Ottawa County Inmate Search

Ottawa County, MI Jail Inmate Search

OTTAWA COUNTY is located in Michigan with an average daily population of 219. The county has approximately 255 confined in facilities with 216 male and 35 female prisoners. That means that 85% of the confined population are male, and 14% are female.

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255

(Prisoners)

219

(Average Daily Population)

How Does Ottawa County Inmate Search Work?

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

Ottawa County Parole and Probation

Ottawa 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 Ottawa County parole records. There may be information regarding their sentence and offences in the Ottawa County parole files. You could also get to look through information regarding their detention location and parole conditions.

Ottawa County Probation

You should also be able to access Ottawa 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, Ottawa 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.

Ottawa County Booking

When researching statistics on whether or not a stranger has been arrested, Ottawa County bookings can help. A perpetrator's Ottawa 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 Ottawa County booking records without requiring any kind of authorization.

Ottawa County Confined Population Statistics

In the past 6 years, the confined population in OTTAWA COUNTY has dropped by 1.16% from 258 each year to 255 inmates. Men are still confined about 216 per 100,000 U.S. residents annually in OTTAWA COUNTY, despite the fact that women are the group confined at the fastest rate of growth.

Inmate Population in Ottawa County, MI

OTTAWA COUNTY has only 255 of the 255 inmates are actually put in jail; the other 0 are under supervision; they are not currently confined.

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

	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total Population	263	279	384	n/a	181	255
Confined Population	258	279	384	n/a	181	255
Non Confined Population	5	0	0	n/a	0	0

Ottawa County Confined Population by Gender

In OTTAWA COUNTY, there are 216 confined male inmates for every 100,000 male U.S. residents, and 35 confined female inmates for every 100,000 female U.S. citizens. The confined population of male prisoners remained constant between 2016 and 2021, while the confined population of female dropped by 5.41%.

Ottawa County Female Confined Population for
2016-2021 years

	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Adult Females	37	36	68	57	23	35
Females Under 18	1	0	0	1	0	3
Female ADP	38	41	56	n/a	47	31

Ottawa County Male Confined Population for
2016-2021 years

	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Adult Males	216	242	313	231	155	216
Males Under 18	4	1	3	2	3	1
Male ADP	248	216	279	n/a	239	188

Breaking Down Ottawa County Inmates By Race

In OTTAWA COUNTY, the average confined population for White inmates is 150 per 100,000 white citizens, which is 114.14% higher than the confined population for Black or African American inmates. The number of Black or African American inmates who were confined went from 55 to 41 for every 100,000 black population of the United States between 2016 and 2021. The average Hispanic or Latino confined population in OTTAWA COUNTY is 33 per 100,000 Hispanic Americans, while the average Asian confined population is 10 per 100,000 Asian Americans, accounting American Indian/Alaska Natives for just 0 residents of the county's confined population.

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

	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
White Inmates - Confined	183	167	237	n/a	101	150
Black or African American Inmates - Confined	55	50	62	n/a	27	41
Hispanic or Latino Inmates - Confined	17	50	67	n/a	36	33
American Indian/Alaska Natives Inmates - Confined	0	0	2	n/a	0	0
Asian Inmates - Confined	3	3	2	n/a	4	10
Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander Inmates - Confined	0	0	0	n/a	0	0
Two or more Races Inmates - Confined	0	0	0	n/a	0	0
Not Known (Race) Inmates - Confined	0	9	14	n/a	13	21