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Clark County Jail Overview

Clark County Jail is operated by the Clark County Department of Jail Services. The jail is inside the Clark County Law Enforcement Center in downtown Vancouver, next to the courthouse and across from the Public Service Center. It is the county's primary current inmate housing facility. People held there include recent arrestees, defendants waiting for court, people held on no-bail charges, people serving local jail sentences, and people held on warrants or out-of-county matters that appear on the jail roster.

The public roster is a jail-register table, not a full profile database. It lists CFN, name, book date, location, release date when populated, and charges. The inspected roster did not show mugshots, bond amounts, court dates, demographic fields, or profile links. Those limits matter because Washington law treats most records about a confined person as confidential unless a public-register rule, written permission, court process, or another law permits release.

The Clark County Jail Services contact page lists the public jail address and the 24-hour jail information number. The jail services pages also separate the public jail register from confidential inmate records, so a roster search and a records request do different jobs.

Clark County Jail Capacity

The county's capacity numbers have changed as the building has aged and as the Work Center stopped housing inmates. The main jail opened in 1984 with a 300-bed capacity. The county history page says medium-security cells were double bunked in 1994, bringing capacity to 461 at that time. A 2025 assumptions review gives the current maximum Clark County Jail capacity as 491 inmates, but that figure depends on using all available beds and double or triple bunks in spaces first designed for fewer people.

Clark County's 2024 annual financial report lists a recent average daily jail population of 462. A 2026 ECHO presentation uses 519 beds and 7,780 bookings as a planning base for 2025 estimates. The county is also planning bed changes outside the downtown building, including a J Pod project at the Work Center. Those projects do not change the immediate lookup rule: current local custody is checked through the Clark County jail roster and jail information line.

Look Up Clark County Jail Custody

Use the official Clark County Jail roster for current local jail custody. The roster is free, public, and presented as a single table headed by a book-date filter, so browser search can be useful when the roster does not expose a standard name-search form in the browser. If a person is not listed, call the jail information line, check WA VINE for custody notifications, or move to DOC, BOP, or ICE systems if the person was transferred. The broader Clark County jail inmate records path is useful when a roster entry needs to be matched with records-request or court-record channels.

1. Open the official county jail roster instead of a third-party inmate site.
2. Search the page for the last name, then compare the full name and book date.
3. Read the CFN, location code, release date field, and charge line before assuming identity.
4. Call 564.397.4996 when a new booking, release, transfer, or hold may not be clear online.
5. Use the Washington DOC locator, BOP locator, ICE ODLS, or WA VINE when local custody no longer fits the case.

Clark County Jail Contact

The jail information line is the main phone fallback for current custody questions, visiting information, and general jail routing. The downtown lobby is open on weekday business hours with a midday closure and is closed on holidays. The county says only jail-register information is open to the public, so lobby contact should not be treated as a way to obtain confidential medical, classification, discipline, or full inmate file details.

The county contact page also lists the jail mailing address, media email, and public-record portal route.

The contact screenshot supports the practical route: use the jail information phone for custody status and use the public-record process for records beyond the jail register.

Clark County Jail Visits

Personal visits at Clark County Jail are video visits. Jail Services says an inmate must be in custody for 72 hours before any type of visiting is allowed, which gives staff time for processing. A visitor may use an available lobby kiosk, but only one person may use the kiosk at a time. Remote visits are handled through GettingOut or GTL and must be arranged through an account. A fee may apply for remote services.

Phones are different from visits. Housing-unit phones are available daily for outgoing calls, and inmates cannot receive incoming calls. Calls may run up to 15 minutes and are recorded except for attorney calls. TTY is available on request. Voicemail messages are a paid GettingOut service and are limited to three minutes under the county's posted rules.

Clark County Jail Mail and Money

Clark County uses a scanned-mail system for personal mail. Personal mail goes to a Phoenix, Maryland processing address, not directly to the jail. Each item must include the inmate name and CFN because the CFN is the jail ID found on the roster. Legal mail, publications, cashier's checks, and money orders use the Clark County Jail Services mailing address in Vancouver and follow a different rule set.

Money can be deposited through the main jail lobby kiosk, online, by phone, or through the Access Corrections app. The lobby kiosk accepts cash for commissary and phone-account deposits during lobby hours. Commissary is weekly and can include snacks, hygiene items, clothing, writing supplies, and other approved items, subject to medical, mental-health, or discipline restrictions. Funds left at release are issued by debit card attached to release paperwork or property.

The Clark County inmate money page documents Access Corrections deposit options and weekly commissary service.

The money page is useful when a roster lookup confirms custody and the next task is funding commissary or phone access.

Clark County Jail Release

Release from Clark County Jail depends on charges, bail, court orders, sentence completion, and any holds. The county release page says people arrested with criminal charges and bail amounts may be eligible for release before court or sentencing, but full bail for all charges must be paid before release. During business hours, bail is paid at the Clark County Courthouse. After business hours, bail is paid at Clark County Jail Records. Bail bond companies set their own premium and collateral terms.

No-bail charges work differently. A person with a no-bail charge cannot be released by posting money before court proceedings and remains in the main jail until a court releases or sentences the person. Even when local bail is paid, a hold or detainer can keep the person in custody. The roster shows examples of fugitive and out-of-county warrant matters, so the release date field should be checked with the jail information line before making travel or pickup plans.

Cash bail

The full bail amount is paid to secure release and court appearance.

Surety bond

A bail bond company posts a bond under its own fee and collateral rules.

No-bail hold

The court or law blocks release by payment until further court action.

Detainer

Another agency requests custody after local release eligibility.

Note: Bail, release timing, and holds can change quickly, so confirm status with Jail Records or the court before pickup.

Clark County Jail Booking

Booking starts after an arrest or court order sends a person to the downtown jail. Staff complete identification, property handling, money processing, medical and safety screening, and classification. The CFN assigned during booking becomes important because it appears on the roster and is required for mail. Cash at booking is deposited into the inmate commissary account, and remaining funds are returned by debit card at release.

Classification leads to a housing location, which appears as a code or location text on the roster. The county does not publish an exact roster refresh interval, so very new bookings may not be visible right away. During the first 72 hours, visiting is blocked while processing is completed, and property release rules also treat that first period as a special window.

About Clark County Jail

The jail's history reaches back to early custody at Fort Vancouver, an 1860 county jail near the early courthouse, an 1880s courthouse basement jail, and the modern downtown jail that opened in 1984. County planning records describe an older building under pressure from medical needs, substance-use needs, housing layout limits, and bed-capacity strain. Jail Services also identifies reentry as part of its mission, linking people released from jail with community resources to reduce repeat custody. The countywide Clark County inmate population overview places those jail capacity figures beside roster and lookup channels.

For sentenced felony prison custody after a Clark County case, use the Washington State Department of Corrections incarcerated search, not the county roster. For a broader custody-status alert, WA VINE can send notifications for release, transfer, escape, death, unknown status, and data-feed changes. No official Clark County, Washington sheriff custody app is documented for inmate lookup; GettingOut and Access Corrections are service apps, not roster apps.