The county keeps its roster as one sortable table. To work through it:

1. Load the current roster page. It runs fine on a phone.
2. A data disclaimer comes up first. Read it, then press Accept.
3. Choose the letter that starts the surname, or choose All for the full list.
4. Click the commitment date column title, and the newest intakes rise to the top.
5. Note the booking number on the row. It reads as digits, a dash, then the year.

Jot that booking number down, because the prison wants it on envelopes and deposits. A VINELink button sits on every row too, for setting up custody alerts.

When a search comes up empty, one of these is usually why:

• Intake isn't finished. Fingerprinting and paperwork happen before a name lands on the roster.
• Already out. An MDJ may have granted ROR, or a relative posted bail.
• Held somewhere else. A neighbor county, a state prison or the Marshals may have custody.
• Odd spelling. Try a hyphenated or maiden surname, and look at the rows just above and below.
• Under 18. Youths go to the county's youth center, not onto this roster.

A housing entry of Temp Out means the person is still booked but off the unit for now. Records at 724-830-6081 can say why.

Only one adult jail serves the county: the county prison at 3000 South Grande Boulevard, Greensburg, PA 15601, 724-830-6000. State inspection lists put it at 723 beds. Youths are held at the Regional Youth Services Center, 2771 S Grande Blvd, Greensburg, PA 15601, 724-830-4200.

A person arrested near Pittsburgh or Kittanning, or wanted by a nearby county, may be held in one of these jails instead:

• Allegheny County Jail, 950 Second Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, 412-350-2000
• Armstrong County Jail, 171 Staley's Court Road, Kittanning, PA 16201, 724-545-9222
• Washington County Correctional Facility, 100 West Cherry Avenue, Washington, PA 15301, 724-228-6845

Fayette, Indiana, Cambria and Somerset counties border this one as well, and JE has a page for each of their jails: Fayette, Indiana, Cambria and Somerset. To learn whether a transfer happened, call Records at 724-830-6081.

Rows on the county roster carry a name, birth date, booking number, commitment date and housing unit. Mugshot release across Pennsylvania varies from one county to the next and has been shaped by recent state court rulings. Newsrooms and members of the public may put the question to the prison at 724-830-6000, or to the police department behind the arrest.

• Photos ICE took can be sought with the ICE FOIA request page.
• The federal government rarely hands out its booking photos. The Marshals sometimes release one, for example during a fugitive hunt.

Pennsylvania's free PA SAVIN service runs on VINELink. Its coverage includes the county prison here, all state prisons and state parole. It also shows whether someone is locked up at this moment.

• Register on VINELink, or use the VINELink button on the roster row.
• Pick calls, texts or email, then choose which events trigger a notice: release, transfer or escape.
• Live operators take calls around the clock at 866-972-7284. Deaf or hard-of-hearing callers can use TTY 866-847-1298.
• Your registration stays private from the person in custody.

Treat alerts as a safety net. When a release is expected today, Records at 724-830-6081 will know first.

Bail is set by an MDJ at the preliminary arraignment, usually by video and often within hours. From 4:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Night Court handles these. The judge can choose recognizance, recognizance with conditions, unsecured, nominal or monetary bail (Pa.R.Crim.P. 524). Of these, monetary bail is the one that needs cash up front.

• Business days: the Clerk of Courts window, 2 North Main Street, Suite 203, Greensburg, PA 15601, 724-830-3734, is open 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. It takes cash, certified checks, and Visa, Mastercard or Discover, with 2.75% added for cards.
• Online: PA ePay Bail works here. The Clerk also charges a separate $23.70 filing fee.
• After 4:00 p.m.: county guidance is to contact a bondsman or the prison.

Carry photo ID and hold on to every receipt. Each option is laid out on our bail page.

Charges show on the docket sheet, which anyone can pull free from the UJS Web Portal with no login. Type the first and last name and pick Westmoreland as the county. Each charge appears with its grade, along with the bail and the next court event.

Grades run from felonies, F1, F2 and F3, down through misdemeanors, M1, M2 and M3, to summary offenses at the bottom. The criminal complaint handed over at the preliminary arraignment lists the same counts in plain sentences.

Once the preliminary hearing is over, prosecutors file a charging paper called the information, and counts may be added or withdrawn then. Questions on a Common Pleas file go to the Clerk of Courts, 724-830-3734.

If the person can't pay a lawyer, they can apply for the county Public Defender. They sign a sworn form about their income. The county then decides if they qualify (16 P.S. § 9960.1 and following). The office handles preliminary hearings, trials and probation violation hearings.

• Inside the prison, the person can ask a staff member for the application.
• Relatives can reach Court Administration, 2 North Main Street, Room M3, Greensburg, PA 15601, 724-830-3828, to get the defender's number.
• Don't wait. A person held in custody gets a preliminary hearing within 14 days.

A private attorney can step in at any stage. Lawyer visits and lawyer calls let counsel and client speak in confidence.

Every person housed there is allowed one regular visit weekly and can request as many as three added video visits weekly. Normal visiting resumed on September 17, 2025.

• Scheduling video: book through the video-visit company listed on the county's visitation page, from one to seven days out. Help is at 855-208-7349. The county asks families not to phone the prison to schedule.
• Price: $15.00 buys 25 minutes, and each session is recorded.
• Units and hours: A, B, C, D, F, J, K and L, every day, from 7:30 to 10:55 a.m., 2:15 to 4:10 p.m. and 6:00 to 8:55 p.m.
• Not eligible for video: units H (unclassified), G (medical) and E (disciplinary segregation), plus anyone in protective or administrative custody or on suicide watch.
• Cancelling: give 48 hours or more notice and the fee comes back.
• Clothing: skip low-cut, sleeveless, tank and midriff tops, and pajamas. Crude words or gestures cut a visit short.

In-person hours, ID rules and visits with children are questions for the prison at 724-830-6000. Our visiting guide adds general pointers.

Four deposit routes are open, and every one asks for Facility #715601 plus the person's name and booking number.

1. Lobby kiosk: feed it cash, or use Mastercard or Visa, while at the prison.
2. Website: the deposit company named on the county's deposit page accepts Mastercard or Visa.
3. Phone: dial 866-232-1899 with a Mastercard or Visa ready, and note the confirmation number.
4. Mail: make a money order out to the person and post it to Westmoreland County Prison, 3000 South Grande Boulevard, Greensburg, PA 15601.

Kiosk, web and phone deposits add a convenience fee, and the charge shows on a card statement as "Inmate Payment." Balances top out at $400.00. Cash or a personal check sent by mail gets the whole envelope returned. Our inmate money guide and commissary guide explain spending from the account.

Rules for phone calls, tablets and electronic messages come from the prison and its service providers, and rates can change. Before setting anything up, check with the prison at 724-830-6000 on:

• opening a phone account so your loved one can reach you
• whether tablets or messaging are available, and the cost
• phone hours on that housing unit

Assume staff can hear any call, message or video visit, and video sessions are recorded for certain. Save case talk for the lawyer. More is in our jail calls guide and electronic messages guide.

Put the person's full name and booking number on the first line, then Westmoreland County Prison, 3000 South Grande Boulevard, Greensburg, PA 15601. Write your own name and return address at the upper left, since mail without one is refused.

• Three pages at most, both sides allowed, on 8.5 by 11 inch sheets.
• Blue or black ink, or typed. The envelope address must be handwritten.
• Photos are photocopied in black and white for the person, and the originals are stored with their property. Polaroids are refused.
• Padded mailers are routed to the property officer.
• Refused items: photocopies, internet printouts, crossword pages, newspaper or magazine clippings, stickers, tape, address labels and scented paper.
• Letters between a current and a former inmate are barred, except immediate family with prison approval.

Anything breaking these rules goes back to the sender. Our jail mail guide offers general advice.

Items taken at intake stay in storage until the person leaves, along with any photo originals that came by mail. Released people walk out at 3000 South Grande Boulevard, Greensburg, PA 15601, so arrange a ride before the release time.

To collect belongings for someone, phone 724-830-6000 first. Find out whether a signed property release naming you is needed, and when the property officer is on duty. Have photo ID with you. Leftover account money is refunded too, so ask how that works.

A medical unit operates within the prison. For an illness, injury or daily medication, phone 724-830-6000 and request the medical staff. Keep the medicine's name and dose handy, along with the prescriber's name and phone.

• If self-harm is a worry, say that plainly. The prison places people at risk on suicide watch.
• Pregnant and postpartum inmates have protection under 61 Pa.C.S. § 1758, which restricts restraints and restrictive housing for them.
• Department of Corrections inspectors review each county jail every 12 to 24 months (37 Pa. Code Chapter 95).

For an emergency outside the prison, call 911.

Deputies at the Sheriff's Office, 1 Courthouse Square, Greensburg, PA 15601, 724-830-3822, serve Common Pleas bench warrants, while local police and constables handle others. Open cases can be searched by name on the UJS Web Portal. For statewide fugitives, see the PSP Ten Most Wanted list, with tips at 800-472-8477, and the DOC absconder list. Nationally, the Marshals 15 Most Wanted page names top fugitives. Anyone with a warrant should get advice from a private lawyer or the Public Defender before arranging to turn themselves in at the issuing court. The Clerk of Courts sits at 2 North Main Street, Suite 203, Greensburg, PA 15601, 724-830-3734.

Find the case on the UJS Web Portal and open its docket. The scheduled events section gives each hearing's date, time and courtroom or MDJ office.

• MDJ stage: for a person held, the preliminary hearing falls within 14 days. Court Administration, 724-830-3828, can name the district office handling it.
• Common Pleas stage: the Clerk of Courts at 724-830-3734 has the schedule.

Our court page walks through the purpose of every hearing.

Federal cases from this county are heard at the Weis federal courthouse in downtown Pittsburgh, 700 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, 412-208-7500. Early on, a detention hearing there settles pretrial release (18 U.S.C. 3142).

• Pending trial, the Marshals have custody, and they sometimes rent bed space in a county jail. Their Pittsburgh office is at 700 Grant Street, Room 2360, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, 412-644-3351.
• After a federal sentence, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator. Search by register number or full name.

An immigration hold on someone at Grande Boulevard tends to move through these stages:

1. To ask for a hold, immigration officers send the Grande Boulevard staff a detainer, Form I-247A.
2. On it, ICE requests that the prison keep the person up to 48 hours after they would otherwise be released (8 CFR 287.7(d)).
3. Pennsylvania's federal appeals court, ruling in Galarza v. Szalczyk (3d Cir. 2014), described a detainer as a request that a jail may decline. The court also said a county holding someone on that form alone can be made to answer for it. Detainer policy is a local choice made by each county jail. For the one on Grande Boulevard, call 724-830-6000.
4. After ICE takes custody, Pennsylvania cases go through the Philadelphia Field Office, 114 N. 8th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, 215-656-7164.
5. Look the person up on the ICE Online Detainee Locator by entering an A-number, or a full name together with birth country.

When the maximum sentence is 2 years or longer, the person usually serves it in state prison (42 Pa.C.S. § 9762). They start at a DOC intake prison for several weeks or months, and the state then assigns a permanent one.

• Use the Pennsylvania DOC inmate locator with a full name or the DOC number.
• The DOC releases details only to the person's listed next of kin. Its headquarters is at 1920 Technology Parkway, Mechanicsburg, PA 17050, 717-728-2573.
• Letters for a state prisoner go to Smart Communications/PA DOC, PO Box 33028, St Petersburg, FL 33733, with the prisoner's name, DOC number and prison written above the box number.
• Our Pennsylvania prison listings describe every SCI.

Arrested youths under 18 never go to the adult prison or its roster. The county detains them at the Regional Youth Services Center, 2771 S Grande Blvd, Greensburg, PA 15601, which has 16 secure detention beds and 8 shelter beds.

Juvenile Probation works from the same address, 724-830-4200, and can give a parent the youth's location and next court date. Juvenile records are confidential by law, so call Probation rather than searching the UJS Web Portal (42 Pa.C.S. § 6301 and following). A murder charge sends a youth of any age to adult court, as do certain armed violent crimes charged against a youth aged 15 or more (42 Pa.C.S. § 6302).

Dozens of agencies bring arrests to Grande Boulevard. Roughly 349,324 people call the county home, by the July 1, 2025 Census estimate. Below is every agency on the county's police list, grouped by type.

Cities

• Arnold Police, 601 Drey Street, Arnold, PA 15068, 724-337-4441
• Greensburg City Police, 416 S. Main Street, Greensburg, PA 15601, 724-834-3800
• Jeannette Police, 2nd and Clay Avenue, Jeannette, PA 15644, 724-527-4013
• Latrobe Police, 901 Jefferson Street, Latrobe, PA 15650, 724-537-5526
• Lower Burrell Police, 2800 Bethel Street, Lower Burrell, PA 15068, 724-339-4287
• Monessen Police, 239 Donner Avenue, Monessen, PA 15062, 724-684-6151
• New Kensington Police, 301 11th Street, New Kensington, PA 15068, 724-339-7533

Boroughs

• Avonmore Police, 437 Westmoreland Avenue, Avonmore, PA 15618, 724-697-4747
• Delmont Police, 77 Greensburg Street, Delmont, PA 15626, 724-468-8501
• Derry Police, 116 East Second Avenue, Derry, PA 15627, 724-694-8030
• Irwin Police, 424 Main Street, Irwin, PA 15642, 724-864-3103
• Manor Police, 511 Brush Creek Rd, Manor, PA 15665, 724-863-7553
• Mount Pleasant Police, 1 Etze Avenue, Mount Pleasant, PA 15666, 724-547-7210
• North Belle Vernon Police, 503 Speer Street, North Belle Vernon, PA 15012, 724-929-7011
• Penn Borough Police, 400 Harrison Avenue, Penn, PA 15675, 724-527-6540
• Scottdale Police, 10 Mount Pleasant Road, Scottdale, PA 15683, 724-887-8220
• Trafford Police, 412 Brinton Avenue, Trafford, PA 15085, 412-372-6550
• Vandergrift Police, 151 Lincoln Avenue, Vandergrift, PA 15690, 724-568-5507
• West Newton Police, 112 South Water Street, West Newton, PA 15089, 724-872-8610

Townships and regional departments

• Allegheny Township Police, 136 Community Building Rd, Allegheny Township, PA 15656, 724-845-9410
• Ligonier Valley Police, 1 Municipal Park Drive, Ligonier, PA 15658, 724-238-5105
• Murrysville Police, 4120 Sardis Rd, Murrysville, PA 15668, 724-327-2111
• North Huntingdon Township Police, 11759 Center Hwy, North Huntingdon, PA 15642, 724-863-8800
• Penn Township Police, 2000 Commercial Court, Penn Township, PA 15636, 724-863-1119
• Rostraver Township Police, 205 Municipal Drive, Rostraver Township, PA 15012, 724-929-8811
• St Clair Township Police, 550 Seward Street, St Clair Township, PA 15954, 814-446-5211
• Upper Burrell Township Police, 3735 Seventh Street Road, Upper Burrell Township, PA 15068, 724-335-0664
• Washington Township Police, 289 Pine Run Church Road, Washington Township, PA 15613, 724-727-3410

Pennsylvania State Police (covering towns without a local force)

• Troop A headquarters station, 100 North Westmoreland Avenue, Greensburg, PA 15601, 724-832-3288
• Kiski station, 1325 Learn Road, Avonmore, PA 15618, 724-697-5780
• Belle Vernon station (Troop B), 560 Circle Drive, Belle Vernon, PA 15012, 724-929-6262. Its patrol area takes in Rostraver and South Huntingdon townships, Smithton, West Newton, North Belle Vernon, Monessen and Interstate 70.

County agencies

• Sheriff's Office, 1 Courthouse Square, Greensburg, PA 15601, 724-830-3822
• County Detectives Bureau, 2 N Main Street, Greensburg, PA 15601, 724-830-3287
• County Park Police, 1 Courthouse Square, Greensburg, PA 15601, 724-830-3960

State park rangers and campus police

• Keystone State Park, 724-668-2485
• Linn Run State Park, 724-238-5049
• Laurel Hill State Park, 814-445-7725
• Forbes State Forest, 724-238-1200
• Penn State New Kensington, 724-334-6013
• Saint Vincent College, 724-684-7028
• University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, 724-836-9865
• Seton Hill University, 724-830-4999