Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site on September 24, 2026.
Newberry County, South Carolina, has about 39,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Newberry County Sheriff's Office, three city agencies and six campus, state or other agencies. An arrest leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the Solicitor files charges, a case in the Newberry County Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Newberry County public records, South Carolina arrest records, South Carolina inmate search and South Carolina criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Newberry County
The Newberry County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Newberry County. It reported 659 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists three cities in Newberry County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Newberry, 10,874 residents: 462 arrests reported for 2025.
- Whitmire, 1,439 residents: 28 arrests reported for 2025.
- Prosperity, 1,244 residents: 46 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
The FBI's agency list also places these agencies in Newberry County: the Department of Health and Environmental Control Drug Control at Newberry, Newberry County South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, the Newberry County Forestry Commission, the Department of Natural Resources in Newberry County and one more (state agency); the Highway Patrol in Newberry County (state police).
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Newberry County
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Newberry County Sheriff's Office: 659 for 2025, 651 for 2024, 808 for 2023, 803 for 2022, 1,052 for 2021 and 949 for 2020.
- Newberry: 462 for 2025, 440 for 2024, 462 for 2023, 509 for 2021, 615 for 2020 and 538 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
- Prosperity: 46 for 2025, 53 for 2024, 70 for 2023, 50 for 2021 and 50 for 2019; 2020 and 2022 are missing months.
- Whitmire: 28 for 2025, 155 for 2022 and 158 for 2019; 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
Together, the four agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,195 arrests that year. The three of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,167 in 2025 against 1,144 in 2024, up 2 percent.
Through July 2026, the three agencies with every month so far on file reported 733 arrests, against 687 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Newberry County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Newberry County and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2021 the jail held about 53 people, down from about 75 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2019, the last year with a capacity figure, was 134 beds, and it ran at 56 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Newberry County Sheriff's Office at newberrycounty.gov/sheriffs-office/newberry-county-detention-center (page title: Newberry County Detention Center | Newberry County, SC), phone (803) 321-2211, 550 Wilson Road Newberry, SC 29108, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 24, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the South Carolina Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at doc.sc.gov/inmate-search-disclaimer.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Newberry County
For Newberry County the place to look is the case index of the Newberry County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at newberrycounty.gov/clerk-court, phone (803) 321-2110).
South Carolina is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the CATCH service lets anyone run a name-based criminal record search online, for $25 a search, through the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Newberry County
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act the agency must answer within 10 business days, or 20 for records more than two years old, and it may charge search, retrieval and copying at the agency's actual cost.
- An arrest by the Newberry County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at (803) 321-2211.
- An arrest in Newberry, Whitmire or Prosperity: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- An arrest by the Department of Health and Environmental Control Drug Control at Newberry, Newberry County South Carolina Law Enforcement Division or the Newberry County Forestry Commission: the records office of the agency involved.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Newberry County Circuit Court, through the court records page at newberrycounty.gov/clerk-court, phone (803) 321-2110.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at newberrycounty.gov (page title: Public Records Fees and Requests | Newberry County, SC).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
Cities in Newberry County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for three of the seven cities in Newberry County: Newberry, Whitmire and Prosperity. Little Mountain, Silverstreet, Pomaria and Peak have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Newberry County Circuit Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Newberry County each year?
The Newberry County Sheriff's Office reported 659 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the four agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,195 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Newberry County?
Ask the Newberry County Sheriff's Office at (803) 321-2211; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at newberrycounty.gov.
Where are people arrested in Newberry County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Newberry County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Newberry County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division: the CATCH service lets anyone run a name-based criminal record search online, for $25. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Newberry County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Newberry County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act the answer is due within 10 business days, or 20 for records more than two years old; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at newberrycounty.gov.
Is this the official Newberry County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.