1. Bring up the official inmate lookup on a phone or computer.
2. Fill in the surname, then the given name. Pick Pennsylvania and this county if asked.
3. Check the birth date or age on any match, since many people share names.
4. Note the custody status and the facility listed.
5. No match? Phone the facility at 717-274-5451 with the full name and a birth date.

The statewide VINELink Pennsylvania search, run as part of PA SAVIN, also reports custody in county jails and state prisons alike. You can search it by phone at 866-972-7284.

For charges and court dates, use the free UJS Web Portal case search. It lists cases, not jail locations.

A blank result rarely means the person is free. Try these in order:

• Wait a few hours. Booking and the preliminary arraignment come first. Records can lag behind.
• Try other spellings. Search with the legal first name, any earlier surname, or both halves of a hyphenated one.
• Call the jail. Staff at 717-274-5451 can confirm a booking.
• Ask the arresting police. They know if the person was released, cited or taken to another county.
• Ask the Sheriff's Office. Deputies move prisoners and handle extraditions: Room 3, Municipal Building, 400 South 8th Street, Lebanon, PA 17042, 717-228-4410.
• Check the court record. The Clerk of Courts, Room 102 in the same building, 717-228-4419, can say whether a case was filed.

The county has one adult jail. LCCF, 730 East Walnut Street, Lebanon, PA 17042, 717-274-5451, holds men and women under one roof. Its parts include:

• Cell blocks and housing units: Blocks 1 through 6, the Alpha unit and Housing Units 3 and 4. Staff can say which one holds the person.
• A work release section, where sentenced people with jobs live and pay room and board.
• A Security Housing Unit (SHU), with its own visit rules, plus medical and restrictive housing units.

Some people here are waiting for trial. Others are serving a sentence under two years, or a longer one the judge kept local. Many are held on probation or parole violations. A few are state or federal prisoners in town for court. Call the number above with any question about placement.

An arrest across the county line means a neighbor's jail:

• Berks County Jail System, 1287 County Welfare Road, Leesport, PA 19533, 610-208-4800
• Dauphin County Prison, 501 Mall Road, Harrisburg, PA 17111, 717-780-6800
• Lancaster County Prison, 625 East King Street, Lancaster, PA 17602, 717-299-7800

Families should not count on seeing a photo through the custody lookup. In Pennsylvania, the release of booking photos turns on how each county handles them and on court rulings from the last few years.

Reporters and others who want an image can contact the arresting agency or the jail at 717-274-5451. Police sometimes share a photo when they are looking for a person. As a rule, federal agencies keep their booking photos private, though the Marshals may release a picture, for instance of a fugitive. To ask ICE for a photo, file at the ICE records request page.

PA SAVIN is Pennsylvania's free notice service. It watches over county jail inmates, state prisoners and anyone on state parole. When someone is let out, transferred or escapes, it can phone, text or email you.

1. Go to VINELink Pennsylvania, or call 866-972-7284. TTY users can call 866-847-1298.
2. Search the person's name and pick the right match.
3. Choose how you want alerts and confirm.

Operators answer around the clock. Signing up stays private, so the person inside won't learn you did it. There is also a VINELink app for phones. Even with alerts, call LCCF before driving over for a release.

A district judge sets bail at the preliminary arraignment, soon after booking. Pennsylvania offers five types of release, from a signed promise to full money bail (Pa.R.Crim.P. 524). The right to bail covers almost every case. The exceptions are charges punishable by death or life, and cases where no condition short of jail keeps people safe.

The county runs a 10% Bail Program through District Court Administration, Room 311, Municipal Building, 400 South 8th Street, Lebanon, PA 17042, 717-228-4440. For questions on where to post and how to pay, call the Clerk of Courts at 717-228-4419.

Inside, a person who wants a lower bail fills out the jail's "blue bail sheet" through their lawyer. Bondsmen, refunds and the 10% program all appear on our bail and bond page.

• Docket sheet. Type their name into the UJS Web Portal, which costs nothing. Every count appears with its grade, such as M2 or F3.
• The complaint. The person gets a copy at the preliminary arraignment and can share it.
• The jail. Staff at 717-274-5451 can often name the charge tied to the hold.
• The Clerk of Courts. Once a case reaches Common Pleas, call 717-228-4419.

Charges can shift. When prosecutors file the formal charging paper after the preliminary hearing, some counts may be added and others dropped.

A person short on money can request the Public Defender, Room 122, Municipal Building, 400 South 8th Street, Lebanon, PA 17042, 717-228-4421. The office is open weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and charges nothing.

Family can help by gathering income proof: the four newest pay stubs, any benefit or aid letter from the last 30 days, and any child support order. The application and papers can be emailed, faxed or dropped off. The Public Defender Act (16 P.S. § 9960.1 and following) has each applicant sign a sworn money statement.

The office handles felonies, misdemeanors, juvenile cases, probation violations and any summary charge where jail is a real risk.

The person inside must put each visitor on a list first. They do this with a request slip that gives the visitor's name, full address, age, relationship and phone number. No visits are allowed during the first quarantine period, except legal visits.

• In person: call 717-274-5451 for the days and times for that housing unit, and what ID to bring.
• Security Housing Unit: one 30-minute visit a week. Arrive 15 minutes early, since a late start is not made up.
• Video visits: held on the inmate tablet. The tablet help line is 866-516-0115.

Our jail visiting page explains how visits usually go, from dress rules to what to leave in the car.

Each person can have three accounts: a trust account for commissary, a phone account and a tablet account. Ways to pay:

• Lobby kiosk at 730 East Walnut Street, Lebanon, PA 17042: cash or card, for the trust or phone account. Fees apply. Tablet deposits can't be made there.
• Online through the phone company's site. Deposits post within 24 hours, not counting weekends and bank holidays.
• By phone: trust account 888-988-4768, phone account 800-483-8314, tablet 866-516-0115.
• By mail: a certified bank check or a money order payable to the person, marked with their PIN or booking number, mailed to the jail's street address. Never cash, and no personal checks.

Checks and money orders can't be handed in at the lobby. Up to half of a deposit may go toward money the person owes the jail. Our inmate money guide has more.

People at LCCF call out collect or with prepaid time. They can't receive calls, and staff do not take incoming calls for them. In a real emergency, call 717-274-5451 and ask for the Shift Commander.

• An Advance Pay phone account can only call the one number it was funded for. Fund it at 800-483-8314.
• Calls are recorded, except calls with lawyers, clergy and officials.
• New numbers on a phone list can take 24 to 78 hours to work.
• To block your number, contact the phone company.
• Tablets come after quarantine, by housing unit. They allow monitored messages, music, games and video visits.

Setup help lives on our calls from jail page, and messaging tips on our inmate email page.

Send letters by U.S. Postal Service only. Mail can't be hand delivered to the lobby mailbox. Address it this way:

Person's full name
Lebanon County Correctional Facility
730 E. Walnut St.
Lebanon, PA 17042

• Staff can give you the person's PIN or booking number at 717-274-5451. Adding it helps mail reach the right person.
• Regular mail is copied, and the person gets the copy. The jail keeps the original. Most mail is handled within 24 hours.
• Legal mail needs a stamped legal return address and the person's typed name.
• Publications have to ship from the publisher, a book club or a bookstore. A newspaper subscription must be paid ahead through the publisher, in the person's name. In a cell, the limit is five books plus five magazines or papers.

Care packages are ordered on the county's commissary website by last name or ID, up to $100 per person each week. See our commissary page. For order help, call 770-889-9191. Letter tips are on our jail mail page.

• Extra property: must be picked up within 30 days. LCCF does not mail it.
• Court clothes: the person asks with a request slip. Family can drop clothes off Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. No hoodies or hats.
• Medicine from home: held until release and returned only to the person, who has 14 days to claim it.
• Money left over: call the fiscal tech before pickup.

All of this happens at 730 East Walnut Street, Lebanon, PA 17042. Phone 717-274-5451 ahead of the trip, and carry a photo ID.

A health check happens within 4 hours of arrival. After that, a person asks for care with a sick call slip.

• Sick call fees: $3 for the nurse, $5 for the dentist and $5 for the doctor.
• No charge for ongoing illnesses or mental health care.
• Nobody is turned away for lack of money.
• Medication-assisted treatment is offered.

If you fear for the person's health, call 717-274-5451 and ask how to raise a health concern. Under 37 Pa. Code Chapter 95, Department of Corrections inspectors check every county jail at intervals of 12 to 24 months.

The Sheriff's Office serves bench and criminal warrants: Room 3, Municipal Building, 400 South 8th Street, Lebanon, PA 17042, 717-228-4410. Police and constables also serve them. Each agency below posts its own lists. The county: open warrants, top fugitives. City police: open warrants, top fugitives. Regional police: open warrants, top fugitives. Western regional: open warrants, top fugitives. Township police: open warrants, top fugitives. Statewide and national: the PSP top ten and the Marshals fugitive list. To clear one, a lawyer and the person walk into the Sheriff's Office together, best before 11 a.m. The Clerk of Courts, Room 102, 717-228-4419, checks by phone.

Court dates sit on the docket. Open the free UJS Web Portal case search and enter a name with this county chosen. The docket sheet lists the next date, time and courtroom for district court and Common Pleas cases. Very new entries can lag.

• A preliminary hearing must happen inside 14 days for a jailed defendant and inside 21 days for one who is free (Pa.R.Crim.P. 540).
• After that hearing, Public Defender clients get a "Three Date Letter" with their next dates.
• The county posts a criminal jury trial list.
• District Court Administration at 717-228-4440 can help with calendars.

Our court guide lists all six district courts with addresses and explains each hearing.

Federal cases from here go to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, 1501 North 6th Street, Suite 101, Harrisburg, PA 17102, 717-221-3920.

1. A detention hearing (18 U.S.C. 3142) decides between pretrial release and staying locked up.
2. Until the case ends, the Marshals choose where the defendant is housed. To learn the jail, phone the U.S. Marshals Service at its district office, 235 North Washington Avenue, Unit 215, Scranton, PA 18503, 570-346-7277.
3. Once sentenced, the person passes to the Bureau of Prisons; from then on, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator.

LCCF also serves as a community treatment center for the Bureau of Prisons, so some federal prisoners may be housed there. Ask at 717-274-5451.

1. LCCF first receives a detainer from ICE. The paper is numbered Form I-247A.
2. With that form, the agency asks LCCF to keep the person up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)), giving ICE time to collect them.
3. In Galarza v. Szalczyk, decided in 2014, the Third Circuit said a jail may turn down a detainer. If a county holds someone on that form alone, the legal risk for that choice falls on the county. Every county jail therefore has its own detainer policy. Ask LCCF at 717-274-5451.
4. After pickup, search the ICE Online Detainee Locator by name and country of birth.
5. ICE's Philadelphia Field Office covers the state: 114 N. 8th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, 215-656-7164.

Any sentence topping out at five years or more is served in state prison. So are most sentences of two to five years, unless the judge keeps the person at LCCF (42 Pa.C.S. § 9762).

• Use the DOC inmate locator with either a full name or the state ID number.
• Newcomers start at a reception and classification center for a stretch that runs from weeks into months. Then each one is assigned a prison suited to the risk level they were given.
• Reach the Department of Corrections at 1920 Technology Parkway, Mechanicsburg, PA 17050, 717-728-2573.
• Mail for state prisoners goes through the DOC's central mail processor, not to the prison itself.
• Our Pennsylvania state prisons page covers each prison.

Pennsylvania's Juvenile Act (42 Pa.C.S. § 6301 and following) sends most youth cases to juvenile court. A detained youth stays at a juvenile detention center, never at LCCF. Juvenile files are left off the public UJS docket site.

To find a youth, call juvenile probation at Probation Services, 508 Oak Street, Lebanon, PA 17042, 717-273-1557. That office can name the placement and the date of the detention hearing.

Adult court is the exception. Murder, and a set of violent crimes done with a deadly weapon, send older teens (ages 15, 16 and 17) straight to adult court. The Public Defender takes juvenile cases for free.

The county, home to 146,380 people (Census estimate for July 1, 2025), has 25 municipalities. Call the department that made the arrest:

• Lebanon City Police Department, 735 Cumberland Street, Lebanon, PA 17042, 717-272-6611, 24-hour service in the city.
• Lebanon County Regional Police Department, 725 Kimmerlings Road, Lebanon, PA 17046, 717-273-8141. Listed for North Cornwall Township and for the township where its Kimmerlings Road station sits.
• Western Lebanon County Regional Police Department, 325 South Railroad Street, Palmyra, PA 17078, 717-838-8189. Serves Palmyra Borough and Annville Township. Alternative number: 717-838-8188.
• South Lebanon Township Police Department, 1800 South 5th Avenue, Lebanon, PA 17042, 717-274-0482. Alternative number: 717-274-0481.
• South Annville Township Police, 1042 Horseshoe Pike, Lebanon, PA 17042, 717-867-1003.
• Cornwall Borough Police, P.O. Box 667, Cornwall, PA 17016, 717-274-2071.
• Cleona Borough Police, at Borough Hall in Cleona, 717-274-2510. Also listed for North Annville Township.
• North Londonderry Township Police, at the township building in Palmyra, 717-838-5276.
• South Londonderry Township Police, at the municipal building in Palmyra, 717-838-1376.
• Millcreek Township and Richland Borough: the Sheriff's Office below can connect you with the right agency.
• Pennsylvania State Police, Troop L, Jonestown Station, 3185 SR 72, Jonestown, PA 17038-8101, 717-865-2194. Patrols towns with no local department.
• Sheriff's Office, Room 3, Municipal Building, 400 South 8th Street, Lebanon, PA 17042, 717-228-4410. Serves warrants and moves prisoners.
• County Detectives, the investigators attached to the DA, Room 11, 400 S 8th Street, Lebanon, PA 17042, 717-228-4403. They assist local police day and night.
• Campus Safety at the college in Annville, 148 N. College Ave., Annville, PA 17003, 717-867-6111, with an officer on duty around the clock.

Bethel, Jackson, Swatara and some other townships are missing from this list. For any of them, deputies at the Sheriff's Office know which agency covers it.