Lookup St. Lawrence County Correctional Facility Inmates

St. Lawrence Facility Overview

St. Lawrence County Correctional Facility is operated by the St. Lawrence County Sheriff's Office Correctional Division. The jail is at 17 Commerce Lane, Canton, NY 13617, and the public jail phone number is (315) 379-2367. The county's correctional page lists Peggy Harper as Jail Administrator and Timothy Amo II as Assistant Jail Administrator, with Sheriff Patrick R. "Rick" Engle identified in county materials as the current sheriff. The sheriff's administrative office is separate from the jail and is listed at 48 Court Street, Building #8, Canton, NY 13617.

The jail handles local county custody. It holds adults accused of crimes or awaiting sentencing, sentenced inmates committed up to one year, state-ready prisoners awaiting transfer, civil detainees, technical parole violators, and other local jail categories reported to DCJS and the New York State Commission of Correction. It is not a DOCCS state prison, even though St. Lawrence County also contains Gouverneur Correctional Facility and Riverview Correctional Facility.

The official Correctional Division page shows the jail address, phone, leadership, and operating role for St. Lawrence County custody.

St. Lawrence County's Correctional Division page is the county source for the Commerce Lane jail contact block.

Use the county jail contact information for local custody questions, not the courthouse or a state-prison address.

St. Lawrence Facility Population

The county's jail history page says the facility has 164 single cells and capacity for 186 people when double-cell authorization is granted by the New York State Commission of Correction. The DCJS/SCOC Monthly Jail Population Trends report prepared June 1, 2026 reported a May 2026 St. Lawrence County Jail average daily census of 123, with 122 in house and 1 boarded out.

The May 2026 population mix was 56 sentenced people, 3 civil detainees, 0 federal custody, 2 technical parole violators, 1 state-ready person, and 59 other unsentenced people. "State ready" means a sentenced person is waiting in county jail for transfer to DOCCS. "Other unsentenced" includes people awaiting arraignment, trial, or sentencing and certain parole-related arrests.

Lookup St. Lawrence Facility Inmates

St. Lawrence County does not publish a static county-hosted HTML roster in the official pages reviewed. The public lookup route for current county jail custody is VINELink, the VINE phone route, the St. Lawrence County Sheriff app, and the jail phone line when online search results do not resolve the question. The county VINE page says VINE information is free and available around the clock, and it lists the phone route at 1-888-846-3469.

1. Start with VINELink and choose New York for the custody search.
2. Search by full name. Add date of birth if known, especially for common names.
3. Confirm the facility shown. Local custody should point to St. Lawrence County Correctional Facility.
4. If no result appears, call the jail at (315) 379-2367 because recent bookings, releases, aliases, spelling, transfer timing, and sealed matters can affect public results.
5. If the person has been sentenced to state prison, use the DOCCS incarcerated lookup instead of the county jail route.

The sheriff app is also relevant. The Google Play listing and Apple App Store listing advertise inmate search through Appriss Safety, visitation information, bail options, commissary options, and VINE status notifications. The app is not for emergency reports.

St. Lawrence Facility Contact

Use the Commerce Lane jail contact for current custody, inmate accounts, visits, bail/property drop, and jail records questions. The sheriff's Court Street office is useful for administrative sheriff functions and records or FOIL contact, but visitors should not confuse it with the correctional facility entrance.

St. Lawrence Facility Visits

The official Correctional Visitation page gives a local schedule by housing unit. Each inmate may request one non-contact secure visit within 24 hours after admission when it can be arranged without disrupting operations. That initial visit is limited to 30 minutes. After that, the inmate must submit to a PPD tuberculosis test before further contact or non-contact visits are granted.

Regular contact visits are first come, first served by unit. Each inmate gets two one-hour visits per week. Visitors must arrive 20 minutes before the scheduled visit, bring valid photo ID, and follow the dress, search, child, and banned-item rules. The county says two visitors and one child up to age five may enter the visitation area, and a lobby locker for disallowed items costs 25 cents.

The county visitation page shows the St. Lawrence County Correctional Facility contact-visit schedule and visitor rules.

The visit schedule is tied to C Unit, D Unit, and E and F Units, so confirm the inmate's housing unit before traveling.

Note: The research notes a typo on the county page for D Unit Sunday time, so verify the schedule before visiting.

St. Lawrence Mail and Money

The county Correctional Inmate page says inmates may send and receive unlimited correspondence if it follows jail mail policy. Address mail to the inmate by name at St. Lawrence County Correctional Facility, 17 Commerce Lane, Canton, New York 13617. Postage-paid envelopes and writing paper are available through commissary.

Inmates may make outgoing calls through GTL. Family and friends can set up a GTL collect-call account by calling 1-866-230-7761 or visiting gtl.net. Telephone privileges, except attorney calls, may be suspended for disciplinary, administrative, sanction, or security reasons.

The county inmate-services page lists the St. Lawrence County jail phone, mail, package, commissary, kiosk, and SmartDeposit routes.

Use the jail's own money and mail instructions for county inmates, since DOCCS state-prison rules are different.

St. Lawrence Bail and Property

St. Lawrence County's Correctional Bail page says bail may be posted 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The jail accepts cash, credit card, or bail bond. It does not accept checks or money orders. A person posting bail in person must bring photo identification, and a credit-card holder must be present with proper ID when paying at the facility.

For in-person bail or property drop, the county directs visitors to the main lobby entrance, the Control Room Officer intercom, the vestibule, and the LO102 Bail/Property Drop room. For remote credit-card bail, the person posting bail must contact the correctional facility for fact-sheet information such as PLC number, bail amount, and court name, then use the GPS/GovPayNet process.

St. Lawrence Intake Process

Booking at St. Lawrence County Correctional Facility begins with legal authority to hold the person. A local, state, federal, or other law-enforcement agency may arrest the person, or a court may issue a commitment. The person may be processed by the arresting agency before transport to the jail, depending on the case path and arraignment timing.

At intake, the jail creates or updates the inmate account and custody record. The commissary page says an inmate account is set up at booking. Staff handle property, search and safety procedures, screening, classification, housing, phone access, and any public-facing bail or property process. The unit-based visitation schedule shows that housing assignment affects when regular contact visits occur.

State ready

A person sentenced to state prison but still waiting in the county jail for DOCCS transfer.

Technical parole violator

A person held on a parole-violation warrant rather than solely on a new local sentence.

Other unsentenced

A DCJS/SCOC category for people awaiting arraignment, trial, sentencing, or certain parole-related proceedings.

Detainer

A hold or notice from another agency that can affect whether a person is released.

About St. Lawrence Facility

The county says the current jail opened in May 2009 and replaced an older, undersized Judson Street jail in the Village of Canton. It was designed by SMRT Architects of Portland, Maine as a direct-supervision facility. The building is about 93,000 square feet on 22.5 acres and cost roughly $32.5 million. The mechanical and service systems were designed with expansion capacity for at least two additional 60-bed housing units.

Local jail programs and conditions details in the official pages are limited, but the county describes the facility as secure, humane, efficient, and compliant with local, state, federal, and nationally accepted correctional standards. The New York State Commission of Correction provides statewide oversight of correctional facilities, jail capacity matters, mortality investigations, and minimum standards. Current custody should still be verified directly with the facility or VINELink before a visit, bail payment, or records request.