The St. Mary's County Inmate Population
The local jail side of the St. Mary's County inmate population is centered on the St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office Corrections Division. The division operates the St. Mary's County Detention and Rehabilitation Center in Leonardtown and also manages the Community Corrections Center. The sheriff's services page describes the detention center as serving people awaiting trial, undergoing pre-sentence investigation, sentenced locally, and connected to community supervision. That mix matters. A person can be part of the local corrections workload without being a sentenced state prisoner, and a person can leave the county roster after transfer to Maryland DPSCS custody.
The public count changes when arrests are booked, bond or release decisions are entered, court cases move forward, local sentences begin or end, and people are transferred to state, federal, or immigration custody. The county roster is therefore a current local custody tool, not a full life-cycle record. For people no longer in the jail, the better trail may be Maryland Judiciary Case Search, a sheriff public-information request, Maryland DPSCS, Maryland VINE, the Federal Bureau of Prisons locator, or ICE ODLS.
St. Mary's County Inmate Population Statistics
Current official St. Mary's County jail average daily population was not located in a published annual report during the research pass. The safest local figures are the facility map and the historical design-capacity note. A current web search result also showed a roster-count snapshot, but the research file flags it for re-verification because it came from a different official-looking host. Treat live roster counts as a same-day lookup, not as a stable annual measure.
| Measure | Figure | Source / Year |
|---|---|---|
| Local corrections facilities in the map | 2 | Research facility map from sheriff corrections sources |
| Historical permanent housing design capacity | 230 beds | Older official sheriff budget packet snippet, 2011 |
| Current official rated capacity | Not found in current public pages | Sheriff corrections, contact, roster, and visitor pages checked |
| Current public roster count | Must be checked live | Research cautions against relying on an unverified snapshot |
The public roster itself is still useful for the live St. Mary's County inmate population because it lists the people visible in local custody at the time of search. It is less useful for annual planning figures. The sheriff's current pages do not publish aggregate race, sex, age, pretrial, or sentenced charts for the county jail population, although the roster shows age, race, and sex on each public row.
St. Mary's County Jail Population Trends
For trend context, the strongest sourced data is statewide. The 2025 Justice Reinvestment Oversight Board report says Maryland's total average daily local jail population fell from FY2018 to FY2025, while the sentenced local jail population dropped sharply and the pretrial population rose. Those statewide patterns help explain why a local roster can feel busy even when sentenced jail counts are lower than in prior years.
| Fiscal year | Maryland local jail ADP | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| FY2018 | 9,145 | Statewide baseline in the GOCPP report. |
| FY2019 | 8,425 | Statewide local jail ADP declined. |
| FY2020 | 7,709 | Drop continued during early pandemic-era changes. |
| FY2021 | 7,269 | Lowest statewide local jail ADP in the table. |
| FY2022 | 7,880 | Statewide local jail ADP began rising again. |
| FY2023 | 8,087 | Post-low increase continued. |
| FY2024 | 8,295 | Statewide count was near the FY2025 level. |
| FY2025 | 8,258 | Sentenced local ADP was 1,416 and pretrial ADP was 6,842. |
| FY2026 partial | 8,717 | July 1, 2025 through October 1, 2025 partial data. |
Who Makes Up St. Mary's County Custody
The sheriff does not publish a separate aggregate demographic report for the St. Mary's County inmate population in the current pages reviewed. The roster publishes age, race, and sex by person, and the services page explains the custody categories. People in the detention center can be awaiting trial, under pre-sentence review, serving a local sentence, or tied to community-supervision processes. The Community Corrections Center adds another layer because it deals with alternatives to incarceration, such as pretrial supervision and day reporting.
- Pretrial custody: people held while charges move through District Court or Circuit Court.
- Local sentenced custody: people serving a sentence at the county detention center.
- Community supervision: people connected to pretrial supervision, day reporting, treatment, monitoring, or testing.
- State prison custody: sentenced prisoners housed by Maryland DPSCS after transfer.
- Federal or immigration custody: people moved into BOP, USMS, or ICE systems rather than the county roster.
Statewide, the GOCPP report says Maryland's FY2025 local jail population was mostly pretrial. That statewide split should not be treated as a St. Mary's County chart, but it gives a useful frame for reading county custody data. A local booking entry is often the start of a court case, not a final sentence.
St. Mary's County Jail Capacity
The current sheriff pages describe the St. Mary's County Detention and Rehabilitation Center as recently expanded and renovated, but they do not publish a current rated capacity. The historical figure found in official material was a permanent housing design capacity of 230 beds after a 1998 addition. Because that figure is old, it should be read as building history, not as a current rated capacity or a claim about crowding today.
No recent official consent decree, Department of Justice jail investigation, or facility-specific jail-conditions lawsuit was located for the detention center during the research pass. The best current conditions material is the sheriff's own services content. It describes objective classification at intake, 24-hour clinical and emergency medical care through PrimeCare Medical, mental-health screening, reentry planning, and Medication for Opioid Use Disorder services.
The sheriff's Corrections Division page is the source image for the local facility overview shown here.
The page connects the detention center and Community Corrections Center under one corrections division, which is why both appear in the facility map.
Laws Governing St. Mary's County Records
Maryland public-record law supports access to many jail and court records, but it does not make every law-enforcement or correctional file public in full. The local path is practical: use the roster for current custody, Maryland Case Search for public court case summaries, and the sheriff's public-information process for records not posted online. Redactions or denials can apply when release would harm an investigation, invade privacy, reveal security procedures, or conflict with court-record rules.
Key statutes and rules:
Maryland General Provisions § 4-101 defines public records broadly, including electronic records and photographs when no exclusion applies.
Maryland General Provisions § 4-351 allows limits on investigatory, correctional, judicial, prosecution, and security records when statutory harms apply.
COMAR Title 12 Subtitle 14 contains Maryland correctional standards referenced by the sheriff's medical-services materials.
Maryland Correctional Services § 9-603 governs opioid-use-disorder screening, medication access, counseling, peer recovery, and reentry planning in correctional settings.
St. Mary's County and State Prison
No Maryland DPSCS state prison was located in St. Mary's County. That does not mean state custody is irrelevant. Once a St. Mary's County defendant is sentenced to state custody, the person leaves the local jail population and is searched through the Maryland DPSCS incarcerated individual locator. DPSCS says its locator covers people committed to the Commissioner of Correction and housed in Division of Correction facilities, Patuxent Institution, and some short-sentenced offenders in Division of Pretrial and Detention Services facilities.
The DPSCS locator does not list everyone who has ever been in state custody. It may omit some short-sentenced people and does not list people no longer in custody because of release, escape, or another reason. For notification, Maryland VINE is a separate victim notification and custody-information channel. For federal sentenced custody, use the BOP inmate locator. For immigration detention, use ICE ODLS.
How to Search St. Mary's County Inmates
The official local search starts with the sheriff's Detention and Rehabilitation Center Incarcerated Individual Lookup or the app-hosted lookup at apps.stmarysmd.com/detentioncenter. The roster is free and does not require a login. It uses first name and last name fields, and the app-hosted interface also has Search and View All buttons.
The sheriff's disclaimer is important because the roster is a custody snapshot. Charges, status, and court information can change quickly. A missing person may have been released, booked under a different spelling, not yet posted, transferred to DPSCS, held by a federal agency, or subject to an immigration transfer issue.
- Open the official sheriff roster or the app-hosted lookup.
- Search by first name, last name, or both. If spelling is uncertain, try the last name first.
- Use View All on the app-hosted interface when starting broad.
- Review the public row for ID, name, age, race, sex, booking date, charges, and mugshot link.
- Open Charge(s) for the charge modal and Mugshot for the booking-photo modal.
- If the person is not listed, call the detention center or use the public-information process before assuming release.
Current Inmate Lookup in St. Mary's County
The roster search fields are simple, which makes spelling and name order important. The app-hosted form uses autocomplete sources for first and last name, but no wildcard rule or minimum-character rule was published in the official material. The current sheriff-rendered page displays a table by default, while the app-hosted page exposes the older form with Search and View All controls.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Name | Text/autocomplete | Optional or unspecified | The app-hosted lookup reads from a first-name autocomplete endpoint. |
| Last Name | Text/autocomplete | Optional or unspecified | No wildcard instructions are published; try spelling variants if needed. |
| Search | Button | Action | Runs the lookup using the entered name fields. |
| View All | Button | Action | Displays the broader roster on the app-hosted interface. |
The current sheriff roster page is shown in the image below.
The visible roster fields match the research inventory and confirm that charge and mugshot details open from row-level links.
Past St. Mary's County Inmate Records
The research did not locate an official roster retention rule or a public archive of released St. Mary's County jail bookings. If a person is no longer listed, the next step depends on the record needed. Custody notification can run through Maryland VINE. Court charges can be checked through Maryland Judiciary Case Search. Booking records, jail records, in-car video, radio transmissions, and broader public-information requests can be routed through the sheriff's NextRequest portal or public-information form.
The sheriff records page says report requesters need the date, time, and case number when requesting police reports. It also states that accident reports cost $5.00 for involved individuals, while victims of criminal investigations are not charged for copies. Reports are mailed when available, usually within ten working days. Public-information requests can take longer, and the MPIA notice rule requires a response if production will take more than ten working days.
What a St. Mary's County Inmate Record Shows
The public roster does not publish a full inmate profile page. It publishes a compact row plus modal links. That makes it useful for confirming local custody and booking basics, but weak for bond, housing, court date, arresting agency, release date, warrant number, or attorney information.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| ID | Local numeric roster identifier shown in the table and modal. |
| Name | The listed incarcerated individual's name. |
| Age, race, sex | Basic demographic fields shown on the public roster. |
| Booking Date | The date the jail records custody in the public view. |
| Charge(s) | A row link that opens a charge modal with ID, name, and charge text. |
| Mugshot | A row link that opens the mugshot modal or returns No Image Available. |
| Not shown | Bond, housing unit, court date, release status, and arresting agency were not visible in the inspected primary roster. |
County Jail vs State Prison Lookup
Most search mistakes come from using the wrong system. The St. Mary's County roster covers local custody at the detention center. Maryland DPSCS covers sentenced state custody. BOP covers federal sentenced prisoners from 1982 to the present. ICE ODLS covers immigration detention and requires either an A-Number and country of birth or a biographical search with country of birth.
| System | Who It Covers | Where to Search |
|---|---|---|
| County jail roster | Current local custody at SMCDRC | Sheriff incarcerated individual lookup |
| Maryland DPSCS | People committed to state correctional custody and housed in covered facilities | DPSCS incarcerated individual locator |
| Maryland VINE | Custody and case notification paths | VINELink Maryland |
| BOP | Federal sentenced inmates from 1982 to present | BOP inmate locator |
| ICE ODLS | Immigration detainees in ICE custody | ICE Online Detainee Locator System |
St. Mary's County Detention Facilities
The facility map has two local corrections entries. One is the jail facility where the public roster applies. The other is an alternatives-to-incarceration operation that may involve supervision, day reporting, treatment, electronic monitoring, and drug testing rather than a standard jail bed.
- St. Mary's County Detention and Rehabilitation Center - the primary county jail for local pretrial, pre-sentence, sentenced, and related custody.
- Community Corrections Center - a Corrections Division program site for alternatives to incarceration, including pretrial supervision and day reporting.
St. Mary's County Custody Terms
These terms help separate the roster, jail population, and court-record parts of a search.
- Booking
- Administrative jail intake after an arrest, including creation of a local custody record.
- Classification
- The jail's objective intake process for security level and program needs.
- Detainer
- A request or hold from another agency that may affect release even when a local bond is set.
- DPSCS
- Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, the state corrections agency.
- VINE
- A notification system for custody and case information.
St. Mary's County Inmate Population FAQ
How big is the St. Mary's County inmate population?
A current official jail ADP was not located in the public pages reviewed. The live roster must be checked the same day, and historical capacity should not be used as a current count. The research found a historical 230-bed design-capacity note and two local corrections facilities in the facility map.
How do I search the St. Mary's County inmate population?
Start with the sheriff's incarcerated individual lookup. Search by first or last name, review the public table, and open the charge or mugshot links if present. If the person is missing, check court records, call the detention center, or use DPSCS, BOP, ICE, or VINE depending on the custody path.
Does the roster show mugshots?
Yes, the roster is built with a Mugshot link and a mugshot modal. The same code also anticipates a No Image Available result, so a listed person may not have a public photo returned by the site.
Are court charges the same as roster charges?
No. Roster charges are booking information. Court charges can be amended, reduced, dismissed, nolle prossed, or replaced by indictment after the State's Attorney and court process the case.