Montgomery County Jail Roster
The official Montgomery County inmate records source for current local custody is the Montgomery County Jail roster published by the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office. The roster is on the sheriff's own site, is free to view, and did not show a login requirement in the research capture. It is current-custody oriented. That means it is best for someone recently booked into the Montgomery County Jail / Department of Corrections, not for an old arrest, a state prison sentence, or a federal case after transfer.
The roster displays public cards rather than a hidden profile system. A card can show a booking photo, name, booking number, charges, bond, arresting agency, booking date and time, age, sex, and race. The sheriff site also publishes an inmate information page that draws a useful local boundary: the jail may confirm or deny custody, but questions about bond amounts, release times, charges, and court dates are routed to the Sheriff's Office main line.
The sheriff's inmate information page is important when the online roster is incomplete, delayed, or hard to search. It explains why a jail employee may not discuss the same details that appear in a court or sheriff record. For a current custody question, use the roster first, then the jail phone for custody confirmation, then the Sheriff's Office for bond, charge, release, and court-date questions.
The roster screenshot in the research came from the official sheriff source. The official Montgomery County roster page shows the Name and Booking Number fields above the current inmate cards.
Those visible fields make the roster useful even when only a last name or booking number is known.
Use Montgomery County Inmate Search
A careful search works better than a single full-name query. The Montgomery County roster does not publish fuzzy-search rules, wildcard rules, or a minimum character count, so spelling matters. Start broad, then narrow. If the person has just been arrested by Coffeyville PD, Independence PD, the Sheriff's Office, or another local agency, allow time for booking and data entry before assuming the person is not in custody.
- Open the official roster from the Sheriff's Office site and look for the search form near the current inmate count.
- Search by name first. If the spelling is uncertain, try last name only, a shorter version of the first name, or a known alternate spelling.
- Use the Booking Number field when a local booking number is available. Observed booking numbers use a B plus year and zero-padded sequence format.
- Review each matching card for charges, bond, arresting agency, booking date and time, age, sex, race, and the booking photograph.
- If the person is missing, call the jail for custody confirmation, call the Sheriff's Office for bond or court-date questions, and check state, federal, ICE, and VINELink channels when transfer or outside custody is possible.
Do not treat a roster absence as proof that no arrest occurred. A person may have bonded out, been released, been moved to another county, been sent to KDOC after sentencing, entered federal custody, or never been accepted into the Montgomery County Jail. The court record may also lag behind the booking record, because prosecutors review reports before formal charges appear in district court.
Montgomery County Roster Fields
The search form is simple, which is one reason the fallback channels matter. It does not show a facility dropdown, date filter, charge filter, or release-status filter. Pagination appears below the inmate cards, so broad searches may require moving through several result pages.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Options / Format Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Text | Unspecified | Searches by inmate name; no wildcard or minimum-character rule was published. |
| Booking Number | Text | Unspecified | Observed examples include B26000000174 and B25000001047. |
| Search button | Button | Not applicable | Submits the roster search from the sheriff-hosted form. |
| Pagination | Links | Not applicable | Page numbers and a next-page arrow were visible during inspection. |
Note: The live roster count changes, so use it as a custody snapshot rather than a monthly or annual jail population report.
Montgomery County Inmate Profile Data
Each visible Montgomery County inmate card combines identity data, booking data, charge data, and release-related clues. Some fields still need confirmation. For example, a Bond value of zero should not be read as a free release amount. It may mean no amount is listed, a hold exists, a court has not set bond, or the public card is not enough to explain the custody status.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Name | Last, first, and middle name when available on the public card. |
| Mugshot | Booking photograph for current roster entries, when published by the sheriff. |
| Booking Number | Local jail booking identifier, observed as B plus two-digit year and a padded number. |
| Charges | Kansas statute numbers, plain charge descriptions, warrant or hold text, and multi-charge entries. |
| Bond | Numeric bond field that must be verified through the Sheriff's Office before payment or release planning. |
| Arresting Agency | The agency tied to the booking, including Montgomery County, Coffeyville PD, and Independence PD in samples. |
| Date | Booking date and time in compact numeric format. |
| Age, Sex, Race | Basic demographic fields displayed on current public cards. |
Housing unit, projected release date, judge, court date, warrant number, and full physical description were not visible on sampled Montgomery County cards. For court events after filing, use Kansas Case Search and the 14th Judicial District docket rather than assuming the jail card is the full case record.
Montgomery County Jail Contact
The main jail contact block is useful when the roster is unclear. The county directory and sheriff pages list the same jail address and phone. The Sheriff's Office main line is the better route for bond amounts, release times, charges, and court-date questions because the inmate information page says the jail itself is limited to confirming or denying custody.
Montgomery County Jail / Department of Corrections
300 East Main Street
Independence, KS 67301
Jail: 620-330-1240
Sheriff's Office: 620-330-1000
Public counter hours: Monday-Friday, 8 am-5 pm
The county jail directory listing also confirms the jail fax and public hours. For more facility-specific instructions, the Montgomery County Jail / Department of Corrections page summarizes lookup, visits, mail, money, and records request steps for the same location.
Montgomery County Booking Records
Montgomery County does not publish a long booking manual, but the roster fields show the core intake record. After an arrest by the Sheriff's Office or a city police agency, the person is transported to the county jail, accepted into custody, assigned a booking number, photographed, linked to charge text, and shown with bond, agency, date, and demographics when the public card posts.
Booking is not the same as conviction. A booking record is an intake record. The court record begins when a prosecutor files formal charges, and those charges may differ from the arrest labels on the roster. If a person is later sentenced to state prison, the search path changes again. KDOC reception includes fingerprinting, photographing, searching, health evaluation, classification, and placement through the state corrections process.
Custody flow: Arrest by local agency > Montgomery County booking > roster card > first appearance or release > court case > KDOC, federal, ICE, or local custody if applicable.
Montgomery County Jail Visits
The jail visitation page gives different visit windows for male inmates, female inmates, and work-crew inmates. Visitor approval is not automatic. A visitor must be at least 18, complete a visitor background request each time the inmate is booked, and wait for approval from the Sheriff's Office, County Attorney, and jail administration. The posted process can take about 72 hours.
| Inmate Group | Posted Time | Appointment Rule | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Male inmates | Fridays 1-7 pm | Call 8-10 am Friday for a same-day appointment | One-hour appointments; first come, first served; arrive 30 minutes early. |
| Female inmates | Saturdays 9 am-12 pm | Walk-in; no appointment required | One-hour visits. |
| Work-crew inmates | Sundays 1-4 pm | Walk-in; no appointment required | One-hour visits. |
Visitors arrested or incarcerated in the last six months, on bond, on probation, or on parole are denied under the posted rules. Three missed appointments can suspend visitation. The jail also says it will not pass messages to inmates, so contact normally occurs by mail, by approved electronic means if available, or when the inmate calls out.
The official visitation page also shows the posted schedule and application rules.
The schedule matters because male visits require a same-day phone appointment, while female and work-crew visits are posted as walk-in windows.
Request Montgomery County Jail Records
For a booking record, arrest report, incident report, or other sheriff record that is not fully shown on the roster, use the Sheriff's Office open-records process. The forms page links the open-records request form, says the form is used for reports completed by the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office, and lists a $5 report fee. The process requires a written request, a printed and completed form, valid identification, and in-person submission to the Sheriff's Office.
The request form asks for the requester name and address, the records sought, number of copies, date requested in writing, signature, pickup information, and certification that names or addresses from public records will not be used for sales. Kansas public-record rules may still allow redaction or denial for certain law-enforcement materials. Ask for the specific record type rather than a broad file, such as booking record, arrest report, incident report, or booking photograph.
County State Federal Inmate Records
Montgomery County inmate records are split by custody system. The county jail roster covers the local jail. The KASPER offender search covers people sentenced to Kansas Department of Corrections custody or supervision since 1980, plus discharged sentence records in that system. It is not a complete criminal-history search and is updated each working day. KDOC says its profiles can include name, KDOC number, physical description, photograph, conviction details, housing location, movement dates, anticipated release date, and supervision level.
Federal and immigration custody use separate tools. The BOP inmate locator searches federal inmates from 1982 to present. ICE custody is searched through the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, which may require an A-number or biographical details. VINELink should be used for custody and release notifications where Kansas agency data is available. No official Montgomery County, Kansas sheriff app was located, so there is no app-only roster to add to the search chain.
- Current local jail custody
- Use the Montgomery County jail roster for pretrial detainees, local sentences, local holds, and people booked by county or city agencies.
- Custody confirmation only
- Call the jail at 620-330-1240 to ask whether the person is in custody at the Montgomery County Jail.
- Bond, release, charges, and court dates
- Call the Sheriff's Office at 620-330-1000 for the details the inmate information page routes away from the jail phone.
- In-person questions or form submission
- Use the jail or Sheriff's Office public counter at 300 East Main Street in Independence during posted weekday public hours.
- Written sheriff reports
- Use the open-records request process for arrest, accident, incident, and related sheriff records, subject to review and fee.
- KDOC, BOP, ICE, and VINELink
- Use KASPER for sentenced state custody or supervision, BOP for federal inmates, ICE for immigration custody, and VINELink for custody or release notifications where Kansas data is available.
Note: Check the court docket separately when the goal is formal charges, hearings, or case disposition after a jail arrest.