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Malheur County Jail Overview

The Malheur County Jail is the primary county jail for Malheur County. The county page says it incarcerates sentenced offenders and suspects awaiting court procedures. The facility is operated by the Malheur County Sheriff's Office and sits in Vale next to the courthouse public-safety cluster. Jail Commander Lt. Rachel Reyna is listed by the county, and Sheriff Travis Johnson is the current sheriff named in the sheriff research.

The sheriff jail division page says the current jail replaced and connected to the older jail site in 1996, cost about $4 million, and was designed for modern jail needs. The page lists a capacity of 104 prisoners and describes a 24-hour corrections facility supervised by twenty-two deputies and support staff under the jail commander. No official page found housing-unit names, booking-intake hours, or a public roster portal.

Malheur County Jail Population

Two jail population facts are sourced in the research. The sheriff page publishes the rated capacity, and a Prison Policy Initiative 2022 phone-rate appendix lists an average daily population. The figures are useful, but they do not provide today's bed count. A person checking whether someone is in custody should still call the jail or use the court and records channels described below.

Using the 39 ADP reference against the 104-prisoner capacity gives about 37.5 percent of rated capacity for that source snapshot. That calculation should not be used as a current crowding statement because Malheur County does not publish a live jail dashboard in the located official source set.

Lookup at Malheur County Jail

No official Malheur County online jail roster was located on the county or sheriff websites. For Malheur County Jail custody, the official path is a fallback chain: call the jail, use the visiting line for visit scheduling, request records in writing when documents are needed, and use OJD court records when the question is about filed charges rather than physical custody.

1. Call Malheur County Jail at (541) 473-5510 for current custody, recent arrest, bail, or release questions.
2. Have the person's full name, date of birth if known, possible arresting agency, and any case number available.
3. For reports, use the sheriff police reports process; the FAQ says a case number helps.
4. For charges filed after booking, use OJD records and calendar search or Malheur Circuit Court records.
5. For a sentenced prison transfer, use Oregon Offender Search or VISOR instead of the county jail.

Malheur County Jail Contact

The jail, sheriff's office, and courthouse are close enough that many custody questions overlap with court or sheriff records. Use the jail phone for custody and bail confirmation. Use the sheriff main office for report and administrative routing. Use the visiting line only during the same-day scheduling windows for visits.

Visit Malheur County Jail

Malheur County Jail visits must be arranged the same day by phone. The county jail page lists visit windows, scheduling windows, and picture-identification requirements. The sheriff FAQ adds visitor limits: visitors must be adults unless they are the inmate's child and accompanied by an adult, visits are one half-hour, and no more than two people may visit in one session.

Mail and Money at Malheur County Jail

The sheriff FAQ lists local mail and property rules, but the official pages do not publish an online deposit vendor, kiosk rule, care package vendor, phone vendor, or video-visitation vendor. Mail must include a return address, or the facility may discard it. Subscription reading material must come directly from the publisher.

Malheur County Jail Booking

A person arrested locally is normally brought to the Malheur County Jail when booked into county custody. The county does not publish a minute-by-minute booking checklist, so intake should be described in general terms only: identity confirmation, custody paperwork, property inventory, screening, fingerprints, and a booking photo may occur, but roster-refresh timing and housing placement are not published in the local source set.

Bail is a separate process. The sheriff bail FAQ says bail is 10 percent cash of the full security amount, that the jail accepts cash bail seven days a week and 24 hours a day, and that court-only security is accepted by the court during weekdays. The court retains 15 percent, up to $200, for costs, fines, and restitution, and refund applications go to the court after the case matters are complete.

About Malheur County Jail

The jail's location in Vale matters because the courthouse is next door and the county spans a large rural area in Oregon's Mountain Time Zone. Visitors coming from Ontario, Nyssa, or southern Malheur County should confirm the time zone, the same-day call window, and road conditions before traveling. The court page notes Malheur County is the only Oregon county in Mountain Time, a detail that affects visits and court appearances.

Local program details are sparse on official jail pages. The Oregon Knowledge Bank describes Malheur County Jail Diversion in the context of mental-health jail population concerns, and a 2025 Oregon Criminal Justice Commission packet notes Malheur County Jail funding for jail-based medications for opioid use disorder through local partners. Those sources give context without proving a specific service is available to every inmate on request.