Northampton County Jail Overview
Northampton County Jail / Northampton County Prison is operated by the Northampton County Department of Corrections, not by a city police department or a state prison agency. The jail is the local adult correctional institution for the county. It holds adults awaiting criminal proceedings, people serving county sentences, work-release and community-corrections participants, court holds, and people waiting for transfer to another custody level. County visitation material refers to Main Prison, Tower Lobby Area, Work Release, and West Easton housing or sign-in points. Those labels are useful because a visitor must sign in where the person is housed.
The current county corrections page links to jail visitation rules, inmate account services, re-entry services, the Jail Advisory Board, and jail leadership. It also posts operational notices, including a new entry procedure for personal, professional, and volunteer visitors and a legal mail procedure for attorneys. For an adult custody search, the key local fact is the lack of a public Northampton County jail roster. The county corrections login located in the research is marked law-enforcement-only, so public users should not treat it as an open inmate search.
The official corrections homepage is the source for the jail's public operations links and current notices.
The homepage points readers toward the practical jail functions that matter most after an arrest: visitation, accounts, re-entry, leadership, and county corrections updates.
Northampton County Jail Capacity
The PA DOC 2025 county prison inspection schedule lists Northampton County Jail at 666 Walnut Street in Easton and gives the capacity notation as 786 / 120. The research file treats that as 786 secure jail beds plus 120 community-corrections or work-release beds, while preserving the state schedule's exact slash format because the schedule entry itself does not explain the notation in the reviewed snippet. Older secondary descriptions report a different total for the jail complex, but the current official PA DOC schedule should control for this build.
A current daily population, average daily population, annual booking count, length of stay, and jail demographic table were not found in the official county or PA DOC public sources reviewed. That gap matters. The Northampton County Jail population changes as arrests, bail decisions, court events, releases, county sentences, holds, and transfers move people in and out. State prison counts should not be blended into the county jail number, and juvenile detention should not be counted with adult jail custody.
Find Northampton County Jail Inmates
No official public Northampton County Jail roster or public mugshot gallery was located in the county sources reviewed. The only county corrections inmate-search portal found was a login page marked for law enforcement. Its terms say use is limited to law-enforcement purposes tied to prosecution or capture. That means the public fallback chain is the real search path for a Northampton County Jail custody question.
- Call Northampton County Department of Corrections at 610-829-7400 with the person's full legal name, date of birth if known, and approximate arrest date.
- If the request is for a written record, use the Northampton County Right-to-Know page or the county RTK application process. The research notes that anonymous RTK requests are not accepted.
- Search Pennsylvania UJS Case Search for charges, bail events, court dates, warrants, and dispositions. A court docket is not a custody roster, but it often confirms the case tied to a jail booking.
- Check the District Attorney's current arraignment and trial lists if the question is about a scheduled criminal proceeding or a custody-location abbreviation such as NCP.
- Use the PA DOC Inmate and Parolee Locator only after state sentencing or DOC supervision. PA DOC says county-facility inmates are excluded.
- Use Pennsylvania VINE for custody notifications where participating records are available.
- Use the BOP locator for federal sentenced custody and ICE ODLS for immigration detention, not for ordinary county jail custody.
Note: A PA DOC, BOP, or ICE result may explain why a person is not in the county jail system, but none of those tools replaces direct Northampton County Jail confirmation for local adult custody.
Northampton County Jail Contact
Use the jail's published contact details for current adult custody routing, visitation questions, and operational follow-up. Records offices and court offices may keep regular county business hours, but jail custody status can change at any time. Staff may decline to release protected medical, classification, security, or other nonpublic information.
Northampton County Jail / Northampton County Prison
666 Walnut Street
Easton, PA 18042
610-829-7400
Operator: Northampton County Department of Corrections
Jail Leadership
Director of Corrections: DeAnn Lawrence
Warden: David Penchishen
Warden phone listed in research: 610-829-7403
Leadership page: Jail administration contacts
The county jail leadership page identifies the Director of Corrections, Warden, and deputy wardens.
Leadership contacts are useful for routing administrative issues, but ordinary current-custody questions should still start with the main jail number.
Northampton County Jail Visits
Northampton County Jail visitation rules are specific to the adult jail and should not be applied to juvenile detention or PA DOC state prisons. Adult visitors must have valid photo identification with a current address. Each inmate may receive one adult visitor age 18 or older and two children per visit. Visits last 45 minutes. Children may not run free, and a parent or guardian must supervise them. Late arrivals result in cancellation, so visitors should leave time for downtown Easton courthouse-area security and sign-in.
Visitors do not all use the same sign-in point. The county rules say to sign in at the building where the inmate is housed. Work Release and West Easton visitation is limited to inmates who do not have outside clearance. The June 1, 2025 entry procedure applies to professional, personal, and volunteer visitors.
| Visit Item | Northampton County Jail Rule |
|---|---|
| Visit length | 45 minutes. |
| Visitor limit | One adult age 18 or older and two children per inmate visit. |
| Adult ID | Valid photo identification with current address. |
| Main Prison / Tower sign-up | Starts at 6:30 a.m. and continues until 15 minutes before the visit start time. |
| Work Release sign-up | 30 minutes before the visit start time. |
| West Easton sign-up | On the hour during the scheduled visitation period. |
| Late arrival | Visit is canceled. |
The county's jail visitation page publishes visitor limits, ID rules, sign-in locations, visit length, and dress code.
The visitation rules also explain why housing labels matter during a custody search: a person's Main Prison, Tower, Work Release, or West Easton placement affects the sign-in process.
Northampton County Jail Money
Northampton County publishes several inmate account and commissary channels. The exact channel depends on the service. OffenderConnect is used for phone time. GettingOut or Telemate Tablets is used for tablet and phone time. ConnectNetwork handles online trust deposits and lists Northampton County PA as Site ID 20. Access Securepak is used for family commissary package orders. The county also allows money orders and lobby kiosk deposits.
| Service | Provider or Method | Published Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Phone time | OffenderConnect | Account required; toll-free number listed as 1-800-483-8314. |
| Tablet / phone time | GettingOut / Telemate Tablets | County links to GettingOut for account setup. |
| Trust deposit online | ConnectNetwork | Choose Offender Trust Fund; deposits are listed as available within 24-48 hours. |
| ConnectNetwork site | Site ID 20 | Northampton County PA, 666 Walnut Street, Easton, PA 18042. |
| Money order | Mail to jail | Payable to "Northampton CountyIPP"; include inmate full name and permanent ID number. |
| Kiosk | Jail lobby | 139 South Union Street, Easton, PA; accepts cash and major cards listed by the county. |
| Telephone deposit | 888-988-4768 | Available 24/7; some deposits require Site ID 20 and inmate identifiers. |
| Family packages | Access Securepak | Select Northampton County Prison; inmate name and Permanent ID Number required. |
The county's inmate accounts page is the source for deposit channels, the money-order payee, kiosk location, and commissary timing.
The most important detail for families is vendor separation: a phone account, tablet account, trust deposit, and commissary package order may require different systems.
Note: The county says transaction fees may apply to all deposits, but an exact fee schedule was not posted in the reviewed text.
Northampton County Jail Mail
The official material reviewed did not provide a full public personal-mail rule set. Do not assume envelope format, photo limits, postcard-only rules, publication rules, or rejected-item rules without checking the jail directly. The research did identify a legal mail update: Northampton County Jail announced a new attorney legal mail procedure effective April 7, 2025. Attorneys should use the county legal-mail PDF and direct jail channels for the current procedure.
The jail also publishes program and re-entry material. Volunteer Services Coordinator Chris Gebhardt is listed at 610-829-7642 and Cgebhardt@norcopa.gov. The Community Corrections Program has a published contact number of 610-829-7659 for qualifying nonprofit community-service work. The re-entry page names Christopher Williamson as re-entry case manager at 610-829-7484 and Cwilliamson@norcopa.gov. These programs do not create an inmate roster, but they show how the adult jail connects custody, work release, community service, and return-to-community planning.
Northampton County Jail Oversight
Several laws and oversight channels shape access to Northampton County Jail records and operations. Pennsylvania's Right-to-Know Law creates the written public-records request process, subject to exemptions. Pennsylvania CHRIA, 18 Pa.C.S. Chapter 91, governs criminal-history record information and helps explain why booking data or mugshots may not be published like ordinary web content. County jail oversight boards are covered by 61 Pa.C.S. Chapter 17, while county correctional institutions are governed by 37 Pa. Code Chapter 95.
PA DOC's Office of County Inspections and Services says county prison inspections are conducted under Chapter 95 at least every 12 months and at most every 24 months. The 2025 schedule lists Northampton County Jail for inspection on September 9, 2025. The jail also publishes PREA reporting channels. Northampton County Prison states a zero-tolerance standard for sexual harassment and sexual assault, names Thomas Herstich as PREA Coordinator, and lists a PREA Hotline at 844-429-5412, plus #99 from housing unit phones.
Northampton County Custody Limits
Northampton County Jail is not the same system as state prison, federal prison, immigration detention, or juvenile detention. After a state sentence, a person moves into the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections system and should be searched through the PA DOC locator. Federal sentenced inmates are searched through BOP. Immigration detainees are searched through ICE ODLS. Federal pretrial detainees may be under U.S. Marshals custody and can move between facilities, but no official source reviewed confirms the Northampton County Jail as an active U.S. Marshals contract detention site.
Juvenile detention is also separate. The Northampton County Juvenile Justice Center is not an adult roster or mugshot source. Parents, guardians, and counsel should use juvenile court channels rather than the adult jail lookup chain.