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Centre County Jail Overview

Centre County Correctional Facility is the primary local detention facility for Centre County. The jail is operated through the county correctional facility and criminal justice services structure, and the county facility page identifies Glenn Irwin as Warden. It is not the same lookup system as SCI Benner Township, even though both are in the Bellefonte and Benner Township area. The county jail is the place to check for people arrested locally, people awaiting court action, county-sentenced inmates, work-release participants, and people accepted under other local custody arrangements.

The county describes the jail mission in terms of public safety, a safe and humane facility, education, programming, and reentry preparation. That matters for a Centre County Correctional Facility inmate search because the page is not just a building profile. It is the local custody hub. Booking, court commitments, phone inquiries, VINE status records, official visits, mail routing, commissary deposits, work release, grievance forms, medical care, mental-health requests, and PREA reporting all connect back to this facility.

The county’s official facility page is the source for the jail’s mission, warden, address, and main phone information.

Use that county source for the facility identity first, then use VINE or the jail phone line for current inmate status.

Centre County Jail Population

The best sourced Centre County jail capacity figure in the research is from the Vera Institute Centre County profile. Vera reported that the 2005 county prison expansion provided 328 beds. The county pages reviewed did not publish a current rated-capacity dashboard, so the 328-bed figure should be read as the documented Vera number, not as a newly verified county capacity notice. Local news has used lower capacity wording in the past, but the current county facility pages did not settle that conflict.

Vera also reported a 2021 typical-day county prison population of 193 people, including 112 pretrial detainees. A pretrial detainee is a person held before a case is resolved, often because bail, a detainer, or another court order keeps the person in custody. Current official daily census data for the Centre County Correctional Facility was not located on a county dashboard, so a real-time population count should be confirmed through official channels rather than inferred from old reports.

Centre County Inmate Lookup

Centre County does not publish a county-hosted jail roster table with every booking, charge, bond, and mugshot field exposed on its own site. The official Centre County Inmate Listing page sends the public to VINE / PA SAVIN. The county says to select Pennsylvania, choose Find an Offender, enter an Offender ID or first and last name, search, then open More Info for the matching record.

For fast custody confirmation, the jail FAQ gives a direct phone path. Call the Centre County Correctional Facility main line and use option 0 to ask if a specific person is in jail. The FAQ states that the identity of persons in jail is public information under state law. That phone option is important for new arrests, common names, records that have not yet updated in VINE, and cases where a person may have moved to court, another jail, a state prison, federal custody, or release.

1. Start with the county inmate listing page so the search follows the Centre County approved route.
2. Open VINE / PA SAVIN, select Pennsylvania, and choose Find an Offender.
3. Search by Offender ID if known, or enter the first and last name used in booking or court records.
4. Open More Info for the result that matches the person, then compare status, facility, and identity details.
5. If timing matters, call 814-355-6794 option 0 and ask whether the person is in Centre County jail custody.

For broader custody research, use Centre County jail inmate records when the issue is a local jail booking. Use the Pennsylvania DOC locator only after a person has been sentenced to state custody or is under DOC supervision. County jail detainees are not searched through the state prison locator.

Centre County Booking

The county’s Central Booking page is specific about scheduled booking at the correctional facility. People directed by a Magisterial District Judge must schedule an appointment, bring valid photo identification, bring all paperwork from the judge, and allow at least one hour for processing. The county says appointments are mandatory and warns people not to arrive without one. Appointment hours are Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and the Central Booking appointment line is 814-548-1186.

Central Booking is on the correctional facility grounds. The county directions say to enter from Rishel Hill Road, follow signs to the Central Booking Center on the right, continue around the right side of the facility, and turn left at the second CBC/INTAKE sign. Marked CBC parking spaces are near the entrance. If those spaces are full, visitors should use the visitor parking area and walk to the CBC entrance near the large garage door.

Security rules apply before entering. The county tells people to leave tobacco products, flame-producing devices, cell phones, cameras, weapons, pocket knives, and chemical sprays secured in the vehicle. New arrests and commitments may also involve identification, property handling, medical screening, mental-health screening, classification, and housing assignment. Classification means the jail decides the housing and security level based on safety, conduct, medical needs, court status, and facility rules.

Centre County Jail Visits

The county keeps its visitation rules separate from the inmate listing. Start with Centre County visitation information for official visitor procedures, applications, and rules. The facility’s phone tree also lists option 0 for the Visitation Officer and option 2 for a visitation information recording. Because jail visitation can change with housing status, discipline, medical restrictions, court movement, and staffing, confirm the current schedule before traveling.

The research did not locate a simple public weekly table that applies to every inmate in every housing unit. Treat the table below as the correct routing table, not as a promise of an open visit slot. A visitor should verify approval, identification rules, dress rules, and the person’s housing status with the facility before relying on a time. Official visitors, such as attorneys or clergy, may have separate application requirements and do not follow the same process as family and social visitors.

Centre County Mail and Money

County jail mail and money rules are not the same as Pennsylvania DOC state-prison rules. The Centre County jail uses its own jail procedures, inmate handbook, and linked county pages. The Mail Information page points users to county mail instructions and the TextBehind policy. The handbook also refers to a 6-digit CCCF booking number used for outgoing mail return address details, tablets, phone/PREA hotline routing, and video-visitation login.

For money, use the county’s Inmate Accounts page rather than a DOC state-prison deposit page. The county research identifies deposit options for telephone and commissary accounts but does not provide a verified fee schedule in the build source. Commissary is the jail store account for approved items. Phone and tablet accounts are separate communication tools. Confirm the account type before depositing money, because a phone deposit may not act like commissary money.

Centre County Jail Programs

Centre County’s Inmate Programs page lists cognitive behavioral programs, community programs, drug and alcohol programming, education, mental-health programs, Penn State classes, and spiritual programs. The facility mission ties those programs to lower recidivism, safer jail management, better education, and reentry preparation. These details are useful when a family is trying to understand more than custody status.

Work release is also part of the facility’s local role. The Work Release page links eligibility, application, rules, and employer letter forms. The research notes that inmates must meet criteria, have court eligibility, be sentenced on all charges, have no active detainers or warrants, show satisfactory prison adjustment, and be misconduct-free for a required period before approval. The Warden has the final say on participation.

Work release

Facility-approved release from jail for employment, subject to court and jail rules.

Detainer

A hold from another court, agency, county, parole authority, federal authority, or ICE.

RHU

Restricted housing unit, used for higher-control housing needs or discipline.

PREA

The Prison Rape Elimination Act reporting system for sexual abuse and harassment concerns.

Centre County Jail Records

When VINE and the jail phone do not answer the record question, the next route is a public-records request. Centre County’s Open Records Request page explains Right-to-Know routing, and the county uses the NextRequest portal for county government and District Attorney requests. Sheriff and court records may be routed to the specific offices listed by the county instead of the general portal.

Requests should be narrow. Give the person’s full name, date of birth if lawfully known, booking date, court docket or OTN if available, and the exact record type. Pennsylvania Right-to-Know Law, CHRIA, court rules, juvenile protections, sealed or limited-access records, security rules, medical privacy, and investigative limits may affect release. A request may produce redactions or a denial when the record is not public in the form requested.

Booking photos deserve special care. Centre County did not publish a county mugshot gallery in the reviewed sources. The records route for a photo question is not the same as a public photo wall, and Pennsylvania law can limit release of criminal-history-related identifiers. Booking-photo details fit best with Centre County jail mugshots because that topic has its own legal and records limits.

Centre County Facility History

The county’s jail history gives the Centre County Correctional Facility a deeper local context. Centre County traces its first county prison to 1800 near the Bellefonte public square. A fortress-style jail was later built behind the courthouse in 1867, and the sheriff’s family lived there because the sheriff was then in charge of the jail. That building burned in January 1959. A replacement opened in 1964 and stayed in use until the current Rishel Hill Road facility was completed in 2005.

The present jail also has a geographic tie to the state prison landscape. It was built on land connected to Rockview State Correctional Institution, while SCI Benner Township remains the active state prison nearby. SCI Rockview should not be treated as a live Centre County facility page now. The Pennsylvania DOC May 31, 2026 population report lists Rockview at zero population and zero capacity after the closure process.