Merced County Inmate Search

Merced County, CA Jail Inmate Search

MERCED COUNTY is located in California with an average daily population of 543. The county has approximately 473 confined in facilities with 431 male and 42 female prisoners. That means that 91% of the confined population are male, and 9% are female.

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(Jails)

582

(Prisoners)

543

(Average Daily Population)

How Does Merced County Inmate Search Work?

Inmate records for Merced County are freely accessible. All detention facilities in Merced County are governed by the Freedom of Information Act which provides publicly available information about inmates in the county.

Merced County Parole and Probation

Merced County Parole

If a prisoner has adhered to the regulations while serving their term, they may be granted parole and be released early. Who is granted parole and who is not is decided by a parole board. You may learn a lot about a parolee by looking through the Merced County parole records. There may be information regarding their sentence and offences in the Merced County parole files. You could also get to look through information regarding their detention location and parole conditions.

Merced County Probation

You should also be able to access Merced County probation records, which list men and women who were placed on probation rather than being imprisoned, in addition to those parolees who have already been freed. There are regulations that come with being on probation. In addition to adhering to other conditions, probationers are required to meet their probation officer once per week. Typically, Merced County criminal records will list the inmate's offences, probationary term, and the specifics of the justice department that sentenced them. You may also be able to view photographs, fingerprints, the probationer's physical characteristics, and other information in addition to these facts.

Merced County Booking

When researching statistics on whether or not a stranger has been arrested, Merced County bookings can help. A perpetrator's Merced County booking record is basically created when an officer arrests them, fills out the necessary papers, and places them in an imprisonment cell. It could also contain information such as fingerprints, photographs, physical characteristics, their name and address, the officer in charge, the specifics of the crime, the scene, and any trucks that were involved. The general public can access the copies of a person's Merced County booking records without requiring any kind of authorization.

Merced County Confined Population Statistics

In the past 6 years, the confined population in MERCED COUNTY has dropped by 27.23% from 650 each year to 473 inmates. Men are still confined about 431 per 100,000 U.S. residents annually in MERCED COUNTY, despite the fact that women are the group confined at the fastest rate of growth.

Inmate Population in Merced County, CA

MERCED COUNTY has only 473 of the 582 inmates are actually put in jail; the other 109 are under supervision; they are not currently confined.

Merced County Jail Inmate Population, Jail Pretrial Population and Confined Population, for 2016-2021 years

	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total Population	747	844	950	n/a	644	582
Confined Population	650	700	800	n/a	538	473
Non Confined Population	97	144	150	n/a	106	109

Merced County Confined Population by Gender

In MERCED COUNTY, there are 431 confined male inmates for every 100,000 male U.S. residents, and 42 confined female inmates for every 100,000 female U.S. citizens. The confined population of male prisoners dropped by 28.17% between 2016 and 2021, while the confined population of female dropped by 16.00%.

Merced County Female Confined Population for
2016-2021 years

	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Adult Females	50	73	90	64	70	42
Females Under 18	0	0	0	0	0	0
Female ADP	50	62	96	n/a	47	59

Merced County Male Confined Population for
2016-2021 years

	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Adult Males	600	627	710	568	468	431
Males Under 18	0	0	0	0	0	0
Male ADP	600	618	710	n/a	511	484

Breaking Down Merced County Inmates By Race

In MERCED COUNTY, the average confined population for White inmates is 86 per 100,000 white citizens, which is 89.08% higher than the confined population for Black or African American inmates. The number of Black or African American inmates who were confined went from 70 to 33 for every 100,000 black population of the United States between 2016 and 2021. The average Hispanic or Latino confined population in MERCED COUNTY is 301 per 100,000 Hispanic Americans, while the average Asian confined population is 11 per 100,000 Asian Americans, accounting American Indian/Alaska Natives for just 0 residents of the county's confined population.

Merced County Confined Population by Race, for 2016-2021 years

	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
White Inmates - Confined	175	179	171	n/a	170	86
Black or African American Inmates - Confined	70	60	83	n/a	151	33
Hispanic or Latino Inmates - Confined	384	450	429	n/a	209	301
American Indian/Alaska Natives Inmates - Confined	0	3	5	n/a	2	0
Asian Inmates - Confined	18	3	23	n/a	6	11
Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander Inmates - Confined	3	1	3	n/a	0	3
Two or more Races Inmates - Confined	0	4	85	n/a	0	39
Not Known (Race) Inmates - Confined	0	0	1	n/a	0	0