The Franklin County Inmate Population
The Franklin County inmate population is not a single list. The local jail population is held at the Franklin County Corrections Center in Pasco, while the state prison population inside county lines is held at Coyote Ridge Corrections Center in Connell under the Washington State Department of Corrections. The county jail page describes the Pasco facility as a 320-bed holding facility with an actual rated holding capacity of 300 offenders. It also says the jail averages about 200 inmates daily. WASPC's 2024 jail statistics list Franklin County Sheriff's Office with 320 beds and a 192.92 average daily population.
Those numbers count different things from a roster search. Population data describes the jail as a whole during a reporting period. A roster result describes one booking or custody status. People move in and out after arrest, first appearance, bond, sentence, transfer to DOC, or a hold from another agency. Franklin County also has a major state prison, so a person can be physically incarcerated in Franklin County and still not appear on the county jail roster.
Franklin County Inmate Population Statistics
The strongest current Franklin County jail figures come from the county Corrections page and the 2024 Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs jail statistics. The two sources line up closely: the county describes a daily average near 200, and WASPC reports 192.92 average daily population for 2024. WASPC also reports 3,789 admissions, a 21-day average length of stay, and no in-custody deaths for Franklin County in that 2024 row.
| Measure | Figure | Source / Year |
|---|---|---|
| Franklin County Corrections Center physical bed count | 320 beds | Franklin County Corrections page, inspected July 2, 2026 |
| Actual rated holding capacity | 300 offenders | Franklin County Corrections page, inspected July 2, 2026 |
| Average daily population | 192.92 | WASPC 2024 Washington State Jail Statistics |
| Total admissions | 3,789 | WASPC 2024 |
| Average length of stay | 21 days | WASPC 2024 |
| Coyote Ridge capacity | 2,468 incarcerated individuals | Washington DOC Coyote Ridge facility page |
Franklin County Jail Population Trends
WASPC's recent figures show a lower jail count than the 2022 level. Franklin County reported 220 ADP in the 2022 jail statistics row, 198 ADP in 2023, and 192.92 ADP in 2024. That trend matches the county's current statement that the jail averages about 200 inmates daily. It does not support a broad claim that Franklin County is over rated capacity in the current official data.
Population pressure can still exist below the top-line bed count. Housing rules, medical and mental-health needs, gender separation, court holds, DOC holds, federal holds, and staffing all affect usable space. The 2024 WASPC row also marks an outage field for Franklin County, so precise trend claims should name the source and year rather than treating the spreadsheet as a perfect live count.
| Year | ADP / Population Figure | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 220 ADP | WASPC jail statistics row for Franklin County. |
| 2023 | 198 ADP | WASPC jail statistics row, with some accessible cells noted as format-sensitive. |
| 2024 | 192.92 ADP | WASPC row for Franklin County Sheriff's Office. |
| Current county page | About 200 inmates daily | Franklin County Corrections page, inspected July 2026. |
Franklin County Inmate Demographics
WASPC's 2024 demographic row gives a limited but useful view of the Franklin County inmate population. It lists 168.83 male ADP, 24.08 female ADP, and no unknown-gender ADP. Race fields in the same row list 164 White ADP, 11.58 Black ADP, 0.5 American Indian or Alaska Native ADP, 2.83 Asian ADP, and 14.17 unknown-race ADP. The research notes a zero value for Hispanic in the accessible table, so the demographic fields should be used carefully and cited to the 2024 WASPC jail statistics.
The local jail count includes more than simple local misdemeanor and felony arrests. Franklin County says the jail holds people for local charges, other counties, Washington DOC, and the U.S. Marshals Office. That mix matters when reading a roster result. A hold can keep a person in custody even when a local bail amount appears resolved, and a DOC or federal hold may point to another agency's records.
- Hold
- A custody reason from another case or agency that may block release.
- Detainer
- A notice or request from another agency that can affect transfer or release.
- Classification
- A jail or prison housing decision based on security, health, safety, and separation needs.
Franklin County Jail Capacity
The available official sources do not show Franklin County over capacity in 2024. Using the 192.92 WASPC average daily population against the county's actual rated holding capacity of 300 places the jail at about 64.3 percent of rated capacity. Using the 320 physical bed figure places it at about 60.3 percent. The county's own daily average near 200 is also roughly two-thirds of actual rated capacity.
That does not make every custody issue simple. Franklin County's recent public story has been more about jail governance and control than a clean overcrowding count. Research notes a 2025 to 2026 governance dispute involving county commissioners, the sheriff, and jail control, but the build should not convert that news into a capacity finding. Capacity, control, staffing, and legal custody are related issues, yet they are not the same fact.
Capacity note: The current official sources support a below-capacity jail population, not an overcrowding claim.
Franklin County Jail Record Laws
Washington law sets the public baseline for Franklin County jail records. The Washington Public Records Act applies to identifiable public records unless an exemption blocks release. The more specific jail rule is RCW 70.48.100, which requires a public jail register with the name of each confined person, the time and cause of confinement, and the time and manner of discharge. The same statute makes other records of people confined in jail confidential except for statutory exceptions.
Population and conditions also have legal context. Washington's City and County Jails Act governs local jail operations, and RCW 70.48.510 requires a review and public report after an unexpected local jail death, subject to redaction. For state prisoners, RCW 72.09.770 sets a separate DOC unexpected fatality review process.
Key Statutes:
RCW 70.48.100 makes the jail register public but treats other jail records as confidential unless an exception applies.
RCW 10.97 governs criminal-history record privacy, including limits on nonconviction information.
RCW 70.48.510 requires local jail unexpected-fatality review and a public report process.
Franklin County State Prison Population
Coyote Ridge Corrections Center makes Franklin County different from a single-jail county. The prison is physically in Connell, but it is operated by the Washington State Department of Corrections. DOC lists a capacity of 2,468 incarcerated individuals and custody levels of minimum, medium, and long-term minimum. Those people are sentenced state prisoners, not county jail inmates.
A person sentenced from Franklin County may be classified by DOC and assigned to Coyote Ridge or another state facility. A person housed at Coyote Ridge may have been sentenced from any county in Washington. The county jail roster will not replace the DOC locator for that population. Once DOC takes custody, the DOC number, name, age, and location fields are the better search path.
Search Franklin County Inmates
The Franklin County Inmate Inquiry is the main online channel for current local jail custody. It is linked from the county Corrections page and uses a public roster endpoint on the county jail subdomain. The confirmed search fields are Name, Subject Number, Booking Number, In Custody, Booking From Date, and Booking To Date. No login or payment requirement was located for the public roster.
Start broad, then narrow. A name search is usually the first step. A subject number or booking number is better when it is known from a prior roster entry, a court file, or a phone call with the jail. If the arrest is recent, leave the booking date range wide enough for processing delay. If the person has been sentenced or transferred, move to the DOC locator instead of repeating the same county roster search.
- Open the Franklin County Inmate Inquiry from the county Corrections page.
- Search by name first, using less information if the first search fails.
- Use a subject number or booking number when it is available.
- Check the In Custody filter before assuming the person is not listed.
- Call Corrections at 509-545-3549 or file a records request when the roster does not answer the custody question.
Franklin County Roster Fields
The Franklin County roster is strongest as a search tool, not as a full public copy of every jail file. The confirmed public fields describe how to search, while Washington law supplies the public jail-register baseline. The public register is expected to show name, confinement time and date, cause of confinement, and discharge time, date, and manner. Charges on a booking record may later differ from formal court charges after prosecutor review.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Text | Unspecified | Search by inmate name; wildcard rules were not published in accessible text. |
| Subject Number | Text/number | Unspecified | Local person identifier, useful when known. |
| Booking Number | Text/number | Unspecified | Booking-event identifier. |
| In Custody | Checkbox | Optional or unspecified | Likely limits results to current custody when selected. |
| Booking From Date | Date | Optional or unspecified | Start date for booking-date range. |
| Booking To Date | Date | Optional or unspecified | End date for booking-date range. |
Franklin County Inmate Record Contents
Franklin County's accessible pages do not publish a complete public profile inventory, so verified fields and expected legal fields should be kept separate. The safe public baseline is the jail register in RCW 70.48.100. Search fields are verified from the Franklin County Inmate Inquiry. Charge details, holds, release status, and bond information may appear or may require a call or records request, depending on the person and the state of the jail-management system.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Name | The person searched on the Franklin County jail roster. |
| Subject number | A local person identifier when known. |
| Booking number | A booking-event identifier tied to one jail intake. |
| In custody | A filter or status clue for current jail custody. |
| Cause of confinement | Charge, warrant, sentence, hold, or other legal reason for custody. |
| Mugshot | Not confirmed on the public roster; Washington treats routine booking photos as confidential jail records unless an exception applies. |
Franklin County DOC and Federal Search
Sentenced state-prison custody belongs in the Washington DOC incarcerated search, not the county roster. DOC can be searched by DOC number or name, and visible result columns include DOC Number, Name, Age, and Location. DOC also links to WA VINE for custody-status notifications.
Federal and immigration custody use still different systems. The BOP inmate locator covers sentenced federal prisoners from 1982 to the present. ICE's online detainee locator covers people in ICE custody or in CBP custody for more than 48 hours, using A-number or biographical search fields. Franklin County Corrections says it holds some people for the U.S. Marshals Office, so a federal pretrial detainee may appear locally before transfer or federal court processing.
| Custody Type | Where to Search | Best Use |
|---|---|---|
| County jail | Franklin County Inmate Inquiry | Current local bookings, local sentences, and some outside-agency holds. |
| State prison | Washington DOC incarcerated search | Sentenced Washington DOC custody, including Coyote Ridge. |
| Federal prison | BOP inmate locator | Sentenced federal custody. |
| Immigration detention | ICE detainee locator | ICE custody after transfer or more than 48 hours in CBP custody. |
Franklin County Records Requests
When the roster does not show the needed booking detail, the public-records process is the next route. Franklin County's public-records page identifies the county and sheriff public records officers, links the GovQA portal, and explains that court records are not handled through the general county public-records request process. A good jail-register or booking-record request should include the person's full name, date of birth if known, approximate booking date, arresting agency, and the specific record sought.
Court-file copies follow court channels. Franklin County's court-records page points users to Odyssey Portal, Washington Courts case search, and the Superior Court Clerk records request process. For police reports, Pasco Police and Connell Police have separate public-records routes. The shared Pasco campus can make the process look like one office, but jail records, sheriff records, court records, prosecutor records, and city police reports are not the same custody file.
Franklin County Detention Facilities
Franklin County has two facility pages because it has one local jail and one state prison inside county lines. They serve different populations and use different lookup systems. The Pasco jail is the local booking and jail-register channel. Coyote Ridge is a state prison for sentenced DOC custody.
- Franklin County Corrections Center holds local pretrial and sentenced jail inmates, plus some people held for other counties, Washington DOC, and the U.S. Marshals Service.
- Coyote Ridge Corrections Center is a Washington DOC prison in Connell for sentenced incarcerated individuals assigned to minimum, medium, and long-term minimum custody.
Franklin County Custody Sources
The county Corrections page is the source for local jail capacity, mail, money, visitation, property release, and the Franklin County Inmate Inquiry link.
The Franklin County Corrections page is shown below because it is the main official hub for the Pasco jail's population and access rules.
The page connects the jail's capacity statement with practical custody topics such as visitation, mail, money, property release, and inmate inquiry.
The Washington DOC incarcerated search is the separate state-prison lookup channel for Coyote Ridge and other DOC facilities.
DOC search results belong to sentenced state-prison custody, so they should not be read as Franklin County jail roster results.
Franklin County Inmate Population FAQ
How large is the Franklin County inmate population? WASPC reported a 192.92 average daily jail population for Franklin County in 2024. The county Corrections page describes the jail as averaging about 200 inmates daily. Coyote Ridge is separate and has a DOC-listed capacity of 2,468 incarcerated individuals.
Where does a Franklin County inmate search start? For local jail custody, start with the Franklin County Inmate Inquiry or call Corrections at 509-545-3549. For sentenced state-prison custody, use the Washington DOC locator. For federal sentenced custody, use BOP. For ICE custody, use ICE's detainee locator.
Does the Franklin County roster show past inmates? The confirmed search fields include booking date filters and an In Custody checkbox, but accessible text did not prove how long released entries stay visible. For historical jail-register or booking records, use the Franklin County public-records portal and ask for the specific public record.
Are Franklin County jail mugshots public? Do not assume a public mugshot gallery exists. Washington's jail-record statute makes the jail register public but treats other confined-person records as confidential unless a statutory exception applies. Booking photos were not confirmed on the public Franklin roster.
What if a person is held for the U.S. Marshals? Franklin County Corrections says the jail holds some people for the U.S. Marshals Office. Start with the county roster or jail phone line, then use federal court or U.S. Marshals contacts if the matter is federal.