Puyallup City Jail Inmate Search

Puyallup City Jail Overview

Puyallup City Jail is operated by the Puyallup Police Department. The official jail page describes it as a 51-bed facility housing misdemeanor male and female adult offenders from Puyallup and the local region. That role is important because not every person arrested in Pierce County is first held in the downtown Tacoma county jail. Municipal arrests, local court commitments, and some misdemeanor or gross misdemeanor bookings can route to a city or contract facility instead.

The facility is not a state prison, juvenile detention center, or ICE facility. It has its own public booking search and its own rules for mail, phone calls, texting, and video visitation. Puyallup also links VINELink for custody notifications, which can help family members and victims track custody changes after a person has been found in the city system.

The official Puyallup City Jail page gives the 51-bed capacity, jail contact number, mail address, roster link, VisiTel visit instructions, and phone or texting provider details.

Use the city page when the arresting agency or court route points to Puyallup rather than Pierce County Corrections in Tacoma.

Puyallup City Jail Capacity and Population

Puyallup publishes a specific bed count for this facility: 51 beds. Current official source material reviewed for this page did not provide a daily population count for Puyallup City Jail, so this capacity figure should not be read as a live headcount. The facility capacity is still useful because it shows why municipal custody can be narrower and more local than the larger Pierce County Jail system.

The population held here is described as adult male and female misdemeanor offenders from Puyallup and the local region. Puyallup's rules also show that some services depend on arraignment status. For example, video visitation and texting are tied to eligibility after arraignment, so a newly booked person may appear in the booking search before every communication option is available.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Puyallup City Jail

Puyallup uses its own public booking search at Puyallup BookingFind. Public search text for BookingFind shows fields for Last Name, First Name, Offender Status, Sex, and Age. The city search can be run with any combination of criteria, and the captured instructions say a user can click search without criteria to select all current inmates.

Booking detail snippets from the official Puyallup result text expose an inmate number and charge-table fields such as Offense, Sentence Description, Arrest Type, Date of Arrest, Date of Sentence, Bond Amount, Bond Type, Next Court Date, Court, Arresting Agency, and Docket Number. The snippet did not show a mugshot field, so do not promise that booking photos are available through the city search.

1. Open the Puyallup BookingFind search page linked from the official city jail page.
2. Enter last name, first name, offender status, sex, age, or a combination of fields.
3. Run a blank search if you need to review all current inmates and the system permits it.
4. Open the matching booking detail and check the arresting agency, court, bond, and next court date fields.
5. If no match appears, check Pierce County Jail LINX, WADOC, ICE ODLS, or BOP based on custody type.

The Puyallup public booking search is the right first stop for city-jail custody.

Because Puyallup has a separate municipal roster, a person may be missed if the search starts and ends with the Pierce County LINX jail roster.

Puyallup City Jail Address and Contact

The official jail contact number is 253-841-5425. The jail mail address is 311 West Pioneer, Puyallup, WA 98371. The police department contact block lists Puyallup Police Department at 1015 39th Ave SE, Suite 100, Puyallup, WA 98374, with department phone 253-841-5415, non-emergency toll-free 844-821-8911, and fax 253-770-3362.

Visiting Someone at Puyallup City Jail

Puyallup public visits are video only. In-person visits may be arranged for attorneys, clergy, and medical or mental-health providers, but public family or friend visits use video. Eligible inmates must be arraigned and must not be in disciplinary segregation. Visitors register through VisiTel and choose a 30-minute slot at least 24 hours before the visit.

Free on-site video visits are available on Sundays from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Paid off-site visits are available daily for a fee. Weekday paid visits run 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.; weekend paid visits run 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Confirm the current VisiTel schedule before relying on an older appointment time.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Puyallup City Jail

Mail should be addressed in the format published by Puyallup: Inmate: Name, C/O Puyallup City Jail, 311 West Pioneer, Puyallup, WA 98371. Current official source material reviewed for this page did not document a city commissary deposit vendor or fee table, so this page does not invent a money-deposit process. Call the jail for current property, commissary, or money rules before sending funds or items.

Puyallup states that inmates are allowed three free phone calls after booking is complete. Inmates cannot receive incoming calls, and staff do not pass messages except possible exceptions for attorneys, clergy, or medical and mental-health officials. To accept calls or texts, the recipient sets up an account with inmatesales.com / CTEL or calls 1-877-998-5678. Texting access begins after arraignment. Calls are recorded and monitored except legal-privilege calls.

Booking and Intake at Puyallup City Jail

Puyallup City Jail handles municipal and local-region misdemeanor custody. A person arrested in Pierce County can be booked into different facilities based on the agency, charge level, warrant, and available housing. Milton's official arrestee information page gives a local example: misdemeanor and gross misdemeanor arrestees may be booked at Puyallup, Enumclaw, SCORE, or other jails, while felony subjects may go to Pierce County or King County jail.

After booking is complete, Puyallup allows three free calls. Later service access can depend on arraignment or classification. Video visits require arraignment and eligibility, and texting begins after arraignment. That means a person can be listed as booked before visits or texting are available. Check the BookingFind detail, then call the jail if the timing of court, bond, or communication access is unclear.

About Puyallup City Jail

Puyallup's jail page is unusually detailed for a municipal facility. It lists the roster, VINELink, mail rules, phone and texting setup, video visitation, and a facility description. It also says inmates have regular access to a medical provider, religious programs, and release-planning resources. These services are specific to Puyallup and should not be blended with Pierce County Jail rules in Tacoma.

The Puyallup Police app research did not show an advertised jail roster feature. The jail roster is linked from the official Puyallup jail website instead. For custody lookup, use BookingFind and the jail phone line. For broader police records, use Puyallup Police Department contact channels rather than assuming the jail can release every police or court record.