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Muscatine County Jail Overview

Muscatine County Jail is operated by the Muscatine County Sheriff's Office. The facility is at 400 Walnut St. in Muscatine and is the primary jail location for local detainees, sentenced misdemeanants, work-release custody, booking, visitation, mail rules, after-hours bond posting, and jail administration. Official county sources also distinguish this jail from the sheriff administrative office at 3600 Park Ave. W, so visitors should use the Walnut Street address for jail business.

The official jail division page is the county source for Muscatine County Jail visitation, mail, and commissary directions.

The jail division source is especially important because the facility page must use jail-specific rules rather than sheriff administrative-office details.

The 2023 PREA audit identifies the jail as a prison/jail facility with male and female populations, custody levels of Minimum, Medium, Maximum, and Work Release, and 16 housing units. Research also shows federal and ICE relevance. A person may be physically held at the county jail while a federal, immigration, other-county, probation, parole, or court hold affects release.

Muscatine County Jail Capacity

The strongest current capacity source is the 2023 Muscatine County Jail PREA final audit. It listed designed capacity of 288, current population of 230 in the facility profile, 238 on the first day of the on-site audit, and average daily population of 242 for the prior 12 months. The audit also said the jail had not been over capacity during the prior 12 months. Older sources used 255 as a capacity baseline, so capacity should be described by source and year.

Lookup Muscatine County Jail Inmates

The official current-booking channel is the Muscatine County Sheriff Iowa app. The sheriff FAQ directs questions about why a person is in jail, bond or surety, and release timing to the app. The 2024 sheriff annual report says the app includes up-to-date inmate bookings and commissary deposit links. If the app does not answer the question, call the jail at 563-262-4190 and ask for jail administration, the receptionist, or records.

1. Open the Muscatine County Sheriff Iowa app through the sheriff site or the Apple or Google app store.
2. Search the current bookings function for the person's name.
3. Check bond, release timing, and custody reason in the app when those fields are available.
4. Call the jail if the app fails, the name is missing, or a hold or transfer is suspected.
5. Use Iowa Courts Online, Iowa DOC, BOP, ICE, or VINELink when the person is outside local jail custody.

Muscatine County Jail Contact

Use the jail phone line for current custody questions that the app does not answer. County staff pages list Capt. Matt McCleary as Jail Administrator, Lt. Nick Doy as Assistant Jail Administrator and PREA Compliance Manager, Sonya Sturms as jail receptionist, and Brenda Eagle as the records contact. Extensions from the research are useful when a caller needs administration or a booking-record fallback.

Muscatine County Jail Visiting

Social visiting at Muscatine County Jail is limited to the schedule published by the jail division. Visitor approval starts by sending the inmate a letter with the visitor's full legal name, driver's license number, date of birth, address, and phone number. A person convicted of a felony may not visit without jail administration approval. Clergy must contact jail administration. Attorney visits are unlimited and unmonitored between 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. unless operations, safety, or emergency issues interfere.

Muscatine Jail Mail and Money

Personal mail is digitally delivered by tablet and must use the jail's third-party mail processing address. The Jonesboro address is not the physical jail. Include the full facility name and state, the inmate's unique identifier, and the sender's full name and physical return address. For money, the jail division page links to Access Corrections, and research notes also describe a jail lobby kiosk for cash or credit/debit deposits. Fee details were not located in county source material.

Bond at Muscatine County Jail

The sheriff FAQ states that inmate bonds can be posted at the Clerk of Court during business hours and in the South Lobby at the jail outside business hours. The Clerk of Court is at 401 East 3rd Street in Muscatine. The jail South Lobby is at 400 Walnut Street. The app is the county-directed place to check an inmate's bond and surety information, but court orders control formal bond conditions once entered.

Muscatine Jail Booking and Intake

Booking at Muscatine County Jail includes transport, intake, property and contraband screening, medical or mental-health review, classification, and placement into a housing or holding area. The 2022 annual report said a booking expansion increased temporary holding capacity under 24 hours from 8-10 persons to 35, and the 2023 PREA audit noted four temporary holding cells and program space in the expanded booking area. Temporary holding is part of intake and staging, not a separate public roster facility.

Annual reports add operational detail. Advanced Correctional Healthcare provides on-call provider coverage, with provider visits and medical staff work described in recent reports. The jail also handles food, laundry, transport, commissary, and inmate-worker duties. Kitchen staff prepare three meals a day, and 2023 annual report material listed 246,375 meals prepared that year.

Muscatine Jail Conditions and PREA

The sheriff PREA page states a zero-tolerance policy for sexual abuse, harassment, and voyeurism. Community members can report a PREA incident by calling 563-262-4190 extension 3121 and asking for the shift supervisor. Anonymous reporting is allowed. The 2023 PREA audit found 45 standards met and 0 not met. The facility also had building and control-system projects in recent annual reports and board minutes, including door-control refits, fire-panel work, exterior insulated panel work, and access-panel projects.

Muscatine County's jail history is unusually detailed. County materials say the first jail was ordered in January 1839, an old jail across 4th Street from the courthouse was built in 1857, a replacement came in 1907, and voters approved an $8.5 million bond issue in 1990 for the current jail. The current Walnut Street jail was dedicated in 1996.