Harrison County Jail Inmate Lookup

Harrison County Jail Overview

Harrison County Jail is operated by the Harrison County Sheriff's Office at the Law Enforcement Center, 111 S 1st Ave., Logan, IA 51546. The sheriff page lists Sheriff Brandon Doiel as sheriff and Lieutenant Garrett Klutts as Jail Administrator. The same county page identifies the jail phone as 712-600-9776 and the main sheriff office phone as 712-600-9774. The jail is a county jail and local detention facility, not an Iowa Department of Corrections prison, a federal Bureau of Prisons facility, or an ICE detention center.

The jail may hold pretrial detainees, people serving local sentences, people waiting for a court appearance, and people awaiting transport or transfer decisions. The sheriff's office also provides law enforcement by contract for Little Sioux, Magnolia, Modale, Mondamin, Persia, and Pisgah, so arrests connected to those communities can still route through the Harrison County Jail instead of a separate city jail.

The official Harrison County Sheriff page is the county source for the jail phone, Law Enforcement Center address, staff list, IowaVINE link, and visitation rules.

Because the sheriff page does not publish a current online roster or daily jail-population dashboard, its phone numbers and Corrections Division rules are the practical starting point for custody, visits, release timing, mail, and jail-service questions.

Harrison County Jail Capacity and Population

Current official jail capacity is not published on the Harrison County sheriff page. The best sourced capacity and population figures located for the facility come from outside county dashboards and must be read as historical data. Vera Incarceration Trends lists Harrison County Jail with a rated capacity of 21 and a total jail population of 11 in 2019. The same Vera data reports 5 people in pretrial custody and 6 in sentenced custody for that year. Prisoners of the Census lists Harrison Co. Jail with 8 local jail prisoners on the 2013 survey date, from BJS Census of Jail Facilities data.

Those figures are useful for scale: Harrison County Jail is a small local jail, with high-authority data usually showing single-digit to low-teen populations in recent extracted rows. They should not be used as a current headcount. For a present custody count, housing status, or bed availability question, call the jail at 712-600-9776.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Harrison County Jail

No official Harrison County, Iowa, online jail roster or current-inmate search was located on the county website. Do not use the Harrison County, Mississippi, roster that appears in search results under a different sheriff domain and a 228 area code. For Harrison County, Iowa, current county-jail custody begins with the jail phone and then moves through custody-notification, court, state, federal, or immigration systems depending on the person's status.

1. Call Harrison County Jail at 712-600-9776 and ask what identifying information is needed to confirm current custody.
2. Use Iowa VINELink or the IowaVINE phone line, 888-742-8463, for custody-status notification when the person is eligible for that system.
3. Search Iowa Courts Online if the question is about filed criminal cases, court dates, charges, or case numbers after an arrest.
4. Use the Iowa DOC Offender Search for sentenced prison or DOC supervision records, especially when a person has left county custody.
5. Use the Federal BOP Inmate Locator for sentenced federal prisoners and ICE Online Detainee Locator for immigration detention searches.

Harrison County Jail Address and Contact

Use the jail line for custody, intake, release, mail, property, commissary, phone, and visitation questions. Use the main sheriff office number when a request needs routing through the office, records, civil division, or sheriff administration. The sheriff page lists public office hours as Monday-Friday, 8:00 am-4:30 pm. The jail should be treated as a custody operation outside those public counter hours, but the county page does not publish separate booking-desk hours.

Visiting Someone at Harrison County Jail

Harrison County Jail visits must be scheduled at least two hours in advance by calling 712-600-9776. The detailed Corrections Division rules list 30-minute visits, one visit per person per calendar week, valid government photo ID, and visitor screening by metal detector, pat-down, and visual inspection. Visitors under 18 must have a court order to visit and cannot wait in the lobby without adult supervision. Visitors who were incarcerated at the facility within the past 30 days are not eligible to visit.

The sheriff page has a schedule conflict. A shorter top-card schedule lists male and female visit windows as appointment-required visits from 3:30 pm-6:30 pm on fewer days. The more detailed Corrections Division block lists the broader noon-5:00 pm schedule below. Because the same official page contains both, call the jail before traveling.

Visitors more than 15 minutes late may be denied entry. Clothing must be conservative, clean, in good repair, non-offensive, and within common decency. Skirts and shorts must be mid-thigh or longer. Tank tops, halter tops, spaghetti straps, phones, cameras, recording devices, purses, bags, cups, and backpacks are prohibited. Visits may be canceled or denied for staffing or operational reasons.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Harrison County Jail

No official Harrison County jail-specific mail format, scanned-mail rule, book rule, photo rule, legal-mail rule, commissary vendor, deposit vendor, lobby kiosk, phone provider, video provider, tablet program, or fee table was located in the county sources reviewed. That gap matters because county jail mail and money rules often reject items that do not match the jail's current format. Call jail administration at 712-600-9776 before sending letters, money orders, books, photographs, legal documents, or deposits.

Bond, Court Dates, and Release Status

A jail booking is not the same as the filed court case. After a Harrison County arrest, jail staff can confirm local custody and practical release information that the facility is allowed to share. Filed charges, hearing dates, case numbers, and many bond entries belong in the Iowa court system. The Iowa Judicial Branch uniform bond schedule is useful background, but it does not replace the actual court order in a specific case.

For court records after a jail arrest, search Iowa Courts Online and confirm local court questions through the Harrison County Clerk of Court. For current release timing, property release, transport, or whether bond has been processed at the jail, call 712-600-9776. If a person no longer appears to be in county custody, check IowaVINE, Iowa Courts Online, and the Iowa DOC locator before assuming release. A transfer to DOC custody, another county, federal custody, or immigration custody can change which agency has the current record.

Booking and Intake at Harrison County Jail

People booked into Harrison County Jail may come from sheriff deputies, contracted law-enforcement service areas, court remands, warrant arrests, or transfer decisions. The county research did not locate a jail handbook or public booking workflow with step-by-step intake timing. In practical terms, booking questions should be separated from court-record questions: the jail can address current custody, visitation eligibility, property, and release process, while Iowa Courts Online and the clerk address filed charges and hearings.

Victims and family members who need custody-change notice should use IowaVINE instead of relying only on repeated phone calls. The sheriff page links IowaVINE and describes it as a telephone and internet service for custody status searches and phone or email notifications when an offender's custody status changes.

About Harrison County Jail

Harrison County's jail history reaches back before the current Law Enforcement Center. The official Harrison County history page says an earlier jail was built in 1877 with cells on the ground floor for ten prisoners and the sheriff's residence above. The same county history notes that renovations for a new county law enforcement center were completed in June 2000. That places today's jail operation in the modern Law Enforcement Center rather than the nineteenth-century jail arrangement.

No official jail-specific program page, medical request page, grievance form, reentry page, commissary page, or public jail handbook was located in the Harrison County sources reviewed. Iowa Administrative Code chapter 201-50 provides statewide jail-facility standards covering areas such as admission, classification, security, hygiene, medical services, communication, access to courts, discipline, grievances, and records. Those rules are statewide standards, not a published Harrison County Jail handbook.