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Clinton County Jail Overview

The Clinton County Jail Operations page describes the jail as the sheriff's secure correctional facility and ties its work to safe, humane custody. The operator is the Clinton County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff Dush is listed in the county staff directory, and the sheriff page states that the sheriff is responsible for the establishment, maintenance, and operation of the county jail and related services.

The jail is located at 1347 E Townsend Road, St. Johns, MI 48879. It is a county jail, not a state prison, federal prison, or immigration detention center. The facility holds county pretrial detainees, sentenced local inmates, and boarders from federal, state, and other county governments. Monthly billing reports also refer to MDOC detainers and U.S. Federal Marshals billing categories, which means physical custody in the jail does not always mean the legal case is only a Clinton County case.

The official Jail Operations page is the source for building history, capacity, commissary, inspection, and PREA facts.

That source is the strongest local record for the Clinton County Jail's size, inspection history, commissary notes, and PREA notice.

Clinton County Jail Capacity

The current building replaced an older 42-prisoner jail after Clinton County had been boarding prisoners in other counties and dealing with overcrowding. The present jail was built in 1991 with a design rated capacity of 186 inmates. A 2004 renovation and addition enlarged the kitchen and added 30 beds, bringing capacity to 216. In 2012, 20 more beds raised the listed capacity to 236 individuals.

Early 2026 jail population figures were well below that capacity. January averaged 91 total inmates, with 86 county inmates and 5 housed for other jurisdictions. March averaged 84 total inmates, with 81 county inmates and 3 housed for other jurisdictions. April averaged 85 total inmates, with 81 county inmates and 4 boarders. In April, the average was 70 male inmates and 15 female inmates. Countywide count context belongs with the Clinton County inmate population hub.

Who Clinton County Jail Holds

Clinton County Jail custody includes several groups. A person arrested by the Sheriff's Office, a city or township police agency, or Michigan State Police may be booked there while waiting for arraignment, bond review, court hearings, or case resolution. Sentenced county inmates may also serve local jail time there. The jail page says many inmates are county residents, but a number are boarders from federal, state, and other county governments.

Those distinctions matter for lookup. A new arrest or local sentence is a Clinton County Jail question. A person sentenced to Michigan prison should be searched through MDOC OTIS. A federal sentenced prisoner should be searched through the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator. An immigration custody question belongs with ICE Online Detainee Locator System. No separate state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention facility was confirmed inside Clinton County, Michigan.

Clinton County Jail Inmate Lookup

No official public Clinton County Jail roster or mugshot gallery was located on the county website during the research pass. The official access chain is phone inquiry, Michigan VINE, FOIA, and court records. For current custody, call Inmate Inquiry at 989-403-5090 or Jail & Inmate Information at 989-227-6580. Give the person's full legal name, date of birth if known, and approximate arrest or booking date.

1. Call 989-403-5090 or 989-227-6580 and ask for current Clinton County Jail custody status.
2. Use Michigan VINE for custody status and notification when alert needs are more important than a full record packet.
3. Use sheriff or county FOIA for booking sheets, jail logs, booking photographs, release dates, or historical jail records that are not online.
4. Use MiCOURT and court contacts for filed charges, bond orders, hearings, and dispositions after a jail arrest.

The county's jail staff-directory page gives the inmate inquiry phone line and jail address.

For a broader records walkthrough, use the Clinton County jail inmate records page, then use court search once charges are filed.

Clinton County Jail Contact

The jail and sheriff administrative office use the same E Townsend Road address in St. Johns. The jail staff directory lists the jail fax as 989-227-0461. The Sheriff's Office page lists the administrative phone as 989-224-5200 and Jail & Inmate Information as 989-227-6580. For emergency law-enforcement help, call 911. For nonemergency police-report calls, county materials list Central Dispatch at 989-224-6792.

Clinton County Jail Visiting

Official Clinton County pages link inmate visitation setup to InmateSales. The county research did not locate official text with visit days, hours, visit length, dress code, visitor-list rules, visitor ID rules, child-visitor rules, attorney-visit process, or holiday and lockdown rules. The practical rule is to schedule or confirm through the county-linked portal and call the jail before travel.

The county-linked InmateSales portal is the visit-setup channel linked from county jail materials.

Because official schedule text was not found, the visitation summary preserves the known source finding instead of inventing visit windows.

Clinton County Jail Money

The Corrections Deposits page says deposits can be made to an incarcerated person's facility trust account through Express Account, by phone at 866-422-6833 with live agents, or at the lobby kiosk. Convenience fees apply. The same deposit system is linked from the sheriff page, and the county notes that there is a service fee for all bond and money transactions.

The Corrections Deposits page is the source for Express Account, phone deposits, and lobby kiosk language.

Commissary at the jail is operated with Canteen Services Inc. Items can include hygiene, writing materials, recreational items, candy, and coffee. Inmates with no money receive only legally required hygiene and communication materials, and those costs are billed after release.

Clinton County Jail Mail Property

Official jail mail rules were not located in the county pages reviewed. Use the physical jail address only after confirming current mail restrictions with jail staff. Do not assume postcard-only rules, book limits, envelope rules, scanning rules, or publisher-only rules without a current facility answer. A cautious mailing format is the inmate's name, Clinton County Jail, 1347 E Townsend Road, St. Johns, MI 48879.

Property rules are clearer. The sheriff page says inmate property is released by appointment only. Call 989-227-6582 to make an appointment. Appointments are strongly encouraged, and walk-ins are handled first come, first served with possible wait times. Property release is separate from bond, court dates, deposits, or visitation.

Clinton County Jail PREA

The Jail Operations page states that Clinton County Sheriff's Office complies with the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 and has a zero-tolerance policy for sexual misconduct. The policy covers inmate-on-inmate sexual violence, staff sexual misconduct, and staff sexual harassment toward inmates. It also states that staff will intervene and investigate suspected or alleged sexual contact, assault, abuse, or harassment involving people in sheriff custody.

Inspection history is another local fact. Since 2000, with the exception of 2013, the jail has had 100% compliance inspection from the Michigan Department of Corrections. MCL 791.262 gives MDOC authority to supervise and inspect county jails and lockups under county-sheriff jurisdiction and to set rules for proper, efficient, humane administration.

PREA

Federal law and facility policy aimed at preventing and responding to sexual abuse and harassment in custody.

Detainer

A hold or request from another agency that may affect release from the county jail.

Classification

A jail decision about housing and security needs after intake.

Boarder

A person housed at the jail for another jurisdiction rather than solely for a Clinton County case.

Clinton County Jail Court Links

Booking at the jail is only the custody start. Court records, prosecutor filings, and bond orders control what happens next. 65A District Court handles arraignments, bond setting, adult misdemeanors, trials, sentencing, and felony preliminary examinations. Circuit Court handles felony cases and criminal appeals from District Court. For filed charges after a booking, use Clinton County court records after jail arrest materials and confirm the case in MiCOURT or with the court.

For release questions, ask the jail for current physical custody and ask the court about the bond order. Holds may come from MDOC, another county, or federal custody. A payment plan for District Court fines or costs does not stop driver-license suspension or arrest-warrant procedure. Bond, fines, costs, commissary deposits, and facility trust account deposits are different financial matters.