Roscommon County Jail Inmate Lookup

Roscommon County Jail Overview

Roscommon County Jail is operated by the Roscommon County Sheriff's Department. The official sheriff page lists the jail and sheriff's office at 111 S. Second St, Roscommon, MI 48653. It identifies Edward Stern as sheriff, Benjamin Lowe as undersheriff, and Laurie Beck as jail administrator. The jail phone is (989) 275-9070, and the jail fax is (989) 275-5843.

The jail is the primary local facility for pretrial detainees, people serving local jail sentences, people arrested on warrants, and other sheriff or court holds. Roscommon County criminal cases begin in 82nd District Court. Misdemeanor cases proceed there from arraignment through sentencing, while felony cases begin there for arraignment, preliminary examination, and felony pleas before any later Circuit Court stage.

The official sheriff page shows the Roscommon County Jail contact block and links the county inmate search.

That source ties the facility identity, jail administrator, phone number, and roster access point together in one county-published location.

Roscommon County Jail Capacity

The best official local capacity figure located for Roscommon County Jail is 96 beds. That number appears in a Roscommon County CAD/RMS/JMS project Q&A, where the county answered the jail bed question as "96." The same project document identifies corrections-system details such as Stellar for commissary/JMS integration, ID Network for Livescan, and Homewave as inmate phone provider. Those details should be treated as county technology-project facts, not as a published daily operating manual.

No current official jail dashboard, current day count, current average daily population, housing-unit layout, or classification map was found in the county sources reviewed. Vera's 2019 county row listed a total jail population of 80 and a rated capacity of 96, with 41 pretrial and 39 sentenced custody values. Those figures are useful historical context, but the jail roster and jail phone are the better sources for current custody.

Search Roscommon County Jail Records

Roscommon County directs inmate search users to the Public Safety Cloud/JailTracker roster. That roster is the correct first lookup for local jail custody at Roscommon County Jail. It is separate from MDOC OTIS, the federal BOP locator, and ICE ODLS. A person recently arrested in Roscommon County usually belongs in the county jail and 82nd District Court path before any sentenced-prison record would exist.

1. Start with the Roscommon County JailTracker roster linked by the sheriff.
2. Search by first name, last name, or offender-name field if the app presents those controls.
3. Use current-only or released-since filters if the app shows them after loading.
4. Check any visible booking number, charges, holds, bond, warrant, court date, arrest date, and release fields.
5. Call Roscommon County Jail at (989) 275-9070 if the app fails or no match appears.

If a booking record is needed but not online, use Roscommon County FOIA through the Administrator/Controller. Requests may be mailed or delivered to 500 Lake Street, Roscommon, MI 48653, faxed to (989) 275-3161, or emailed to controller@roscommoncounty.net with "FOIA" or "FOIA Request" in the subject line.

Roscommon County Jail Contact

The jail contact information below is for the local county jail, not the courthouse. The county courthouse and FOIA office use 500 Lake Street, while the jail and sheriff's office use 111 S. Second St. That distinction matters for visits, proof of incarceration, inmate mail, and in-person deposit questions.

Sheriff Edward Stern and the Roscommon County Sheriff's Department operate the jail. The sheriff main office number is separate from the jail phone, but custody questions should start with the jail number because it is the direct facility contact published in the jail block.

Roscommon County Jail Visitation

The official jail page states that there is no on-site visitation at this time. It does not publish a remote-video schedule, visitor dress code, attorney-visit schedule, holiday visit schedule, or visitor registration workflow in the sources reviewed. That means personal visitation should not be planned from a generic weekly schedule. Call the jail for current rules before any travel.

Note: The visitation entrance and lobby still matter for proof of incarceration and deposits even though personal on-site visits are not offered.

Roscommon County Jail Mail

Roscommon County Jail publishes unusually specific mail and property rules. Inmate mail should use the inmate's name and the jail address at 111 S. Second St, Roscommon, Michigan 48653. Letters and pictures are copied and given to inmates, while the originals are placed in property. Money is not accepted by mail, and personal property will not be released while the person remains in custody.

The county's jail inmate information page is the source for the no-on-site-visitation notice, JailATM deposits, mail-copy rule, property rule, and clothing restrictions.

Those rules explain why families should avoid mailing money, dropping off whites, or expecting original letters and pictures to reach the inmate.

Roscommon County Jail Deposits

Money for Roscommon County Jail inmates may be deposited online through JailATM 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, according to the official jail page. Cash or credit card deposits may also be made at the kiosk in the jail visitation lobby. The county page says no money is accepted by mail. No public fee schedule for deposits, commissary, or phone rates was located in the official county sources reviewed.

Booking at Roscommon County Jail

Roscommon County does not publish a step-by-step jail booking manual. The documented local path is arrest by a law-enforcement agency, lodging at Roscommon County Jail when local custody is required, jail intake and booking, creation of a custody record, possible photo or fingerprint steps, classification or holding assignment, and court processing through 82nd District Court.

The 82nd District Court criminal division says all Roscommon County criminal cases are filed there. Arraignment is the event where the defendant is advised of rights, advised of the charge, advised of possible penalties, bond is set, and a plea may be entered. For felony matters, the District Court handles the early stages, and criminal matters carrying more than a one-year sentence move to Circuit Court.

Statewide Michigan jail rules also provide a baseline for health and safety. Administrative Rules for Jails and Lockups cover intake health screening, health appraisal after arrival, immediate treatment for injuries, staffing, sanitation, fire safety, emergency plans, rights, and force reporting. Those are statewide standards, not a Roscommon-specific housing map.

Roscommon County Jail Records

For current custody, use the JailTracker roster and jail phone. For jail or booking records that are not online, Roscommon County FOIA is the fallback. The county public summary allows written requests by form or other writing, and the research notes that the county may also document verbal requests. Court records follow the court record request process under MCR 8.119 rather than ordinary county FOIA.

Useful jail record details can include booking number, name, charges, holds, arresting agency, bond type or amount, warrant number, court date, arrest date, release date, and photo fields where available. If the needed record is a filed charge, plea, disposition, or sentence, check the court record rather than relying on the jail roster alone.

For a wider custody search beyond the jail, use Roscommon County inmate records to compare the county roster, jail phone, FOIA, Michigan VINE, MDOC OTIS, BOP, and ICE lookup paths.

Roscommon County Jail vs Other Custody

Roscommon County Jail is not a state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention facility. No current MDOC prison, BOP facility, or ICE detention facility was identified in Roscommon County. State-sentenced prisoners are searched through MDOC OTIS. Federal sentenced prisoners are searched through the BOP inmate locator. Immigration custody is searched through ICE ODLS, which USAGov describes as searchable by A-number or by name, country of birth, and birth date.

Roscommon County Jail Standards

No local program list was found for GED, substance-abuse treatment, religious services, work release, reentry, grievance forms, or mental-health request forms. That does not mean no internal services exist. It means the county sources reviewed did not publish enough detail to describe them as public-facing programs.

The better sourced conditions material is the Michigan Administrative Rules for Jails and Lockups. Those rules cover sanitation inspections, health care, pharmaceuticals, intake health screening, health appraisal, inmate-rights policy, fire prevention, emergency plans, staffing, and use-of-force reporting. Federal death-in-custody reporting rules also apply to deaths under arrest, en route to incarceration, or in a municipal or county jail, state prison, or other state or local correctional facility.