The roster lives in the Sheriff's app. Here is how to reach it:

1. Open the county inmate lookup. It points you to the Sheriff's app for up-to-date roster details.
2. Install the app from Google Play or the Apple App Store. It is free.
3. Find the jail roster inside the app and search by last name.
4. No match? Swap in other spellings, then middle or past surnames.
5. Note the booking number. The jail rejects personal mail that lacks it.

When the app comes up empty, jail staff can help at 724-430-1222, seven days a week by phone.

An empty search is often just a timing issue. Likely causes:

• Booking not finished. A brand new arrest can take hours to post.
• Released. Bail may be paid already, or an MDJ may have ordered release without money.
• Moved. Custody may have passed to a neighboring county, the DOC or a federal agency.
• Different spelling. Search a nickname or each half of a hyphenated surname.
• A minor. Teens are placed in juvenile detention, never on this adult roster.

Two more checks help. A free UJS case search by name shows whether a new case exists. After that, the jail at 724-430-1222 can say whether a booking happened and where the person was sent.

This county runs one jail, and booking happens inside it. Someone arrested just over the line, or on another county's warrant, might be held in a nearby jail. Check these:

• Greene County Prison, 855 Rolling Meadows Road, Waynesburg, PA 15370, 724-627-7780
• Washington County Correctional Facility, 100 W. Cherry Ave., Washington, PA 15301, 724-228-6845
• Westmoreland County Prison, 3000 South Grande Boulevard, Greensburg, PA 15601, 724-830-6000
• Somerset County Jail, 127 E Fairview St # 100, Somerset, PA 15501, 814-445-1500

If the person may have been picked up in another state, call the local jail at 724-430-1222 and ask whether any out-of-state hold is on file.

Don't count on one. Release of jail mugshots in Pennsylvania varies from county to county, and recent appeals court rulings have shaped it. The county lookup page and the Sheriff's app are the places to check first.

• News outlets may request a photo from the jail at 724-430-1222, or from whichever police department arrested the person.
• ICE photos have their own form: the ICE records request page.
• Mugshots taken in federal cases are generally withheld. The U.S. Marshals Service may still put one out, such as when someone is on the run.

Yes. PA SAVIN costs nothing. It is a program of the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency that works through VINELink. A VINELink search reports custody status and location across Pennsylvania jails, prisons and state parole. After you register, a release, transfer or escape triggers a call, text or email.

• Search or sign up on VINELink.
• Phone 866-972-7284 at any hour. The TTY line is 866-847-1298.
• Your sign-up stays confidential from the person in custody.

The app and VINELink can lag behind a fresh booking or release, so call the jail at 724-430-1222 when timing matters.

An MDJ sets bail at a quick video hearing soon after booking. An on-call MDJ covers nights and weekends. Choices run from a simple promise to return to court up to full money bail.

• Weekdays until 3:30 p.m., the Clerk of Courts takes bail in person at 61 East Main Street, 1st Floor, Uniontown, PA 15401, 724-430-1253. Bring cash, a money order, or a certified or cashier's check.
• After 4:00 p.m. and on weekends and holidays, pay at the jail with a money order only.
• Cards are refused for bail.
• The county holds back 30 percent of any cash deposit once the case closes.

Our bail page walks through property bonds, bondsmen and refunds step by step.

The criminal complaint lists the charges, and the person gets a copy at the first hearing. Families can read them on the free UJS Web Portal. Pick the county, then enter the first and last name. Each docket shows the counts, their grade, the bail and coming court dates.

Grades sort crimes from light to heavy. Summary offenses top out at 90 days. Misdemeanors range from 1 year (M3) to 5 years (M1). Felonies range from 7 years (F3) to 20 years (F1) (18 Pa.C.S. §§ 1103-1105).

Charges can still change. The District Attorney has the last word and can add or cut counts. Its office is at 61 East Main Street, Uniontown, PA 15401, 724-430-1245.

The right to appointed counsel is explained by the MDJ at the preliminary arraignment. Someone who can't pay can ask for the public defender. The Public Defender's Office is at 61 E Main Street, Uniontown, PA 15401, 724-430-1220.

• Walk-in applications run 8:00 to 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
• The applicant swears to their finances on a written form.
• Relatives may phone the office and ask how the application works from inside the jail.

Private lawyers can visit any day from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. with no appointment. They need a photo ID and a bar card.

All family visits are video visits. No one meets face to face. Visitors sit at one of four kiosks in the jail lobby while the person stays on their housing unit.

• Each person gets one free 30-minute visit a week.
• Visitors must be 18 to register. They set up an account online, accept the visit rules and upload a clear photo of a government ID.
• The person in jail must pass screening before visits start.
• Book at least 24 hours ahead, but no more than 14 days. Cancel at least 24 hours ahead.
• Up to two visitors may come: two adults, or one approved adult with a child of the person in jail. A birth certificate may be asked for.
• Arrive no more than 10 minutes early and wait outside until called. Bring photo ID.
• Someone released from this jail must wait 60 days before visiting.

Call 724-430-1222 for help signing up. Before your first kiosk session, skim our visiting guide.

Yes, by money order through the mail. The jail turns away cash and personal checks. Follow these steps:

1. Make the money order out to the person in jail, by full name.
2. Write their name, the facility name and the jail address on it, plus your own name, address and signature.
3. Mail it by itself to 254 McClellandtown Rd, Uniontown, PA 15401. Never tuck it into a personal letter, or it will be sent back and not credited.

Money orders can't be dropped off at a video visit or handed to staff. The jail also warns that it never asks families for money for a person in jail. To learn what an account pays for, read our money guide and the commissary guide.

People in the jail can make calls from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. every day. Calls are collect, or they are charged to the person's commissary account. Each person gets a PIN to place calls.

• Letters reach the person on a tablet, through a free messaging app.
• The county's tablet program lists a service line, 866-516-0115, for account and tablet questions.
• Staff can't pass along messages for families.

Keep details of the case out of calls and messages. Read more in our jail calls guide or the inmate messaging guide.

Personal letters, photos and drawings do not go to the jail building. They go to a scanning center, then show up on the person's tablet. Use this exact address: Fayette County Prison, PA, then the person's full name and booking number, PO Box 247, Phoenix, MD 21131.

• Spell out the full facility name and state. Don't abbreviate.
• Put your full name and street address on the envelope.
• Mail without a booking number is rejected.

Legal mail from a lawyer goes to 254 McClellandtown Rd, Uniontown, PA 15401, with the lawyer's phone number on the envelope. For sending tips that keep letters from bouncing, see our mail guide.

To send belongings home with family, the person in jail fills out a Request Slip. Once staff review it, the property is handed out on the next fitting visiting day.

Before you drive to 254 McClellandtown Rd., Uniontown, PA 15401, call 724-430-1222 to confirm the day and what ID to bring. Ask too about any money left on the account.

Phone the jail without delay at 724-430-1222. Share the person's name, each medicine they take and its dose, and how to reach their doctor. For a life-threatening problem, dial 911 first. Mention any signs of a mental health crisis on the call.

Pennsylvania watches its county jails. The Department of Corrections inspects each one at least every 12 to 24 months (37 Pa. Code Chapter 95). State law also limits restraints on pregnant and new mothers (61 Pa.C.S. § 1758). Here, a warden runs the jail under the county Prison Board of Inspectors, not the Sheriff.

The Sheriff's Office hands out Common Pleas bench warrants. City and borough police, plus constables, carry other warrants. Ask the Sheriff by phone at 724-430-1295. Look through the Sheriff's warrant lists, both bench and Domestic Relations. Broader lists: the PSP Ten Most Wanted, the state parole absconder list, the FBI's wanted page and the Marshals' top fugitives. A lawyer can help set up a surrender to the issuing court. For bench warrants, the Clerk of Courts sits at 61 East Main Street, 1st Floor, Uniontown, PA 15401, 724-430-1253.

Jail staff usually don't have court dates handy. These sources do:

• The free UJS docket search shows the next hearing and the courtroom.
• The Clerk of Courts answers at 724-430-1253 on weekdays.
• Court administration posts calendars and arraignment lists on its court page, or call 724-430-1230.

Early hearings happen at one of seven MDJ offices around the county. Our court guide lists each office and explains every step.

Federal arrests from here go to the federal court in Pittsburgh, 700 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, 412-208-7500.

1. Pretrial release is argued soon after arrest, in a detention hearing before a federal judge (18 U.S.C. 3142).
2. Pretrial, the Marshals Service is in charge of the person and often lodges people in county jails. Their Pittsburgh office, 700 Grant Street, Room 2360, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, 412-644-3351, knows which one.
3. After sentencing, custody shifts to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The BOP inmate locator searches by name.

When immigration officers want someone in the local jail, these steps are typical:

1. Jail staff receive an ICE detainer, Form I-247A.
2. ICE wants the person kept up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)).
3. Pennsylvania sits in the Third Circuit, whose 2014 decision in Galarza v. Szalczyk holds that a detainer asks rather than orders. A county that jails someone on that paper alone can be sued over it. Each jail therefore writes its own policy. Ask the jail at 724-430-1222.
4. ICE cases from this state are managed by the Philadelphia Field Office: 114 N. 8th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, 215-656-7164.
5. Search the ICE Online Detainee Locator using the name plus birth country.

State prison is where a person goes when the sentence maximum is 5 years or above. It is also the usual result for maximums of 2 to 5 years. Everyone headed there starts with a stay of weeks or months for testing and security grading, at a reception and classification center. The DOC then chooses where they will serve the sentence.

• Search by name on the state's DOC inmate locator.
• The DOC's headquarters is at 1920 Technology Parkway, Mechanicsburg, PA 17050. Its main line is 717-728-2573.
• State prison letters go to one mail center. The first line is Smart Communications/PA DOC. Below it, put the person's name, inmate number, and SCI plus the prison name. Then add PO Box 33028, St Petersburg, FL 33733.
• Our Pennsylvania state prisons guide covers visits and rules at each prison.

Teens who are locked up stay in a juvenile detention center, never the McClellandtown Road jail. Juvenile Probation runs these cases from 34 W Peter Street, Uniontown, PA 15401, 724-430-1223. Ask that office about the youth's placement and first court date. Juvenile dockets never show on the UJS portal. Starting at 15, a youth accused of murder goes to adult court. The same goes for certain armed violent crimes.

The arresting agency matters, because its report starts the case. These are the departments the county lists, grouped by area.

Central and southern towns

• Uniontown City Police Department, 80 N Beeson Boulevard, Uniontown, PA 15401, 724-430-2929
• Fairchance Police Department, 125 Church Street, Fairchance, PA 15436, 724-564-1430
• Masontown Police Department, 2 Court Street, Masontown, PA 15461, 724-583-7779

Connellsville and the east

• Connellsville Police Department, 110 N Arch Street, Connellsville, PA 15425, 724-628-2501
• South Connellsville Police Department, 1503 S Pittsburgh Street, Connellsville, PA 15425, 724-628-4860
• Dunbar Boro Police Department, 51 Connellsville Street, Dunbar, PA 15431, 724-277-0810
• Everson Police Department, 232 Brown Street, Everson, PA 15631, 724-887-4870
• Ohiopyle State Park Police, mail to P.O. Box 105, Ohiopyle, PA 15470, 724-329-8591

Brownsville, Belle Vernon and the river towns

• Brownsville Police Department, 200 2nd Street, Brownsville, PA 15417, 724-785-5389
• Luzerne Township Police Department, 415 Hopewell Road, Brownsville, PA 15417, 724-785-4590
• Redstone Township Police Department, 225 Twin Hills Road, Grindstone, PA 15425, 724-246-0758
• Fayette City Police Department, 398 Second Street, Fayette City, PA 15438, 724-328-8811
• Perryopolis Boro Police Department, 201 E Independence Street, Perryopolis, PA 15473, 724-736-0700
• Washington Township Police Department, 1390 Fayette Avenue, Belle Vernon, PA 15012, 724-929-6940
• Southwest Regional Police Department (Belle Vernon and Newell boroughs), 10 Main Street, Belle Vernon, PA 15012. For its officers, call the Sheriff's Office.

State and county agencies

• Pennsylvania State Police, Uniontown station (Troop B), 1070 Eberly Way, Lemont Furnace, PA 15456, 724-439-7111. Troopers patrol towns and townships with no police of their own, and back up the part-time departments in Dunbar, Fairchance, Masontown, Ohiopyle park, Point Marion and South Connellsville.
• Pennsylvania State Police, Belle Vernon station, 560 Circle Drive, Belle Vernon, PA 15012, 724-929-6262. It backs up the river town departments when they are off duty.
• Sheriff's Office, 61 East Main Street, 1st Floor, Uniontown, PA 15401, 724-430-1295
• County Detectives, District Attorney's Office, 61 E Main Street, Uniontown, PA 15401, 724-430-1200