Pennsylvania County Inmate Routing
| Search level | Use it when | Primary source |
|---|---|---|
| County or city jail | The arrest is recent, pretrial, county-sentenced, or tied to a local hold. | County subdomain row below |
| DOC | The person is state-sentenced, in an SCI, or under DOC/parole supervision. | DOC inmate population page |
| UJS courts | The county, charge, docket, bail, or sentence must be checked. | Court records after arrest |
| BOP | The case or facility is federal, such as FDC Philadelphia, USP Canaan, or Allenwood. | BOP inmate locator |
| ICE | The person may be in immigration detention or an ICE contract facility. | ICE Online Detainee Locator System |
Pennsylvania County Directory
The list includes all 67 locality folder slugs documented in the Pennsylvania research file. Each county link uses the full folder slug as the subdomain prefix because the build instructions require that default until the owner chooses a final domain rule.
The Pennsylvania DOC monthly population reports are useful when a county search changes into a state-prison search after sentencing or transfer.
Those statewide reports do not replace the county rows below because county jails and prisons are not DOC jurisdiction.
After the County Search
If a county search does not find the person, move by custody authority rather than by guesswork. A state sentence points to DOC. A federal sentence or federal hold points to BOP. Immigration detention points to ICE ODLS. A pending criminal case points to UJS docket sheets. A notification need points to Pennsylvania VINE. If a county boards inmates in another county, the receiving facility may be the row that matters.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator is the statewide fallback for federal custody in Pennsylvania, including facilities such as Allenwood, Lewisburg, Loretto, McKean, Schuylkill, FDC Philadelphia, and USP Canaan.
BOP records are separate from Pennsylvania DOC records and county jail records, so a federal facility name should not be searched through a county roster alone.
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