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Allegany County Jail Overview

Allegany County Jail is operated by the Allegany County Sheriff's Office. The sheriff's public materials list Sheriff Scott A. Cicirello, Undersheriff Walt Mackney, Jail Administrator Christopher Ivers, and Lt. Craig Plaisted among the leadership connected to sheriff and jail administration. The jail is a local county facility, not a state prison. It serves the county's arrest, pretrial, short-sentence, and local holding needs, while also housing federal and extra-local detainees when accepted.

The county jail page states that Allegany County Jail was re-accredited by the New York State Sheriff's Association in 2016, 2020, and 2025. It also describes a Corrections Emergency Response Team and local work programs. The facility sits on the sheriff campus along State Route 19 south of central Belmont, near the county court and government seat. Court functions such as County Court, County Clerk, and District Attorney offices are in Belmont at or near 7 Court Street, but inmate custody is centered at the jail campus.

Allegany County Jail Population

The most current official population figures in the research come from the DCJS/SCOC monthly jail population report prepared June 1, 2026. For May 2026, Allegany County Jail reported a census of 63 and an in-house population of 62. The same state row showed 12 sentenced people, 13 federal detainees, one technical parole violator, no civil inmates, no state-ready inmates, and 36 other unsentenced people. No current official rated capacity was located in the county jail page or SCOC directory, so capacity is not stated as a number.

Who Allegany County Jail Holds

Allegany County Jail holds adults in several legal statuses. A newly arrested person may be booked while a court appearance is pending. A person convicted of a local jail sentence may serve time there if the sentence is one year or less. A person sentenced to state prison may appear in local custody briefly while awaiting transfer to DOCCS, although the May 2026 state row showed no state-ready inmates. Federal detainees can also be housed locally, which is why the federal count matters in Allegany County's population data and jail revenue reports.

The facility should not be described as a state prison or as a federal prison. It is a county jail with local correctional duties and some extra-local housing. That distinction affects every lookup. Current county jail custody is searched through the sheriff roster and allconet form. Sentenced state prisoners are searched through DOCCS after transfer. Federal sentenced prisoners are searched through BOP, and immigration detainees are searched through ICE ODLS.

Look Up Allegany County Jail Inmates

Use the OCV inmate roster for public current custody cards, booking photos, View Charges buttons, and VINELink notification links. Use the allconet Detention Center search form for Last Name, First Name, Nick Name, Sex, and Race fields. If neither system returns the person, call the jail division at (585) 268-9200, then consider VINELink, the county FOIL process, DOCCS, BOP, or ICE depending on the person's custody stage.

1. Open the OCV roster and scan the current inmate cards.
2. Use the allconet form when a direct name or filter search is better.
3. Open View Charges to check the visible charge code, charge date, bond type, and booking photo.
4. Use VINELink if release, transfer, or custody status alerts are needed.
5. Call (585) 268-9200 when the person is missing or when bond and release status must be confirmed.

Allegany County Jail Address

The jail, sheriff's office, and public corrections contact routes all point to the State Route 19 campus in Belmont. The sheriff's office page lists general office and jail division contacts, the SCOC directory lists the county-jail phone, and the OCV sheriff app site provides the public sheriff contact block. Because custody, bail, visit scheduling, and property rules can involve different staff, a phone call is the safest first step before visiting.

Visit Allegany County Jail

The county jail page lists a current schedule by population and says scheduling is by phone. Calls must be made by Sunday at 8 p.m. to schedule a visit, and visitors without an appointment may be admitted only case by case. The same page says inmates have the right to refuse any visit. Each inmate is entitled to a 15-minute, non-contact visit within 24 hours after admission. After that first visit, regular weekly visits begin after classification, which can take 5 to 15 business days.

Visitor rules include valid photo ID, arrival at least 15 minutes early, appropriate dress, locker storage for prohibited items, and special documentation rules for children under 18 who are not with a parent or legal guardian. Hats, jackets, purses, bags, cell phones, keys, knives, and similar items must be secured before visitation.

Mail and Money at Allegany County Jail

Mail and money rules are specific enough to preserve. Search snippets and county materials point mail to Allegany County Jail, 4884 State Route 19 S, Belmont, New York 14813, with a complete and legible return address. Money orders must be made payable to the Allegany County Sheriff's Office Commissary Account in care of the incarcerated person's name. Personal checks are not accepted. The office is not responsible for cash sent by mail. Lobby kiosk deposits are also available, but the captured official text did not publish a kiosk fee.

Bail at Allegany County Jail

The county's official bail page explains card payment through GovPayEXP for cash bail or fines. The payer needs the defendant's name, date of birth, inmate ID, court name, and cash bail amount. The page directs users to call (585) 268-9200 for information before payment. Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover are accepted. A non-refundable GovPayEXP service fee applies to all bail transactions, listed by the county as 9 percent with a $5 minimum.

Bond type should not be guessed from the roster alone. The inspected OCV profile showed a sample bond type of NO_BAIL, and a hold or detainer may prevent release even when another case has a payment option. Court orders control recognizance, non-monetary conditions, money bail, remand, or later changes after review.

Intake at Allegany County Jail

Local intake starts after arrest, surrender, or transfer to the sheriff's facility. The jail process can include identity checks, fingerprints, a booking photo where allowed, medical or mental-health screening, property inventory, initial classification, and roster entry. The public OCV profile fields match parts of that process: inmate ID, height, weight, gender, race, age, eye color, hair color, charge code, charge description, charge date, and bond type. The county's initial visitation rule also shows that booking and classification are separate phases.

Booking

The jail intake process after arrest, including identity, photo, property, and first custody records.

Classification

A jail assessment used for housing, program, and regular visitation placement.

Detainer

A request or hold from another agency that may block release until further action.

State-ready

A person sentenced to state prison but still waiting for DOCCS transfer.

Allegany County Jail Programs

Allegany County's program details are unusually local. The jail reports working incarcerated individuals helping with laundry, cleaning, floor maintenance, painting, food preparation and serving, landscaping, lawn care, snow removal, sheriff vehicle washing and detailing, the county pheasant program, and garden work. The 2023 annual report described 8,968 incarcerated-worker hours at a cost of $1,121 paid from the commissary account. It also described pheasant program work that helped release 769 mature pheasants around Allegany County.

Medical and treatment details also matter for jail conditions. The 2023 and 2024 annual reports said local correctional facilities must provide medication assisted treatment to anyone who requests it, and Allegany County Jail maintained 25 percent of its population participating in MAT. The 2024 report described a partnership with CASA-Trinity based in Elmira for methadone dosing needs. These facts do not change roster access, but they make the facility page specific to this jail instead of a generic county-jail summary.

Accreditation and Conditions Reporting

The county jail page states that Allegany County Jail was re-accredited by the New York State Sheriff's Association in 2016, 2020, and 2025. The jail page and annual-report excerpts also refer to HALT Act reporting, staff retraining, and staffing challenges. SCOC's incarcerated mortality reports page lists an Allegany County Jail death in custody with a date of death of February 13, 2024. That source is an official reporting item, not a litigation finding. The research did not locate a current DOJ consent decree, class action, construction bond, or official overcrowding litigation specific to the jail.