Lookup Delaware County Correctional Facility Inmates

Delaware County Correctional Facility Overview

The Delaware County Correctional Facility is operated by the Delaware County Sheriff's Office. It is a county jail and local correctional facility, not a state prison. The official correctional-facility page says the jail moved and enlarged into the Public Safety Building on December 15, 2003. The same source says the facility has four housing pods: one female pod and three male pods. It provides custody for people remanded to the Sheriff of Delaware County from throughout the judicial system.

People held at the facility can include pretrial defendants awaiting trial, convicted people serving county jail sentences, convicted felony defendants waiting for state or federal transfer, federal detainees housed locally, and other court-remanded custody categories. The May 2026 state jail population row showed a large federal category in the Delaware County in-house population. That does not make the facility a federal prison. It means the county jail may house some people for a federal agency while the facility remains sheriff-operated local custody.

The official correctional-facility page is shown below from the sheriff's site.

The screenshot ties the facility page to the sheriff's public corrections materials, including capacity, housing, and rule-book references.

Delaware County Correctional Facility Population

The facility has 103 cells and a capacity of 121 with double bunking, according to the sheriff's correctional-facility page. The DCJS/SCOC Monthly Jail Population Trends report prepared June 1, 2026 showed the Delaware County Jail May 2026 average daily census at 54 and the in-house average at 55. With 55 in-house people against the 121-person double-bunking capacity, the jail was at about 45 percent of the published rated capacity for that month.

Find Delaware County Correctional Facility Inmates

Current local custody is searched through the sheriff's Incarcerated Inmate Search. The public feed shows current roster entries, booking photos, View Charges links, and a Notify Me of Status Change path into VINELink. It is the correct first search for a person held at Delaware County Correctional Facility. It is not the right first source for a person already transferred to a DOCCS state prison, a BOP facility, or ICE custody.

1. Open the sheriff's Incarcerated Inmate Search feed.
2. Use the Type to Search box with a last name, first name, or partial spelling.
3. Review the result card and open the profile when available.
4. Use the VINELink status link if release or transfer notification is needed.
5. Call the jail or use a records request if the roster does not answer the custody question.

When the person has left the county jail, search the New York State DOCCS lookup for state-prison custody, the BOP locator for sentenced federal custody, and the ICE detainee locator for immigration detention. The Delaware County jail inmate records page gives a fuller roster walkthrough.

Delaware County Correctional Facility Contact

The facility-specific phone is the custody and jail information route. The sheriff's public office number and counter hours are separate from the jail's 24-hour custody operation. Public-counter records or administrative issues should use posted sheriff office hours, while release, bail, visitation, or current custody questions should be confirmed with the facility before travel.

Visit Delaware County Correctional Facility

Visitation is scheduled by housing unit on Saturdays and Sundays. Visitors must arrive 30 minutes before the start of the visitation period or they are turned away. A valid government-issued photo ID is required. Visitors under 18 need proof of identity and age, such as an original or certified birth certificate, and must be with an adult unless the jail administrator has given prior authorization.

The official visitation information page shows the housing-unit schedule and visitor ID rules.

The schedule depends on the housing unit, so confirm the person's unit and visit status before driving to Delhi.

Bail and Release at Delaware County Jail

The sheriff's Post Bail page lists three practical bail channels. Bail can be paid at the facility by exact cash or credit card, with a processing fee for card payments. Bail can also be paid online through AllPaid using a credit, debit, or prepaid debit card. The payer needs the location code, payment amount, and defendant name. A bondsman may be used, but the paperwork must go through court and the bondsman must have release authorization from the court.

A detainer or hold can block release even after bail is paid. Examples include a warrant, parole hold, state-ready transfer, federal custody, ICE detainer, or a new remand order. Ask the jail whether bail will actually result in release before paying.

Money and Packages at Delaware County Jail

Account deposits are documented on the sheriff's Post Funds page. The Cobra Cashier Kiosk in the main lobby accepts cash, credit, and debit. Cash kiosk transactions carry a $3.25 convenience fee, and credit or debit kiosk transactions carry a $4.95 fee. The fee is deducted from the deposit amount. The kiosk accepts U.S. bills in $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100 denominations. The page also lists no-service-charge cash drop-off windows on Wednesdays from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM and Sundays from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM.

Incoming packages must be purchased from and mailed by a company whose normal business includes selling and shipping the items. The sheriff's care-package page lists newspapers, magazines, soft-cover books, and store-printed photos. Other allowed items must come through commissary.

Booking at Delaware County Correctional Facility

The county does not publish a detailed public booking timeline, but the roster fields show what the intake record can contain. A person arrested by the sheriff, a local police agency, or another law-enforcement agency may be brought to the jail or to court depending on the warrant, charge, and release decision. Intake creates or updates a booking record, logs identifying information, records physical descriptors, and creates the status data used in the public OCV/VINE feed.

Public sample data showed an inmate ID, name fields, booking photo URLs, height, weight, gender, race, age, eye color, hair color, custody status, custody status date, booked date, holding facility code, sex-offender flag, reporting agency, and charge-array fields. Public pages did not show a full housing pod assignment on the sample record, even though the facility has housing Units A through D for visitation.

Records Requests for Delaware County Jail

When the roster does not show the needed record, Delaware County Sheriff's Office records requests must be made in writing. The sheriff FOIL material says requests should describe the records sought with enough specificity for staff to identify and locate them. The sheriff maintains records for that agency only, not court files, district attorney files, town or village police records, state-prison records, or federal and ICE records.

Use the county NextRequest portal or the sheriff FOIL email, delco.foil@co.delaware.ny.us, for sheriff records. Use WebCriminal and the court or clerk for court records. Use DOCCS for state-prison custody, BOP for federal custody, and ICE ODLS for immigration custody.

The image below shows the official Delaware County NextRequest portal used for public-records requests.

NextRequest is the right channel when a booking record, sheriff report, or older custody document is not available from the live roster.

Travel to Delaware County Correctional Facility

The jail is in Delhi, the county seat, on the public-safety campus on Phoebe Lane. Delaware County is rural, with Catskills roads and long travel times from some towns. Visitors from the west or east along the I-88 corridor should use live mapping to Delhi, then follow local directions to Phoebe Lane. Visitors from southern Delaware County should expect two-lane rural highway approaches and possible winter-weather delays.