Perry County Prison Inmate Lookup

Perry County Prison Overview

Perry County Prison is the only detention facility identified in the Perry County facility map. It is operated locally by Perry County Prison and the Perry County Prison Board, not by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. The official county prison page lists Warden Jason Harvey and Deputy Warden Tim Bassett. The prison board named there includes Judge Andrew Bender as chairman, District Attorney F. Clay Merris as vice chairman, Sheriff David Hammar, Commissioner Brenda L. Watson, Commissioner Frank Campbell, and Commissioner William Lyons.

The facility is at 300 South Carlisle St., New Bloomfield, PA 17068, with the main phone number 717-582-2262. Official county material describes the prison mission as detaining prisoners as directed by the courts, protecting the public, staff, and inmates, and offering treatment and services intended to support positive change. In practical inmate-search terms, Perry County Prison is the first local source to check when a male adult is believed to be held on a Perry County arrest, commitment, warrant, or short local sentence.

Perry County uses the official name "Prison," but for lookup purposes it functions as the county jail. The 2025 PREA audit identifies the facility type as Prison/Jail, and the custody range runs from Work Release through Maximum. Official budget and request-for-proposals material describes it as a secure all-male facility. Female prisoners connected to Perry County are housed by Cumberland County under the county budget/RFP context, so a woman arrested in Perry County may still have a Perry County case even if she is not physically housed at Perry County Prison.

The official Perry County Prison page is the source for the facility contact, leadership, board, visitation, mail, phone, money, and commissary information summarized here.

The screenshot matters because Perry County places several family-contact rules on one facility page instead of publishing a separate inmate roster or standalone visitor guide.

Perry County Prison Capacity and Population

Current population figures come from several official or high-authority sources, and they use slightly different measures. The county history note says the newer facility was planned for approximately 125 people at full capacity, with 52 individual cells, 48 of them able to be double bunked, plus a work-release/trustee housing area. For current capacity, the PA DOC 2026 County Prison Inspection Schedule lists 135 beds, while the 2025 PREA final audit lists designed capacity as 136.

The 2025 PREA audit, submitted October 14, 2025 after an onsite audit September 23-25, 2025, gives the strongest snapshot of the jail population. It reports a current population of 65, a day-one onsite audit population of 75, and an average daily population of 85 for the prior 12 months. The audit also states the prison had not been over capacity during the prior 12 months. Perry County's 2026 inmate health-care RFP reports a daily average population of 75 and approximately 475 bookings in 2025, including females housed elsewhere.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Perry County Prison

Perry County did not have an official county-hosted inmate roster or sheriff inmate-search portal in the research materials. The safest lookup sequence is to start with the prison phone line, then use statewide custody notification and court-record systems. Call Perry County Prison at 717-582-2262 with the person's full legal name, date of birth if known, arrest date if known, and any docket, OTN, warrant, or arresting-agency detail. Official sources did not identify a separate 24-hour booking desk number.

For online custody notification, use PA SAVIN/VINELink. Pennsylvania describes PA SAVIN as covering county jails, state prisons, and state parole, with registration available online, by phone at 866-972-7284, or through the VINELink mobile app. VINELink is a custody-status and notification system, not a Perry County mugshot gallery and not a full court docket. For filed charges, hearing dates, docket entries, and bail entries, search the Pennsylvania Unified Judicial System case search. For people sentenced to state custody or under PA DOC parole supervision, use the PA DOC inmate/parolee locator, which requires at least a last name or DOC number. For federal Bureau of Prisons custody, use the BOP locator. For civil immigration detention, use ICE ODLS, noting that no ICE detention facility was identified in Perry County.

1. Call Perry County Prison at 717-582-2262 for a current local custody check.
2. Search PA SAVIN/VINELink by name and register for custody-status notifications if a match appears.
3. Search UJS case records by name, docket number, OTN, police complaint number, or SID for court charges and events.
4. Use PA DOC, BOP, or ICE locators only when the person's custody type has moved beyond local Perry County jail custody.

Perry County Prison Address and Contact

The prison address and phone number are the core contact details for custody confirmation, visitor scheduling questions, attorney or probation/parole contact, and facility-specific mail or money questions. The courthouse and sheriff's office are also in New Bloomfield, but they are different offices. Use the prison for custody, visitation, phone, mail, money, and commissary questions. Use court offices for docket, filing, and bail-record questions.

Visiting Someone at Perry County Prison

General visitation at Perry County Prison is controlled through the inmate's visitor list. The research says an inmate may list a maximum of five people and chooses one one-hour visit per week, then tells visitors the day and time. Visitors need photo identification, and adult status is required unless the visitor is accompanied by a parent or guardian. Visits are secure/barrier visits. Everyone entering is subject to search under the prison page's notice, and visitors should not bring pocketbooks, diaper bags, food, drinks, tobacco items, cell phones, cameras, or recording devices into the prison.

Official visitors have a more specific schedule. Attorneys, probation/parole officers, and service providers are listed for weekday official visits or calls, but they must schedule by calling 717-582-2262. Confirm procedures before traveling, especially for evening appointments, accessibility needs, or if a court transport or housing change could affect availability.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Perry County Prison

Perry County Prison uses a scanned-mail process for personal mail. Personal mail does not go to the New Bloomfield street address. It goes to a Greensboro, North Carolina processing address with Facility ID 5270, where it is scanned for the inmate. The rules include a return-address requirement, 10 pages or less per envelope, maximum page size of 8.5 x 11, no Polaroids, no glitter, glue, tape, 3D, or electronic elements, and no contraband. Books, magazines, packages, cash, checks, and money orders should not be sent to the mail-processing center. Originals are not returned after scanning.

Legal or privileged mail is different. It goes directly to Perry County Prison at 300 South Carlisle St., New Bloomfield, PA 17068, with the inmate's name and a clear "Legal Mail" marking. Phone and video communication uses Pay Tel Communications. People accepting calls or video visits must establish a Pay Tel account, and the prison page notes that calls are recorded and third-party or calling-card calls are prohibited. Money at commitment is placed into the person's prison account. Additional money can be added through the kiosk outside the prison, while phone accounts use PayTel.com, commissary accounts use JailATM.com, and family or friend canteen orders use Oasis/JailCanteen. The county page lists a $150 weekly combined inmate/canteen order limit and says inmate money posts the next business day.

Booking and Intake at Perry County Prison

Local official sources do not publish a step-by-step Perry County booking manual, so the most accurate description is a careful county-jail intake sequence tied to known local facts. A person arrested in Perry County may be brought by a local police department, Pennsylvania State Police, sheriff-related warrant service, or another authorized agency. If the person is male and held locally, Perry County Prison is the primary county facility. If the person is female, Perry County budget/RFP materials indicate housing is handled through Cumberland County, even though the case can still be a Perry County matter.

During intake, the jail verifies identity, receives commitment or arrest paperwork, inventories property, and places money on the person's possession into a Perry County Prison account. The 2026 inmate health-care RFP supports medical, mental-health, and nursing service context at the prison, but it does not publish a public clinic schedule. Classification and housing should be understood broadly: the 2025 PREA audit lists custody levels from Work Release through Maximum. After intake, the court process controls arraignment, bail conditions, release orders, docket creation, and prosecution. UJS dockets become the better source for filed charges once a court case exists, while the prison remains the direct source for current local custody questions.

Programs, Health Care, and Oversight

The county prison page says Perry County Prison provides treatment and services so inmates may have a more positive influence when they rejoin the community. The public material does not list every program, so the page should not invent GED, religious, vocational, or reentry partnerships that were not located. What is documented is still useful. The county history page notes a work-release/trustee housing area, and the PREA audit's custody range includes Work Release through Maximum. That shows the facility is not only a maximum-custody holding space.

Health-care and substance-use services are also visible in current county documents. Perry County's 2026 inmate health-care RFP notice sought medical, mental health, and nursing services for the prison. The 2024-2025 Cumberland/Perry HSBG draft says Cumberland County Prison and Perry County Prison faced new medication-assisted treatment obligations, with opioid settlement funds committed to jail MAT costs. It also says both counties had operated prison Vivitrol programs with PCCD grant funding and continued with settlement funding, with buprenorphine, methadone continuation, and recovery supports also named.

Oversight appears through several channels. The prison board is listed on the county page. PA DOC county prison inspections operate under Pennsylvania county correctional institution standards. The June 9, 2025 commissioners minutes approved a $4,500 contract with Patrick J. Zirpoli LLC for PREA auditing services at Perry County Prison, and the 2025 PREA audit gives staffing, volunteer, contact-population, capacity, and custody-level information. Pennsylvania also has a death-in-custody reporting framework through PCCD, although this research did not locate a Perry County death-in-custody item.

Recent Perry County Prison Updates

Recent records show activity around health care, PREA auditing, medication-assisted treatment, and phone rates. In June 2026, Perry County solicited inmate health-care services for Perry County Prison. The RFP included medical, mental health, and nursing services, with publication on June 8, 2026, proposals due July 10, 2026, and an anticipated contract start of January 1, 2027. On June 9, 2025, county commissioners approved a PREA audit contract, matching the later 2025 audit cycle.

A May 20, 2026 CBS21/WHP report said inmates were credited after a Pay Tel poster delay caused confusion over phone rates. The report said Pay Tel lowered rates on April 1, 2026 from $0.21 per minute to $0.15 per minute and that $342.76 in credits were issued May 6, 2026. Because that item is a news report and not the county's official rate sheet, use it as dated context rather than a promise of the current rate. No recent DOJ consent decree, new jail construction project, closure, or major overcrowding litigation specific to Perry County Prison was located in the high-authority research. The 2025 PREA audit said the facility had not been over capacity in the prior 12 months.

About Perry County Prison

Perry County Prison sits in New Bloomfield, near the county courthouse area, but it should not be confused with the courthouse, Clerk of Courts, Sheriff's Office, District Attorney, or Magisterial District Court offices. For custody, visitation, legal mail, phone/video, money, and commissary, start with the prison. For filed charges, court dates, docket sheets, bail entries, and case records, use the court system. For records not posted online, Perry County's Open Records Policy may be available, but criminal-investigative exemptions, CHRIA limits, court restrictions, juvenile confidentiality, and jail-security rules can limit what is released.

The facility page is most useful when it keeps custody types separate. Perry County Prison covers local county jail custody and short local commitments. PA DOC covers sentenced state prisoners and state parolees. BOP covers federal prison custody. ICE ODLS covers civil immigration detention. Perry County Prison can have short-duration federal prisoners between transport and court appearances, but that does not make it a federal prison, and no BOP or ICE detention facility was identified in Perry County.