Broome County Inmate Population Overview
The Broome County inmate population is centered on the Broome County Sheriff's Correctional Facility, the county jail operated by the Broome County Sheriff's Office Corrections Division. The jail is the only confirmed local detention facility in the research file. It holds people remanded by courts, pretrial detainees, sentenced local jail inmates, technical parole violators, state-ready inmates awaiting transfer, federal inmates, and ICE detainees under federal arrangements. That mix is why a single lookup tool does not answer every custody question in Broome County.
Population counts move when local police make arrests, judges set release conditions, cases resolve in court, state-ready people transfer to DOCCS, or federal and immigration holds change. Broome County's sheriff materials describe a direct-supervision jail, while state DCJS/SCOC reporting breaks the population into sentenced, federal, state-ready, technical parole violator, boarded, and other unsentenced categories. The same person may touch several systems: arrest by a local police agency, booking at the sheriff's correctional facility, court records downtown, and later transfer to state prison.
The sheriff's homepage lists Sheriff Frederick J. Akshar II and Undersheriff Sammy L. Davis and describes a service area of about 197,000 people across city, suburban, rural, and interstate corridors. That local policing footprint matters because custody records can begin with the sheriff, Binghamton Police, Vestal Police, Endicott Police, Johnson City Police, New York State Police, or another originating agency.
Broome County Inmate Population Statistics
The clearest current figures come from the county corrections page and the DCJS/SCOC monthly jail population report prepared June 1, 2026. The sheriff's Corrections Division lists the jail as a 536-bed facility. The state report lists a May 2026 average daily census of 447 for Broome County, with an in-house count of 454, two boarded out, and eight boarded in. Those figures describe jail population, not total criminal-history records or court case volume.
| Measure | Figure | Source / Date |
|---|---|---|
| Rated capacity | 536 beds | Broome County Sheriff's Corrections Division, viewed June 22, 2026 |
| Average daily census | 447 | DCJS/SCOC Jail Population by Month Report, prepared June 1, 2026 |
| In-house count | 454 | DCJS/SCOC report, May 2026 |
| Boarded out | 2 | DCJS/SCOC report, May 2026 |
| Boarded in | 8 | DCJS/SCOC report, May 2026 |
| Typical pretrial detention | 246 people | Vera Institute Broome County fact sheet, 2020 data |
Broome County Inmate Population Trends
Broome County's jail census rose over the 13-month period reported by DCJS/SCOC. The average daily census moved from 424 in May 2025 to 447 in May 2026, a year-over-year increase of about 5 percent. The high point in the listed period was September 2025, when the average daily census reached 484. The spring 2026 figures then moved down and leveled near the mid-440s.
The categories changed more sharply than the total count. Other unsentenced people rose from 275 in May 2025 to 324 in May 2026. Federal inmates rose from 27 to 61 in that same comparison. State-ready inmates fell from 46 to 3, which shows how transfer timing can affect the Broome County inmate population without meaning local arrests alone caused the change.
| Month | Average Daily Census | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| May 2025 | 424 | Start of the 13-month DCJS/SCOC table |
| August 2025 | 483 | Near the listed high point |
| September 2025 | 484 | Highest month in the sequence |
| January 2026 | 458 | Stable winter count |
| March 2026 | 439 | Lower spring count |
| May 2026 | 447 | About 5 percent higher than May 2025 |
Broome County Jail Custody Groups
The May 2026 state report gives the most useful breakdown for the Broome County inmate population. Other unsentenced people formed the largest group, followed by federal inmates and sentenced jail inmates. A small number were state-ready, which means they had reached a transfer posture for state prison. Technical parole violators were counted separately. These categories explain why the jail can hold someone who is not simply a local pretrial defendant.
- Other unsentenced
- People held before final case resolution, excluding categories that the state reports separately.
- State-ready
- A sentenced person waiting for transfer from the county jail to New York State DOCCS custody.
- Technical parole violator
- A person held for an alleged violation of parole conditions rather than a new local sentence.
- Federal inmate
- A person held under federal authority or arrangement, separate from ordinary local jail custody.
- ICE detainee
- A person in civil immigration detention. ICE custody uses a separate federal locator and release process.
| May 2026 category | Count | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Sentenced | 57 | Serving a local jail sentence or counted as sentenced in state jail reporting |
| Federal | 61 | Held under federal authority or arrangement |
| Technical parole violators | 10 | Held for alleged parole-condition violations |
| State-ready | 3 | Awaiting transfer to DOCCS after sentence |
| Other unsentenced | 324 | Largest pre-disposition group in the report |
Broome County Jail Capacity
Using the sheriff's 536-bed capacity and the May 2026 average daily census of 447, the jail operated at about 83.4 percent of listed capacity on that average measure. Using the May 2026 in-house count of 454, the comparison is about 84.7 percent. These are arithmetic comparisons, not legal findings about overcrowding. They also do not show how crowded any single housing unit was on a given day.
Broome County has a long local history with population pressure. The sheriff's page says the jail opened in 1996 and had a $6.8 million expansion in 2015 that converted old interior exercise space and added a medical unit. The page also says the facility has used double-celling to avoid boarding people out and to maintain state-ready and federal inmate revenue. WSKG later reported that in 2021, when New York resumed state-prison transfers, close to a quarter of the jail's 433 residents were waiting to move to state prison.
Broome County Inmate Record Laws
New York's Freedom of Information Law is the main public-records route for agency records that are not posted online. It does not make every jail detail public in every case. Agencies may redact or withhold records under statutory exemptions, victim-confidentiality rules, sealed-case limits, safety concerns, or other legal grounds. Local jail standards and state correction oversight also shape how population, death reporting, and custody operations are handled.
Key New York rules:
Public Officers Law Article 6 creates the FOIL framework for requesting New York agency records.
Public Officers Law section 87 covers access to agency records and exemptions.
Public Officers Law section 89 covers response timing, fees, appeals, and procedures.
Correction Law section 45 gives the State Commission of Correction rulemaking authority for local correctional institutions.
Correction Law section 9 limits internet access to certain former incarcerated-individual information after the statutory period.
Search Broome County Inmate Population
No official Broome County public jail roster with searchable current inmate profiles was located on the county or sheriff website during the research pass. That is the key local finding. The Corrections Division page gives facility, visitation, mail, phone, tablet, commissary, and bail information, but it does not expose a county-hosted current-inmate search form, public booking report, recent-bookings gallery, or profile page.
Because there is no verified county roster, the search process is a fallback chain. It starts with the jail information line for current local custody, then moves to VINELink for notifications, FOIL for records, and state or federal locators when the person may be outside local jail custody. A court search is needed for filed charges after arrest.
- Confirm whether the person is held at Broome County Sheriff's Correctional Facility by calling the jail information line at 607-778-1911.
- Use VINELink for custody notification or a vendor custody lookup where New York and the Broome facility appear.
- Use Broome County FOIL if a booking record, incident report, or sheriff-held record is needed.
- Search the DOCCS incarcerated lookup if the person has been sentenced to state prison.
- Use the BOP inmate locator or ICE Online Detainee Locator for federal prison or immigration custody.
- Search court charges through New York court tools and Broome County court contacts rather than relying on jail custody status.
Broome County Roster Fields
The Broome County inmate population cannot be searched through a county-hosted roster field set because no official county roster form was located. That absence is still useful. It means readers should not expect public booking numbers, housing pods, charge lists, bond amounts, or mugshots to appear on a county profile page. Those details may exist inside agency systems, court records, or FOIL-responsive records, but they were not visible through an official public Broome County roster.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broome County Sheriff current-inmate search | Not located | Not applicable | No official county-hosted roster form found on sheriff or corrections pages. |
| Name search | Not located | Not applicable | Use jail phone, VINELink, FOIL, or the correct state/federal locator. |
| Booking number | Not located | Not applicable | No public booking-number search was located. |
| Facility filter | Not located | Not applicable | Only one confirmed local jail facility appears in the facility map. |
| Result profile | Not located | Not applicable | No public charge, bond, housing, or mugshot profile was found. |
The Broome County FOIL page is the official county route for many records not posted online. The county says agencies should grant, deny with an explanation, or acknowledge a request with a decision date within five business days. The access or denial date should not exceed 20 days unless the agency explains the delay.
Broome County Inmate Record Contents
A public Broome County roster profile was not available in official sources, so the field inventory is negative. For court charges, use WebCriminal or court clerks. For custody status, call the jail or use VINELink when it returns a match. For state-prison records, use DOCCS. For federal prison, use BOP. For immigration custody, use ICE.
| Record field | Broome County public roster status |
|---|---|
| Booking number | Not publicly visible through an official county roster. |
| Booking date or time | Not publicly visible through an official county roster. |
| Name | Not available through a county-hosted profile page found in research. |
| Mugshot | No complete public jail mugshot roster was located. |
| Charges | Use court search, sheriff news if posted, warrant page if wanted, or records request. |
| Bond | GovPayNet supports cash bail payment, but individual bail amounts were not on a county roster. |
| Housing | Not public by profile; visitation categories name General Housing, I/Max-Female, Special Housing, D-Pod, and Restricted/Medical. |
Broome County Jail vs Prison
The most common search error is using the wrong system. Broome County jail custody is local and often pretrial. New York DOCCS custody is for sentenced state-prison cases and some former incarcerated individuals. BOP covers federal prison records from 1982 to present. ICE covers immigration detention, which may occur inside the Broome jail building but follows a separate civil immigration process.
| Custody type | Where to look | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Local jail | Jail phone, VINELink, Broome FOIL | Pretrial, remanded, local sentence, state-ready, and some outside-agency custody at the sheriff's jail. |
| State prison | DOCCS lookup | Current and certain former state-prison incarcerated individuals. |
| Federal prison | BOP by-name locator | Federal inmates from 1982 to present, updated daily. |
| ICE detention | ICE Online Detainee Locator | Immigration detainees by A-number or biographical search. |
| Court charges | NY WebCriminal | Selected criminal case and calendar information after charges are filed. |
Broome County Detention Facility
The facility map has one confirmed local detention facility: Broome County Sheriff's Correctional Facility. It is a sheriff-operated county jail in the Town of Dickinson. The research did not confirm a New York State DOCCS prison or a BOP institution physically inside Broome County. DOCCS does list community supervision and re-entry resources in Binghamton, but those are not prison facilities.
- Broome County Sheriff's Correctional Facility holds people remanded by courts, pretrial detainees, sentenced local jail inmates, federal inmates, ICE detainees, technical parole violators, and state-ready inmates.
The corrections page is a useful source for visitation, mail, phone, tablets, commissary, bail, and facility history. It should not be treated as a public jail roster because it does not publish current inmate profiles.
The official Broome County Corrections Division page shows the jail's local custody setting and services.
The screenshot reflects the official county page used for facility, visitation, communication, commissary, and bail details in the Broome County inmate population research.
Broome County Jail Updates
Broome County's jail population pages should account for programs and recent conditions reporting, but dated events must stay dated. The sheriff's corrections material describes discharge-planning meetings with Mental Health, BOCES, Jail Medical, and Council of Churches staff. It also describes screening and treatment work with the Broome County Health Department. The 2024 corrections progress report says more than 400 incarcerated individuals completed more than 4,800 individual training courses after a November 2023 digital learning initiative, and that more than 10,000 book titles were being added to tablets.
Recent news also affects how readers interpret custody facts. Sheriff Fred Akshar announced expanded visitation in January 2023 after a period of pandemic-related restrictions and later limited reopening. Sheriff's news releases in 2025 and 2026 reported health precautions, salmonella and norovirus-type updates, contraband cases, corrections-officer threats or assaults, and a medical-emergency-related death update. The sheriff news page states that not all arrests or investigations are posted and that charged people are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.
Broome County Inmate Population FAQ
How big is the Broome County inmate population?
The DCJS/SCOC report prepared June 1, 2026 listed a May 2026 average daily census of 447 for Broome County. The sheriff's Corrections Division page lists 536 beds at the jail. Those numbers describe jail population and capacity, not all arrests or criminal cases.
Can I search a Broome County jail roster online?
No official county-hosted public roster was located in the sheriff or county pages reviewed. Use the jail phone, VINELink, Broome County FOIL, and the correct state or federal locator based on the type of custody.
Where do sentenced state-prison inmates appear?
Sentenced state-prison inmates use the New York DOCCS incarcerated lookup, not a Broome County jail roster. The DOCCS lookup accepts DIN, NYSID, or name searches with optional birth year.
Does Broome County hold ICE detainees?
ICE publishes a Broome County Correctional Facility page, so immigration custody is a local lookup issue. ICE detainees should be searched through the ICE Online Detainee Locator and facility or ERO channels.