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Wahkiakum County Jail Overview

Wahkiakum County Jail is operated by the Wahkiakum County Sheriff's Office. The official facility detail places the jail, corrections function, and Sheriff's Office at 64 Main Street in Cathlamet, the same county seat location used for public-facing court, clerk, warrant, and records tasks. The Sheriff's Office lists Patrol, Criminal Investigations, 911 Dispatch, Jail/Corrections, Emergency Management, Search and Rescue, and Civil Processing as public-safety services, with Corrections functioning as a sheriff's office division rather than a separate county department.

The jail is a local county jail for adults processed into Wahkiakum County Sheriff's Office custody. Public sources do not identify a separate female unit, juvenile unit, medical unit, work-release wing, jail annex, municipal holding facility, or regional jail in the county. The Web Jail Viewer language covers people who have been booked and originally detained on listed charges. That means the facility page should be read as a local custody page, not as a statewide prison or criminal-history page.

Wahkiakum County Jail Population

The most specific capacity source located for Wahkiakum County Jail is the 2022 WASPC jail-statistics workbook, which listed design capacity as 12 and average daily population as 5. The 2023 WASPC workbook listed average daily population as 7 but reported design capacity as NR. A July 2, 2026 in-custody wildcard roster query returned 4 candidates. Because this is a small county jail, one booking or release can noticeably change the live population.

The county's 2024 WASPC row was not confirmed by the agency, so it is not used as a verified local annual figure. No official county dashboard was located for annual bookings, hold counts, felony and misdemeanor split, or pretrial versus sentenced breakdown. The published data supports a narrow statement: Wahkiakum County Jail has a low-count local jail population with limited annual data.

Lookup Wahkiakum County Jail Inmates

The correct local lookup system is the Wahkiakum County Sheriff's Office Web Jail Viewer. It is linked from the county Corrections page as the jail in-custody list. The search form accepts last name, first name, booking-from date, and booking-to date. The official roster instructions allow the percent sign as a wildcard, which helps when a name is partial or uncertain. The result table can be sorted by several fields, including booking number, name, DOB, race, sex, booking date, release date, and scheduled release date.

1. Open the Wahkiakum County Booking Search Query.
2. Search by name, booking date range, or a combination of fields.
3. Use the percent sign wildcard if the spelling is uncertain.
4. Open the View link for the booking profile.
5. Confirm filed charges, court dates, and dispositions through Washington Courts or the clerk.

A profile can show booking number, inmate ID, in-custody status, booking date, personal description, charges, arrest agency, case number, court and bail fields, and bond amounts. The Web Jail Viewer says the Sheriff's Office updates information regularly but that data can change quickly, so call the jail or court before acting on a result.

Wahkiakum County Jail Contact

The jail shares the Sheriff's Office public-safety contact point. The Sheriff's Office page lists the office as open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Public-information and records requests also route through the Sheriff's Office, with Raedyn Grasseth listed as Public Information Officer. Court offices in the same courthouse have separate business hours and phone numbers, so roster questions, court records, and clerk copies should not be treated as one counter.

Visit Wahkiakum County Jail

Wahkiakum County Jail publishes both on-site video-terminal visitation and remote CIDNET visitation. On-site visits take place at the Sheriff's Office visitation area and must be scheduled by calling 360-795-3242 extension 0 in advance. Visitors must be properly dressed, must not wear gang colors or see-through clothing, and must not be under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs. Visitors 17 and younger must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian, and adult visitors need proper identification.

The official Wahkiakum County visiting rules show the Tuesday visit window, ID expectations, dress rules, and approved property list.

The visitation source is specific enough to use directly, but custody and terminal availability should still be confirmed before travel.

Mail Phone and Money

The inmate communications page says jail staff do not take phone messages unless the message is a verifiable emergency. Handwritten messages can be dropped off at the Sheriff's Office. Inmates have access to a collect-call-only phone for most of the day. Incoming mail is searched for contraband, postage-due mail is not accepted, explicit pictures are not given to inmates, and mail that violates court orders is not delivered.

Wahkiakum County Jail Booking

The county does not publish a detailed intake manual, but roster fields show the public booking trail. A person may arrive after arrest, warrant service, court remand, or another local custody event. The jail creates a booking number, records identity and personal descriptors, adds charge and arrest-agency information, and updates status as the person remains in custody, receives a scheduled release field, is released, or is transferred.

Bond and bail are separate from the roster. The county bail page says that if bail is granted by court, cash bail in the full amount can be paid at the appropriate court during business hours or at the Sheriff's Office after hours. A bail bond can be obtained through an approved bail-bond company, but the county warns that not all companies are approved by local courts. A roster bond field should be verified before payment because holds or warrants may affect release.

Wahkiakum County Jail Records

If a booking record, report, or photo is not available online, the Sheriff's Office public-records process is the fallback. The official records page says requests must be made in writing by agency form, letter, or fax to the records officer. A request should include the requestor address, the specific public record, the date and time of request, requestor name, and contact information such as phone and email. The county also uses NextRequest for county public-records requests.

Washington law limits some jail-record releases. The public jail register is required by RCW 70.48.100, but other records of a person confined in jail are confidential unless a release exception applies. The county public-records page also warns that exemptions and disclosure prohibitions appear in state and federal law, and that redactions receive a redaction log.

About Wahkiakum County Jail

The jail's published public information is practical rather than architectural. No official building history, year built, pod layout, classification-unit list, or accreditation statement was located. The facility appears to function from the courthouse and Sheriff's Office public-safety complex in Cathlamet, where jail lookup, court appearances, records requests, warrant resolution, and after-hours bail all point to the same address.

Published jail services include roster access, communications, mail screening, video visitation, limited property intake, commissary cash, and court or bail logistics. Official county pages did not list GED, vocational training, formal reentry programming, substance-use treatment, religious services, grievance forms, or medical-request procedures for this jail. State prison programs should not be applied to Wahkiakum County Jail unless the person has transferred to DOC custody.