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Mason County Jail Overview

Mason County Jail is operated by the Mason County Sheriff's Office in Ludington. It is the only confirmed local detention facility identified inside Mason County from the official county, state, federal, and ICE facility review. The jail holds adults arrested in Mason County, people waiting for arraignment or court hearings, defendants held on warrants or bond conditions, people serving short local jail sentences, and people pending transfer. Ludington Police Department and other local agencies may make arrests, but the county jail is the local custody point after booking.

The facility is not a Michigan Department of Corrections prison, a federal prison, an ICE detention center, or a separate city jail. That boundary controls the inmate lookup process. A person arrested in Mason County may be in the jail while the criminal case is new, but a person sentenced to state prison is searched through MDOC OTIS after transfer. A federal or immigration hold uses a different lookup path and may not appear in a county jail source.

The official Mason County Sheriff's jail information page is the controlling local source for jail routines.

That page is useful for visitors and families because it groups jail rules in one official location, even though it does not provide a public roster search or mugshot gallery.

Mason County Jail Address and Contact

The jail and sheriff's office contact footprint is centered at the Delia Street address in Ludington. The sheriff's FOIA form also uses the same office address and lists the sheriff email and fax for public-records routing. For same-day custody, bond, property, visitation, and release questions, the researched pages identify the main sheriff number rather than a separate public booking-desk number.

Mason County Jail Capacity

The official county jail and corrections page says Mason County Jail was built in 1958 and expanded in 1999 from a 45-bed jail to a 104-bed facility. It also says the jail is staffed by a 17-person corrections staff, has its own kitchen for daily inmate meals, and that the kitchen was added in 2006 with three kitchen staff members. The official jail pages reviewed did not publish a live current inmate-count dashboard, demographic table, annual booking total, or average length-of-stay report.

For population context, a Manistee News report cited Mason County Sheriff Kim C. Cole for 2024 average daily population figures: 59 from January through June and 84 from July through December. The same report cited 76 people lodged on the referenced Wednesday, with about 83% having been lodged there before. Those are local-news-reported figures, not a live Mason County Jail dashboard.

Look Up Mason County Jail Inmates

No official public Mason County Jail online roster, booking report, current-inmate list, or mugshot gallery was found on the sheriff's website. For a current Mason County inmate lookup, the phone-first path is the most reliable local route. Use the person's full name, date of birth if known, and approximate arrest date. If the person was just arrested, jail intake and court filing may not be complete, so MiCOURT may not yet show a case.

1. Call the Mason County Sheriff's Office at 231-843-3475 and ask for current custody or jail information.
2. Ask whether bond has been set, whether another hold exists, and whether a court appearance is scheduled.
3. Search MiCOURT Case Search after charges are filed or the case reaches the court system.
4. Search MDOC OTIS if the person has been sentenced to state prison or is under state supervision.
5. Use Michigan VINELink for custody notifications where supported, then verify urgent details with the holding agency.
6. Use BOP or ICE locators only for federal or immigration custody, not for ordinary Mason County Jail bookings.

For broader current and past custody paths, the jail roster discussion in Mason County inmate records separates local jail, court, state prison, federal, and immigration searches.

Visiting Mason County Jail

The sheriff's jail information page has the local visitation information area, and that page should be checked before travel because jail rules can change. The research did not locate a reliable extracted day-by-day public schedule, parking rule, transit route, or ADA entrance description. Visitors should expect identity checks and restricted items, but the specific current requirements should be confirmed with jail staff.

Note: Confirm custody and visiting rules before leaving for the jail, especially for recent arrests, court days, and release processing.

Mason County Jail Mail and Money

The sheriff's jail information page includes sections for inmate mail, inmate money, inmate telephone, bonds, inmate property, and attorney visitation. The researched material did not confirm a commissary vendor, phone provider, deposit fee, public kiosk rule, or fixed mail format beyond the need to follow the current jail page and staff instructions. Because money and mail rules change more often than statutes, the safe Mason County practice is to verify accepted methods before sending funds or bringing property.

Booking at Mason County Jail

Mason County-specific booking steps are not posted as a full public checklist, so the accurate description should stay tied to normal Michigan county-jail practice and the local record sources. After an arrest by a sheriff's deputy, Ludington officer, state police trooper, or another local officer, the person may be transported to Mason County Jail for intake. Booking can include identity checks, search, property inventory, fingerprints and booking photo when required, medical or mental-health screening, classification, phone access, bond or first-appearance processing, and housing assignment if the person remains in custody.

A new booking may exist before a court case appears in MiCOURT. That is why same-day Mason County Jail questions should start with the jail rather than a court portal. Once the prosecutor files charges and the court opens a case, MiCOURT becomes the better source for filed charges, hearing dates, case status, and dispositions. Booking charges can differ from formal filed charges.

Mason County Jail Records Requests

The sheriff's FOIA page is the fallback for booking records, incident reports, historical jail files, and mugshots if disclosable. The official FOIA request form asks the requester to describe the records as specifically as possible. It also includes fields for complaint number, date and time of complaint, incident type, location of incident, and other information. Those fields should be used for a booking or arrest-related request because they help staff locate the record.

The Mason County Sheriff FOIA page is shown below.

The FOIA page is the official local route when a jail record is not available through phone contact, jail information, or a court case search.

Mason County Jail History

The Mason County Jail has a documented official history that is more useful than unsupported facility claims. The county page says the jail was built in 1958, expanded in 1999 to 104 beds, and received a kitchen addition in 2006. The same page reports a 17-person corrections staff and three kitchen staff members. No official public accreditation page, pod layout, current jail inspection report, or detailed program list was found in the researched sheriff materials.

The official sheriff administration pages identify Sheriff Kim C. Cole and Jail Administrator Lt. Adam Lamb. The jail administrator page is the relevant command-page source for the jail administrator role.

Leadership pages help confirm who operates the jail, while custody, visitation, mail, money, bond, and records questions still route through the jail information and FOIA channels.

Mason County Jail Transfers

People do not always stay in Mason County Jail until a case is fully over. A defendant may be released on bond, held for another agency, moved after sentencing, or transferred for classification, medical, state, federal, or immigration reasons. After a state-prison sentence, the search should shift to Michigan Department of Corrections OTIS. Federal custody uses the Bureau of Prisons locator after the person is in BOP data. Immigration detention uses ICE ODLS. None of those systems is a Mason County Jail roster.