Locate Emery County Jail Inmates

Emery County Jail Overview

Emery County Jail is operated by the Emery County Sheriff's Office. Official county sources place the sheriff and jail campus in Castle Dale, the county seat area. The jail functions as Emery County's local detention point after arrest, so it is the first place to check for a person booked by the Sheriff's Office, a municipal officer, Utah Highway Patrol, or another agency making an arrest in the county. The facility is not a Utah Department of Corrections prison, but it has an important state-placement role because Emery County participates in UDC's county jail program.

The jail population can include Emery County pretrial detainees, people serving short county sentences, local holds, and a limited number of male state inmates housed through the UDC Inmate Placement Program. That makes lookup work more than a simple roster search. A current local booking starts with the sheriff or jail. A sentenced Utah prisoner may appear in the Utah Department of Corrections Offender Search. Federal or immigration custody uses separate federal tools.

The Emery County contact page is one of the official sources for the sheriff's address and phone.

That source is useful because no separate official Emery County Jail roster page or jail rules page was located in the current county materials.

Emery County Jail Capacity

UDC's 2025 Jail Programs booklet lists Emery County Jail with 80 total beds. The same state booklet lists 15 contracted UDC beds and 15 beds available for contract to Corrections, with male housing noted for the state-placement context. Those figures describe the jail's capacity and UDC contract role, not a live daily public roster count. No official Emery County daily population dashboard was located during the research sweep.

Emery County Commission minutes from August 6, 2024 add a local operational detail. Sheriff Tyson Huntington discussed the FY25 intergovernmental county jail agreement and explained that the agreement was for housing state prisoners. The minutes report an average of 13 to 15 state inmates at a time, with the state paying Emery County to house them. That average is narrower than the full jail population because it covers state inmates held under the intergovernmental agreement.

Emery County Jail Inmate Lookup

No current official Emery County online jail roster was located. The county's current sheriff page does not expose a visible current inmates, bookings, mugshots, or jail roster link, and the old jail path found in third-party references returns a current official 404. For a person believed to be in Emery County Jail, the practical route is phone, counter contact, or a written records request to the Sheriff's Office, followed by state and federal locators if local custody is not confirmed.

1. Call the Emery County Sheriff's Office at (435) 381-2404 and ask whether the person is currently housed at Emery County Jail.
2. Give the person's full name, date of birth if known, approximate booking date, and arresting agency if known.
3. If staff cannot release the answer by phone, ask how to submit a written GRAMA request for releasable booking or chronological-log records.
4. Search UDC Offender Search if the person may be sentenced or under Utah Department of Corrections supervision.
5. Use Utah VINELink for custody and release notifications where VINE coverage applies.
6. Use the BOP Inmate Locator or ICE Online Detainee Locator System only for federal or immigration custody.

Emery County Jail Contact

The jail and Sheriff's Office campus appears in official materials under two road-name variants. Emery County's contact page lists 1850 North Des Bee Dove Road. The Sheriff's Office complaint form and other county materials also use 1850 North 550 West, sometimes with Des Bee Dove Road in parentheses. Treat those as the same Castle Dale public-safety campus, but use the address format shown by the office or court paperwork when mailing or visiting.

For records requests, identify the record type rather than asking for a broad file. Utah GRAMA recognizes public access to certain law-enforcement chronological-log and booking information, but protected records, investigative material, security details, and booking photographs may be limited. A written request should include the person's name, birth date if known, approximate arrest or booking date, the arresting agency, and the exact public booking information sought.

Emery County Jail Visits

No official Emery County Jail visitation schedule, visitor approval page, dress code, video visit page, or lobby rule sheet was located in the current official source set. That gap matters. Visitors should call the jail before traveling to Castle Dale to confirm whether public visits are in person, video-based, or restricted by housing status, discipline status, court order, state-inmate placement, or jail operations.

Do not bring weapons, contraband, or extra personal items to a secure sheriff, jail, and court campus. The public entrance for court business may not be the same entrance used for jail visits, deliveries, or inmate release. Weather and distance also matter in Emery County because travelers may be coming from Green River, Huntington, Ferron, the San Rafael Swell area, or other rural parts of the county.

Emery County Jail Mail

No official jail mail rule page, phone vendor page, video vendor page, deposit page, or public fee schedule was located. The one confirmed commissary fact is from 2024 Emery County Commission minutes: Sheriff Huntington explained that TurnKey provides commissary service for the jail, and commissioners approved a jail service agreement amendment between Emery County and TurnKey. The minutes confirm the vendor, but not deposit methods, consumer fees, order deadlines, blocked items, or refund rules.

Mail should include the inmate's full legal name and any booking or ID number the jail requires. If the person is a state inmate placed in the county jail, confirm whether county jail mail rules, UDC rules, or both affect delivery.

Emery County Jail Booking

A typical Emery County Jail booking begins after an arrest or transfer to the sheriff and jail campus. Jail staff identify the person, record booking information, check warrants and holds, manage property, and assign custody status. Research did not locate an official Emery County booking workflow, medical-screening form, property-release rule, or booking timeline, so exact steps and timing should be confirmed with the Sheriff's Office.

Booking charges are not the same as final court charges. The Emery County Attorney handles criminal prosecution for crimes committed in Emery County through the local justice court, Seventh District Court, and juvenile court. Utah Courts Xchange and MyCase can help locate filed court cases after charges are opened, but those systems do not prove current jail custody. A person can have a court case and be released, transferred, sentenced, or held elsewhere.

Emery County Jail Records

Utah's Government Records Access and Management Act is the records-request route for releasable jail records. Utah Code 63G-2-103 defines chronological logs in a way that includes summary information about arrests or jail bookings made by an agency. Utah Code 63G-2-204 requires written requests to the government entity that keeps the record. That means Emery County Jail booking questions should be routed to the Sheriff's Office, not to a private roster site.

Booking photographs need special care. Utah Code 17-22-30 restricts providing copies of county-jail booking photographs and sets statement, access, liability, and removal/remedy rules. No official Emery County public mugshot roster or daily booking-photo gallery was located. Ask the Sheriff's Office what can lawfully be released before requesting a copy of a booking photograph.

GRAMA

Utah's open-records law for requesting public records from the agency that keeps them.

Detainer

A notice or request from another authority that can affect release or transfer.

Classification

The jail or corrections process for assigning custody level, housing, and program placement.

About Emery County Jail

The strongest official Emery County Jail details are operational rather than architectural. Current official sources did not publish the jail's year built, renovation history, pod layout, accreditation status, grievance forms, medical request process, religious-services schedule, PREA page, or visitor parking rules. The Sheriff's Office page works more like a law-enforcement hub than a corrections manual, with links to policies, victim services, search and rescue, emergency notification, and other public-safety resources.

UDC's jail programs booklet lists high school or H.S. completion and higher education through Emery County School District, Moral Reconation Therapy, Matrix, Seeking Safety, one FY24 high-school completion diploma, and 13 inmate jobs for the Emery County Jail placement context. Those items should be read as listed program and job details, not as a promise that every person in jail is eligible. Program access may depend on custody status, sentence status, housing, conduct, staffing, and UDC or county rules.

The official sheriff hub page identifies the local office that operates the jail.

Because the sheriff page is not a public roster, current custody questions still start with the jail phone line, counter contact, or a written records request.