Lookup Yakima County Jail Inmates

Yakima County Jail Overview

The Yakima County Department of Corrections operates the county jail and annex at 111 N Front Street in downtown Yakima. County materials list Jeremy Welch as director and describe the department's mission as contributing to safety and wellness through a safe, secure, and humane correctional setting. This page should not call the sheriff the jail operator. The Yakima County Sheriff's Office, headed by Sheriff Robert Udell, is an important public-safety and records agency, but the county corrections department runs jail custody.

Yakima County Jail holds adult local custody. The research identifies minimum, medium, and maximum custody levels, with no youthful inmates listed in the 2021 PREA audit. The jail and annex are the active YCDOC jail facilities according to the 2024 PREA audit. People booked here may include pretrial detainees, county sentenced inmates, contract or local holds, and male or female inmates who need county DOC housing rather than Yakima City Jail placement.

Yakima County Jail Capacity and Population

WASPC CY2024 jail statistics reported 548 facility beds for Yakima County DOC, 578.58 average daily population, a 36-day average length of stay, and 6,919 total admissions. Those are the best current population figures in the research. Older county materials describe larger historic design capacity across the Main Jail, Annex, and Yakima County Correctional Center, but YCCC housing units closed in 2011 and no current official page shows YCCC as an active inmate-housing facility.

Because the 2024 average daily population exceeded the reported facility-bed figure, the current data should be described carefully as capacity pressure, not as a specific legal finding. Yakima County's jail population is also affected by booking rates, bond decisions, court calendars, transfer timing, medical or behavioral health needs, and whether another agency has placed a detainer.

Search Yakima County Jail Inmates

The primary lookup path is the county Inmate Lookup page. The county Jail Records page says the Yakima County Jail Roster contains inmate information that may be released to the public. The older yakimaco.us lookup address redirects to a moved notice, so a searcher should use the current county page when old links appear in search results.

1. Open the county inmate lookup page or the jail-records page's Jail Roster link.
2. Search for the person in the county roster if the dynamic lookup loads in a browser.
3. Call Yakima County DOC at 509-574-1700 if the roster is unavailable or the listing is unclear.
4. Use the Yakima County Public Records Portal for non-roster jail records, but account for RCW 70.48.100 limits.
5. Check Washington DOC, BOP, ICE, or court records when custody may have moved outside the county jail.

The Yakima County jail-records page is important because it explains that roster access does not open the entire booking file.

That distinction matters most for booking photos, medical records, classification records, and other files that are outside the public jail register.

Yakima County Jail Address and Contact

Use the county DOC address for jail lobby, visitation check-in, legal mail, and in-person routing. The county administrative address is separate, and the sheriff's office address is separate again. Calling before travel is important because public visits must be scheduled in advance and the official pages do not publish every operational detail a visitor may need.

Yakima County Jail Visitation

Public visiting at Yakima County Jail takes place at 111 N Front Street in the Annex Lobby. The county page says each inmate gets two 30-minute visits per week. Public visits are Monday through Friday only, with no weekend or holiday public visiting, and they must be scheduled two business days in advance by calling 509-574-2929. Professional visits use a separate line, 509-574-1652, Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The Yakima County visiting page publishes the public visit rules and unit schedule.

Check the current schedule before travel because housing changes, court movement, or discipline can affect an inmate's visit availability.

Yakima County Jail Mail and Money

Yakima County uses different addresses for general mail and legal mail. General correspondence is processed by Securus through a Tampa, Florida mail vendor, not mailed to the jail street address. Legal mail goes directly to Yakima County DOC at 111 N Front Street and must include the inmate's name and booking number. The county mail page also lists many banned items, including greeting cards, stickers, staples, rigid material, Polaroids, padded envelopes, sexually explicit content, racially inflammatory content, coded messages, contraband, and non-publisher books or periodicals.

Yakima County Jail Records Limits

RCW 70.48.100 is the central public-access rule for Yakima County jail records. It requires a public jail register with basic confinement and discharge information. It also makes most other records of a person confined in jail confidential, with listed exceptions for criminal justice agencies, inspections, jail certification, court proceedings by order, WASPC, some public-interest research, eligibility or treatment uses, and written permission of the confined person.

Yakima County's own jail-records page says most inmate jail records, including booking photos, are confidential and exempt from public disclosure. Inmate records may be provided directly to the inmate, to a third party with the inmate's signed release, or by court order. Medical records require a separate health-care authorization or a judge's order. Public-record requests for county records use the Yakima County Public Records Center.

Yakima County Jail Programs

Yakima County Jail behavioral health services are provided through Comprehensive Healthcare, which the county describes as a partner inside the jail for more than 20 years. Listed services include case management, coping skills, groups, medication management, therapy, reentry coordination, substance-use assessments, and peer services. The research lists Comprehensive Health questions or concerns at 509-574-1724. These services are relevant to the inmate population because mental health, substance-use needs, and reentry planning affect housing, classification, and release planning.

County PREA materials also provide facility-condition context. The 2024 YCDOC PREA audit identifies the jail and annex as county DOC facilities and notes reporting-line updates, including the Yakima County PREA Reporting Line at 509-574-2985 or *567. PREA research should be treated as compliance context, not as a substitute for current custody, visit, or records information.