Search the Cass County Inmate Population

The Cass County Inmate Population

The Cass County inmate population is centered on the Cass County Jail in Plattsmouth. Official county and sheriff sources identify one local detention facility for Cass County: the Cass County Jail, also called the Cass County Detention Center on roster pages. It holds pretrial detainees, people serving local jail sentences, work release participants, and some people held for other agencies under cooperative arrangements. That local jail count is different from the state prison count, which is handled by the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services after a felony sentence and commitment.

Several events can change the Cass County inmate population on a given day. Arrests from Plattsmouth, county towns, sheriff patrol areas, and warrant service can add bookings. Bond, release on recognizance, dismissal, transfer, sentencing, or transport to another agency can remove a person from the county roster. The sheriff's newer inmate-search page covers current bookings and 48-hour releases, while sentenced state prisoners move to the NDCS locator and federal sentenced prisoners move to the Bureau of Prisons system.

Cass County Inmate Population Statistics

The most current facility number in the sheriff source set is capacity, not a live daily head count. The Cass County Sheriff's Office Corrections Division says the jail houses up to 110 inmates and has 30 employees. The sheriff homepage describes the 2022 City County Law Enforcement Center as a 73,000-square-foot building with more than 100 jail beds. Historical jail population figures come from the Prison Policy Initiative and Vera datasets, so those figures should be read as source-year measures rather than today's roster total.

Cass County Inmate Population Trends

The trend record shows why one current roster search should not be treated as the whole Cass County inmate population picture. Vera's county dataset reports Cass County jail population values from 2014 through 2019, while the Prison Policy Initiative table reports a 2013 local jail ADP. The facility itself changed after those older population measures because the City County Law Enforcement Center was built in 2022 with more than 100 beds and connected jail, sheriff, police, and courthouse functions.

Those figures do not prove current overcrowding. The research found no official Cass County jail consent decree, active overcrowding order, or current capacity litigation in the county and state source set. For a current dated count, the state Jail Demographic Data dashboard or a public-records request is the better path than an old annual dataset.

Who Makes Up Cass County Jail Population

Vera's 2019 Cass County row gives the most detailed demographic and custody breakdown in the reviewed source set. It reports a total jail population of 84, with 81 male and 8 female entries, and with pretrial and sentenced custody both represented. Dataset categories may not sum perfectly because they come from a public trends dataset, not a live jail management system. Still, they show that Cass County custody is not limited to one type of case or one agency.

• Pretrial custody: Vera listed 27 people in pretrial custody in the 2019 Cass County row.
• Sentenced custody: Vera listed 57 sentenced jail inmates in that same row.
• Federal sources: Vera listed 63 people held from federal sources, including BOP, ICE, and U.S. Marshals categories.
• State prison attribution: Vera listed 33 state prison population entries attributed to Cass County.

The sheriff source set also supports the federal-local distinction. The sheriff homepage says cooperative agreements with federal and local agencies, including U.S. Marshals Service arrangements, help offset operating costs. ICE records also identify Cass County Jail in inspection and disclosure materials. Those facts justify checking county, federal, and immigration channels when a name does not appear in the county inmate search.

Cass County Jail Capacity

Cass County's current jail capacity is tied to the 2022 law-enforcement center. The sheriff describes the complex as a 73,000-square-foot facility that houses the Cass County Sheriff's Office, Plattsmouth Police Department, and the jail. The Corrections Division gives the more precise capacity figure of up to 110 inmates. The same division lists 30 employees and identifies correctional supervisors, deputies, corrections officers, nurses, a doctor, a booking officer, and support staff.

Capacity does not equal a real-time Cass County inmate population count. The roster tells who is booked or recently released, while capacity tells how many people the jail is built to house. Historical figures, including the 2013 ADP of 78 and Vera's 2019 total of 84, predate the new building. No current official overcrowding finding was located in the reviewed county, sheriff, state, or jail-standards sources.

The Corrections Division page is the best official screenshot source for the current capacity and staffing language.

The capacity number matters when reading population trends because older jail counts came before the modern law-enforcement center opened.

Laws Governing Cass County Inmate Records

Nebraska law sets the public-records base for Cass County jail data, but not every detail is always public. Neb. Rev. Stat. 84-712.01 broadly defines public records as records and documents of public agencies unless another statute makes the information nonpublic. Neb. Rev. Stat. 29-3523 limits dissemination of some criminal-history information after events such as no charges, diversion, dismissal, acquittal, pardon, sealing, or certain court outcomes.

Cass County and State Prison

A person sentenced to state prison after a Cass County case is no longer just a county jail roster matter. The NDCS Incarceration Record Search is the correct channel for sentenced prisoners committed to Nebraska's prison system. No NDCS prison facility was located in Cass County from the official state facility list, so a Cass County sentence can lead to custody elsewhere in Nebraska.

NDCS visitation, records, and mail rules are separate from Cass County Jail rules. NDCS says visit requests must be submitted in advance and approval processing can take several weeks. NDCS also has its own public-records process for state prison records, with email and mail request routes and a four-business-day response framework. That state process does not replace the Cass County roster for a new arrest or short local jail sentence.

How to Search Cass County Inmates

The official Cass County inmate search has more than one path. The older roster choice page offered current inmates and 48-hour releases, while the newer sheriff inmate-search page states that it covers people currently booked at Cass County Jail and people released within the last 48 hours. The same newer page says federal detainees are not discoverable through the Cass County Sheriff's Office website. During inspection, older current and release roster URLs were offline for maintenance, which makes the fallback chain important.

Start with the official name search when it is available. If the person does not appear, do not assume the person is free. They may have been released, booked under a different spelling, held for another agency, moved after sentencing, or hidden by a pending technical outage.

1. Open the Cass County inmate search page or the roster choice page.
2. Search by first and last name, or by last name when the exact first name is not known.
3. Check the 48-hour release scope if the person may have just left custody.
4. Call the Cass County Jail at 402-296-9377 if the roster is offline or the custody question is urgent.
5. Use NDCS, BOP, ICE, NEVCAP, or court records when the county roster is the wrong system.

Cass County Roster Search Fields

The research found a narrow roster interface rather than a full public profile inventory. The new sheriff page exposes a Search By Name field, plus Search and Clear All controls. The older roster choice page also separates current inmates from 48-hour releases. Because no individual profile was opened in the research pass, profile fields such as housing, bond, charges, or mugshots should be confirmed on the live roster or through the jail before relying on them.

The roster search screenshot from the Cass County Sheriff's Office inmate-search page shows the name-search interface and the federal-detainee notice.

That notice is a practical reason to move to federal or immigration locators when a county search returns nothing.

Past Cass County Inmate Records

The county roster path supports current bookings and 48-hour releases. A person released earlier than that may not remain visible through the public roster. For older booking records, incident records, or jail records not available online, the sheriff's public-records request process is the local route. The sheriff says written requests are processed within four business days unless the request is extensive or difficult, in which case the office gives a written explanation, a completion estimate, and an estimated charge.

Records fees can apply when a request requires more than four hours of research. The sheriff lists Administrative Support Staff time at $24.00 per hour, billed every 15 minutes, with payment required before records are provided. Pending criminal cases and exempt records can be denied in whole or part, so a records request is not the same as a guarantee that every booking document, photo, or report will be released.

What Cass County Inmate Records Show

Cass County's inspected roster pages did not provide a confirmed full profile inventory. The safest confirmed public fields are the roster choice links, the Search By Name field, the 48-hour release scope, the federal-detainee notice, and the roster disclaimer. For state prison lookup, NDCS provides a more defined locator form with last name, first name, DCS ID, captcha, and download options.

Cass County Jail vs State Prison

The Cass County Jail roster and the NDCS locator answer different questions. The county roster is for the local jail population, including recent bookings and local custody. The NDCS locator is for sentenced state prisoners after commitment. Federal sentenced prisoners use BOP, and immigration custody uses ICE. NEVCAP is a notification tool, not a complete roster replacement.

State Federal and ICE Search

The NDCS Incarceration Record Search accepts last name or DCS ID. BOP's inmate locator searches federal prisoners by name or number and warns that release dates may not always reflect sentence-credit changes. ICE's Online Detainee Locator System uses A-number or biographical search. If federal pretrial or immigration-related local custody is suspected, call the Cass County Jail because the sheriff site says federal detainees are not found through the county website.

Booking

The jail intake record created after an arrest.

Detainer

A hold or notice from another agency that can affect release.

PR bond

Release based on a promise to appear, also called personal recognizance.

DOC

The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, which manages state prison custody.

Cass County Detention Facilities

Cass County has one local detention facility identified in the official source set. It is the county jail in Plattsmouth, operated by the Cass County Sheriff's Office. No separate state prison, federal prison, ICE detention center, or separate work-release annex was located physically in Cass County from official sources.

• Cass County Jail - the local county jail for pretrial detainees, local jail sentences, work release participants, and some federal or immigration-related detainees when held under cooperative arrangements.

Cass County Inmate Population FAQ

How large is the Cass County inmate population? The sheriff publishes current capacity, not a live public average daily population in the inspected static pages. The Corrections Division lists capacity as up to 110 inmates, while historical datasets reported 78 ADP in 2013 and a Vera jail population value of 84 in 2019.

How do I search the Cass County inmate population? Start with the sheriff inmate-search page for current bookings and 48-hour releases. If the roster is offline, call 402-296-9377, use the sheriff records request form for older records, and check NDCS, BOP, ICE, or NEVCAP when the custody type has changed.

Why would a person not appear on the Cass County roster? The person may have been released, transferred, sentenced to state prison, held federally, listed under another spelling, or affected by a roster outage. The sheriff page also says federal detainees are not discoverable through the county website.

Are Cass County jail records public? Nebraska public-records law broadly covers records of public agencies, but criminal-history limits, pending-case rules, and exemptions can restrict release. The sheriff's public-records process is the route for records not available on the roster.