The roster works on a phone or a computer. Follow these steps:

1. Open the online roster. A notice comes up first. Read it and click "I agree."
2. Choose the Jail Roster report.
3. Tap the first letter of the person's last name. The list opens on the letter A, so pick the right letter before you scroll.
4. Find the name. Each row gives the person's age, booking date and time, Booking ID (such as 2026-00004385) and Global/Jacket number.
5. Click "Charges" to open the details for that booking.

If something on the roster looks wrong, report it to the jail at 406-258-4000.

• Jail Roster is the list of people in custody now. It shows name, age, Booking ID, Global/Jacket number and when they were booked. A Charges button leads to more.
• Court Schedule lists people held with current or coming court dates. Each line gives the charge, the date and time, whether the courtroom is Justice or Municipal, the arresting agency and officer, and the bond or a case number. It also shows cash or surety and who posted it. Court dates for today are colored green.
• Released Report covers anyone let out over the last 7 days. It shows the name, age, Booking ID and both the booking and release date and time.

The county adds a warning that the portal may lag behind real events. The arresting agency and the court keep the most exact records.

Common reasons include:

• Still being booked. Brand-new arrests can lag behind.
• They are already out. Look at the Released Report for the past week.
• Wrong letter. Try a second last name, a hyphenated name, a maiden name or another spelling.
• They are under 18. Youths ages 10 to 17 go to a separate juvenile unit.
• Another jail has them. An arrest near the county line, on the reservation or by federal agents may mean a different lockup.

Call the jail at 406-258-4000 with a full name and date of birth. Office staff keep business hours, and late calls go to the Booking Office.

Open the roster and pick the Released Report. It lists everyone set free within the last 7 days, with the exact release date and time.

The report doesn't say why someone left, such as bail, a judge's order or time served. For that, call the court that has the case, or ask the person. People walk out through the door marked "After Hours." If staff know the release time ahead, a ride can wait there.

Adults arrested in this county stay on Mullan Road. A person picked up just over a county line, though, lands in that county's jail. Nearby options:

• Ravalli County Detention Center, 205 Bedford Street, Suite I, Hamilton, MT 59840, 406-375-4080
• Lake County Detention Facility, 106 4th Ave E, Polson, MT 59860, 406-883-7272
• Mineral County jail, Sheriff's Office, P.O. Box 99, Superior, MT 59872, 406-822-3555
• Granite County Jail, 220 N. Sansome St, Philipsburg, MT 59858, 406-859-3251
• Sanders County jail, 1115 Main Street, Thompson Falls, MT 59873, 406-827-3584
• Flathead County Detention Center, 920 South Main, Suite 100, Kalispell, MT 59901, 406-758-5617

Flathead Tribal Police run a 24-hour jail in Pablo for tribal cases. Call them at 406-675-4700.

None of the roster's reports carry booking photos. Montana law treats booking photographs as public criminal justice information (MCA 44-5-103).

To ask for one, call the Sheriff's Office at 406-258-4810, weekdays from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and ask how to file a records request. The office takes many records requests through an online request system. A full local booking history goes only to the person it is about, with a copy of their ID, or to someone holding their signed release form.

Immigration booking photos come from ICE, through its records request page, rather than from the county.

For family members, the best tools are the Released Report and a call to the jail at 406-258-4000.

• Crime victims can fill out the jail's victim notification request to be told of a release (MCA 46-24-203).
• Family violence cases. Think partner assault, strangulation, stalking or a broken protective order. Once bail is posted in one of these, state law has the jail reach out to the alleged victim fast (MCA 46-9-108).
• VINE is a no-cost service that alerts you by call, text or email. It follows adult felony offenders supervised by state Corrections, and you must sign up yourself. Register on VINELink or at 800-456-3076.

A judge sets the amount, often at the 2:30 p.m. weekday video hearing in Justice Court. After that:

• While the courts are open, bail is paid at the court with the case. The jail takes bonds only after court hours.
• Payment is always made in person. The Sheriff's Office will never ask for bond money over the phone, so treat such a call as a scam.
• Some family violence charges carry no bond until the first court appearance.
• Bondsmen's names are posted in the housing units and near the after-hours door.

Read our bail page for court windows, payment types and bond agents.

Click "Charges" next to a name on the Jail Roster. The detail page lists each charge, the type of crime, the arresting agency and officer, the bond, whether it is cash or surety, who posted it and any court appearances. The Montana Code Annotated site has the full text behind each law number.

Charges can change once the prosecutor reviews the police report. Felony and county charges are filed by the County Attorney's Office, 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, 406-258-4737. A statewide criminal history check comes from the State Identification Bureau, 406-444-3625.

Lawyers come up at the very first hearing, when the judge explains the right to counsel. Anyone who can't pay may apply for a state public defender. It represents people facing felonies, youth charges, or misdemeanors that could lead to jail. A judge decides who qualifies.

• Local public defender office: 610 N. Woody St., Missoula, MT 59802, 406-523-5140
• Conflict office, used when the local office can't take a client: 111 N. Higgins Ave., Suite 300, Missoula, MT 59802, 406-329-1300
• Apply at advopd.mt.gov. Upload recent paychecks and bank records.

To find a private lawyer, try the Lawyer Referral and Information Service at 406-449-6577.

These are this jail's own visiting rules:

• No visits happen in the first 72 hours after booking.
• In-person visits must be booked at least 24 hours ahead. Call 406-258-4000 or ask at the lobby desk. They can't be booked online, and same-day visits aren't allowed.
• Visiting days and times depend on the housing unit, and visits take place only during normal business hours.
• Video visits, on site or from home, are set up at smartinmate.com. Your loved one tells you when they are free.

Ask about ID and dress rules when you call. Our visiting page offers more pointers for a first visit.

The jail lists these ways to add money for commissary:

• Online by debit or credit card, through the deposit link on the Sheriff's detention page.
• At the kiosk or the reception window at the jail.
• At the kiosk in the county courthouse, on the second floor of the Annex outside the Sheriff's Office.
• By mailed money order to 2340 Mullan Road, Missoula, MT 59808. Fill in every line, include the inmate's name and your own name and address, and keep it to $200.00 or less. Personal checks are refused.

Phone, video and message credit is bought separately at smartinmate.com. Deposit tips are on our money guide, and store items on our commissary guide.

At this jail, one company, Smart Communications, runs phone calls, video visits and email-style messages. People inside use kiosks and tablets in their housing units.

• Your own phone account pays for calls to your number only.
• The inmate's PIN account pays for calls to anyone they ring.

Set up either one at smartinmate.com. Ask there about current prices. Keep case details off the jail phones and share them with the lawyer instead. Our phone guide and our messaging guide explain more.

This jail sends personal letters to a scanning center out of state. Address them exactly like this:

Smart Communications/Missoula County Detention Facility
Inmate Name and Global #
PO Box 9182
Seminole, FL 33775-3197

• Letters are scanned. Photos are scanned in color, and the paper originals are destroyed.
• Put your name and return address on every piece. You can follow a letter at MailGuardTracker.com.
• Some mail is sent back. That includes sexual or gang images and anything that can't be scanned. Clippings, magazines, envelopes, stamps and blank paper are refused too. So are glitter, shiny items, writing or hygiene supplies, and drugs.

Legal mail, packages, books, magazines, newspapers and religious mail use the street address: Inmate Name, Missoula County Detention Facility, 2340 Mullan Rd, Missoula, MT 59808. General mail tips are on our mail guide.

Items taken at booking stay at the jail. To pick something up, call 406-258-4000 during business hours. Ask what the person must sign and what ID you need.

• A check for any account balance is handed over when the person leaves.
• If the account is short, the debt is printed on the release receipt and may go to collections.
• People leave by the door marked "After Hours," and a pickup can be planned when the release date is known.

Don't bring food, books, writing materials or stamps for the person. The jail won't accept them.

The jail has its own clinic and dentist. If your loved one needs care, call 406-258-4000 and describe the problem.

• The jail accepts eyeglasses, hearing aids, dentures, and current prescriptions in properly labeled containers.
• No one is refused medical care or hygiene items for lack of money.
• If you fear your loved one may harm themselves, say so clearly when you call.
• The jail has zero tolerance for sexual abuse. Report a concern at the same number.

The Detention Facility runs a work program for people serving jail time. It costs a $25 processing fee plus $10 a day. Each day worked counts as two days served. To ask who can join and how to sign up, call 406-258-4005.

Inside the jail, some inmates also hold jobs such as cooking, cleaning, laundry, library work and floor care. These pay very little.

The Sheriff's Office won't confirm a warrant. Since courts issue them, it sends the public to the court of jurisdiction, as its citizen services page explains. Ring the clerk of the court that may have signed it: District Court at 406-258-4780, Justice Court at 406-258-3470, or Municipal Court at 406-552-6170. City warrants for missed court or broken orders are explained on the Municipal Court warrants page. People wanted by state Corrections show as escape or absconder on the DOC offender search. Case records sit on the state's lower court portal and felony court portal. A lawyer can help clear one.

The Court Schedule report on the jail roster shows the next date, time and courtroom for people in custody. Hearings set for today are in green.

• Justice Court, 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, 406-258-3470. Jail cases are heard by video at 2:30 p.m. on weekdays.
• Clerk of District Court, same building, second floor, 406-258-4780.
• Municipal Court, 435 Ryman St., Missoula, MT 59802, 406-552-6180.

Searching by name works on both state court portals too. Each hearing is described step by step on our court page.

U.S. Marshals prisoners are among those held on Mullan Road. The federal courthouse for this area is the Russell Smith Federal Courthouse, 201 E. Broadway, Suite 310, Missoula, MT 59802, 406-542-7260.

1. A federal judge chooses detention or release at the opening hearing (18 U.S.C. 3142).
2. To ask where a federal prisoner is, call the Marshals at 406-317-0400.
3. Follow filings on PACER.
4. After a federal sentence, the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator works with a register number or a full name.

Immigration officers ask the jail to hold the person by sending Form I-247A. That request lets the jail keep them up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released. State law obliges officers to comply (MCA 27-16-801). A citizen, or someone with lawful status, who backs that up with credible evidence must be released from it.

• Montana falls under the ICE field office at 2975 Decker Lake Drive, Suite 100, West Valley City, UT 84119, 801-736-1200.
• Find a person in ICE custody with the ICE Online Detainee Locator. Enter an A-number, or enter the exact full name with the country of birth. No match? ICE tells families to call the field office.

Prison doesn't start right away. Corrections staff first assess the person, usually while they are still on Mullan Road, and the state system may list them during that time.

• The state's offender search shows a person's location and status. Search it with a name or a DOC number.
• Visiting and mail rules for each Montana prison are on our state prisons guide.
• The Montana Department of Corrections main office answers at 406-444-3930.

Youths ages 10 to 17 are held in a 24-bed juvenile unit on the Mullan Road campus, kept fully apart from adults. The law gives 24 hours, minus weekends and holidays, to get a held youth before a judge (MCA 41-5-332). Youth Court probation is at 406-258-4735.

Family visits follow the unit's own rules:

• Book by phone at 406-258-4054. The earliest you can book is 5 days out, and the latest is 24 hours before.
• One 30-minute visit per visiting day, usually with no contact. Times are weekdays from 3:00 to 8:00 p.m., and weekends from 8:00 to 11:00 a.m. and 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. There are no holiday visits.
• Only immediate family may visit: parents or legal guardians, grandparents and siblings. Adults bring a current driver's license, state ID, military ID or passport. Copies are refused.
• New arrivals spend their first period on 23-hour lockdown with no visits. Anyone with an open warrant may not visit.

The Court Schedule report and the charge details name the arresting agency. The county has 123,513 residents (Census estimate, July 1, 2025), and these agencies make arrests here:

• Missoula County Sheriff's Office, 2415 Mullan Road, Missoula, MT 59808, 406-258-4810. Deputies patrol outside the city. Non-emergency dispatch is 406-258-3452.
• Missoula Police Department, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, MT 59802, 406-552-6300. The desk is staffed 24 hours. The city alone has 78,903 people.
• University of Montana Police, 32 Campus Drive, Missoula, MT 59812, 406-243-6131, around the clock.
• Montana Highway Patrol, 406-444-3278.
• Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, local office 406-542-5000.
• U.S. Marshals Service, 406-317-0400. The U.S. Forest Service also books people here.
• Flathead Tribal Police, for the reservation part of the county, 406-675-4700.