Columbia County Jail Inmate Lookup

Columbia County Jail Overview

Columbia County Jail is operated by the Columbia County Sheriff's Office Corrections Division. The facility is housed at the Public Safety Facility near Hudson and Greenport and is used for people awaiting trial in local and county courts, people sentenced to a term of one year or less, federal inmates when accepted, and prisoners from other overpopulated county facilities when Columbia County houses them. The Sheriff's Corrections Division operates the jail 24 hours a day under New York State Commission of Correction oversight.

The Sheriff's materials identify the jail as a 135-bed local correctional facility. The Public Safety Facility opened in 1989, and the Corrections Division earned New York State Sheriff's Association corrections accreditation in 2008. Sheriff Jacqueline Salvatore leads the Columbia County Sheriff's Office, and the research identifies Captain Patrick Delaney as Chief Correction Officer with Lieutenants William Hilscher and Jeremy Huyck as Assistant Chief Correction Officers.

The official Columbia County Sheriff's Corrections Division page describes the 135-bed jail, accreditation, population served, and annual processing volume.

That official jail page is the central source for facility identity, capacity, and custody categories, but it does not provide a searchable public roster.

Columbia County Jail Capacity and Population

The rated capacity is 135 beds according to the Sheriff's Corrections Division and Sheriff's Office About pages. The same Corrections Division page says normally just over 1,100 people are processed into the jail each year. Population reports from the New York State Commission of Correction, published through DCJS jail population trend reports, show a much smaller recent average daily census than the bed count.

The annual report prepared February 2, 2026 lists Columbia County Jail's 2025 average daily census at 29, with an in-house average of 36, 7 boarded in, and 0 boarded out. The monthly report prepared June 1, 2026 lists the May 2026 average daily census at 30, with 33 in house and 3 boarded in. Comparing the May 2026 census of 30 to the 135-bed capacity is a simple arithmetic comparison of about 22 percent; it should not be treated as an official occupancy rate.

Recent Columbia County annual census figures declined from 83 in 2016 to 29 in 2025. The research notes statewide context from the annual jail report, including lower jail census levels after 2020 and changes tied to fewer arrests or arraignments during COVID-19, bail reforms, and Raise the Age rules.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Columbia County Jail

No official public Columbia County Jail roster, current inmate list, booking profile search, or mugshot gallery was located on the Columbia County Sheriff's Office website or official county website during the research pass. The Sheriff's site publishes corrections information, FOIL instructions, local record checks, visitation, bail, mail, VINE, and arrest blotters, but not a searchable live roster.

1. Call Columbia County Jail Reception / Corrections Division at 518-828-3324 for current local custody information.
2. Use New York VINE online or by phone at 1-888-VINE-4-NY / 1-888-846-3469 to check custody status and register for release, transfer, or escape notification.
3. Submit a written Sheriff's FOIL request by mail or in person when the needed jail record is not available by phone or online.
4. Use New York DOCCS lookup if the person has been sentenced to state prison or transferred from the county jail.
5. Use the Federal BOP locator for sentenced federal custody and the ICE Online Detainee Locator for immigration custody.
6. Use WebCriminal, the court clerk, or the County Clerk for the criminal case record after arrest.

The Sheriff's VINE page explains the New York Sheriffs' Victim Hotline, custody-status information, and notification by phone.

VINE is especially useful in Columbia County because it bridges county jail, state correctional facility, other county jail, and New York City jail custody notification.

Columbia County Jail Address and Contact

The facility address and the Sheriff's Office Public Safety Facility mailing address are the same in the research. Use the corrections number for jail reception and local custody questions. For urgent danger, use 911. For non-emergency law-enforcement contact outside a jail reception question, the Sheriff's 24-hour Communications Center number is 518-828-3344.

The Sheriff's research also lists Administration at 518-828-0601, Corrections Fax at 518-828-2032, and Law Enforcement Fax at 518-828-9088. FOIL questions may be routed through the Sheriff's records process, which the research ties to 518-828-0601 ext. 1415 for further FOIL information.

Visiting Someone at Columbia County Jail

Columbia County publishes a detailed visitation schedule. Non-contact booth visits are available for incarcerated individuals on good behavior, one per day, with a 30-minute duration. Contact visits are separate, must be scheduled at least 48 hours in advance, and incarcerated individuals are entitled to two contact visits per week.

The official jail visitation page lists the booth and contact visit schedule, check-in timing, identification rules, and dress restrictions.

Visitors must arrive and check in 15 minutes before the visit starts. No cell phones are permitted in the facility, photo identification is required, minors need identification and a parent or legal guardian, and visitors may be searched by correction officers. The Sheriff's published clothing restrictions include no tube tops, halter tops, bare midriff or back, plunging neckline, short shorts, short skirts, athletic shorts, hooded sweatshirts, bathing suits, bare feet, gloves, or excessive jewelry.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Columbia County Jail

Mail should be addressed using the incarcerated person's name, Columbia County Jail, 85 Industrial Tract, Hudson, NY 12534. Incoming mail is opened and inspected for contraband. Mail should not contain lipstick, marker, glue, or other foreign substances, and electronic or musical cards are not allowed. Unauthorized mail may be returned if unopened or placed in property if opened; contraband can lead to criminal investigation and charges.

The Sheriff's miscellaneous jail information page is the source for bail, incoming calls, GTL phone accounts, commissary deposits, and mail rules.

The narrow money-order windows are easy to miss, so verify custody and deposit timing before traveling to the Public Safety Building lobby.

Bail Posting at Columbia County Jail

Columbia County's jail information page says bail may be posted at the facility at any time. Bail must be cash or a certified Western Union money order made out to the Columbia County Sheriff. The same page says all bonding must be arranged through a bail bondsman and the court of jurisdiction. The jail also references credit-card bail through GOVernment PAYment EXP / GovPayNet, with secure guaranteed payments processed by the company before the jail is notified.

State law context matters because New York Criminal Procedure Law Article 510 governs recognizance, bail, commitment, and securing-order decisions, while Article 520 covers bail and bail bonds. The court controls the order. The jail accepts certain payment methods when bail is available, but a person may remain held because of another warrant, state-ready status, a parole matter, federal hold, immigration issue, or another court order.

Booking and Intake at Columbia County Jail

Columbia County's official pages do not publish a complete booking checklist, so the most reliable intake details come from the Sheriff's medical, record-check, and facility pages. When an incarcerated individual enters the correctional facility, the Medical Unit completes a medical screening and history. Medical staff verify information through primary care physicians and other health providers when possible, and only medications prescribed by the Facility Medical Director and delivered by the contracted pharmacy are dispensed.

The Sheriff's local record-check page says a local check can indicate whether a person was committed to Columbia County Jail, the date, the reason, and the court from which the person was committed. Classification details are not published as a full public tool, but the A New Leash on Life program page confirms that classification and disciplinary history are used when deciding program eligibility.

Medical, Food, and Programs at Columbia County Jail

The Medical Unit includes a doctor serving as Medical Director and RN/LPN nurses supervised by the doctor and an RN Head Nurse. Medical staff coordinate with Columbia County Mental Health and the Department of Public Health. Published services include mental health crisis intervention, HIV education, Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, prescription control, and rehabilitation transition coordination.

The Columbia County Jail Medical Unit page shows the jail's intake screening and medical/mental health service details.

Medical details are part of the facility record because intake screening can happen before family members ever see a court record or custody notice update.

Food service is also locally documented. Full-time and part-time cooks prepare meals, menus are approved by a certified dietitian, special medical and religious diets are available when applicable, and about 135,000 meals are prepared annually. The jail also has chaplaincy and Incarcerated Individual Ministries programming.

The A New Leash on Life program page describes selected incarcerated handlers training dogs from Columbia-Greene Humane Society/SPCA.

That program is a distinctive Columbia County facility detail: selected handlers receive classroom training and then care for an assigned dog during a six-week training period.

Court and Transfer Pathways After Columbia County Jail

A person arrested in Columbia County may move through several custody systems. Columbia County Jail custody covers local pretrial detention and sentences of one year or less. If a person receives a state-prison sentence, New York DOCCS becomes the main lookup system after transfer. Commission of Correction reports use the term state readies for people sentenced to state prison but not yet transferred; Columbia County's May 2026 monthly report listed 1 state-ready person.

No DOCCS prison, BOP institution, or ICE detention facility was identified in Columbia County. The jail can house federal inmates according to the Sheriff's Corrections Division page, but recent SCOC annual 2025 and monthly May 2026 figures showed 0 federal average in-house population for the cited periods. Sentenced federal custody belongs in the BOP locator, immigration custody belongs in the ICE locator, and criminal case activity after arrest belongs in WebCriminal or clerk records.

About Columbia County Jail

The jail is part of the Sheriff's Office Public Safety Facility, which also serves as the main Sheriff's Office location. The Sheriff's Office has law enforcement, corrections, security services, emergency management, and civil enforcement responsibilities. The county context is local: Columbia County sits in the Hudson Valley, and the Public Safety Facility is near Hudson and Greenport.

Condition and rights information appears in several official Sheriff's pages. PREA reporting can be made to staff, the Sheriff's Law Enforcement Division at 518-828-3344, or the REACH Center at MHA of Columbia-Greene, 713 Union Street, Hudson, NY 12534, 518-943-4482. The Sheriff's HALT Act page says Columbia County's policy is that segregated-confinement sanctions as defined by SCOC Part 7006.1(b)(1) are not imposed.