the county jail roster.

Union County Jail Contact

The main detention facility for Union County inmate records is the Union County Jail. The sheriff's detention page, county office directory, and jail directory sources point to the Presson Road jail campus in Monroe. Because the research did not locate public inmate-record lobby hours, call before going to the jail or sheriff's office for records, visits, or payment questions.

Booking Process in Union County

Union County's detention page states that intake includes medical and mental-health screenings, fingerprint submissions, background checks, and a classification process that assigns the inmate's area of residence. Those steps are important because the roster result is only the public-facing end of a larger custody process. The roster may later show name, primary charge, arrest date, booking agency, and details, but not every intake fact.

A practical sequence is arrest, transport or custody intake, identity and charge processing, medical and mental-health screening, fingerprint submission, background check, classification, bond or release review, and then ongoing custody, release, or transfer. North Carolina pretrial release rules can involve a magistrate or judge. Holds, warrants, probation matters, or other agency detainers can change the path.

First appearance

An early court event where rights, counsel, release conditions, and next steps may be addressed.

Unsecured bond

A release condition where money is owed only if conditions are violated.

Surety bond

A bond posted through a licensed bail bondsman, usually for a nonrefundable fee.

No-bond hold

A custody status that requires court action or another condition before release.

Union County Visitation Rules

Visitation is handled through ICSolutions. Union County's official inmate support page states that inmates are allowed up to two 25-minute visits a day and that visitation is limited to Thursday through Sunday from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. It also gives onsite video rules through ICSolutions, including scheduled visits, valid U.S.-issued ID, one adult age 16 or older per scheduled visit, and one youth age 15 or younger with that adult. A historical 2020 offsite-only note appears on the same page, so confirm current onsite status before relying on older text.

The ICSolutions Union County page shows the video visitation system and scheduling path.

The vendor page supports the research finding that Union County visitation is video-based and requires visitor registration and scheduling before use.

Union County Inmate Support

The sheriff's page says inmates can be contacted during visitation time, by telephone, or by mail. The research did not locate an official Union County Jail mail format, commissary vendor, deposit fee table, phone-rate table, tablet program, book policy, or package policy. Do not use vendor pages for another Union County or another state. Confirm instructions with Union County Jail before mailing items, trying to add funds, or setting up accounts.

Union County Jail Records Requests

Use Union County NextRequest for existing jail or sheriff records that are not available through P2C. A useful request gives the person's full name, date of birth if known, arrest date, booking date, case number if known, P2C details, and the exact record sought. For example, ask for a booking sheet, arrest report, jail custody record, or public booking photograph for a specific booking date.

Union County's public-record policy says requests are processed as promptly as possible and in first-come, first-served order. It also says the county does not create or compile records outside regular business needs. If a request requires more than four hours of collective staff time, the county may charge $40 per hour after the initial four hours, with an estimate or not-to-exceed amount in advance.