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Montour County Prison Overview

Montour County Prison is the official local correctional institution for Montour County. The facility is governed through Montour County Prison and the Board of Inspectors of the Montour County Prison. The county's own mission language describes a jail that incarcerates adjudicated offenders and persons suspected of offenses while providing secure custody, basic physical care, medical and mental-health needs, and programs tied to personal growth and reentry.

This is not a PA DOC state prison, a federal prison, or an ICE detention facility. Montour County Prison is the local county jail stage for pretrial detention, commitments, local sentences, and court-related custody. People sentenced to state prison move into the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections system and are searched through the PA DOC locator. Federal and immigration custody use separate federal tools.

The official prison page is the best source for facility staff and public-facing jail information: Montour County Prison department page.

The county page links the practical jail topics that matter most to families: visitation, mail, phone, commissary, personal property, PREA reporting, and public contact information.

Montour County Prison Capacity

The Pennsylvania DOC 2026 county prison inspection schedule lists Montour County Prison with a rated capacity of 46 beds. PA DOC 2024 county statistics break that number into 26 hard-cell beds and 20 dorm or day-room beds. The same 2024 statistics report an average in-house daily population of 20 and an average housed-elsewhere daily population of 6 for Montour County.

Who Montour County Prison Holds

Montour County Prison holds local pretrial detainees, persons suspected of offenses, adjudicated offenders, and local sentenced inmates. A pretrial detainee is a person held before conviction or final case disposition. An adjudicated offender is a person whose case has produced a court finding or sentence. A local sentenced inmate is serving a county-level sentence rather than a state-prison sentence.

The facility is small compared with many Pennsylvania jails, so generic language about large jail complexes or multi-site detention systems does not fit Montour County. No separate Montour work-release center, county annex, city jail, regional jail, state prison, BOP prison, or ICE detention center in Montour County was located in official sources. Municipal agencies may process an arrest, but the county jail for inmate-population purposes is Montour County Prison.

Look Up Montour County Prison Inmates

No official Montour County public inmate roster was located. That means a Montour County Prison custody search should begin with the facility and then move through the correct fallback channel. The channel depends on what kind of custody exists. County jail custody is different from state prison custody, federal custody, immigration detention, and court docket access.

1. Call Montour County Prison at 570-271-3039 for current custody, visitation appointment, mail, and inmate account questions.
2. Use Montour County's Open Records Request Information page for a specific booking record or jail record that is not posted.
3. Use Pennsylvania VINE for custody-status notification when available.
4. Search UJS Case Search for the criminal court docket connected to a Montour County arrest.
5. Use the PA DOC locator for state-sentenced inmates or parolees, not county jail inmates.
6. Use BOP for federal prisoners and ICE's detainee locator for immigration custody.

For a fuller custody-record walkthrough, the Montour County jail inmate records page separates the county jail phone, RTK, VINE, PA DOC, BOP, and ICE paths.

Montour County Prison Contact

The public contact block is direct and should be used before traveling to the jail. The official prison page lists public office hours and staff contacts, including the warden, deputy warden, records officer, and bookkeeper/clerk. Because visitation is by appointment only and prison entry is controlled, confirm the appointment, entrance, and current rules before arriving.

Visiting Montour County Prison

Montour County Prison visitation is by appointment only. The official visitation PDF says each inmate is assigned a visitation day and time, and visitors use the East Market Street entrance to the prison. Visitors need valid photo identification and must be on the approved visitation list. Family members under 18 must visit with a legal guardian, and non-family members under 18 are not permitted.

Alcohol, tobacco, and weapons are not permitted on prison property. Lockers are available for property that cannot enter the visitation area, but the prison is not responsible for items left in lockers. Visits may be denied or ended at the direction of prison officials, and visitation calls are recorded and monitored.

Mail at Montour County Prison

Montour County Prison handles incoming and outgoing mail Monday through Saturday. Mail should use the inmate's name, including suffixes such as Jr., Sr., II, or III when known, followed by Montour County Prison and the Church Street address. A return address is required. Incoming mail is opened and checked for contraband.

Montour Prison Phone and Money

Montour County Prison uses GTL for inmate phone service. Inmates may make debit or prepaid calls. Calls are recorded and monitored except legal calls. The prison phone and commissary PDF lists GTL contact number 1-814-949-3303. Funds can be added through offenderconnect.com, by mailed money order, or by placing a money order in the Church Street entrance money-order slot.

Montour Prison Property Rules

The personal-property rules are unusually specific. General-population property can include limited clothing, religious items, glasses or contacts, legal material, and a small number of photographs. The rules also list blackout windows when property will not be received, including several daily meal or count periods during weekdays and weekends.

Montour County Prison Programs

PA DOC 2024 county statistics report that Montour County Prison had Drug and Alcohol programs, Education programs, Social Services programs, and Counseling Services. The same state workbook did not report a distinct re-entry program for Montour. The county mission statement still emphasizes personal growth, development, and positive reintroduction to society, so program language should be kept precise rather than broad.

The Jan. 31, 2025 PA DOC snapshot counted 6 male inmates on psychotropic medications and 6 male inmates on the mental-health caseload. The report listed 2 days of medication supplied upon release. Because the same snapshot listed no female inmates, the female mental-health counts were zero. County prison standards in 37 Pa. Code Chapter 95 cover medical services, treatment services, classification, housing, mail, visits, phone, commissary, discipline, security, investigations, and sanitation.

Montour Prison PREA Reporting

Montour County Prison posts a zero-tolerance notice for institutional sexual harassment, sexual assault, and sexual abuse. Reports may be made by email to Deputy Warden Todd Leffler at tleffler@montourcounty.gov or by mail to PREA Coordinator / Warden, Montour County Prison, 255 Church Street, Danville, PA 17821. The notice says policies and procedures have been developed under federal Prison Rape Elimination Act standards.