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Plymouth County Jail Overview

Plymouth County Jail is a county jail operated by the Plymouth County Sheriff's Office at the Law Enforcement Center in Le Mars. It is the only local detention facility in the Plymouth County facility map. No separate county annex jail, regional jail, state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention facility was located in Plymouth County, Iowa. City police agencies in Le Mars, Akron, Hinton, Kingsley, Merrill, and Remsen can make arrests, but official sources route those arrestees to the county jail for booking when jail custody is needed.

The jail page describes a 70-bed, six-pod facility. The pods are male general population, male maximum, female general population, female maximum, special status, and work release. Each pod has individual cells, restroom and shower facilities, and a day room. The facility also has a recreation area, medical room, booking room, and control room. The PREA audit reports three custody or security levels and an adult population range of 18 or older. Men and women are held there, and no youthful inmates are normally housed at the facility.

Lookup boundaries are important. Plymouth County Jail is for county jail custody, not sentenced Iowa prison custody. If a person is sentenced to Iowa Department of Corrections custody after a Plymouth County case, the county roster may stop being the right source. If a person is in federal custody or immigration custody, the correct route is BOP, USMS, or ICE rather than the county jail roster.

Plymouth County Jail Population

The strongest local population source is the 2025 PREA final audit. It reports a designed capacity of 70, a current population of 37 at the audit reporting point, and an average daily population of 35 for the prior 12 months. It also says the jail was not over capacity at any point during that prior 12-month period. Those figures should not be mixed with daily roster counts because the public roster is a point-in-time current-only PDF.

Look Up Plymouth County Jail Inmates

The official online custody source is the Plymouth County Sheriff's Office Inmate Roster. It is not a database with a name-search form. It is a list of dated PDF rosters. The inspected sample PDF was printed June 12, 2026, and is titled current only. It shows booking date and time, cell, inmate name, ID number, and age. It does not show charges, bond, mugshots, court dates, full date of birth, or clickable inmate profiles.

1. Open the official roster page and choose the newest date-labeled PDF link.
2. Use browser or PDF find to search the person's last name, because the public page has no visible search box.
3. Read across the row for date booked, cell code, name, jail ID number, and age.
4. If the person is not listed, call the jail at 712-546-4419 or the sheriff's 24-hour non-emergency line at 712-546-8191.
5. For charges, bond, or court dates, check Iowa Courts Online and the Plymouth County Clerk because those details are not in the roster PDF sample.

The current-only label is the main caveat. A missing name does not prove the person is not in custody. The person may have been released, transferred, booked after the PDF was printed, sentenced to Iowa DOC, held in another county, held federally, or detained by ICE.

Plymouth County Jail Contact

The jail and the Sheriff's Office share the Law Enforcement Center address. Use the jail direct line for custody, visitation, mail, items allowed while serving time, or inmate-account questions. Use the sheriff's 24-hour line for non-emergency sheriff contact. Public-records requests for reports and records may be made by phone, U.S. mail, email, or in person through the sheriff's public-records process.

Plymouth County Jail Visitation

The official Plymouth County Jail visitation schedule lists public visitation on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday from 1300 to 1900 hours, which is 1:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The public PDF does not publish a full visitor handbook, dress code, child-visitor rule, ID rule, appointment rule, visit-length rule, or holiday schedule in the extracted research. Call the jail before travel if any of those points matter for the visit.

The attorney visitation PDF states that the attorney visitation room is available from 8:00 a.m. through 8:00 p.m. It does not publish detailed professional-ID, scheduling, or legal-mail rules in the captured text, so attorneys should confirm current access procedures directly with the jail.

Plymouth County Jail Mail and Money

The official inmate mail rules say mail is accepted only through mail service, not from people handing letters to staff at the jail. Incoming mail must use proper language, cannot use coded letters, and is opened and searched for contraband. Mail without a return name and address is placed in the inmate's property. Photos may be mailed, but Polaroids and sexually explicit photos are not allowed.

The Reliance PDF lists local and in-state voice calls at $0.25 per minute plus taxes, state-to-state calls at $0.21 per minute plus taxes and FUSF, video calls at $0.25 per minute, a voicemail number of 712-308-7839, and a Reliance prepayment number of 800-896-3201. It also states commissary ordering is available through the inmate phone menu. These Reliance and JailATM routes are for Plymouth County Jail, not Iowa DOC prison accounts.

Plymouth County Jail Booking

Booking at Plymouth County Jail creates or updates the local jail record. Official pages do not publish a complete booking timetable, but the jail has a booking room, control room, medical room, and housing pods. Press releases from the Sheriff's Office and Le Mars Police Department describe people being transported to or booked into Plymouth County Jail after arrests by deputies, city police, or other law-enforcement agencies.

Classification is supported by the public pod list and the PREA audit. The jail separates housing by male and female general population, male and female maximum, special status, and work release. The PREA audit reports three custody or security levels. Medication rules also appear in the allowed-items PDF: medication must be in the original prescription bottle, is verified with the jail doctor, and may not always be accepted.

Booking

The intake event that creates the local jail record after arrest or commitment.

Current-only roster

A public roster that lists people held at the time the PDF was generated, not a full release archive.

Work release

A custody category inside Plymouth County Jail, not a separate public jail facility.

Detainer

A hold or notice from another agency that may affect release even after local bond is addressed.

Plymouth County Jail Programs

The jail division page links several facility programs and forms. Work release is an internal pod and program. Electronic monitoring documents are linked from the jail page, but the research did not extract full eligibility rules or fees. A jail Bible study document is also linked, showing a religious-programming route. These details are local facility facts, but they should not be turned into promises of eligibility, placement, or approval.

The PREA notice states a zero-tolerance policy for sexual misconduct and gives reporting channels by phone, in person, in writing, or anonymously. The 2025 PREA final audit found 45 standards met and zero standards not met. It also describes investigations, protection and retaliation monitoring, inmate interviews, and facility-condition review.

Plymouth County Jail History

The county directory says the $5.4 million Law Enforcement and Communication Center opened in August 2003, and the old Law Enforcement Center and Jail was demolished in 2004. That matters because the current Plymouth County Jail is not the county's first historic courthouse jail. It is part of the modern law-enforcement and communications complex on 14th Avenue NE in Le Mars.

Plymouth County's older jail history is still part of the local context. The county homepage says Plymouth County was formed in 1872, the county seat moved to Le Mars, and a courthouse and jail were built there in 1873. The sheriff history page includes earlier sheriff terms, Prohibition-era enforcement, and a 1919 jail escape story. Those historic facts help explain the long local law-enforcement record, but current inmate lookup, visiting, mail, money, and custody questions run through the present jail and sheriff channels.