Locate Sioux County Jail Inmates

Sioux County Jail Overview

Sioux County Jail is located at the Public Safety Center in Orange City and is run by the Sioux County Sheriff's Office. It is both the main county jail and an ICE-listed detention facility. The jail holds pre-trial detainees, sentenced county inmates, work-release inmates, federal holds, ICE or federal immigration detainees, and other agency holds. That custody mix is the reason a roster entry may not tell the whole release story. A person may be in a Sioux County bed while a court, ICE, BOP, or another agency controls the next step.

The jail page describes Adult Corrections as a continuous operation. The facility has six housing pods, with cells, restroom and shower facilities, and dayroom space where inmates eat and spend much of their time. Other documented areas include indoor recreation, booking and processing, a medical room, and a central control room. Classification may consider gender, custody status, offense level, special housing needs, work release, and federal holds.

Sioux County Jail Capacity

The current researched capacity for Sioux County Jail is 67 beds. That number appears on the jail page and in the 2024 PREA final audit, so it controls over an older about-page reference to 70 inmates. The PREA audit listed a 12-month average daily population of 32, a current audit-form population of 36, and no point over capacity during the prior 12 months. The jail population report dated June 12, 2026 at 21:00 listed 46 people in custody.

Lookup Sioux County Jail Inmates

The correct first lookup for local custody is the Sioux County current inmate roster PDF. The PDF is not an interactive search portal. It lists current inmates by Date Booked In, Inmate Name, Reason Booked Desc, and charge rows. Use the PDF viewer's Find tool for a last name, first name, or charge word. If release, bond, transfer, or hold status is time-sensitive, call the jail rather than relying only on the timestamped PDF.

1. Open the current inmate roster from the sheriff website or direct PDF link.
2. Check the update timestamp near the top of the roster.
3. Search the PDF by surname first, because names use LAST,FIRST formatting.
4. Read the booking date, reason booked, and charge rows under the name.
5. Use the jail phone, sheriff app, public-record request, DOC, BOP, ICE, or VINELink if the roster does not answer the custody question.

The sheriff app is a useful extra channel because it advertises current inmates, inmate lookup, recent arrests for the last 30 days, and release or protection-order notifications. The jail phone and records process remain the official fallback for details not shown in the PDF.

Sioux County Jail Contact

Use the jail line for custody and visitation questions, and use the sheriff administrative contact for public-record request routing. The research distinguishes Suite 1 for the sheriff contact block and Suite 2 for inmate mail. Adult Corrections operates continuously, while sheriff administrative office hours are listed as Monday through Friday, 8am to 4pm.

Visit Sioux County Jail

Sioux County publishes jail visitation and inmate rules, but it does not publish a full day-and-time visitation table in the researched sources. The rules say family and friends may visit according to a visitation schedule and should contact the jail for more information. Visitors must be at least 18, may be searched for contraband, and use monitored visitation phones. Inmates list four approved visitors and may change the list on the first day of each month.

Note: Confirm the current schedule and entry rules before traveling, because the official source routes visitors to the jail for details.

Sioux County Jail Mail

Mail and money rules are strict. Inmate mail is accepted only through regular postal service, and family or friends may not drop mail off directly at the jail. Incoming mail is inspected for contraband. Photos may be mailed, but Polaroid and sexually explicit photos are not allowed. Money for an inmate must be sent as a money order through regular postal mail; personal checks are not accepted. The research did not locate an official online commissary vendor, kiosk, phone-call provider, video vendor, tablet program, or call-pricing source.

Sioux County Work Release

The local rules include room-and-board and work-release charges. Jail room and board is listed at $65 per day. Work release is $65 per day plus a $15 per day GPS fee, paid in advance. An inmate must complete a work-release agreement at booking with employer name, work hours, and phone numbers. Work release is limited to up to nine hours of work per day, Monday through Friday, with no holidays or weekends.

Sioux County Jail ICE Holds

ICE publishes an official detention facility page for Sioux County Jail. That makes federal and immigration custody a real part of this facility page, not a generic side note. The county roster or population report may show "FEDERAL HOLD," and the arrest log may show a release reason such as "RELEASED-ICE." Those county labels confirm local custody or a local event, but immigration custody should be checked through the ICE Online Detainee Locator System.

The successful image from ICE's Sioux County Jail facility page matches this facility's federal immigration listing.

Use BOP's locator for sentenced federal prisoners in BOP custody, and use ICE ODLS for immigration detention. Federal agencies generally do not publish booking mugshots through BOP or ICE locators.

Sioux County Jail Records

Sioux County jail records can be reached through several channels: the current roster PDF, the arrest press log, the active warrant list, the jail phone, in-person contact at the Public Safety Center, public-record request, Iowa DOC, BOP, ICE ODLS, Iowa VINELink, and the sheriff app. For a local jail public-information record check, the sheriff process requires the subject's full name and date of birth plus a valid government-issued photo ID from the requester. The local check returns only date of arrest, arresting agency, and charges.

That limit is important. The sheriff jail record check does not provide dispositions and does not cover juvenile records, traffic records, or records from another agency. For a court outcome after a jail booking, use Iowa Courts Online or the Clerk of Court. For sentenced state custody, use the Iowa DOC locator. For custody notifications, use VINELink.

About Sioux County Jail

The current jail opened in 2003 according to sheriff materials. Programs documented for the jail include Lighthouse Ministries through ATLAS, Celebrate Recovery, women's ministry, Gideons, and a Creative Living Center counselor. The PREA final audit found 45 standards met, 0 exceeded, and 0 not met. The annual PREA data materials state that the agency is PREA compliant and has zero tolerance for sexual misconduct by inmates, staff, volunteers, and contractors.