The Pend Oreille County Inmate Population
The Pend Oreille County inmate population is concentrated in one local detention facility: Pend Oreille County Corrections in Newport. The jail is run by the Pend Oreille County Sheriff's Office and holds adult men and women who are awaiting trial, serving local sentences, waiting for transport, or housed for an outside agency. The county corrections page describes a 40-bed jail, while the WASPC Jail Booking and Reporting System CY2024 statistics row reports 36 facility beds for the sheriff's office. Those are two official bed-count contexts, so both should be read with their source labels.
Local custody can change quickly. New arrests, bail decisions, first appearances, sentence starts, releases, and transfers all affect the Pend Oreille County inmate population. A person may appear first in the county's current inmate list, then disappear after release or transfer. If a felony sentence sends the person to state prison, the better search source becomes the Washington State Department of Corrections incarcerated search. Federal or immigration custody follows separate BOP, U.S. Marshals, or ICE channels.
Pend Oreille County Inmate Population Statistics
WASPC's CY2024 jail statistics are the main source for annual Pend Oreille County inmate population measures. The row reports 15.58 average daily population, 384 annual admissions, 17 average days of stay, and no reported in-custody deaths. The county jail's own corrections page gives the public facility description and the 40-bed count. The July 2, 2026 official current inmate list PDF showed 19 total housed inmates, which is a point-in-time count rather than an annual average.
| Measure | Figure | Source / Year |
|---|---|---|
| Average daily population | 15.58 | WASPC CY2024 jail statistics |
| Facility beds | 36 | WASPC CY2024 jail statistics |
| County descriptive bed count | 40 | Pend Oreille County Corrections page |
| Annual admissions / bookings | 384 | WASPC CY2024 jail statistics |
| Average length of stay | 17 days | WASPC CY2024 ALOS field |
| Current housed inmates | 19 | Official Inmate List PDF, July 2, 2026 |
Pend Oreille County Jail Population Trends
The available official trend record is thin but useful. WASPC provides the annual CY2024 average daily population. The county's July 2, 2026 Daily Press inmate list provides a current count for that specific report date. The research did not locate official Pend Oreille rows for 2023 or 2022 in the extracted data, and no county dashboard with daily historical counts was found. That means the trend should be framed as sourced snapshots, not a full multi-year line chart.
| Year / Date | ADP or Count | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| CY2024 | 15.58 ADP | Official WASPC jail statistics for the Pend Oreille County Sheriff's Office. |
| July 2, 2026 | 19 current housed inmates | Official county current inmate list PDF in the Daily Press folder. |
| 2023 and 2022 | Not located | No official Pend Oreille row was extracted for those years in the research file. |
The WASPC source also reports an outage flag for Pend Oreille, so annual values should be cited as the source reports them. No official overcrowding order, jail closure plan, DOJ investigation, or Pend Oreille-specific consent decree was found in the research materials.
Who Makes Up the Pend Oreille County Inmate Population
The county corrections page says the jail houses both male and female inmates who are sentenced or awaiting trial. It also states that the jail houses people from other agencies and keeps housing contracts with Washington DOC, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Border Patrol, immigration, and U.S. Customs Enforcement. The county did not publish a public breakdown of pretrial versus sentenced inmates or local versus outside-agency holds. WASPC did publish CY2024 demographic averages.
- Sex breakdown: WASPC CY2024 reports 12.25 male ADP and 3.42 female ADP, with 0 unknown gender ADP.
- Race fields: WASPC reports 14.25 White ADP, 0.17 Black ADP, 0.58 American Indian or Alaska Native ADP, 0 Asian ADP, 0 Hispanic ADP, and 0.33 unknown race ADP.
- Custody type: The jail holds people awaiting trial and people serving sentences, but no public count split was located.
- Outside agencies: County materials mention DOC, BIA, Border Patrol, immigration, and ICE contracts without publishing a separate count.
Average daily population figures can include decimals because they are annual averages, not unique-person counts. A small jail can show fractional averages even when each daily roster lists whole people.
Pend Oreille County Jail Capacity
Capacity is reported in two ways. The county corrections page calls Pend Oreille County Corrections a 40-bed facility. WASPC's CY2024 statistics row lists 36 facility beds. Using the county's 40-bed description, the CY2024 average daily population of 15.58 was about 39 percent of capacity. Using the WASPC bed field, the same average was about 43 percent. The July 2, 2026 current count of 19 was about 48 percent of 40 beds or 53 percent of 36 beds.
No official Pend Oreille County overcrowding litigation, capacity cap, or new jail construction plan was located in the research file. Statewide jail-cost and DOC contract-bed issues still matter because Pend Oreille County Corrections says it accepts some outside-agency housing. The Washington DOC Jail Bed Rate Study Report, finalized March 18, 2025, examined local jail costs tied to people held for DOC supervision violations.
Laws Governing Pend Oreille County Inmate Records
Washington law separates basic jail-register access from broader inmate-file access. That distinction is important for the Pend Oreille County inmate population because the public Daily Press PDFs show limited jail roster and booking fields, while fuller jail records, incident reports, and booking-photo questions may require a public-records request and legal review.
Key Washington sources:
RCW 70.48.100 identifies basic public jail-register fields and restricts many other inmate records, including routine booking-photo release.
RCW 42.56.030 states Washington's Public Records Act is construed to promote access unless an exemption applies.
RCW 42.56.520 sets the general five-business-day agency response rule for public-records requests.
Chapter 70.48 RCW includes statewide jail standards and data-review language covering capacity, average daily population, services, and deaths in custody.
For the public, the practical order is simple: check the county PDF roster first, use courts for filed charges, use public-records channels for records not posted, and use DOC, BOP, ICE, or VINE when custody has moved outside the local jail.
How Pend Oreille County Publishes Jail Population
The sheriff and county pages label the roster path as Jail Inmate Roster or Inmate Search, but the destination is not a database form. It is the official Daily Press Box folder. That folder holds dated PDF files, including current inmate lists and jail booking summaries. The current inmate list is the custody snapshot. The booking summary is the recent intake report.
The county-linked Daily Press folder shows why a Pend Oreille County inmate search can feel different from searches in larger counties. There is no last-name field on the county website. Users open the newest PDF and use the browser or PDF viewer's find tool. The July 2, 2026 booking report ran from 3:00 a.m. on July 1 through 3:00 a.m. on July 2, so a booking after that window may appear in a later PDF.
The county roster source is shown in the official Daily Press folder.
The folder view matters because current custody and recent bookings are published as separate dated reports, not as one live profile page.
Search the Pend Oreille County Inmate Population
A current Pend Oreille County inmate lookup starts with the newest Inmate List PDF. The list is alphabetical by name and includes booking number, jail location code, time incarcerated, and scheduled release field. Charges do not appear on the current list. To see booking charges for a recent arrest, open the newest Jail Booking PDF and review the charge table. For a fuller record, use the sheriff records request process or the court record path.
- Open the county corrections page or sheriff page, then follow the Inmate Search or Jail Inmate Roster link to the Daily Press folder.
- Choose the newest Inmate List PDF for people currently housed at Pend Oreille County Corrections.
- Use the PDF viewer's find tool to search by last name, first name, booking number, location text, or visible charge text where the report supports it.
- Open the newest Jail Booking PDF when the question is about a recent arrest, intake time, booking number, statute, or related incident number.
- If the person is missing, call the jail at (509) 447-3151, use the public-records portal, or check DOC, BOP, ICE, and VINE depending on the custody type.
Pend Oreille County Roster Search Fields
Because the county publishes PDFs, the search fields are practical fields rather than web form inputs. The user selects a file, then searches visible text in the PDF. This is enough for many current-custody checks, but it is weaker than a full jail database because it does not produce a profile page, mugshot, bond field, court-date field, or release-status history.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box folder file list | Folder/file list | n/a | Select dated PDFs such as Inmate List or Jail Booking reports. |
| PDF viewer find | Browser/PDF text search | Optional | Search visible text such as name, booking number, location, statute, or city. |
| Name | PDF report column | n/a | Current list is by name, formatted last, first, middle. |
| Booking # | PDF report column | n/a | Five-digit booking numbers were observed in the inspected PDFs. |
| Location | PDF report column | n/a | Examples include housing cells, booking holding cells, and a court hall cell. |
| Scheduled Release | PDF report column | n/a | Most inspected rows masked this field, with one visible release date/time. |
What a Pend Oreille County Inmate Record Shows
The public current list and booking summary answer different questions. The current list shows who is housed in the jail now. The booking summary shows recent intake details and booking charges. Neither public PDF showed a mugshot, bond amount, full date of birth, court date, or full case history in the inspected reports. Those facts may require court records, jail contact, or a public-records request.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Name | Last, first, and middle name on the current list and booking report. |
| Booking Number | Jail booking identifier tied to the custody event. |
| Location | Housing or holding location code inside Pend Oreille County Corrections. |
| Time Incarcerated | The time and date attached to local custody on the current list. |
| Charges | Shown on the booking summary with class, statute, description, and related incident. |
| Photo and bond | Not shown on the inspected public current list or booking summary PDFs. |
Pend Oreille County Jail vs DOC Search
The county roster is for local jail custody. It does not replace the Washington DOC locator, federal BOP locator, ICE detainee locator, or VINE notification service. A person can move from one system to another as the case changes. A felony defendant may start in the county jail, appear for court, receive a state sentence, and then transfer to DOC custody. Once that happens, the DOC search is more useful than the county PDF list.
| County Jail | State Prison / DOC | |
|---|---|---|
| Who is held | Pretrial detainees, local-sentence inmates, and some outside-agency holds. | People incarcerated under Washington DOC after sentence or DOC custody action. |
| Run by | Pend Oreille County Sheriff's Office. | Washington State Department of Corrections. |
| Where to look | Daily Press Inmate List and Jail Booking PDFs. | DOC incarcerated search and DOC warrant search. |
| Records shown | Basic custody, location, booking, and charge report fields. | DOC number, name, age, location, and profile links through state systems. |
State, Federal, and ICE Inmate Search
For sentenced state prisoners from Pend Oreille County, use the Washington DOC incarcerated search. The DOC search accepts DOC number, first name, or last name and returns fields such as DOC number, name, age, and location. The Washington VINE service can provide custody and criminal-case notifications.
Federal custody is separate. Use the BOP inmate locator for people in federal Bureau of Prisons records. Use ICE Online Detainee Locator System for immigration detention, with search by A-number or biographical details. The research found no BOP prison, state prison, or ICE detention center physically located in Pend Oreille County. The county jail may still hold people briefly for outside agencies under contract.
Pend Oreille County Detention Facility
The official facility map for Pend Oreille County identifies one local detention facility. No separate city jail, county annex, county work-release center, DOC prison, BOP prison, or ICE detention facility was located in official county and state sources. This keeps the local facility list short, but the lookup chain remains broader because state, federal, tribal, and immigration custody can affect where a person appears.
- Pend Oreille County Corrections - the county jail in Newport for adult men and women who are sentenced, awaiting trial, awaiting transport, or held under certain outside-agency contracts.
The county corrections page shows the official jail service context, address, and facility description.
That county page is the best starting point for facility-specific rules, while the Daily Press PDFs remain the public roster path.
Pend Oreille County Inmate Population FAQ
How big is the Pend Oreille County inmate population?
WASPC reports 15.58 average daily population for CY2024. The official current inmate list PDF inspected on July 2, 2026 showed 19 total housed inmates. Those figures answer different questions: one is an annual average, and one is a daily roster count.
How do I search the Pend Oreille County inmate population?
Open the county-linked Daily Press Box folder, choose the newest Inmate List PDF, and use the PDF find tool for the person's name or booking number. For recent booking charges, open the newest Jail Booking PDF. If the person is not listed, use the jail phone line, public-records request process, DOC locator, VINE, BOP, or ICE depending on custody type.
Does the Pend Oreille County roster show mugshots?
The inspected public current list and booking summary PDFs did not show booking photos. Washington's RCW 70.48.100 restricts many inmate records and booking-photo release paths, so mugshot access should be handled as a records question rather than assumed from the roster.
Where are court charges after a jail arrest?
Booking charges appear in the jail booking summary, but filed charges belong to the court record. Search Washington Courts, then use the Superior Court Clerk or District Court record request process for documents that are not available through the public case search.