New Jersey inmate search

New Jersey has municipal detention facilities and county correctional facilities operating next to the state prisons. Police take someone arrested near you to a county correctional facility or a municipal facility. These local lockups fall under the NJDOC Office of County Services. The office inspects municipal detention facilities and gives every county correctional facility a yearly inspection.

Counties run their own detention operations. When your search is in Salem County, the Salem County Sheriff's Office Department of Corrections operates the Salem County Correctional Facility. You can reach that county's corrections department through the county directory at 856-769-4300.

After a local arrest, start with the county's own roster to find someone. Calling the county correctional facility or the municipal detention facility directly works too. When the jail is unknown, New Jersey VINE is the tool to check. Both county jails and state prisons are covered in one search.

You can also call the toll-free VINE support line at 1-877-846-3465 at any hour for help finding someone. In Salem County, you can call the corrections division at 856-769-4300. If the arrest happened in the last few hours, call the jail instead, because the jail booking process takes a while to show on a roster.

State prisons in New Jersey are managed by the New Jersey Department of Corrections, or NJDOC. To find someone serving a state sentence, use the NJDOC Incarcerated Person Search Engine. Before the search tool opens, you accept the terms of use shown on the entry screen. More state lookup links are on the New Jersey Department of Corrections Offender Information page.

Recent local arrests don't appear in this state locator. Right after an arrest, people are held in county and municipal facilities, while NJDOC prisons take people after state sentencing. If you need victim support involving a state prisoner, you can call the NJDOC Victim Services Unit at 609-943-5390. Another contact is the Victim Input Unit at the New Jersey State Parole Board.

With New Jersey VINE, you can check custody records for county jails and state prisons in one search. When you're not sure whether someone is in a county correctional facility or in an NJDOC prison, this tool helps. After locating the person's record, sign up at no cost for custody change alerts.

If you'd rather speak with an operator, you can call 1-877-846-3465. Toll-free phone support runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Operators help you locate an offender, register for custody alerts, or reach victim services in your area. You can also call the NJDOC Victim Services Unit at 609-943-5390.

New Jersey gained a risk-based pretrial system plus a speedy trial law on January 1, 2017, through a constitutional amendment voters approved. You won't be hiring a commercial bail bondsman now, because courts no longer use monetary bail as their main approach. A judge looks at each case under N.J.S.A. instead. 2A:162-17, plus N.J.S.A. 2A:162-22. Release on recognizance is granted when a defendant poses little risk and can't afford bail. In other words, the person formally promises to come back to court and pays nothing.

There are 3 main pretrial paths under New Jersey Courts Criminal Justice Reform:

• Conditional release before trial
• Supervision by pretrial services officers after release
• Detention before trial when a defendant's flight or safety risk is serious