Clinton County Correctional Facility Inmate Search for Snyder County Custody

Clinton County Correctional Facility Overview

Clinton County Correctional Facility is not in Snyder County, but it is central to Snyder County inmate-population research. Official Snyder County Prison Board agendas list room-and-board payments to Clinton County and describe Snyder County inmates housed at other facilities. The July 2025 agenda listed a total Snyder inmate count of 41 as of July 7, 2025 and showed Clinton County payments. November 2025 listed 30 Snyder inmates at Clinton and 1 at Centre because of a Clinton staffing issue. December 2025 listed 35 Snyder inmates at Clinton. Those agenda entries make Clinton the primary contract-housing path documented for Snyder County during the 2025 board-out period.

The official Clinton County Correctional Facility page describes a county correctional facility in McElhattan, about five miles from Lock Haven. It states that the modern facility was dedicated in 1990 at a cost of more than three million dollars. The page also describes Clinton's "New Generation" direct-supervision approach, where correctional officers remain in direct physical contact with inmates and rely on leadership and conflict-resolution skills rather than only remote observation. A 148-bed expansion was dedicated in December 2003 and filled quickly with out-of-county inmates.

Clinton's official page says the facility generates revenue by housing prisoners from the state system and other counties, and that the current population averages about 300 prisoners. It identifies three commitment categories: major, county, and other state. The mission includes secure detention for both pretrial and convicted offenders and minimum-security re-entry programming for selected offenders through structured Work Release and Community Release programs. That range matters for Snyder readers because a person boarded from Snyder might be pretrial, sentenced locally, work-release eligible, or in another custody category.

The ICE Clinton County Correctional Facility profile is a matching manifest source for this page and shows why Clinton can appear in both county-housing and immigration-detention research paths. Snyder County's cost-analysis release provides the local reason Clinton matters to Snyder users: the county evaluated housing Snyder inmates in other facilities rather than running a full 24/7 prison.

The ICE profile does not replace Clinton's county inmate-search route. It adds custody-system context: a person in Clinton County Correctional Facility may be there through county commitment, another county's board-out agreement, state or federal arrangements, or immigration detention resources.

Clinton County Correctional Facility Capacity and Population

The official Clinton page provides two sourced population-related facts. First, a 148-bed expansion was dedicated in December 2003. Second, the page says the current population averages about 300 prisoners. The research did not locate a full rated capacity number for the entire current facility, so the 148-bed expansion should not be described as total capacity. It is an expansion figure, not a complete bed count.

For Snyder County purposes, Clinton's population matters because the facility absorbs boarded inmates from outside Clinton County. Snyder's December 2025 agenda listed 35 Snyder inmates at Clinton, while November 2025 listed 30 at Clinton and 1 at Centre. Those Snyder figures are snapshots of Snyder-responsible inmates, not the full Clinton facility population. The two sets of numbers answer different questions: Clinton's average population describes the facility as a whole, while Snyder agendas describe how many Snyder inmates were placed there at a given date.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Clinton County Correctional Facility

Clinton's official resource list links "Inmate Search" to VINE, so Pennsylvania VINELink is the correct public lookup path for a person believed to be housed at Clinton. For a Snyder County case, do not stop after one search result. Confirm that the person is the same individual from the Snyder case, check the facility location, and use the Snyder booking center or Sheriff's Office if the question is about booking records, transport, photographs, or why the person was moved.

1. Open Pennsylvania VINELink and choose the Pennsylvania offender search.
2. Search by offender ID if known, or enter the person's first and last name. Try name variations if the first search is empty.
3. Open the matching record and confirm whether Clinton County Correctional Facility is listed as the custody location.
4. Call Clinton County Correctional Facility at 570-769-7680 for facility-specific visit, mail, phone, or deposit questions.
5. Call Snyder County Correctional Facility / Booking Center at (570) 374-7912 when the question concerns Snyder booking, transport, or whether the person was boarded out from Snyder, and use the Snyder Sheriff Right-to-Know page for formal sheriff records.

Clinton County Correctional Facility Address and Contact

The Clinton facility page lists PO Box 419, McElhattan, PA 17748 and phone 570-769-7680. Research notes public hours of 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM Monday through Friday. Because Snyder County inmates may be transported under board-out arrangements, callers should identify the person by full legal name, date of birth if known, Snyder court docket or OTN if known, and approximate arrest date. Clinton can address facility rules, while Snyder remains the better starting point for Snyder-specific booking and transport records.

Visiting Someone at Clinton County Correctional Facility

Clinton County's official facility page links separate resources for visitation information and a 2026 visitation schedule, but the detailed schedule text was not captured in the research file. That means the responsible approach is to direct readers to Clinton's current visitation resources and facility phone rather than inventing a weekly schedule. For Snyder inmates housed at Clinton, Clinton's visitor approval, scheduling, ID, dress, and conduct rules control the visit. Snyder's local glass-partition schedule does not apply after transport to Clinton.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Clinton County Correctional Facility

Clinton's official facility page links separate resources for inmate mail, inmate phone, money deposits, PREA, visitation information, and the visitation schedule. The research did not capture vendor names, fee schedules, or address formats from those linked subpages. The safe rule is to confirm Clinton's current mail and deposit instructions directly before sending funds or mail. For a Snyder case, also confirm that the person remains at Clinton because Snyder agendas show occasional movement to Centre County and Union County.

How Snyder County Inmates Reach Clinton County Correctional Facility

A Snyder County inmate generally reaches Clinton only after the local Snyder booking process. The sequence begins with arrest, local intake, identity verification, paperwork review, fingerprinting, photographing, and preliminary arraignment or commitment review. Snyder County's 2024 cost analysis says the future booking center would handle intake and transportation of Snyder County inmates to and from outsourced prisons. That is the mechanism that connects a Snyder arrest with a Clinton housing location.

Once the person is at Clinton, Clinton's facility rules control housing, visiting, phone, mail, money, work release, and programs. Snyder remains relevant for the original arrest, local booking records, transport records, county warrants, and Right-to-Know requests held by the Sheriff's Office. Pennsylvania UJS Case Search remains the court-record path for charges, bail, hearings, and disposition in Snyder County. VINE is the practical custody-notification and facility-location channel while the person is in county or regional custody.

About Clinton County Correctional Facility

Clinton County adds the regional housing detail that Snyder's current model depends on. Clinton's official history says the county's first official jail was built in 1852 for $5,557, enlarged twenty years later for $22,240 to 13 cells, and still stands at 352 E. Church Street in Lock Haven. The modern McElhattan facility was dedicated in 1990, later expanded, and is described as a direct-supervision facility. Its mission includes protecting citizens, providing secure detention for pretrial and convicted offenders, and supporting selected offenders through structured Work Release and Community Release programming.

The program list in the official Clinton material is broader than the local Snyder booking-center detail. It includes substance abuse, education, recreation, mental health, religion, vocation, community service, work release, educational release, and prison employment. Facility goals include compliance with Pennsylvania DOC Standards for County Correctional Facilities, ACA accreditation, professional staff development, self-improvement, successful reentry, and planning for correction and rehabilitation. These details should be tied to Clinton itself, not copied back onto Snyder's local booking center as if Snyder still operated the same full-service jail model.