Franklin County Jail Overview
Franklin County Jail is operated by the Franklin County Sheriff's Department. The county lists the sheriff's department and jail at 45 Bare Hill Road in Malone, with separate administration and booking phone numbers. The same county materials identify the jail as a public safety facility that operates around the clock. For a person arrested by a sheriff deputy, village police officer, New York State Police trooper, or other local agency in Franklin County, this is the first local facility to check unless the person has already been released, taken directly to court, or moved to another custody system.
The jail is different from the state prisons nearby. Franklin Correctional Facility and Upstate Correctional Facility are New York State DOCCS prisons for sentenced state prisoners. Bare Hill Correctional Facility is a recently closed or standby former DOCCS site. Franklin County Jail, by contrast, handles local jail custody, including pretrial detainees, sentenced local jail prisoners, technical parole violators, state-ready prisoners waiting for transfer, boarded prisoners, and federal prisoners held under the county's U.S. Marshals agreement.
Note: Use the county jail booking line for recent arrests, and use DOCCS only after a state-prison transfer.
Franklin County Jail Population
The most useful sourced population figures come from the DCJS annual jail population report. Franklin County Jail had an annual average daily census of 83 in 2025. The in-house average was 57, with 20 sentenced, 10 federal, 1 technical parole violator, 2 state readies, and 24 other unsentenced people. Those categories show why a Franklin County Jail custody search may need more than one path. A person may be local, federal, held on a parole issue, or waiting for state transfer.
An older correctional-population benchmark listed Franklin County Jail at 121 local population in the Prisoners of the Census table. The located sources did not provide a current official rated capacity or a modern county jail capacity document. For that reason, the jail population is best read through sourced census and average daily population numbers, not through an unsupported current capacity claim.
| 2025 category | Average | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Sentenced | 20 | People serving local jail time. |
| Federal | 10 | Federal prisoners held through contract custody. |
| Technical parole violators | 1 | People held on alleged parole-condition violations. |
| State readies | 2 | People awaiting transfer to DOCCS. |
| Other unsentenced | 24 | Pretrial or otherwise unsentenced custody. |
Franklin County Jail Lookup
No official Franklin County Jail public roster, current-inmate search page, daily booking report, or mugshot gallery was located on the county site. That changes the lookup workflow. A current Franklin County Jail inmate search starts with the booking phone and then uses VINE, FOIL, WebCriminal, DOCCS, BOP, or ICE only when the facts point to those systems. A blank online search box cannot be used for a county roster because no official county roster was located.
- Call Franklin County Jail Booking with the person's full legal name, date of birth if known, arrest date, and arresting agency.
- Ask whether the person is in current custody, released, waiting for court, held on another agency's warrant, or listed as state ready.
- Use New York VINE for custody notifications when the person can be found there.
- Check WebCriminal for pending case dates and court records after a jail arrest.
- Use DOCCS Incarcerated Lookup only for sentenced state-prison custody or certain former state prisoners.
If the person may be in federal custody, the BOP inmate locator covers federal inmates from 1982 to the present, but it may not show every U.S. Marshals pretrial detainee housed in a county contract jail. If immigration custody is possible, use the ICE Online Detainee Locator System. ICE lookup requires either A-number and country of birth or a name-based search with country of birth and birth date.
Franklin County Jail Contact
The booking line is the key contact point for a current Franklin County Jail custody question. Administration is better for routing, general sheriff's department business, or records direction. The county FOIL email is the formal fallback when a booking sheet, jail record, incident record, or booking photograph is not available informally.
Franklin County Jail
45 Bare Hill Road
Malone, NY 12953
Booking: 518-483-6795
Administration: 518-483-3304
24/7 facility per county emergency plan
| Need | Best channel |
|---|---|
| Current custody | Call booking at 518-483-6795. |
| County jail record | Use Franklin County FOIL or email foil@franklincountyny.gov. |
| Court date | Search WebCriminal or contact the court clerk. |
| State prison transfer | Search DOCCS by DIN, NYSID, or name. |
Franklin County Jail Visits
Franklin County did not publish an official jail visitor schedule, visitor handbook, or public entry rules in the materials located. The safest visitor workflow is to call booking before traveling and confirm whether the person is eligible for a visit, whether the visit is onsite or video, what identification is required, and whether the schedule has changed due to court movement, lockdown, staffing, weather, or emergency conditions.
The vendor listing for ConnectNetwork Franklin County NY County Jail indicates video visitation, visit scheduling, visitation fee, messaging, photo exchange, and payments. That vendor listing is useful, but it is not a complete official jail policy. Account setup, fees, approval status, and availability should be confirmed through the jail and vendor before money is spent.
| Visit type | Published schedule | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| In-person public visit | Not located in official county source | Call booking before travel. |
| Video visit | Vendor page indicates scheduling | Confirm with ConnectNetwork and jail. |
| Attorney visit | Not published in source located | Call booking or administration. |
| Emergency change | Not published | Call before travel during storms or lockdowns. |
Franklin County Jail Services
No official county mail policy, legal mail rule, commissary fee table, or money-deposit fee schedule was located for Franklin County Jail. Because those rules affect delivery, rejected mail, account fees, and blocked vendors, they should be confirmed before sending funds, photos, packages, or legal material. The ConnectNetwork page supports the existence of jail-related communication and payment services, but the county source did not publish a full fee table.
| Service | Published detail |
|---|---|
| Personal mail | No official county mail policy located. Call before mailing. |
| Legal mail | No official local marking rule located. Attorneys should confirm procedure. |
| Phone, video, messaging | ConnectNetwork page indicates video, scheduling, messaging, photo exchange, and payments. |
| Money deposit | No official county fee table located. Confirm vendor and fee before payment. |
Franklin County Jail Records
A Franklin County Jail record may involve booking, intake, arresting agency, custody status, charges at intake, bail or court information, release date, housing restrictions, or a booking photograph. The county does not show an online sample record, so no public field layout can be promised. The Franklin County jail inmate records process is best viewed as a fallback chain: booking phone first, then VINE, court records, FOIL, and the correct state or federal locator when custody has moved.
FOIL is important here. New York Public Officers Law sections 87 and 89 provide the public-records request framework for agency records, but exemptions, privacy rules, active investigations, and sealing can limit release. Criminal Procedure Law 160.50 can restrict arrest and booking records after a favorable termination. Ask for a specific record and include enough identifiers to let the county find it.
Franklin County Facility Confusion
The Malone correctional cluster creates common search errors. Franklin County Jail is at 45 Bare Hill Road. Franklin Correctional Facility is at 62 Bare Hill Road. Upstate Correctional Facility is at 309 Bare Hill Road. Bare Hill Correctional Facility was at 181 Brand Road and is treated as closed or standby for June 2026 content. Similar names and nearby addresses do not mean the same operator, custody population, or lookup tool.
- County jail
- Local custody for recent arrests, pretrial detention, local sentences, and some holds.
- DOCCS prison
- State custody for sentenced adult prisoners searched through DOCCS.
- Federal hold
- Federal custody may involve USMS, BOP, or a contract jail, depending on stage.
- State ready
- A jail prisoner waiting for transfer to state prison after sentencing.