Getting your hands on official, state created records of nearly any kind is, well, difficult at best. Due to an archaic series of difficult laws and institutions that seem to make it their business to be difficult to find, finding most kinds of official records is more often a struggle than not. However, the Alabama Department of Public Health has made certain that, at least for vital records, this is not to be the case.

Arguably one of the finest and most effective institutions of its kind in the county, the Alabama Department of Public Health excels at many tasks, but is the best at one: the providing of Vital Records for persons of the state of Alabama. Whether you are looking for your birth certificate to get a new state identification card because you lost your old one, or you need to access the death record of a deceased relative, the ADPH will be able to directly facilitate your request.

Whatever your reasons for needing to look up the jail and prison record information for Monroe County, they are your own – and doubtless, they are both pressing and important. That is exactly why we have created this series of articles: so that when you need official record information about Alabama, you know exactly where to look for it.

Unfortunately, Monroe County does not provide an active database of persons that are currently serving time, for whatever reason, within their county-wide jail system. Due to this, alternative means must be used to see if someone you know or are related to is currently imprisoned in Monroe County.
The best place to begin your jail and prison records search is with the Alabama Department of Corrections Inmate Search Tool, which can give you a full roster of all perpetrators currently in jail. This tool can be found at http://www.doc.state.al.us/inmsearch.asp.

While some counties in Alabama provide an online database of arrest records and warrants, enabling citizens to easily know whom is in prison and who the police might be looking for, Monroe County is not one of these counties. In fact, Monroe County’s Sheriff’s Office does not even have a website.
But that doesn’t mean that you will not be able to access the arrest records and warrants that you are searching for – just that you will need to use alternate means to do so.