Klamath County Jail Inmate Lookup

Klamath County Jail Overview

Klamath County Jail is operated by the Klamath County Sheriff's Office Corrections Division under Sheriff Shane Mitchell. The jail is a county jail and local adult correctional facility, not a state prison. Official county sources place it at 3201 Vandenberg Rd, Klamath Falls, OR 97603, and list the jail phone as 541-883-4197. The public facility information appears on the county's Corrections Division page, and the public roster is the KCSO Web Jail Viewer at jailbooking.klamathcounty.org.

The jail receives adults booked by the Klamath County Sheriff's Office, Klamath Falls Police Department, Merrill Police Department, Malin Police Department, Oregon State Police, and other state or federal agencies. It can hold pretrial detainees, people serving local sentences, people arrested on warrants, and people waiting on transfer or another agency's custody decision. A person sentenced to the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) may leave the county system and become searchable through Oregon Offender Search or VISOR instead.

The county says the jail was built in 1989 and operates 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. It has its own kitchen with civilian cooks and adult-in-custody workers, laundry performed by adult-in-custody workers, indoor and outdoor recreation space in each section, and book-library cabinets maintained by the Klamath County Library. Those details show that the facility is both an intake point and a housing facility with regular jail services.

The county's Corrections Division page identifies the jail, address, phone, and public in-custody search route.

Use that county page when confirming that a roster link or jail phone number came from an official Klamath County source.

Klamath County Jail Capacity and Population

The strongest current facility figures come from the Klamath County Sheriff's Office 2024 jail staffing media release and later county minutes. The 2024 release describes the Klamath County Detention Center as a 150-bed facility with an average daily population around 120 adults in custody. It also lists 48 employee positions, including medical staff, food services, maintenance, clerks, supervisors, and 30 direct-supervision positions. Six direct-supervision positions were unfilled, described by the Sheriff's Office as a 20 percent shortage.

County Board of Commissioners minutes from March 18, 2025 discuss work with the Sheriff, Under Sheriff, and Community Corrections Director to reopen a 44-bed jail pod. That should be read as capacity and staffing context, not as a public promise that a specific pod is available to visitors or shown in the roster. The public booking detail has a location field, but the research did not locate a public pod-by-pod housing map.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Klamath County Jail

The correct lookup block for this facility is the county jail roster, not the ODOC prison locator. Start with the Klamath County Adults In Custody page or the direct Web Jail Viewer. The roster is free and does not require a login. It supports name and booking-date searches, plus wildcard searching with the percent sign when spelling is uncertain.

1. Open the KCSO Web Jail Viewer and read the public-service warning about changing jail information.
2. Choose Booking Search and enter a last name, first name, booking-from date, booking-to date, or a combination.
3. Use the % wildcard for partial names and alternate spellings, then review the results table.
4. Open View on the matching result and confirm the custody headline, booking number, inmate ID, descriptors, release fields, and charges count.
5. If the person is not listed, call the jail at 541-883-4197 or check ODOC, VISOR, BOP, ICE, court records, or NextRequest depending on the custody path.

The Adults In Custody page is the county page that routes users into the roster.

That intermediate county page is useful when the direct roster site has browser certificate or access issues and a user needs to confirm the official search path.

Klamath County Jail Address and Contact

Use the jail address for inmate lookup, visitation, mail, money, bail, and facility questions. Do not go to the courthouse for jail visitation. The courthouse is relevant for court records and bail status after money has been posted, while the jail is the physical custody location.

Visiting Someone at Klamath County Jail

Klamath County Jail publishes public in-person visitation for Saturday and Sunday by appointment only. Visitors must call the day before the visit between 8:30 AM and 11:00 AM. For a Saturday visit, call Friday morning. For a Sunday visit, call Saturday morning. The phone path is 541-883-4197, press 2 for visitation, then select 2 to schedule. If staff is not reached, the visit is not scheduled; the county instructs callers not to leave a message.

Visitors must show picture identification that shows age. A visitor who arrives more than 10 minutes late is not allowed to visit. Clothing rules bar items such as halter tops, short shorts, tank tops, and inflammatory clothing. A person who has been held in Klamath County Jail within the prior six months cannot visit, and victims or people with restraining or no-contact orders involving the adult in custody are barred. Visitors under 18 require an AIC-requested and preapproved Special Visit.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Klamath County Jail

Mail must be sent through USPS and addressed with the prisoner's full name, Klamath County Jail, 3201 Vandenberg Rd, Klamath Falls, OR 97603. A complete sender name and return address are required. Klamath County bans unauthorized enclosures such as blank paper, self-addressed stamped envelopes, stamps, pornography, stickers, glitter, crayons, glue, perfume, and musical or decorative cards. Released or transferred inmate mail is returned to sender with a notation that the person is no longer in custody.

Adults in custody have access to outgoing phones and video visitation during recreation times. No incoming calls are allowed. Family and friends can use InmateSales for phone, chirping, tablet, and video visit accounts. Video visits must be scheduled 24 hours ahead, and available times appear after login for the adult in custody. The county says video visitation has a monetary charge while in-person visitation is free.

Money-account deposits can be made in person at jail during published non-bail deposit times, through SmartDeposit, or by phone at 1-866-394-0490. In-person non-bail money is accepted Monday through Friday from 6 PM to 11 PM and all day Saturday, Sunday, and holidays. Cash, postal money orders, and local attorney client trust account checks are accepted in person; personal checks are not.

The county's money and bail procedures page describes deposit channels and bond-door directions.

Because bail and commissary money follow different procedures, verify the purpose of the payment before sending funds or appearing at the jail.

Booking and Intake at Klamath County Jail

Klamath County Jail is the booking and housing point for adults brought in by KCSO, Klamath Falls Police, Merrill Police, Malin Police, Oregon State Police, and other agencies. After intake, the jail system can create the local custody record used by Web Jail Viewer. That record may show a custody headline, booking number, inmate ID, descriptive fields, release fields, location fields, and charge information configured for public display by the jail.

The facility is not only a temporary booking counter. County sources describe a 24-hour, year-round jail with kitchen, laundry, recreation, library, mail, visitation, phone, video, money, bail, and transport operations. That means a person can appear in the roster while waiting for a court event, serving local custody time, waiting on a warrant issue, or waiting for another agency's custody decision.

After sentencing to ODOC, the county jail transport page says the Klamath County Jail Transport Unit may move an adult in custody to state prison. Timing can be one day or several weeks, and transport schedules are not disclosed for safety and security. Property left at the jail after a DOC transfer is handled through a property release process and can be treated as abandoned after 30 days if not picked up.

About Klamath County Jail

Klamath County Jail is the only detention facility confirmed in official county sources as holding adults in custody for Klamath County. No separate city jail, regional jail, state prison, BOP prison, or ICE detention facility was confirmed in the official facility map research for Klamath County. Klamath Falls Police Department and other local agencies route arrestees into the county jail rather than maintaining a public city jail roster.

The facility's public record footprint is practical and service-based: roster lookup, weekend appointment visitation, USPS mail, phone and video access through InmateSales, money deposits through SmartDeposit or in-person jail channels, bail posting at the bond door, and public records fallback through the Sheriff's Office records page or Klamath County NextRequest. For custody-change notifications, Klamath County points users to Oregon VISOR, which can search county or state custody and send phone, email, or text notifications.