Search the Yakima County Inmate Population

The Yakima County Inmate Population

Yakima County custody is not run through one simple jail page. The primary local detention site is the Yakima County Department of Corrections at the county jail and annex in downtown Yakima. The county DOC page names Jeremy Welch as director and lists the county corrections department, not the sheriff, as the jail operator. That distinction matters because the Yakima County Sheriff's Office still handles law-enforcement records and public safety work, while jail custody, visitation, mail, trust accounts, and roster routing flow through county DOC.

The Yakima County inmate population also includes people held by the Yakima City Jail and residents at Ahtanum View Reentry Center. The city jail is a Yakima Police Department facility for male misdemeanor custody tied to City of Yakima cases. Ahtanum View is different again. It is a Washington State Department of Corrections reentry center for approved state residents in partial confinement, so its residents are found through the state DOC search path rather than the local jail roster.

Yakima County Inmate Population Statistics

The strongest current population source in the research is the WASPC 2024 Washington State Jail Statistics row for Yakima County DOC. That source reports 578.58 average daily population, 548 facility beds, 36 days average length of stay, and 6,919 total admissions for the county corrections department. The same research also gives separate 2024 figures for the city jail and a 2024 PREA audit average for Ahtanum View. These figures should be read by facility type because a city misdemeanor jail, a county jail, and a DOC reentry center count different custody groups.

Yakima County Jail Population Trends

The Yakima County inmate population fell from the 2023 WASPC county jail average to the 2024 county DOC average, but the sources use different capacity labels. The 2023 row used an updated design capacity of 1,000 and reported 657.8 ADP, while the 2024 row used 548 facility beds and reported 578.58 ADP. That change is about 79 fewer average daily inmates, but the capacity definition changed enough that the drop should not be treated as a simple policy result without more source detail.

Yakima County Inmate Population Makeup

WASPC's 2024 demographic fields show Yakima County DOC with 502.42 male ADP and 76.25 female ADP. The race fields report 456.83 White ADP, 33.75 Black ADP, 72.08 American Indian or Alaska Native ADP, 1.83 Asian ADP, and 14.25 Unknown race ADP. The research warns against overreading the Hispanic field because the spreadsheet row reports that category as zero, which may reflect a reporting limitation rather than county demographics.

Facility type also shapes the population. Yakima City Jail reported all-male ADP in 2024, matching the city jail page's statement that it houses male offenders and contracts with Yakima County DOC for female inmates or people needing individualized care. Ahtanum View is not a new arrest intake point. Its population is made up of male and female DOC residents approved for reentry center placement before release.

Jail register

The public custody log Washington law requires for basic confinement and discharge information.

Average daily population

The average number of people held each day during the reporting period.

Detainer

A hold or request from another agency, such as DOC, another county, federal authorities, or ICE.

Reentry center

A DOC partial-confinement setting used for transition before release, not a county jail.

Yakima County Jail Capacity

Capacity in Yakima County has more than one official number because the jail system has changed over time. For current jail statistics, the build should use the WASPC CY2024 facility-bed figure of 548 for Yakima County DOC. Older county material describes the Main Jail, Annex, and Yakima County Correctional Center with larger historic maximum capacities, but the research says YCCC housing units closed in 2011 and no current official page shows it as an active holding facility. That is why YCCC is not built as a live facility page.

The 2024 county DOC average daily population was above the 548 facility-bed figure reported to WASPC. That does not prove a specific housing condition by itself, but it is the best researched signal for capacity pressure. The 2024 YCDOC PREA audit identifies the jail and annex as the active county DOC facilities, which supports describing the current county jail system as the downtown jail and annex rather than a three-site jail campus.

Yakima County Jail Population Law

Washington law explains why part of the Yakima County inmate population is public while other jail files remain closed. The public can inspect the jail register, but the full booking file, medical record, classification file, and booking photo are not all open just because a person was booked. Yakima County's jail-records page repeats that point and says most inmate jail records, including booking photos, are confidential under state law unless released to the inmate, to a third party with signed release, or by court order.

Search the Yakima County Inmate Population

The county path starts at the Yakima County Inmate Lookup page or the Yakima County Jail Records page. The old yakimaco.us inmate lookup link redirects to a moved notice, so the current county page should be used when a search result points to the older address. If the dynamic county roster fails to load, the fallback chain is the county DOC phone line, the public records portal, and the state or federal locators if the person is not in county jail custody.

The Yakima City Jail roster is a separate police roster. It showed a timestamp and a table with name, booking number, location, booking date and time, and release status during research. The city jail also publishes recent releases for people released in the last 24 hours. These city pages matter because a city misdemeanor arrest may not begin on the county DOC lookup path.

1. Start with the county inmate lookup for people booked into Yakima County DOC.
2. Check the Yakima City Jail roster when the case appears tied to a City of Yakima misdemeanor arrest.
3. Use the Washington DOC locator when the person has been sentenced or placed in a DOC reentry center.
4. Use BOP or ICE search tools only when federal custody or immigration detention is plausible.
5. Use court records to verify filed charges, hearing dates, bond orders, and warrants.

The official Yakima County inmate lookup landing page is the county's public starting point for roster access.

That page should be paired with the jail-records page when a search needs the public-record limits and fallback instructions.

Yakima County Inmate Record Fields

The county research did not expose a full dynamic county roster profile in text inspection, so no unverified county search fields should be invented. Verified county access points are the inmate lookup link, the jail roster link on the jail-records page, and the public records portal for non-roster material. The city roster gave better field detail, which is useful for people whose custody may be in the separate Yakima Police facility.

Yakima County State and Federal Search

A person arrested in Yakima County may leave the local jail roster after sentencing or transfer. The Washington DOC incarcerated search is the correct path for sentenced state prisoners and Ahtanum View residents. The DOC search accepts a DOC number, first name, or last name, and result lists show DOC number, name, age, and location. WA VINE links support custody-notification context.

Federal custody is separate from the county and state systems. The BOP inmate locator covers people in BOP custody from 1982 to present and can search by register number or name. The ICE Online Detainee Locator System is for immigration detention searches. No active BOP prison or ICE detention facility was found in Yakima County from the official sources, so these searches are fallbacks for federal cases, immigration holds, or transfers.

Yakima County Detention Facilities

The local facility map has three active adult custody or partial-custody entries. Each serves a different slice of the Yakima County inmate population, so choosing the right page saves time. For county DOC jail search details, use Yakima County inmate records; for filed charges after booking, use the court-records path.

• Yakima County Department of Corrections / Yakima County Jail holds adult county pretrial detainees, county sentenced inmates, and local or contract holds at the jail and annex.
• Yakima City Jail is a Yakima Police Department city jail for male misdemeanor custody tied to City of Yakima cases.
• Ahtanum View Reentry Center is a Washington DOC partial-confinement reentry center for approved state residents before release.

Yakima County Inmate Population FAQ

How large is the Yakima County inmate population?

WASPC CY2024 reported 578.58 average daily population for Yakima County DOC, plus 35.25 ADP for Yakima City Jail. Ahtanum View had a 40-resident average in its 2024 PREA audit period. Those figures are not one combined jail count because each facility serves a different custody role.

Does the Yakima County jail roster show mugshots?

Yakima County says the jail roster contains releasable inmate information, but most other jail records, including booking photos, are confidential under RCW 70.48.100. Booking-photo details belong on the Yakima County jail mugshots page, where the law and request path are treated directly.

Where do state prisoners from Yakima County appear?

After a state sentence or DOC placement, the county roster no longer controls the lookup. Search the Washington DOC incarcerated search by DOC number or name, and use WA VINE for custody notification where available.

Can court records confirm the arrest charges?

Jail booking data is not the final court record. Prosecutors file charges in District Court, Municipal Court, or Superior Court depending on the case. Washington Courts case search and local court record requests show the filed charge, hearing date, docket, and disposition after entry by the court clerk.