U.S. County Jail Roster & Inmate Search

Look up county jail rosters and inmate custody records by state and county. Every published county page is built from that county's official booking source and includes practical guidance on bond, inmate money, visitation and court records.

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How this directory works

A jail roster is a custody record, not a court docket. It lists people recorded as being in local custody at the time the source data was published, together with booking details and listed charges. Charges shown on a roster are allegations; every person is presumed innocent unless convicted in court.

We publish a county page only when we have a verified official source for that county. Each page is rebuilt from that county's own booking feed several times a day, and every page states when its last successful sync happened. Custody status, bond amounts and release details change constantly, so confirm anything time-sensitive with the jail or court directly. See our corrections and removal page if a record needs to be reviewed.

What this site does not publish

No booking photographs, no dates of birth, no home addresses. That is not a stylistic choice: the exclusion is enforced in code by a test that fails the build if any of those fields appear in the published data, so a new county cannot quietly introduce them. Juvenile facilities are excluded entirely.

Corrections and removals are free, always. We do not sell removals, we do not work with reputation-management firms, and no payment will ever influence a decision. An arrest record attached to someone's name is a serious thing, and charging for its removal turns the harm into the product.

What the roster cannot tell you

Someone booked within the last few hours is the most common search here and the one a roster handles worst: the county's own feed has not refreshed yet, so no online system shows them. The booking desk is the only real-time source, which is why every county page carries the jail's address and phone number alongside the roster.

A county can also hold more than one facility. If a search comes up empty for someone you know is in custody there, they may be at a different facility in the same county, held for another agency, or already released. The guide to finding someone in custody works through each case.

Coverage is partial, and we say so

510 counties out of roughly 3,000 in the United States. County jails buy their software rather than building it, and a county appears here only if its vendor publishes a machine-readable roster at all. That is why some large metropolitan jails are missing while small rural counties are present, and it means these totals are not a national figure. The data report explains the method, the coverage skew and the limits in full, and the aggregate data is free to download under CC BY 4.0.