Search the Carbon County Inmate Population

Carbon County Inmate Population Overview

The Carbon County inmate population in official local sources is housed through one county jail: Carbon County Jail, operated by the Carbon County Sheriff's Office. The jail serves as the local custody point for people arrested by the sheriff, Price, Helper, Wellington, East Carbon, Utah Highway Patrol, Adult Probation and Parole, and other local agencies. That routing matters because a person arrested by a city officer in Carbon County can still appear in the county jail bookings table instead of a city jail roster.

The strongest population figure located for Carbon County is a bed-capacity number, not a live head count. The Utah Department of Corrections Jail Programs 2024 document, produced in January 2025 and updated March 24, 2025, lists Carbon County with 85 total jail beds. Carbon County did not publish a current daily jail population, average daily population, or annual booking total in the official sources reviewed. The current bookings table shows names and holds, but it does not display an aggregate count or a demographic dashboard.

Carbon County Inmate Population Statistics

Carbon County inmate population statistics should be read with care because the available sources answer different questions. The UDC jail-program file is a state placement and contract document, so its 85-bed number is best used as a state-published capacity figure. The county roster is a live-style public bookings table, but it is not a census report. Prison Policy Initiative and Census sources add background context, while the official Carbon County pages do not publish local average daily population.

Carbon County Inmate Population Trends

Carbon County does not publish a clean year-by-year jail population trend table in the sources located for this build. The available timeline is narrower: an older local jail count appears in Prison Policy Initiative census-related data, the UDC file records the end of Carbon County's active Corrections contract status, and the 2025 state jail-program update gives the current bed figure used for placement reporting. That record is useful, but it should not be stretched into an average daily population trend.

For a current roster count, the practical method is to check the county's live bookings table and remember that released people may no longer appear. For a verified official aggregate count, a GRAMA request through Carbon County is the better path because the published roster does not act as a daily population report.

Who Makes Up Carbon County Jail Custody

The Carbon County jail population is made up of people in local custody, including pretrial detainees and local sentenced prisoners. The sheriff's page says inmates from all law-enforcement agencies in the county are housed at the jail. That includes arrests routed through the Carbon County Sheriff's Office, local police departments, Utah Highway Patrol, Adult Probation and Parole, and other agencies operating in the county.

The official public data does not give a full demographic breakdown. UDC lists Carbon County as male housing in the jail-program document, but the county did not publish a public male/female count, race or ethnicity breakdown, average length of stay, charge-level mix, or pretrial-versus-sentenced count. The public roster has up to three hold fields for each listed person. Those fields help explain why a person is held, but they are not a full statistical table.

Booking

The jail intake record created after an arrest and transport to the facility.

Hold

A jail or agency reason a person remains in custody, shown in Carbon County as HOLDS1 through HOLDS3.

Detainer

A notice or hold from another agency that may affect release.

UDC

Utah Department of Corrections, the state system for sentenced prison custody and probation or parole supervision.

Laws Governing Carbon County Jail Data

Utah law gives the framework for public records, jail reporting, capacity records, and booking photographs. Carbon County routes county GRAMA requests through the County Clerk because the Clerk is the appointed records officer, while sheriff records such as police reports, photos, dashcam video, and booking photos require a GRAMA request through the sheriff or county process. These laws explain why some data appears online, while other items require a written request or may be protected.

Booking photographs have an extra rule. Utah Code 17-72-802 limits sheriff release of booking photos, especially for publish-for-pay use, and connects to protected-record limits in Utah Code 63G-2-305. That is one reason the Carbon County roster should not be treated as a mugshot gallery.

Carbon County and State Prison Custody

Carbon County Jail is not the same system as state prison. The Utah Department of Corrections Offender Search covers people currently incarcerated by or supervised by UDC. UDC states that people awaiting trial or not yet sentenced and housed in county jails are not listed in its locator. A person arrested in Carbon County should be checked first through the county bookings table unless the facts suggest a prison, probation, or parole case.

UDC operates two state prisons, the Utah State Correctional Facility in Salt Lake City and the Central Utah Correctional Facility in Gunnison. Neither is in Carbon County. UDC Adult Probation and Parole Region 6 has a Price office serving Carbon, Emery, and part of Wayne County, which helps explain why some Carbon County arrests or holds may involve probation or parole even though the jail remains the local booking point.

Search Carbon County Inmate Population Records

The official starting point for a current Carbon County inmate lookup is the Carbon County Jail Bookings page. It is a public Current Bookings table, not a full profile portal. The table shows LAST_NAME, FIRST_NAME, BookingNo, Arrival, and three hold fields. The county's disclaimer says suspects are considered innocent until proven guilty and that listed charges are preliminary and subject to change.

The public table has a global search box, sorting, pagination, and export controls. It does not show a mugshot column, bond field, housing unit, court date, date of birth, or clickable full public profile in the table configuration captured for the research file. A missing name can mean release, transfer, spelling variation, a delay, or a custody type outside the county roster.

1. Open the official Carbon County Jail Bookings page.
2. Use the table Search box for a last name, first name, booking number, or hold term.
3. Sort by LAST_NAME or Arrival if browsing the current jail population.
4. Read HOLDS1, HOLDS2, and HOLDS3 as jail hold fields, not final court convictions.
5. Call the jail or use GRAMA if the person is not listed and Carbon County custody still seems likely.

The official jail bookings page is the source for the current roster screenshot below.

The screenshot reflects the roster's table format, which is useful for current bookings but limited for deeper record details.

Carbon County Roster Search Fields

The Carbon County jail roster uses a table search rather than a dedicated first-name, last-name, and booking-number form. The search box scans visible table data, while each public column can be sorted. Export buttons can help users print or save the visible table, but exported roster data still has the same limits as the online table.

Carbon County Inmate Lookup Fallbacks

When the roster does not answer the question, the next channel depends on the kind of custody or record needed. The jail phone line is the local custody fallback. GRAMA is the records path for booking records, police reports, photos, dashcam video, and booking photos. UDC is the state-custody path. BOP and ICE handle federal and immigration custody. VINELink supports custody and release notifications.

Carbon County did not have a dedicated sheriff mobile app with an app-only roster or warrant search in the research. Inmate Canteen and VINELink apps may help with jail communication or notifications, but they do not replace the official county jail bookings table.

What Carbon County Inmate Records Show

A Carbon County jail record on the public roster is lean. It gives enough to identify a current booking and see basic hold information, but it does not publish many fields readers may expect from larger inmate portals. For a fuller case picture, use the jail roster for custody, Utah Xchange or the court clerk for filed charges and hearings, and GRAMA for records the county does not post online.

Carbon County Detention Facilities

Carbon County's official detention map has one local jail facility. No separate city jail, work-release annex, state prison, BOP institution, ICE detention facility, or U.S. Marshals detention center physically in Carbon County was located in official sources. Once a person is sentenced to state prison or moved to federal or immigration custody, the search leaves the Carbon County jail roster.

• Carbon County Jail - the county jail in Price for people arrested by Carbon County law-enforcement agencies, pretrial detainees, and local sentenced prisoners.

For a broader custody workflow, the Carbon County inmate records page follows the roster fields, jail phone fallback, records request route, UDC locator, VINELink, BOP, and ICE lookups.

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