Skagit County Community Justice Center Inmate Search

Skagit County Community Justice Center Overview

Skagit County Community Justice Center is operated by the Skagit County Sheriff's Office Corrections Division. The official Corrections page describes the division as a 24/7 operation, with corrections deputies, sergeants, lieutenants, receptionists, and contract vendors for medical and nutritional needs. County material names Don Marlow as Chief of Corrections, and the official Sheriff's Office page names Sheriff Don McDermott. The adult jail sits at 201 Suzanne Lane in Mount Vernon, separate from the Sheriff's Office and records counter at 600 South Third Street.

The jail holds adults booked into the Skagit County Jail system. The population can include pretrial detainees, local sentenced commitments, investigative holds, misdemeanor and felony warrant arrests, DUI commitments, other-county holds, and people whose public housing location reflects work release or electronic home monitoring. It is not the juvenile detention facility, and the adult jail reports state that they do not contain juvenile information. It is also not a Washington State Department of Corrections prison, a federal Bureau of Prisons institution, or an ICE detention facility.

The official Corrections home page is the best starting point for facility-wide jail navigation. The county page at Skagit County Corrections leads to roster, visitation, directions, mail, commissary, PREA, custody notification, alternatives, and other adult jail information. Those official pages should be checked before a visit, deposit, or records request because housing, release, and visit access can change quickly.

Justice Center Capacity and Population

Official Skagit County planning and community-report material describes the Community Justice Center as a Phase One 400-bed facility. The current public roster count observed in the research was 173 adults on July 2, 2026, at 07:59:01. That number is a point-in-time roster total, not an annual average daily population and not a demographic report. The research also documents the county's old jail pressure: the former jail opened in 1983 or 1984 rated for 83 beds, had 158 beds by 2002, and had an in-house average daily population of 144 in 2001, plus an out-of-custody program average of 35.

Those figures are useful for understanding why the modern Community Justice Center matters, but they should not be overread. A roster total changes through booking, release, court commitments, transfers, work release, and electronic home monitoring. The adult roster does not publish race, ethnicity, age, sex, height, weight, or a juvenile population count in visible public entries. Skagit County's adult jail population statistics should therefore be read as jail-status figures, not complete county-wide detention demographics.

Lookup at the Justice Center

The correct online channel for most adult local custody questions is the official Skagit County Jail current inmate list. It is not a traditional search-box database. It is a report-style roster sorted by name, with rows that expand and collapse. The report displays the run time and total population count, and the research states that the current roster updates every 15 minutes. It should be used for people currently incarcerated in Skagit County Jail at the report run time.

1. Open the current jail roster and check the report run date, report run time, and total count before relying on the listing.
2. Use the alphabetic name list or browser find to locate the person's last name, first name, middle name, suffix, or name number.
3. Click the person's row to show or hide details. Review incarceration date, scheduled release, housing location, arrest date, arrest type, arrest agency, and arrest location.
4. Read the charge table for offense date, offense description, related incident, court, court reference, bail amount, bail type, and disposition.
5. If the person is not listed, check the booking report for the last 26-hour cycle, the release report for recent releases, VINE for custody notification, or WA DOC for a sentenced state-prison transfer.

The county also publishes an interactive booking report generated daily by 7:00 a.m. for people booked during the last 26-hour report cycle, and a release report generated daily at 6:00 a.m. for people released from SCCJC during the past 48 hours and not currently in the facility. For older booking records, police reports, or documents not shown in the report-style roster, use the Sheriff's Office records process or the Skagit County NextRequest public-records portal.

Justice Center Address and Contact

The adult jail address for visits, jail lobby deposits, and facility travel is 201 Suzanne Lane, Mount Vernon, WA 98273. The official directions page routes drivers from Interstate 5 at Anderson Road exit 225, west to Old Highway 99, then left or south to Suzanne Lane. Do not use the Sheriff's Office records address at 600 South Third Street when the purpose is adult jail visitation or lobby deposits at the Community Justice Center.

Visit the Community Justice Center

Skagit County uses video visitation for the adult jail. Visits can be conducted from a visitor's home or device, or from the lobby at the Community Justice Center. The official rule requires visits to be scheduled at least one day in advance and not more than 14 days in advance. A visit must match the incarcerated person's scheduled time out of cells. If it does not, the visit will not be allowed and the research notes that no refund is provided.

Visitors with warrants or active no-contact or protection orders are not allowed to visit under the jail FAQ. Minors must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian, and proof of guardianship is required. The located adult visitation source did not provide a full attorney-visit rule or a universal housing-by-housing schedule, so visitors should confirm the person's current housing and visit availability before travel or before paying for a remote visit.

The county's official visitation page explains video visit scheduling and the need to match the inmate's time-out-of-cell period.

The roster's housing location should be checked before scheduling, especially when a record shows a pod, dorm, work release, or electronic home monitoring location.

Justice Center Mail and Money

Adult jail mail must use the person's name, c/o Skagit County Jail, 201 Suzanne Lane, Mount Vernon, Washington 98273. Letters are allowed, but the research documents return-to-sender rules for glitter, stickers, perfume, lipstick, tape, and similar alterations. Up to two photographs can be sent in a single mailing, but obscene or sexually explicit images, gang signs, gang affiliation, racist or inflammatory content, Polaroids, and items stuck to a photograph are not allowed. Soft-cover paperback books must be mailed directly from Amazon and must arrive through USPS, FedEx, or UPS.

Money can be deposited through JailATM, through the kiosk in the jail outer lobby, through the District Court building kiosk during business hours, or by money order through the mail. Money orders must be made payable to Skagit County Jail. If an inmate owes jail debt, deposits are subject to a 60/40 split, with 40 percent applied to the amount owed. Personal checks are not accepted for inmate accounts or bail. The exact phone or video per-minute fee table was not located in official county material, so confirm current charges before funding an account.

Justice Center Booking and Intake

A Skagit County adult booking usually begins when a law-enforcement agency arrests a person or a court commitment is ordered and the person is accepted into the jail system. Agencies observed in roster material include the Skagit County Sheriff, Mount Vernon Police Department, Burlington Police Department, Washington State Patrol, Washington Parks and Recreation Commission, Drug Task Force, and San Juan County Sheriff. The roster then records incarceration date, arrest date, arrest type, arrest agency, arrest location, housing location, and charge or court rows.

Arrest type is important in Skagit County. The research notes investigative holds, misdemeanor citation arrests, misdemeanor warrant arrests, misdemeanor commitments, felony commitments, DUI commitments, and other-county holds. The jail FAQ explains that an investigative hold, also called a 72-hour hold, gives the arresting agency time to investigate and file charges with the Prosecutor's Office. Initial appearance timing, bail, filing deadlines, and later court records are court issues, while the jail roster shows custody and booking status as reflected by SCCJC.

Medical and safety intake are also part of the facility's public record context. The Corrections page notes contract vendors for medical and nutritional needs. The PREA page says inmates receive basic PREA education during booking, facility posters are posted, a 15-minute educational video is shown on weekends, and incarcerated people have direct phone access to the CADA 24-hour crisis line for confidential PREA reporting.

About the Community Justice Center

The Community Justice Center replaced a much smaller former jail that county materials describe as crowded for years. The former jail was built in the early 1980s for 83 inmates and was later expanded, while old-jail average daily populations and out-of-custody programs continued to grow. The modern facility was planned with a 400-bed Phase One capacity and future expansion potential. That history also explains why Skagit County's roster can show jail alternatives, work release, and electronic home monitoring as part of the broader adult jail system.

For sentenced state-prison custody, use the Washington State Department of Corrections incarcerated search instead of the Skagit County roster. For federal custody, use the BOP inmate locator, and for immigration custody, use ICE ODLS. No adult WA DOC prison, BOP institution, or ICE detention facility was identified inside Skagit County in the research sources. A fresh Mount Vernon, Burlington, sheriff, or state-patrol arrest normally begins with the county jail roster unless the record later shows transfer, release, or another agency path.