Search the Monroe County Inmate Population

Monroe County Inmate Population Snapshot

The Monroe County inmate population is held locally at Monroe County Correctional Facility, the county-run jail at Manor Drive in Stroudsburg. The county describes the facility as a place for people suspected of offenses and people adjudicated as offenders. That wording matters. It means the local count is not just sentenced inmates. It can include recent arrests, defendants waiting for preliminary arraignment or hearings, people held on bail conditions, county-sentenced prisoners, and people awaiting transfer or case action.

The best sourced population snapshot comes from two official records. The June 9, 2026 Monroe County Prison Board agenda reported a May 2026 average daily population, or ADP, of 207. The Pennsylvania DOC 2025 county prison inspection schedule listed the Monroe County Correctional Facility capacity as 435. Those figures show a local jail population well below the listed capacity for that month, but they do not create a live roster count.

Monroe County Inmate Population Statistics

Monroe County publishes useful jail facts through agendas, state inspection records, corrections pages, and PREA materials. The 2020 PREA audit listed a designated capacity of 432, while the later state inspection schedule listed 435. The audit also recorded 2,763 admissions in the prior 12 months. Admissions are not the same as daily population. They show intake flow through the jail over a year, while ADP measures how many people were held on an average day during a month.

The PREA audit also listed minimum through maximum custody levels, 159 staff with inmate contact, 67 volunteers with inmate contact, and 3 contractors with inmate contact. It reported two youthful inmates during the prior 12 months. No official county dashboard was found for daily population, race, sex, offense type, average length of stay, or a full multi-year ADP series.

Monroe County Inmate Population Trends

The public trend record is narrow, so the Monroe County inmate population should be described with care. The 2020 PREA audit gives annual admissions for the audit period, not an average head count. The June 2026 prison board agenda gives one monthly ADP figure. Those two data points are useful, but they do not support a claim that the Monroe County jail population is steadily rising or falling across several years.

For statewide context, PA DOC monthly population reports describe state prison populations, not the Monroe County jail. A person sentenced from Monroe County may later appear in state figures after transfer, but that person is no longer counted as a county-jail inmate for local roster or visitation purposes.

Who Makes Up Monroe County Inmates

The Monroe County inmate population includes several groups that readers often mix together. A newly arrested person may be held after a Magisterial District Judge sets bail or orders commitment. A defendant may stay in local custody while charges move through Magisterial District Court and the Monroe County Court of Common Pleas. A person with a short local sentence may serve time at the county facility. A person with a state sentence may wait at the jail only until transfer to the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections.

Pretrial detainee

A person held before final case disposition, often because bail was not posted or release was not ordered.

Commitment

A court order directing the jail to hold a person.

Detainer

A hold from another agency or case that can block release even after bail is addressed.

DOC custody

State-sentenced custody handled by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, not the county roster.

Monroe County Jail Capacity

The most recent capacity figure in the research is 435 from the PA DOC 2025 county prison inspection schedule. The 2020 PREA audit used 432 as the designated facility capacity. The small difference should be shown with source dates rather than forced into one number. Using the 435 capacity and the May 2026 ADP of 207, Monroe County Correctional Facility was at about 48% of listed capacity for that month.

Laws Behind Monroe County Jail Records

Public access to Monroe County jail, court, and criminal-history records comes from several Pennsylvania rules. The Pennsylvania Right-to-Know Law is the main public-records law for local executive agencies, subject to exemptions. The county's Open Records page routes requests for county records through the county Open Records Officer and official request form.

Court dockets follow Pennsylvania Unified Judicial System public-access rules. That is why a criminal docket should be searched through UJS Case Search, while jail policy records and older booking materials may require a county Right-to-Know request.

Search Monroe County Inmates

No official searchable Monroe County jail roster was located on the county correctional facility pages, sheriff pages, or county quick links reviewed in the research. That changes the lookup workflow. The search starts with Monroe County Correctional Facility, then moves through the county Open Records process, Pennsylvania VINELink, UJS Case Search, PA DOC, and federal or immigration locators when the facts point outside the county jail.

1. Call Monroe County Correctional Facility at (570) 597-3764 for public counter routing and current custody questions.
2. If a record is needed, use the Monroe County Open Records process and identify the booking or custody record sought.
3. Check Pennsylvania VINELink for custody notification when the person appears in a participating system.
4. Search UJS Case Search for court charges, bail entries, hearings, and dispositions after arrest.
5. Use the PA DOC Inmate and Parolee Locator only after state sentencing or parole supervision.

The facility's official pages also matter for practical contact. The county publishes mail, visitation, telephone, and PREA resources even though it does not publish a public current-inmate search form.

Monroe County Roster Fields

Because no official Monroe County jail roster was found, the public search-field table is intentionally sparse. It is more accurate to show the missing roster than to invent a booking-number field, mugshot field, bond display, or housing-unit result. The official public materials do prove that inmate name and inmate ID number are used for mail, but they do not publish the ID format.

The official mail policy sends personal mail to the Securus Digital Mail Center in Tampa, while legal mail and publisher materials go to the physical facility. That split is a useful way to confirm that the jail uses inmate IDs internally without claiming a public roster field.

Monroe County Jail or State Prison

The Monroe County inmate population and the Pennsylvania state prison population are different systems. A person held before trial or on a local sentence belongs to the county jail channel. A person sentenced to a state prison term moves to PA DOC custody after transfer. PA DOC states that its locator is for state-sentenced inmates and parolees and does not include county-facility inmates.

Monroe County Court Records After Booking

A jail record answers custody questions. A court record answers charge, bail, hearing, and disposition questions. After a Monroe County arrest, the court pathway may include preliminary arraignment, bail under Pennsylvania criminal rules, a preliminary hearing, Common Pleas filings, prosecutor action, and sentencing. Court records after a jail arrest should be checked in UJS Case Search rather than through a missing jail roster.

Warrants are another local channel. The Monroe County Active Bench Warrant Search is linked by the Sheriff's Office and can explain why a person was picked up or why release is blocked. A warrant hit should be followed with court or sheriff contact, not a guess about jail custody.

State Federal and ICE Custody

State, federal, and immigration custody do not use the same search tools. The BOP Inmate Locator is for federal Bureau of Prisons custody, usually after federal sentencing. Federal pretrial custody is handled through federal courts and the U.S. Marshals Service, not a Monroe County roster. The ICE Online Detainee Locator System is the official immigration detainee search channel.

Pennsylvania VINELink remains useful for custody notices, but it is not a full roster. It should be used alongside the facility, UJS, and PA DOC tools. No official Monroe County Sheriff's Office app with an app-only roster was located; VINELink has mobile apps for custody notification.

Monroe County Jail Mugshots

No official Monroe County public mugshot roster, recent-bookings gallery, or booking-photo search was located. Booking photos may exist as part of arrest or booking records, but the official county pages reviewed do not publish a gallery. The Monroe County jail mugshots topic should therefore be handled through facility contact, Open Records, court context, and Pennsylvania access rules rather than third-party mugshot sites.

Monroe County Detention Facility

Monroe County has one official adult county detention facility in the research map. No separate county work-release building, city jail, regional jail, state prison, BOP prison, or ICE detention center was located inside the county in official sources. Municipal police departments may process arrests, but county jail confinement routes to Monroe County Correctional Facility.

• Monroe County Correctional Facility holds pretrial detainees, people committed by the courts, county-sentenced inmates, and people awaiting transfer or case action.

The facility publishes concrete rules for visits, mail, phones, money, and PREA reporting. The visitation page lists housing-unit time slots, screening rules, visitor identification, and lobby limits.

Monroe County Jail Contact Rules

Visitor and family-contact rules are part of the inmate population picture because they show where custody information moves after booking. Monroe County says visits are one-half hour. Two visitors may split the visit. Visitors must sign in, show photo identification, pass screening, and keep cell phones, food, beverages, tobacco, weapons, packages, and many personal items out of the facility. Juveniles must be with a parent or legal guardian and must have birth certificates.

Phone and mail rules are also specific. Inmate calls use Securus, and Monroe County says staff will not accept telephone calls or messages for inmates. Personal mail goes to the Securus Digital Mail Center with the inmate name and inmate ID number. Legal mail, money orders without letters, and publisher publications go to the physical jail address.

Monroe County Inmate Population FAQ