Lookup Cass County Jail Inmates

Cass County Jail Overview

Cass County Jail is operated by the Cass County Sheriff's Office at 321 M-62 in Cassopolis. The same Sheriff's Office campus anchors the county's corrections pages, staff directory, inmate services, visitation rules, and Sheriff's FOIA records process. The jail houses pretrial detainees, people awaiting arraignment or bond, and county-sentenced inmates. It is the only local detention facility identified in the Cass County facility map, and no separate county jail annex, work-release building, city jail, state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention center was located inside Cass County in the official sources reviewed.

The Sheriff's staff directory lists Sheriff Clint Roach, Undersheriff Tim Schuur, and Jail Captain/Administrator Jon Shoup. The public-facing facility material is operational rather than architectural: inmate services, video visitation, VINE inmate status, funds, bond, programs, mail, and FOIA records are documented, while a housing-unit map, pod list, public classification levels, and current official 2024-2026 capacity dashboard were not located. For county-level population context before narrowing to this one facility, use the Cass County inmate population hub.

The Cass County Sheriff's corrections page is the main county source tying together the jail, VINE inmate status, mailing address, and corrections services.

Cass County Jail Capacity and Population

The best sourced jail population figures located for Cass County are historical data points, not a current live count. Vera Institute's county-level Incarceration Trends data reports Cass County Jail at 125 total jail population and 116 rated capacity in 2019, which works out to about 108 percent occupancy using those fields. The same 2019 data reports 94 pretrial and 31 sentenced people, with 490 admissions. These figures should be treated as dataset-reported 2019 jail statistics, not as the current jail count.

Cass County board minutes provide later spot counts during the early COVID period: the sheriff reported 40 inmates on May 7, 2020, and 55 inmates on June 18, 2020. Those meeting counts are useful context but are not annual averages. No official Cass County jail dashboard, current daily roster count, 2024-2026 annual booking report, or current average length of stay was located in the research.

Lookup Cass County Jail Inmates

Cass County Jail lookup should be VINE-first because no county-published current inmate roster was located. The official Cass County "Inmate Status" link points to Michigan VINE, and the direct VINE person-search route is Michigan VINE person search. VINE is the right starting point for custody status and notifications, but it is not a substitute for a full booking sheet or court file.

1. Search Michigan VINE for the person who may be housed at Cass County Jail.
2. If the person does not appear or the arrest is very recent, call Cass County Jail at 269-445-1209.
3. Use Cass County inmate records guidance to separate custody status from charges, bond, mugshots, and public-records requests.
4. Use MiCOURT D04 for 4th District Court and MiCOURT C43 for 43rd Circuit Court when the question is what charges were filed after arrest.
5. Use the Sheriff's FOIA form or sherifffoia@cassco.org for booking records, arrest reports, incident reports, or booking photographs not available online.

Do not use MDOC OTIS as the first search for a person who is only in the county jail. MDOC says OTIS excludes county jails and city lockups. OTIS becomes relevant after a person enters MDOC custody or is under MDOC supervision.

Cass County Jail Address and Contact

The jail phone line is the most direct local fallback when VINE does not answer a custody question. For records, use the Sheriff's FOIA coordinator process instead of assuming lobby staff can release every document on demand.

Visiting Someone at Cass County Jail

Cass County uses The Visitor / ICSolutions video visitation. The researched county rules allow two 30-minute visits per day per inmate, require scheduling at least 12 hours before the appointment, allow one free lobby-kiosk video visit per week, and allow a maximum of four visitors per visit. Offsite visits are not free. Social visits are subject to recording and monitoring.

Professional in-person visits may be scheduled for approved professionals such as attorneys, government agencies, probation/parole, and clergy. Professional visitors must present state-issued ID or driver license and proof of status, such as a bar card, ministerial credential, or government employee ID. Privileged video users must identify privileged status when creating the account, and Cass County says to allow up to two weeks for vetting.

The official Cass County visitation page provides the detailed video-visit rules and professional-visit instructions.

Cass County Jail Money

Mail should use the inmate mailing address published by the corrections page. The reviewed county pages did not publish detailed mail restrictions such as postcard-only rules, photo limits, book-vendor rules, scan-and-destroy practices, or legal-mail handling, so callers should verify mailing details with the jail before sending important material.

The inmate-services page gives specific fund and bond channels. Inmate funds can be deposited online through Express Account or in person. Debit and credit deposits can be made at an EZ Kiosk in the Sheriff's Office lobby during business hours. Cash is accepted at the Sheriff's Department and added to the inmate account. Personal checks and money orders are not accepted at any time.

The Cass County inmate-services page is the source for funds, bond payments, fees, sentenced-inmate charges, and commissary eligibility.

Cass County Jail Booking

A person arrested in Cass County may be brought to Cass County Jail for booking or to court depending on the warrant, charge, timing, and release eligibility. Booking can involve identity information, warrant or charge data, fees, property handling, medical screening, and initial jail entry. Cass County's inmate-services page says many arrested inmates are booked and given a set bond amount, while some must be arraigned before a judge on weekday afternoons.

Formal charges are court records, not just jail records. Cass County Courts explains that the prosecutor begins a criminal case by filing a complaint. If the defendant has not already been arrested, a warrant is issued when the complaint is filed. Felony and high-court misdemeanor cases begin in district court for arraignment and preliminary examination before possible transfer to circuit court. That is why a person can have a VINE custody record, a jail booking event, and a MiCOURT case record that do not all show the same details at the same time.

Cass County Jail Programs

Cass County's programs page documents religious services through New Foundation Community Jail Ministries and weekly recovery classes through Woodlands Behavioral Health Center. It also describes a medication-assisted treatment partnership involving the Sheriff's Office, Woodlands, treatment courts, Carol's Hope Engagement Center, and Cass Family Clinic. GED and high-school diploma instruction and testing are connected to Cass County Intermediate School District.

These programs do not change how custody status is searched, but they matter for families trying to understand what services may be available during a jail stay. Availability can depend on classification, scheduling, staffing, medical screening, disciplinary status, and the person's legal posture, so program questions should be confirmed directly with the jail.

FOIA Records for Cass County Jail

Records not available through VINE should be routed to the Sheriff's Office FOIA process when they are Sheriff's records. The Cass County FOIA page lists sherifffoia@cassco.org and the Sheriff's Office FOIA form as public request channels. Mail or in-person Sheriff's records requests go to Cass County Sheriff's Office, Attn: FOIA Coordinator, 321 M-62 North, Cassopolis, MI 49031. General county records use the County Administrator's Office at 120 N. Broadway St., Suite 300, Cassopolis, MI 49031.

A useful request identifies the record as specifically as possible: full name, date of birth if known, arrest date, incident number if known, arresting agency, requested document type, and whether the request is for inspection, a copy, or a certified copy. Michigan FOIA favors public access, but exemptions can apply to law-enforcement investigations, jail security, juvenile material, personal privacy, and other protected information.