Buncombe County Jail

The Detention Facility is made up of the main jail facility and a jail annex, which together have a total housing capacity of 604 inmates. Our facility requires 160 staff, working in shifts, to operate in full and to provide food and care for the inmates. We house an average of more than 500 inmates daily. All individuals who are charged by local law enforcement agencies in Buncombe County are brought to the detention facility on a pre-trial basis, meaning they will wait for their court date(s) at our facility. Inmates are processed and released 24-hours a day upon instruction of the judicial system.