The Tooele County Inmate Population
The Tooele County inmate population is centered on one local detention facility, the Tooele County Detention Center. It is operated by the Tooele County Sheriff's Office, and the same sheriff complex serves as the main public address for jail records, roster questions, bail questions, and corrections contact. The county jail count is not the same as the Utah prison count. It includes people arrested in Tooele County who have not finished the court process, people serving local sentences, people held on warrants or agency holds, and state inmates assigned to the jail through the Utah Department of Corrections county placement program.
Movement in and out of the Tooele County inmate population depends on arrest volume, court release orders, bond decisions, warrants, holds from other agencies, time served, and state or federal transfer. The public roster is useful because it shows current names and a last-updated timestamp, but the roster also warns that it is informational and not the official inmate roster. Official records remain with the sheriff's office and are requested through Utah's Government Records Access and Management Act, usually called GRAMA.
Tooele County Inmate Population Statistics
The strongest local statistics come from official sheriff pages and the Utah Department of Corrections jail programs booklet. The sheriff's Corrections Division page reports a 72,000 square foot jail with 280 total beds, including 217 beds in the men's pod and 60 beds in the women's pod. The UDC booklet repeats the 280-bed figure and adds state placement context for fiscal year 2024. A blank public roster search captured on July 1, 2026 returned 207 current rows at the roster timestamp shown in the research file, which is a point-in-time web count rather than an official average daily population.
| Measure | Figure | Source / Year |
|---|---|---|
| Tooele County Detention Center total beds | 280 | Sheriff Corrections Division page; UDC Jail Programs booklet, April 2025 |
| Men's pod beds | 217 | Sheriff Corrections Division page |
| Women's pod beds | 60 | Sheriff Corrections Division page |
| UDC contracted beds at Tooele | 100 | UDC Jail Programs in Utah FY24 booklet |
| Available for Corrections housing | 94 | UDC Jail Programs in Utah FY24 booklet |
| Live roster rows captured | 207 | Tooele roster timestamp, July 1, 2026 |
| Tooele County population estimate | 84,488 | U.S. Census QuickFacts, 2024 estimate |
The 207-row roster count equals about 74 percent of 280 beds, but that is a calculation from one captured roster search. It should not be treated as an annual occupancy rate. Tooele County did not publish an official current average daily population, race or ethnicity breakdown, average length of stay, or annual booking total in the official material used for this build.
Tooele County Inmate Population Trends
Tooele County trend data is uneven because the public county pages give facility capacity and current roster access, while the broader trend sources come from state and national corrections data. The older 2013 jail facility figure in the Prison Gerrymandering Project table is a local population point from BJS jail facility data. UDC's fiscal year 2024 booklet supplies county contract bed and program measures rather than a county average daily population. Utah's state prison projection dashboard gives statewide UDC population and forecast figures, not a Tooele jail count.
| Year or Date | Count or Measure | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 136 | PPI/Prison Gerrymandering table based on BJS Census of Jail Facilities local population |
| FY2024 | 100 contracted beds; 94 available to Corrections | UDC Jail Programs booklet, county jail placement context |
| 2024 Q4 | 6,365 statewide UDC population | Utah CCJJ prison projection dashboard, statewide prison context |
| July 1, 2026 | 207 roster rows | Captured public roster count, current roster only |
| 2029 Q4 projected | 6,948 statewide UDC population | Utah CCJJ projection, statewide prison context |
Recent local operating changes affect how families interact with the jail more than they prove a population trend. The jail rules page states that IC Solutions became the phone provider effective March 11, 2026. UDC's April 2025 jail booklet reports Tooele's state contract bed and program funding for FY24. ICE also posted a June 25, 2025 warrant service officer agreement with the sheriff's office, which is relevant to immigration holds but does not create a local ICE detention center.
Who Makes Up the Tooele County Inmate Population
The published county facts describe housing capacity by pod rather than a full demographic profile. Tooele County identifies men's, women's, and medical pods, and UDC lists the jail as a male and female county placement site. The public roster profile seen during research showed age, gender, hair, eyes, height, weight, booked date, charges, and bonds. It did not show race, housing pod, arresting agency, court date, or a release date in the tested sample.
- Pretrial and local custody: The sheriff-operated jail holds people arrested in Tooele County, people on warrants, and local sentenced inmates.
- State inmate placement: UDC uses Tooele County as a county jail placement site for selected state inmates under contract.
- Men's and women's housing: The sheriff page publishes 217 men's pod beds and 60 women's pod beds, with a medical pod also included.
- Other-agency holds: The tested roster sample showed a charge entry of HOLD OTHER AGENCY, a custody reason that may block release.
Utah statewide context helps explain why a county jail population can include more than local arrest cases. Prison Policy Initiative's Utah profile says about 30 percent of Utah jail population is held for other authorities, and about 43 percent is not convicted. Those are statewide jail figures, not Tooele-only figures, so they should be used only as context.
Tooele County Jail Capacity and Overcrowding
The Tooele County Detention Center's capacity picture is clearer than its overcrowding picture. The sheriff publishes 280 total beds, a 72,000 square foot facility, and three separate pods. UDC publishes 100 contracted state beds and 94 beds available for Corrections housing. The point-in-time roster capture of 207 rows was below the total bed count, but it cannot prove a long-term occupancy pattern. No official county press release, consent decree, DOJ investigation, jail construction bond, or current overcrowding lawsuit specific to Tooele County was located in the official-source research.
Capacity can still be tight for a specific housing class even when the total bed count looks adequate. Men's housing, women's housing, medical housing, classification needs, separation rules, and holds for other agencies all affect real jail operations. Utah county jail law also requires sheriff control over internal jail operations and classification practices, which means a simple bed total does not tell the whole custody story.
Laws Governing Tooele County Inmate Population
Utah law controls both public access and the limits on jail information. GRAMA gives the public a path to inspect and request copies of public records, but it also allows protected, private, controlled, or restricted records to be withheld or redacted. County jail statutes address annual jail reporting, booking photographs, sheriff control of the facility, classification, medical care, and public death-in-custody reporting. The result is practical: a roster can show current custody details, while official copies and older booking records may require a written request.
Key Statutes:
Utah Code § 63G-2-201 gives a person the right to inspect public records and obtain copies during normal working hours, subject to GRAMA classifications.
Utah Code § 63G-2-204 requires written, reasonably specific records requests and sets response timing rules.
Utah Code § 63G-2-301 identifies records that are public unless another law or classification applies.
Utah Code § 17-72-408 requires county jail reporting on population, bookings, releases, contract housing, and in-custody deaths.
Utah Code § 17-72-802 restricts release and republication of county jail booking photographs.
Tooele County and State Prison Population
The Utah Department of Corrections is a separate custody system from the Tooele County jail. UDC's Offender Search is for people currently incarcerated by UDC or on probation or parole with UDC. The agency says people awaiting trial or not yet sentenced in county jail are not listed there. That line matters in Tooele County because a person may start on the county roster, then move into UDC custody after sentencing or remain physically in a county jail through the Inmate Placement Program.
UDC identifies Utah State Correctional Facility in Salt Lake City and Central Utah Correctional Facility in Gunnison as Utah's two state prisons. Neither is physically in Tooele County. Still, the Tooele County inmate population connects to the state prison population through sentencing, probation and parole status, and county jail placement. UDC's FY24 booklet lists Tooele County with state contract housing and program figures, including SUTP programming days, HB157 programming days, and several completion counts.
Search the Tooele County Inmate Population
The current county jail lookup starts at the sheriff roster path. The sheriff roster landing page links to the public roster terms screen, and the search page appears after the user accepts the terms. The terms are important because they say the online roster is not the official roster, may not be current, and should not be used as legal or news-report proof. Official records and inmate rosters are kept by the sheriff's office and accessed through GRAMA when a formal copy is needed.
The roster search is simple. It accepts a last name and first name, and a blank-name search returned the full current roster during research. Use a last name first, then add the first name if the result list is too broad. A newly booked person may not appear right away, so the jail phone line remains part of the search path.
- Open the Tooele County inmate roster terms page and accept the terms if you agree.
- Use the roster search by last name, then first name if needed.
- Open the detail icon for the matching person to see the profile fields available online.
- Check charges and bonds, but confirm release conditions with the jail before paying or scheduling travel.
- If the person has been sentenced or transferred, search UDC, BOP, ICE, or the holding agency instead.
Current Tooele County Inmate Lookup
The live roster is free and does not require an account after terms acceptance. Its visible search fields are narrower than many jail tools. There is no documented date-of-birth field, booking-number field, housing filter, release-history tab, export button, or published retention rule in the static research. Results show Last, First, Middle, and a detail icon. The detail modal can show demographics, booked date, charge text, and bond information.
The sheriff roster search screenshot in the image manifest comes from the Tooele County roster search interface and shows the simple name fields used for current custody lookup.
The limited field set is why a phone confirmation or GRAMA request may still be needed when names are misspelled, recently booked, released, or tied to another custody system.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last Name | Text input | Unspecified | Can be used alone; no wildcard instructions were posted. |
| First Name | Text input | Unspecified | Optional narrowing field for common last names. |
| Search | Submit button | Not applicable | Posts to the roster search and returns current roster rows. |
The roster's last-updated timestamp is the best visible freshness clue. If the timestamp is old, if the arrest just happened, or if the name search returns no match, call the sheriff's main number or the Corrections Division before assuming the person is not in custody.
Past Tooele County Inmate Records
Past and released inmate records are handled differently from the current roster. The research did not find a public released-inmate archive, daily booking archive, or historical roster search on the Tooele County site. For older bookings, official copies, police reports, jail records, photos, audio, video, or incident materials, use the sheriff GRAMA process. The sheriff's request form asks for a reasonably specific record description and can be submitted to the sheriff's office email address listed in the research.
Released county inmates may also move into a court or state-corrections record path. Court filings are searched through Utah Courts Xchange or court clerks after charges are filed. Sentenced state prisoners are searched through UDC. Federal sentenced inmates are searched through BOP, and immigration detainees are searched through ICE ODLS. The best system depends on what happened after the booking, not only where the arrest began.
What a Tooele County Inmate Record Shows
A tested Tooele County roster profile showed a narrow but useful custody snapshot. It displayed a name header in LAST, FIRST MIDDLE format, age, gender, hair, eyes, height, weight, booked date, charges, and bonds. It did not show a mugshot, date of birth, race, booking time, housing pod, arresting agency, court date, warrant number, release date, or a labeled booking number in that sample.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Name header | Full name in LAST, FIRST MIDDLE format. |
| Age and descriptors | Age, gender, hair, eyes, height, and weight when visible. |
| Booked | Booking date. The tested sample did not show booking time. |
| Charges | Charge or hold descriptions. The tested sample listed HOLD OTHER AGENCY. |
| Bonds | Bond section. The tested sample showed no records found. |
| Mugshot and housing | No booking photo or housing location appeared in the tested public profile. |
Because the roster itself says the official sheriff roster controls over the web display, a profile field should be treated as a lead. For legal filings, release decisions, reporting, or formal record use, confirm the record with the originating office.
Tooele County Jail vs State Prison
County jail and state prison lookups answer different questions. The Tooele County roster is the right first stop for current county custody, including pretrial detainees and local jail sentences. UDC is the right stop for people currently under Utah prison, probation, or parole supervision. A person can also be physically housed in Tooele County while classified as a UDC placement inmate, so the facility and the legal custody system do not always match neatly.
| County Jail | State Prison or UDC Supervision | |
|---|---|---|
| Who is listed | Current Tooele jail inmates, local custody, warrants, and some state placements | People incarcerated by, or on probation/parole with, UDC |
| Run by | Tooele County Sheriff's Office | Utah Department of Corrections |
| Where to look | Tooele County roster and sheriff GRAMA records | UDC Offender Search and UDC records channels |
| Important limit | Online roster is unofficial and current-custody focused | UDC says unsentenced county-jail detainees are excluded |
State and Federal Inmate Search
State, federal, and immigration custody channels matter in Tooele County even though there is only one official local detention facility for this project. UDC covers sentenced state custody and supervision. The Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator covers federal inmates from 1982 to present, but the BOP location search found no Utah BOP institution for the queried state. ICE ODLS at locator.ice.gov can be searched by A-number and country or by name, country, and date of birth, according to federal guidance.
Federal pretrial custody is different. The U.S. Marshals Service District of Utah covers Tooele County, but no public USMS inmate locator was found in the research. For federal pretrial custody, the practical route is the detention facility where the person is held or the USMS District of Utah office. Utah VINE at VINELink is also linked by the jail for custody and case status notifications.
Tooele County Detention Facilities
Official research identified one detention facility physically in Tooele County for this site. No official state prison, BOP institution, ICE detention center, city jail, or regional jail facility was found in the county. That does not mean every Tooele arrest stays local. Court action, state sentencing, federal charges, immigration custody, or holds can move the lookup to a different system.
- Tooele County Detention Center - Sheriff-operated county jail holding pretrial detainees, local sentenced inmates, medical housing, male and female housing, and selected UDC placement inmates.
The facility is the key local place to confirm current custody, visitation, mail, phone service, commissary rules, bail/fine instructions, and release paperwork. It is also the source office for official roster and booking records requested through GRAMA.
Tooele County Inmate Population FAQ
How large is the Tooele County inmate population?
The jail has 280 published beds, and a roster search captured 207 current rows on July 1, 2026. The 207 figure is a point-in-time web roster count, not an official average daily population. The older 2013 jail facility table listed 136 local population, while UDC's FY24 material focused on contract beds and programming rather than ADP.
How do I search the Tooele County inmate population?
Start with the Tooele County roster search after accepting the roster terms. Search by last name, add first name if needed, and open the detail icon for the profile. If the person is newly arrested, recently released, sentenced to UDC, federally charged, or in immigration custody, use the phone line, GRAMA, UDC, BOP, ICE, or USMS path that fits the case.
Can I look up a released Tooele County inmate?
The research did not find a public released-inmate archive on the Tooele roster. For past booking records, use a sheriff GRAMA request with a specific name, date, case number if known, and record description. Court records after charges are filed may appear in Utah Courts Xchange or through the appropriate court clerk.
Does the roster show every person in state or federal custody?
No. The county roster is for current Tooele jail custody and related local records. UDC covers people incarcerated by, or supervised by, Utah corrections. BOP covers federal sentenced inmates, and ICE ODLS covers immigration detainee searches. Federal pretrial custody may require contact with the holding facility or USMS District of Utah.
Are booking photos part of the Tooele County inmate population search?
The tested Tooele roster profile did not show a mugshot, and no official county booking-photo gallery was found. Utah law restricts release and republication of booking photographs. For the records-specific process, see the Tooele County jail mugshots page.
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