Montour County Inmate Population
The Montour County inmate population is reported through county prison data collected by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Office of County Inspections and Services. The local facility is Montour County Prison, a county correctional institution at the center of Montour County jail custody. It is not a Pennsylvania state prison. The county prison holds local pretrial detainees, persons suspected of offenses, adjudicated offenders, and local sentenced inmates while their cases, commitments, or short sentences are handled through Montour County courts.
The population count changes when police make arrests, courts set bail, cases move from Magisterial District Court to Common Pleas, or a sentenced person is transferred to the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections locator. Because Montour County is Pennsylvania's smallest county by land area, generic language about a large jail system does not fit. The researched record points to one local detention facility, with state, federal, and immigration custody handled by separate systems outside the county prison roster path.
Montour County Inmate Population Statistics
The strongest sourced figures come from the PA DOC 2024 county statistics workbook and the PA DOC 2026 county prison inspection schedule. Those sources list a 46-bed rated capacity for Montour County Prison and a 2024 average in-house daily population of 20. The same 2024 workbook reports 172 admissions and 166 discharges. The Census QuickFacts estimate for Montour County was 17,868 residents as of July 1, 2025, which puts the local jail population in the context of a very small county.
| Measure | Figure | Source / Year |
|---|---|---|
| Rated bed capacity | 46 | PA DOC county prison inspection schedule, 2026 |
| Hard-cell beds | 26 | PA DOC county statistics workbook, 2024 data |
| Dorm/day-room beds | 20 | PA DOC county statistics workbook, 2024 data |
| Average in-house daily population | 20 | PA DOC county statistics workbook, 2024 data |
| Average housed elsewhere daily population | 6 | PA DOC county statistics workbook, 2024 data |
| Admissions / discharges | 172 / 166 | PA DOC county statistics workbook, 2024 data |
The PA DOC county inspections and statistics page explains that the state inspection office reviews county prisons and publishes county-level statistical material. The figures above should be read as official reported jail data, not a live count for a person booked today.
Montour County Inmate Population Trends
Montour County's in-house daily population rose from 12 in 2021 to 20 in 2024, based on PA DOC county statistics. The increase is real in the five-year table, but it remains below the facility's rated capacity. The research found no official overcrowding order, consent decree, active DOJ investigation, or new jail construction record in the reviewed official county and PA DOC sources.
| Year | Average In-House Daily Population | Admissions | Discharges |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 14 | 141 | 146 |
| 2021 | 12 | 113 | 120 |
| 2022 | 14 | 161 | 152 |
| 2023 | 17 | 170 | 172 |
| 2024 | 20 | 172 | 166 |
For a current custody question, the trend table is only background. A new arrest may not appear in any public web roster because no official Montour County online jail roster was located in the county, prison, sheriff, or CRIMEWATCH sources reviewed for the research.
Montour County Jail Population Makeup
The PA DOC Jan. 31, 2025 snapshot counted 16 people in the Montour County Prison population. The snapshot listed 16 males and 0 females. Race and ethnicity counts were 14 White males, 1 Black male, and 1 Hispanic male. Age counts were spread from 18-19 through 55 and older, with 4 males in the 20-24 group and 4 males in the 55-and-older group.
Pre-sentenced counts are also useful because they show how much of the Montour County inmate population may still be awaiting case outcomes. In 2024, the quarterly pre-sentenced counts were 6, 17, 20, and 14. That means bail decisions, detainers, first appearances, and case speed can affect the jail count before any final conviction or sentence is entered.
- Pretrial detainee
- A person held before final disposition or conviction.
- Sentenced inmate
- A person serving a sentence after a court disposition.
- Detainer
- A hold from another court, probation/parole office, state, federal, or immigration authority.
- Classification
- The intake process used to assess needs and assign housing or programs.
Montour County Jail Capacity
Montour County Prison's 2024 average in-house daily population of 20 was about 43.5% of the 46-bed rated capacity. If the average housed-elsewhere population of 6 is added, the broader custody responsibility was about 26 people, or roughly 56.5% of rated local capacity. These calculations come from the PA DOC figures in the research file and should not be used as a current bed-availability statement.
Capacity note: A bed-capacity figure describes the facility, while a custody search must still confirm whether a named person is held today.
Laws for Montour County Inmate Data
Several Pennsylvania laws and rules shape access to the Montour County inmate population and related records. The Pennsylvania Office of Open Records provides Right-to-Know Law forms and resources for agency-record requests. CHRIA, the Criminal History Record Information Act, controls dissemination of criminal-history information and investigative material. County correctional standards in Title 37 Chapter 95 govern admissions, release, classification, housing, health services, visits, mail, phone access, commissary, reports, and investigations.
Key records rules:
18 Pa.C.S. Chapter 91 governs criminal-history record dissemination and limits certain investigative or intelligence information.
37 Pa. Code Chapter 95 sets county correctional institution standards, including admission, classification, visits, mail, phones, and statistical reporting.
61 Pa.C.S. Chapter 17 governs county jail oversight boards and annual written reports on population, conditions, and practices.
Search the Montour County Inmate Population
No official Montour County jail roster, current-inmate list, booking report, or county inmate-profile search was located on the official prison page, sheriff page, CRIMEWATCH portal, or county site search results reviewed in the research. That is the key lookup fact for Montour County. A custody search should start with the prison for current jail status, then move to records requests and statewide systems based on the type of custody.
- Call Montour County Prison at 570-271-3039 for current custody, visitation appointment, mail, and account questions the prison can answer.
- Use the Montour County Sheriff's CRIMEWATCH portal for official sheriff notices, warrants, tips, alerts, and posted public-safety content.
- File a narrow request through the Montour County Open Records Request Information page when a booking record, mugshot, or jail record is not posted online.
- Use Pennsylvania VINE for custody-status notification where available.
- Search PA DOC for sentenced state inmates and parolees, BOP for federal prisoners, and ICE for immigration custody.
Released or past inmate records may require a Right-to-Know request with the person's full name, date of birth if known, approximate booking or arrest date, agency, and the exact record requested. Broad requests are harder for an agency to process and more likely to run into exemptions or unclear scope.
Montour County Custody Search Fields
The county research did not locate an official Montour County roster search form, so there are no local online jail roster fields to render. The practical search fields appear in fallback systems: PA DOC, BOP, ICE, VINE, UJS, and the county RTK form. Each system answers a different question.
| System | Fields or Inputs | Use It For |
|---|---|---|
| Montour County Prison phone | Name and enough identifying context to ask a narrow custody question | Current local jail custody and visit/account questions |
| County RTK form | Requester contact details, record request text, delivery method, copy type, certification | Specific jail, booking, or agency records not posted online |
| PA DOC locator | Last name or inmate number; first name helps | State-sentenced inmates and parolees, not county inmates |
| BOP locator | Register number or name, race, sex, age | Federal inmates from 1982 to present |
| ICE locator | A-number or name, country of birth, birth date | Immigration detainee searches |
The official Montour County Prison page is the best source for facility contact, visitation, mail, PREA, phone, commissary, and personal-property links. The screenshot below shows the county prison page rather than a roster because the official research did not find a live roster page.
The page supports the local fallback chain: start with the prison for immediate custody questions and use records channels when a public web profile is not available.
Montour County Jail vs State Prison
A Montour County jail search and a Pennsylvania state inmate search are not the same task. Montour County Prison is a county correctional institution for local detainees and local sentenced custody. PA DOC locators are for state-sentenced inmates and parolees. BOP and ICE locators serve still different custody tracks.
| Custody Track | Where to Look | What It Does Not Cover |
|---|---|---|
| County jail custody | Montour County Prison phone and county RTK process | State-sentenced prison location after transfer |
| State sentence or parole | PA DOC Inmate/Parolee Locator | People held in county facilities |
| Federal sentence | BOP Inmate Locator | County jail, state DOC, or ICE custody |
| Immigration detention | ICE Online Detainee Locator | Routine county criminal custody |
Montour County Court Records After Arrest
Court records answer a different question than jail custody. After a jail arrest, formal charge records are searched through Pennsylvania UJS Case Search, the Montour County Clerk of Courts, the magisterial district court stage, and the District Attorney's charging process. A docket may show charges, filing date, bail actions, court events, docket entries, and disposition. It will not serve as a live jail roster or booking photo archive.
The UJS case-search screenshot is included because it is one of the main official paths for case records after a Montour County arrest.
Use court dockets to read the charge path, then use prison or records-request channels for custody and booking records.
Montour County Detention Facility
The facility map identifies one local detention facility for this site. No separate Montour County work-release center, annex, city jail, regional jail, state prison, BOP prison, or ICE detention facility was located in official sources. Municipal police may process an arrestee, but the local jail facility for custody purposes is Montour County Prison.
- Montour County Prison holds local pretrial detainees, adjudicated offenders, local sentenced inmates, and county detainees awaiting court action.
Montour County Prison Programs
The county mission statement says Montour County Prison provides basic physical, medical, and mental-health needs while offering programs for personal growth and positive reintroduction to society. The PA DOC 2024 statistics report Drug and Alcohol programs, Education programs, Social Services programs, and Counseling Services. The same workbook did not report a distinct reentry program category for Montour County.
Mental-health data is concrete. The Jan. 31, 2025 snapshot reported 6 male inmates on psychotropic medications and 6 male inmates on the mental-health caseload, with no female inmates in those categories because the population snapshot listed no females. The prison reported 2 days of medication supplied upon release.
Montour County Inmate Population FAQ
How many people are in the Montour County inmate population? PA DOC 2024 county statistics reported an average in-house daily population of 20 at Montour County Prison. A Jan. 31, 2025 snapshot counted 16 people. These are reported statistics, not a live roster.
Is there an official Montour County inmate roster online? No official current jail roster or inmate-profile database was located in the researched official county, prison, sheriff, or CRIMEWATCH sources. Start with Montour County Prison at 570-271-3039, then use RTK, VINE, UJS, PA DOC, BOP, or ICE depending on the custody question.
Where do sentenced state prisoners from Montour County appear? Sentenced state prisoners and parolees are searched through the PA DOC locator, not the county prison. PA DOC states that its locator excludes people in county facilities.
Can a past booking be requested? A specific past booking or jail record may be requested through Montour County's Right-to-Know process. Include the person's full name, the approximate date, the agency, and the exact record sought.