This is a private reference site, not a Columbia County office. We cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, release a person, post bail, schedule visits, or retrieve official booking records. Use the official offices below for those actions.
Where to Direct Columbia County Record Questions
For current custody at the local jail, start with Columbia County Prison. For sheriff matters, warrants, and after-hours public-safety routing, use the Sheriff's Office numbers. Formal public-record requests go through the county Open Records Officer under Pennsylvania's Right-to-Know Law.
Columbia County Prison
721 Iron Street
Bloomsburg, PA 17815
Main phone: 570-784-4815
Prison records: Ethan Whitmire, 570-389-5718
Columbia County Sheriff's Office
Sheriff Timothy Chamberlain
35 West Main Street
Bloomsburg, PA 17815
Weekday phone: 570-389-5622, Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
After hours, nights, weekends, and holidays: 570-784-6300
County Records and Court Records
Open Records Officer: David J. Witchey
Email: dwitchey@columbiapa.org
Phone: 570-389-5613
Prothonotary/Clerk of Courts: 35 West Main Street, Bloomsburg, PA 17815
Phone: 570-389-5614
Hours: Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Use the list below to match the question to the page or agency most likely to help.
- For someone who may be in Columbia County Prison, use the jail inmate records page and call the prison when current custody matters.
- For booking-photo or wanted-person image questions, review jail roster mugshots and the Columbia County Sheriff's CRIMEWATCH posts.
- For charges, dockets, hearings, bail entries, or dispositions after arrest, use court records after a jail arrest and the Pennsylvania UJS portal.
- For facility rules, visitation, mail, and money, use the Columbia County Prison page listed in the footer.
- For a person sentenced to state custody, use the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections inmate and parolee locator.
- For federal prison or immigration detention, use the BOP inmate locator or ICE ODLS rather than the county jail contact.