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Columbia County Jail
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Columbia County Jail is a county jail located in Columbia County, Florida. Rated capacity: 256. Reported population: 229. Security level: Maximum. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
The Columbia County Jail is a historic structure at Calhoun and Jefferson Streets in Magnolia, Arkansas. The brick two story structure in Columbia County was designed by Thompson & Harding and was built c. 1920, and is an excellent local example of Italian Renaissance architecture. It is faced in cream-colored brick, and has a terracotta hipped roof. It has an entrance portico with round arches supported by slender columns and gargoyles at its corners.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
256
Current population
229
Occupancy
89%
Year opened
—
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
—
Region
Florida
Security level
Maximum
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
This facility scores 0. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 2 points below national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersData completeness
74%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries
- HIFLD dataset query
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- Georgia Department of Corrections â Locations — State of Georgia
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q5149676)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Columbia County Jail. Retrieved October 28, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/columbia-county-jail
"Columbia County Jail." World Prisons. Accessed October 28, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/columbia-county-jail.
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