The Salem County Inmate Population
Salem County's detention map is unusually compact. Official sheriff and county materials identify one local adult detention facility for page construction: Salem County Correctional Facility, operated by the Salem County Sheriff's Office - Department of Corrections at 125 Cemetery Road in Woodstown. Sheriff Charles M. Miller heads the sheriff's office, and Warden John S. Cuzzupe leads the correctional facility. The jail roster is linked from the sheriff site and hosted through the DSI-ITI inmate lookup platform at the official Salem County inmate lookup.
The Salem County inmate population should be read as a facility population, not only a list of Salem County defendants. The sheriff mission says the facility confines people lawfully committed for alleged or adjudicated violations of local, state, or federal law. Research inspection also found a public profile where the County field showed Gloucester County, which fits Salem's shared-service and regional detention role. Municipal police departments in Salem City, Pennsville, Penns Grove, Carneys Point, Woodstown, Elmer, Lower Alloways Creek, and other municipalities may make arrests, but the public adult jail roster routes through the county correctional facility after commitment.
The sheriff homepage is the starting point for the local custody system. The official Salem County Sheriff homepage shows the corrections navigation and local leadership.
Those navigation links are useful because Salem County keeps roster access, visiting rules, mail instructions, and commissary information under the sheriff corrections system rather than on separate municipal jail pages.
That local structure matters when reading any count. A live roster result can rise or fall with arrests, releases, transfers, court detention decisions, state-prison moves, and contract or other-county holds. Sentenced state prisoners from Salem County move to the New Jersey Department of Corrections system and are searched through NJDOC offender search, not the county roster. Federal and immigration custody use separate federal channels.
Salem County Inmate Population Statistics
The most concrete current figure in the research is a live roster count. A blank current-inmate search in the official Salem County inmate lookup returned 366 current results on June 22, 2026. That is not an official average daily population. It is a snapshot of the public current roster at inspection, and it can change daily.
| Measure | Figure | Source / Year |
|---|---|---|
| Live current roster count | 366 current results | Salem County Inmate Lookup, inspected June 22, 2026 |
| Current rated capacity | Not published on reviewed sheriff pages | Sheriff corrections, contact, visiting, and mail pages reviewed June 2026 |
| Regional jail plan capacity | 900 beds | 2024 county approval and regionalization reporting |
| Corrections staffing | 143 sworn personnel and 24 civilian employees | Salem County Sheriff corrections page, accessed June 2026 |
| Corrections budget responsibility | $21 million | Warden Cuzzupe biography on sheriff corrections page |
| Annual bookings | Not located in official public source | Use OPRA for unpublished historical data |
Salem County Inmate Population Trends
Salem County's trend story is shaped by regional jail use as much as by local arrests. Gloucester County has used Salem jail services since Gloucester closed its jail in 2013. Research notes describe 2024 approvals for a Salem, Gloucester, and Cumberland regional jail plan that would renovate the Salem County facility into a 900-bed site. Those details should be treated as regionalization background and renovation target, not as proof of current rated capacity.
| Year or Date | Population / Count | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| December 31, 2013 | 343 | Prison Policy Initiative correctional population table listed Salem Co. Corr. Fac. local population. |
| 2024 | 900-bed plan | Regional merger and renovation target for Salem, Gloucester, and Cumberland jail populations. |
| June 22, 2026 | 366 | Live current-inmate result count from the official Salem lookup. |
| 2026 ADP | Not published | No official Salem average daily population was located in public county or sheriff pages. |
Statewide context should not be substituted for Salem County data. Vera's New Jersey trends material describes broad state jail patterns, and the NJDOC January 1, 2025 population report describes state prisoners. Neither source converts the Salem County current roster into an average daily population, nor does either publish a current Salem County jail demographic table.
Who Makes Up the Salem County Inmate Population
The public roster exposes individual demographic fields, but official aggregate demographic totals were not located in the public sheriff or county pages. A public inmate profile inspected on June 22, 2026 displayed fields for sex, date of birth, height, weight, hair color, hair length, eye color, complexion, race, ethnicity, marital status, citizenship, and country of birth. Those fields describe the person in a record. They do not create an official aggregate racial, sex, age, pretrial, sentenced, felony, misdemeanor, or hold-type breakdown for the Salem County inmate population.
- Pretrial and county commitments: the county roster is the local source for people currently held at Salem County Correctional Facility.
- Sentenced state prisoners: people moved into NJDOC custody leave the county lookup path and use the state offender search.
- Other-agency holds: public profiles can include county, detainer, FBI number, and ICE number fields, but blank fields do not prove no internal information exists.
- Regional custody labels: a sampled profile showed Gloucester County in the County field, confirming that the roster can include shared-service population records.
Salem County Jail Capacity and Regionalization
The sheriff's current public pages reviewed for the research did not publish a hard rated capacity for Salem County Correctional Facility. The strongest capacity-related number is the 2024 regional plan describing a 900-bed facility after renovation. The same research context notes Gloucester's long-running use of Salem jail services after its own jail closed in 2013. That history explains why a Salem roster count can include people connected to another county and why facility planning cannot be read as a simple one-county bed count.
The research did not locate a current DOJ consent decree, county jail class action, or Salem County-specific death-in-custody litigation in official or public sources. County legal notices in 2026 did include roof replacement and detention control system or duress alarm modernization specifications for the correctional facility. Those notices point to ongoing facility work, but they do not provide an official overcrowding finding.
Laws Governing the Salem County Inmate Population
New Jersey jail and public-record rules define what can be counted, requested, and withheld. The fastest route for a current Salem County jail record is still the sheriff-linked inmate lookup. Historical booking records, mugshot copies, incident records, and aggregate data not posted online usually require a records request through Salem County's OPRA process at the county OPRA page.
Key Statutes and Rules:
N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 says government records are generally accessible for inspection, copying, or examination, subject to exceptions.
N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1.1 defines government record and criminal investigatory record, which matters for booking files and incident reports.
P.L. 2024, c.16 amended OPRA request handling, timing, fees, and delivery rules.
N.J.A.C. 10A:31 sets adult county correctional facility standards for management, security, health services, visiting, and inmate services.
N.J.A.C. 10A:31-8.10 requires counts at the end of each work shift and internal handling of count sheets.
Salem County and the State Prison Population
The New Jersey Department of Corrections is separate from Salem County jail custody. A person sentenced from Salem County to state prison is searched in the NJDOC offender search. The state locator says selected offender information is provided for public safety and OPRA-consistent access. It updates biweekly, may lag current status, and removes most offenders one year after the custodial term or mandatory parole supervision date ends.
No NJDOC state prison was located physically inside Salem County. Nearby South Jersey state facilities, such as South Woods State Prison and Southern State Correctional Facility, are in Cumberland County. State-prison mail, phones, money, and visitation use NJDOC rules and vendors, not the Salem County jail rules.
How to Search the Salem County Inmate Population
The official local roster is the DSI-ITI inmate lookup linked by the Salem County Sheriff's Office. It is free, and no login was observed during research. The tool supports current and released-inmate searches through two paths: name and date of birth, or identifier type and value.
- Open the sheriff-linked Salem County inmate lookup.
- Use Option 1 for a name search. First name, last name, and date of birth can be entered, with date of birth masked as mm/dd/yyyy.
- Check "Include released inmates" when the person may no longer be in custody and the available released records should be included.
- Use Option 2 when a booking number, permanent number, state ID, county ID, FBI number, or ICE number is known.
- Click the result row to open the public profile with photos, demographics, identifiers, county, commitment date, bond, charge, detainer, alias, and hearing sections.
The official inmate lookup search screen shows the two search paths and the released-inmate checkbox.
The identifier options make the Salem lookup useful when a booking number or agency number is known, but name and DOB remain the practical starting point for most current custody searches.
Current Inmate Lookup in Salem County
A blank current-inmate search returned 366 results during inspection, and the result view displayed 30 records per page. The roster does not publish an update frequency, maintenance window, export option, or released-record retention rule. When a recent arrest does not appear, the practical fallback is to call Salem County Correctional Facility at 856-769-4300, especially when spelling, transfer timing, or recent intake is uncertain.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Name | Text | Unspecified | Name search field; Enter can submit when focused. |
| Last Name | Text | Unspecified | A blank current search returned all current results during inspection. |
| Date of Birth | Text with mask | Optional or unspecified | Uses mm/dd/yyyy format. |
| Include released inmates | Checkbox | Optional | Available in both name and identifier search modes. |
| Select Identifier | Dropdown | Conditional | Booking Number, Permanent Number, State ID, County ID, FBI Number, ICE Number. |
| Value | Text | Conditional | Identifier value field, maxlength 100. |
Past and Released Inmate Records
The Salem County lookup includes an "Include released inmates" checkbox, but it does not publish a fixed online retention period. If a released person is not returned, use the county OPRA process for booking records, mugshots, and historical jail records. The OPRA form routes to Salem County's custodian, Sharon Whittick, through the county government channel, including opra.request@salemcountynj.gov, county phone 856-935-7510, and fax 856-339-4190.
OPRA does not override every limit. Criminal investigatory records, juvenile records, privacy-sensitive records, security information, expunged materials, and court-controlled documents can be restricted or routed elsewhere. Court charges after a jail arrest are searched through New Jersey Courts, not through the jail roster alone.
What a Salem County Inmate Record Shows
Salem County's result table and profile view show different levels of detail. The result table is a quick index. The public profile is the detailed custody record, and a sampled profile displayed multiple booking photos plus demographic, identifier, housing, county, commitment, bond, charge, detainer, alias, and hearing sections.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Inmate Name | Name in last-name-first format in the result table, with full name in the profile header. |
| Booking Number | Booking identifier, with observed examples using a year-number format. |
| Permanent ID | Internal person-level identifier separate from the booking number. |
| Date of Birth | DOB in MM/DD/YYYY format in results and profile details. |
| Release Date | Blank for many current records or populated for released records when available. |
| Current Location and Housing | Current Location can show values such as MAIN; detailed housing fields may be blank in public view. |
| Bond Information | Case number, amount, percent, total, bond type, status, posted-by, post date, and grand total when populated. |
| Charge Information | Case number, offense date, statute code, description, grade, and degree. |
County Jail vs. State Prison: Where to Look
The county roster is the first local search for pretrial detainees, people serving county-level sentences, warrant commitments, and other authorized local holds at Salem County Correctional Facility. The NJDOC locator is the search path after a Salem County defendant becomes a sentenced state prisoner. Federal and immigration custody require separate federal tools.
| County Jail | State Prison | |
|---|---|---|
| Who Is Held | Pretrial, sentenced county inmates, warrant holds, and authorized contract or agency holds | Sentenced state prisoners |
| Run By | Salem County Sheriff's Office - Department of Corrections | New Jersey Department of Corrections |
| Where to Look | Salem County inmate lookup | NJDOC offender search |
| Retention Note | Released-search option exists, but no fixed county retention period is posted | Most offenders removed one year after custodial term completion, with exceptions |
State and Federal Inmate Search
For sentenced New Jersey custody, use the NJDOC offender search. For sentenced federal custody, use the BOP inmate locator, which covers federal inmates from 1982 to present and warns that release dates can change with First Step Act calculations. For immigration custody, use ICE ODLS or the CBP/ICE fallback phone number 866-347-2423 when the online lookup is not enough. For custody or case notifications, New Jersey VINE is available at VINELink.
Federal pretrial custody can involve U.S. Marshals Service authority, contract detention, federal court dockets, and attorney contact rather than a single local county roster. Salem's roster has an ICE Number identifier option, which is useful when a local profile exists, but that does not replace ODLS for immigration detention.
Salem County Detention Facilities
The Facility Map contains one item. Municipal police departments may hold people briefly during arrest processing, but no separate official Salem County city jail roster, work-release annex, BOP prison, ICE detention center, or NJDOC prison was located inside the county.
- Salem County Correctional Facility - county jail facility at 125 Cemetery Road in Woodstown, holding people committed to sheriff custody, including local county inmates and authorized other-agency or shared-service holds.
Salem County Inmate Population FAQ
How large is the Salem County inmate population?
The official lookup returned 366 current roster results on June 22, 2026. That is a live roster count, not an official average daily population. Public county and sheriff pages reviewed in the research did not publish a current Salem average daily population.
Does Salem County have more than one jail?
The Facility Map identifies one official local detention facility: Salem County Correctional Facility in Woodstown. No separate county work-release annex, city jail roster, federal prison, ICE facility, or state prison was located inside Salem County in official sources.
Can a released inmate still appear?
The roster has an "Include released inmates" checkbox in both name and identifier search modes. Salem County does not publish a fixed released-record retention period for that lookup, so historical records may require an OPRA request.
Where are sentenced Salem County prisoners searched?
Sentenced state prisoners are searched through the New Jersey Department of Corrections offender search. Federal prisoners use BOP, and immigration detainees use ICE ODLS rather than the county jail roster.