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The Mifflin County Inmate Population

The Mifflin County inmate population is housed locally at Mifflin County Correctional Facility, commonly shortened to MCCF. The county describes MCCF as the place that detains inmates as directed by the courts, serves as the Central Booking Center, handles criminal fingerprinting and arraignment, provides treatment services, and supports Megan's Law processing and public fingerprinting. The facility is governed through the county correctional facility and prison-board structure, not through a separate sheriff-operated jail roster.

That local structure matters for search. Mifflin County does not publish a county-hosted public inmate roster with individual booking profiles. The county's official inmate lookup page sends users to the Pennsylvania court portal and VINELink instead. For current physical custody, the practical route is MCCF by phone, VINELink, and court dockets. For a person who has moved into a state sentence, the right route changes to the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections locator. Federal and immigration custody use different systems again.

The official MCCF page shows the facility overview and quick links for inmate lookup, family information, phone guidance, PREA materials, and complaint forms.

The county page is the best starting point for facility facts, while the inmate lookup link explains why the county search path relies on outside custody and court systems.

Mifflin County Inmate Population Statistics

Mifflin County population figures should be read by source and date. PA DOC county facility and statistics workbooks report MCCF as a 169-bed facility. The April 2, 2025 Mifflin County Prison Board minutes also report a 2024 average daily population of 135 and a 2024 average cost of $67.44 per inmate per day. A May 2026 Lewistown Sentinel report gave a lower capacity figure of 141, so the official state-reported 169-bed figure is the safer capacity number while the discrepancy is noted.

Mifflin County Inmate Population Trends

The long-term Mifflin County inmate population has moved up and down rather than following one straight line. Vera Institute county jail trend data shows 99 people in 2010, a higher 151 count by 2015, and 168 in 2021. The county then dropped to 115.5 in 2022 before moving back to 133 in 2023. The official PA DOC and county-board 2024 number is close to that recent level, with an average daily population of 135.

Mifflin County Jail Population Mix

The Mifflin County inmate population is regional in practice. MCCF houses Mifflin County pretrial and sentenced inmates, but county minutes show sizeable out-of-county holds. Juniata County officially states that its prison closed in 2012 and that Juniata prisoners are housed at MCCF. Prison Board snapshots also list Huntingdon County, York County, and U.S. Marshals Service detainees at different times.

• Dec. 2, 2025: 124 people were in house, with 72 Mifflin County inmates and 52 out-of-county inmates.
• Agency split: the December 2025 rows listed Huntingdon County 9, Juniata County 42, Mifflin County 72, and USMS 1.
• Sex breakdown: the same snapshot showed 21 female and 103 male inmates across all agencies.
• Jan. 31, 2025: PA DOC data listed 143 total, with 112 male and 31 female.
• Race and ethnicity: PA DOC's Jan. 31, 2025 snapshot listed 119 White, 6 Black, 5 Hispanic, and 13 Other.

Work release was low in the 2025 snapshots. The December 2025 Prison Board minutes listed zero work-release participants, while the April 2025 minutes listed one Juniata work-release participant. Mental-health needs are also part of the local population story. March 2024 commissioner minutes reported 41 inmates on a psychiatric list and 13 on a waitlist.

Mifflin County Jail Capacity

Using the PA DOC 169-bed capacity and the 2024 average daily population of 135, MCCF averaged about 80 percent of official capacity in 2024. Using the Dec. 2, 2025 in-house count of 124, MCCF stood near 73 percent of the same official capacity on that snapshot date. Those percentages do not erase operational pressure, because medical needs, classification, gender separation, contracted county holds, and transport status can make usable bed space tighter than the headline count suggests.

County minutes also show overflow and special-needs planning. The December 2025 minutes mention housing contracts with Centre and Clinton County Correctional Facilities to hold Mifflin County inmates if out-of-county placement becomes necessary. The same minutes mention a PA DOC per diem charge for county inmates transferred to state DOC because of medical or behavioral needs that the county facility cannot accommodate.

Laws for Mifflin County Inmate Records

Several Pennsylvania laws and rules shape Mifflin County inmate population data and public access. The Pennsylvania Right-to-Know Law is the route for many existing county agency records, unless a statute, privilege, court order, or exemption applies. Court records are routed differently through the judiciary and local Rule 509 procedures. Criminal-history and mugshot issues also involve CHRIA, so not every record connected to an arrest is released by the jail.

Search Mifflin County Inmate Population

The official Mifflin County inmate lookup page does not publish a name-search roster. It points users to the Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania Web Portal and VINELink. That makes the Mifflin County inmate population search a channel sweep: call MCCF for current custody, check VINELink for custody notification, search UJS for court charges and bail entries, and move to PA DOC, BOP, or ICE when the person is no longer in local county custody.

The county inmate lookup page shows the two official outbound channels for inmate information rather than a county roster form.

This no-roster design is why a search for current custody and a search for court charges can lead to different public systems.

1. Call MCCF at 717-248-1130 when the issue is current physical custody or a recent booking.
2. Use Pennsylvania VINELink for custody-status search and victim notification where the person appears in a participating system.
3. Search UJS Case Search by participant name, OTN, docket number, incident number, or complaint number for charges and hearing events.
4. Use the PA DOC locator if the person has moved into state custody or parole supervision.
5. Use the BOP inmate locator or ICE ODLS only for federal prison or immigration custody.

Mifflin County Inmate Search Fields

Because no county roster form was found, the public fields come from the linked state systems. UJS is best for charges and dockets after arrest. PA DOC is best for state-sentenced inmates and parolees. VINELink is best for custody notification, but it is not a full court docket or a booking-photo archive.

Mifflin County Inmate Record Contents

A Mifflin County inmate record depends on the channel used. A phone custody check can answer whether MCCF currently holds the person, but it is not the same as a court docket. UJS docket records can show charges, grading, offense dates, OTN, bail entries, hearing dates, dispositions, and financial entries. PA DOC records can show state identity numbers, committing county, current location or supervision status, and public release or parole information.

Booking

Administrative intake after arrest, including identity, fingerprinting, property, and custody paperwork.

OTN

Offense Tracking Number, a Pennsylvania criminal-case identifier that helps match arrest paperwork to court dockets.

Detainer

A separate custody hold that can block release even when the local bail issue has been handled.

Disposition

The current or final outcome of a charge, such as dismissed, amended, guilty plea, or sentence.

Mifflin County Jail vs State Prison

The county jail and the state prison system answer different questions. MCCF is the local pretrial, short-sentence, central-booking, and county-hold facility. PA DOC is the state prison and parole system for people serving state sentences or under state supervision. The PA DOC locator help page states that county facility inmates are not included in the state locator.

Mifflin County Detention Facilities

The facility map resolves to one local detention facility page. No official city jail, municipal lockup, work-release annex, state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention center physically in Mifflin County was found. The sheriff's office still matters for prisoner transport and courtroom security, but the jail page identifies MCCF as the county correctional facility.

• Mifflin County Correctional Facility holds Mifflin County pretrial and sentenced inmates, contracted county inmates from places such as Juniata, and occasional U.S. Marshals Service detainees.

Juniata County's official prison page says Juniata County Prison closed on July 25, 2012, and that Juniata prisoners are housed at MCCF. That fact helps explain why the in-house population can be larger than a simple count of Mifflin County residents in local custody.

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