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About This Site

Finding someone in custody in Benton County often means sorting out which system has the record. The Benton County Jail roster covers local jail custody, Washington DOC maintains a separate state-prison locator, and federal or immigration custody may involve BOP, USMS, or ICE systems. This private reference site brings those lookup paths and related record topics into one local starting point.

Why This Site Exists

Washington makes some jail and court information available to the public, but the right source depends on the custody stage. Benton County Jail at 7122 W. Okanogan Place in Kennewick handles local bookings and short-term custody through Benton County Corrections. Sentenced state prisoners move into the Washington State Department of Corrections locator, while federal and immigration searches use separate BOP, USMS, or ICE resources. This site organizes roster links, locator paths, facility details, visitation basics, and request steps around those distinctions.

What Readers Can Find

The pages focus on the public-record and custody questions that come up after an arrest or jail booking in Benton County.

  • Local lookup help for jail inmate records, jail roster mugshots, and court records after a jail arrest.
  • A Benton County Jail facility page with the jail address, phone number, and visitation-related details.
  • Plain-language direction for the county roster, Washington DOC incarcerated search, VINELink, BOP, and ICE locator paths.
  • Context on public-record requests, booking-photo limits, Chapter 42.56 RCW, Benton County Code chapter 5.14, and court-record access under GR 31.

What This Site Cannot Do

Benton County Inmate Population is privately run and has no connection to Benton County, Sheriff Mike Clark, Benton County Corrections, Washington DOC, any court, or any other government agency.

  • It cannot release, hold, transfer, or move anyone in custody.
  • It cannot post bail, schedule a video visit, or send commissary or phone money for a reader.
  • It cannot provide legal advice or interpret a court order.
  • It cannot promise that every phone number, office hour, fee, roster entry, or address remains current.

Only the office that created or maintains a record can confirm official custody, charge, release, or case information. This site points to those sources but does not replace them.

Search Partners

Some pages may include search tools supplied by outside providers. Those providers control their own prices, signup terms, data handling, and search results. If a visitor follows one of those tools to a paid service, this site may receive a referral fee, which helps keep the public pages available without charging readers for access.