1. Pull up the Sheriff's inmate search on a phone or computer.
2. Type a last name. Add a first name if too many results appear.
3. Nothing? Try nicknames, a maiden name or a second spelling.
4. Run the same name through VINELink, the statewide custody tracker.
5. Confirm by calling 518-943-3300, because brand-new bookings can lag.

The list stays small. Sheriff's figures put the 2024 average at 32 people a day.

• Booking isn't finished. Paperwork and fingerprints take a while.
• Ticketed and sent home. Police often issue an appearance ticket instead of jailing anyone (CPL 150.20).
• Freed at arraignment. Most defendants leave on their own promise after that first hearing.
• Housed out of county. Women from here are boarded at other counties' jails.
• Inside a state prison. The state prisons near Coxsackie belong to the state, not the Sheriff. Search them through the Incarcerated Lookup.
• Younger than 18. Minors never go to adult jails.

Jail staff at 518-943-3300 give the quickest answer.

Men stay in Coxsackie. Women get boarded out to two neighboring jails:

• Columbia County Jail, 85 Industrial Tract, Hudson, NY 12534, 518-828-3324
• Ulster County Jail, 380 Boulevard, Kingston, NY 12401, 845-340-3644

Arrested close to a county line? A bordering county may have done the booking:

• Albany County Correctional Facility, 840 Albany Shaker Road, Albany, NY 12211, 518-869-2600
• Schoharie County Jail, 157 Steadman Way, Howes Cave, NY 12092, 518-295-2264
• Delaware County jail, 280 Phoebe Lane, Suite 1, Delhi, NY 13753, 607-832-5555

Probably not. State records law says giving out police arrest pictures is an unwarranted privacy invasion. It allows release only when a specific police purpose calls for it (Public Officers Law § 89(2)(b)(viii)). So a family's request for one will likely be turned down.

• News outlets wanting a photo can ask the Sheriff's Office: 518-943-3300.
• To ask for a photo ICE took, use ICE's FOIA request site.
• Beyond that, federal agencies keep booking pictures sealed. Only the U.S. Marshals Service occasionally shares one, when a fugitive is loose.

• VINE by phone. Dial 888-846-3469 to learn whether someone sits in any New York county jail. Register, and the system calls you automatically once custody changes. Your registration stays hidden from the prisoner.
• VINE online. VINELink sends the same news by email or text.
• Sheriff's app. The Sheriff's Office offers its own app for iPhone and Android.
• State prison releases. The DOCCS Victim Notification form lets you hear about parole interviews and decisions, a release date, and who the assigned parole officer is.

To double-check a release on short notice, call Coxsackie at 518-943-3300.

Bail reform began January 1, 2020. Under it, judges must release most people facing misdemeanors and non-violent felonies. Release happens on recognizance or under conditions (CPL 510.10(3)). Bail, or holding someone with none, applies only to "qualifying offenses," such as violent felonies (CPL 510.10(4)).

• Any bail amount must come with at least three ways to post it, one being an unsecured or partially secured bond (CPL 520.10).
• Cash may be handed to the Sheriff, the court behind the bail, or the County Treasurer (CPL 520.15).
• Sheriff's reports show bail coming in through GOV.PAY NET too. Ask how at 518-943-3300.

Amounts, bondsmen and refunds are explained on our bail page.

Jail staff at 518-943-3300 can read you the charges and name the court. Charges are written as sections of the Penal Law, which anyone can read on the state Senate's Penal Law page.

The District Attorney settles which charges move forward: Justice Center, 80 Bridge Street, Suite 300, Catskill, NY 12414, 518-719-3590. A felony needs a grand jury indictment before trial in County Court, 320 Main Street, Catskill, NY 12414, 518-625-3160. In plain terms: felonies are serious crimes that can bring prison time, while misdemeanors are lesser crimes capped at 364 days in jail.

Nobody has to face court without a lawyer for lack of money. State standards presume anyone sitting in jail qualifies. The county Public Defender takes these cases:

• Justice Center, 80 Bridge Street, Suite 310, Catskill, NY 12414, 518-719-3220
• Walk-in hours: 9:00 a.m. until 3:45 p.m.
• Apply two days or more before court. Bring the charges, the latest tax return and a few pay stubs. Family members can help gather these.

Private attorneys are another route, and the person can still use an assigned lawyer while the family shops around.

For current days, hours and sign-up rules, call 518-943-3300. State rules every county jail must follow (9 NYCRR Part 7008):

• Each person gets two hours or more of visits weekly, with each visit lasting 30 minutes or longer.
• Jails publish a schedule offering two or more visit times weekly.
• A non-contact visit can be requested within the first 24 hours after admission.
• Visitors must show proper ID. Kids visiting may have to arrive alongside a parent or guardian, or carry a signed note allowing it.
• Visitors and their bags can be searched.

Video visits are common at New York jails, so ask staff about them. Our visiting guide has more tips.

Funds on an inmate account cover commissary snacks, soap and calls. Before sending anything, call Coxsackie at 518-943-3300 and ask which deposit methods work right now, plus any fees or limits. Spell the full legal name exactly.

Our money guide walks through usual deposit options. What the balance can buy appears in our commissary guide. Cash never goes in an envelope.

At admission, every new arrival may place phone calls, and staff must say so (9 NYCRR 7002.8). Written jail rules handed out at intake cover phone use (9 NYCRR 7002.9). Providers and prices differ county to county.

Call 518-943-3300 to learn how incoming calls get set up, the cost, and whether tablets or messaging are offered. Save case talk for the defense lawyer, since others may listen. More detail sits in our jail phone guide, and messaging gets its own inmate email and text guide.

Letters go to the jail's street address, 45 Haverly Memorial Drive, Coxsackie, NY 12051, with the full legal name on the envelope. Phone 518-943-3300 first to ask whether a booking number belongs on it and which items, like photos, are allowed.

• No state limit exists on how many letters someone may write or get (9 NYCRR 7004.1).
• Personal letters can be opened in search of contraband, but staff need a written order, with reasons, before reading one (9 NYCRR 7004.3).
• Legal mail gets opened only with the person present (9 NYCRR 7004.4).

Our mail guide lists common rules. Add a return address, and never tuck cash inside.

Phones, keys and clothes collected during booking stay locked in jail storage. To pick them up for someone, call 518-943-3300 on a weekday and check if a signed authorization from them is needed first. Then bring photo ID to 45 Haverly Memorial Drive, Coxsackie, NY 12051.

Officers who hold someone under arrest must attend to medical and mental health needs (Civil Rights Law § 28). Call the jail at 518-943-3300 Share each prescription, its dose and the prescriber's phone number.

• HALT, the state solitary law, keeps certain groups out of segregated confinement. It covers anyone pregnant, anyone with a disability, anyone aged 55 or more, and anyone 21 or under. Exceptions are narrow.
• Complaints about jail conditions go to the New York State Commission of Correction, 80 S. Swan Street, Albany, NY 12210, 518-485-2346.
• In an emergency, dial 911.

The Sheriff's Office, village police departments and state troopers serve warrants here. The Sheriff's Criminal Investigations Unit follows up on felony and misdemeanor warrants. Ask about one at 518-943-3300. The New York State Police list wanted people on their Wanted and Missing page. Court clerks can also check by phone or at the counter. Clearing it? Bring in a lawyer before anything else. The two of you can turn up at the court that issued it, or the lawyer can phone that court about rescheduling. For felonies, the County Court clerk works at 320 Main Street, Catskill, NY 12414, 518-625-3160.

• Felonies: County Court clerk, 320 Main Street, Catskill, NY 12414, 518-625-3160.
• Youth cases: Family Court, 320 Main Street, Catskill, NY 12414, 518-625-3180.
• Everything else: the justice court in the town of arrest. The jail at 518-943-3300 can say which one.

The statewide WebCrims tool covers upcoming hearings mostly downstate and in some 60 city courts, so for courts here, phone instead. Our court guide lists all 14 town courts.

Albany handles federal cases for this region, at the James T. Foley Courthouse, 445 Broadway, Albany, NY 12207, 518-257-1789.

1. Detain or release? A federal judge settles that at the opening appearance (18 U.S.C. 3142).
2. Until trial, custody sits with federal marshals (the U.S. Marshals Service), who may board federal prisoners at county jails. Its Albany office, 445 Broadway, 2nd Floor, Albany, NY 12207, 518-472-5401, can say where.
3. Court records sit on PACER.
4. After sentencing, the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator shows the prison.

1. Paperwork comes first: Form I-247A, an ICE detainer, reaches the Haverly Memorial Drive jail.
2. The detainer seeks a hold of up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)).
3. ICE officers take the person from Coxsackie.
4. Upstate detainees often head to the Buffalo (Batavia) Service Processing Center, 4250 Federal Drive, Batavia, NY 14020, 585-344-6500. Calls for detainee information go there 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
5. Type an A-number into the ICE Online Detainee Locator, or a name together with the country of birth.

New York's own rules apply to the first step. The 2018 People ex rel. Wells v DeMarco ruling found local jails can't lawfully hold people just on ICE detainers and administrative warrants. Since 2026, Executive Law § 170-k bars local 287(g) agreements. Civil Rights Law § 28 protects people around court from civil immigration arrest unless a judicial warrant exists.

• Search the DOCCS Incarcerated Lookup. A DIN finds them fastest. Otherwise use the exact last name plus birth year.
• The lookup goes offline nightly near 11:45 p.m.
• Without internet, call DOCCS on business days at 518-457-5000. Its central office is at 1220 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12226.
• Our guide to New York's state prisons breaks down visits and mail for each lockup the state runs.

Sentenced people first wait in Coxsackie until the state collects them, then pass through a reception center.

Teenagers never go to the adult jail. Sixteen- and seventeen-year-olds held on charges stay in specialized secure juvenile detention. Police must notify a parent right after taking a child into custody (Family Court Act § 305.2).

To find a youth and the court date, call county Probation, 411 Main Street, Suite 310, Catskill, NY 12414, 518-719-3200. Family Court is at 320 Main Street, Catskill, NY 12414, 518-625-3180.

Roughly 47,238 people live across these 14 towns, according to a Census Bureau estimate dated July 1, 2025. With no city here and no county police force, arrests come from these agencies:

Countywide

• Sheriff's Office, 45 Haverly Memorial Drive, Coxsackie, NY 12051, 518-943-3300. Road patrol covers towns without their own police, plus marine patrol on the Hudson.
• State Police, Troop F, station in South Cairo: 78R McLaren Road Extension, South Cairo, NY 12482, 518-622-8600
• State Police, Coxsackie station, 518-731-2333
• State Police, Greenville station, P.O. Box 337, Greenville, NY 12083, 518-966-4441
• State Police, Hunter station at the Hunter Town Hall, Tannersville, NY 12485, 518-589-6312
• Troop F headquarters, 55 Crystal Run Road, Middletown, NY 10941, 845-344-5300

Village police

• Catskill Police Department, 422 Main Street, Catskill, NY 12414, 518-943-2244
• Athens Village Police, 2 First Street, Athens, NY 12015, 518-945-1559
• Coxsackie Village Police, 518-731-8121; alternative number 518-731-8122. Village offices: 119 Mansion Street, Coxsackie, NY 12051.

Town police

• Cairo Police Department, 518-622-2324. Town Hall: 512 Main Street, Cairo, NY 12413.
• Windham Police Department, 518-734-3030. Town Hall: 371 NY-296, Hensonville, NY 12439.
• Hunter Town Police, non-emergency 518-589-7200
• Durham Police Department: call the Sheriff's Office for help reaching it.

Towns patrolled by the Sheriff and State Police: Ashland, Greenville, Halcott, Jewett, Lexington, New Baltimore and Prattsville, plus the parts of Athens, Catskill and Coxsackie outside their villages.