Locate Valley County Jail Inmates

Valley County Jail Overview

Valley County Jail is operated by the Valley County Sheriff's Office. The official sheriff page states that the sheriff has charge and custody of the jail and prisoners, except in counties with a county board of corrections. The current sheriff page names David Scheideler as sheriff and lists the same Ord address and main phone number used by the jail contact page. The dispatcher-operated jail site uses the Axis Group label and supplies the public inmate page, call logs, active warrants, contact details, jail information, visitation rules, mail rules, JailATM deposit reference, and CIDNET communication reference.

The facility should be described as a local adult jail for pretrial detainees, local court commitments, warrant bookings, and short-sentence or hold situations. The research did not identify a separate Valley County work-release center, city jail, regional jail, state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention facility in the county. Public entries reviewed for the project showed some Howard County court commitments or holds housed at the Valley County Jail, so the daily visible population can include people whose case county is not Valley County.

The official Valley County Sheriff's Office page confirms the sheriff's jail-custody role and main office information.

That official source should be paired with the operational jail pages when confirming a booking, visit, bond, or public-record request.

Valley County Jail Population

Current rated capacity and current average daily population were not located in official Valley County sources, the sheriff page, the jail pages, or the public jail standards material reviewed. Vera historical data reports Valley County jail population values for 2013 through 2019, but the 2020-2024 rows do not publish Valley County jail population values. Because no current official capacity field was found, the facility page should not state a present bed count.

Vera's most recent populated Valley County row reported 2.29 average jail population, 17.1 admissions, and a jail rate of 99.74 per 100,000 people age 15-64 for 2019. The public roster inspected on June 21, 2026 showed 9 visible inmate entries, including older material and entries that referenced Howard County. That visible count is a useful search clue, not a verified facility census.

Look Up Valley County Jail Inmates

The correct local lookup path is the Valley County Jail public inmate page. It is a dated booking feed with photos and narrative entries, not a database with a search form. A visitor should scan the newest entries first, use the browser find command for a last name, and then compare the jail's call logs for recent Book In and Book Out items. The jail phone line remains important because the public page does not publish a fixed update interval or a full release archive.

1. Open the public inmate page and review the newest date headings.
2. Use browser find for a last name because the page has no search box or filter.
3. Read the entry for the case county, warrant basis, charges, bond, 10% notation, and HOLD text.
4. Check the call-log page for book-out, bonded-out, or court-pending notes.
5. Call the jail at (308) 728-3906 before treating custody, bond, or visitation status as current.

Once a Valley County defendant is sentenced to state prison, the county jail page is no longer the main search channel. Use the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services incarceration record search for sentenced Nebraska prison custody. Use the BOP inmate locator for federal sentenced inmates and ICE's detainee locator for immigration custody.

Valley County Jail Address

The jail and sheriff's office share the same public address in Ord. The jail contact page also lists an email address and fax number. Use the phone line for current custody, bond, visit, or release questions because web entries can lag behind a book-out or court change.

The Valley County jail contact page shows the jail address, email, phone, and fax in one place.

Those details match the sheriff's office contact information in the county source material and are the best documented jail-records contact points.

Visit Valley County Jail Inmates

Valley County Jail publishes public visitation on two weekday afternoons. Visits are limited to 30 minutes, with a possible extension if no one else is waiting. Visitors under 18 must be with a parent or guardian, with an exception that treats married people under 18 as adults when visiting an incarcerated spouse. Visitors must provide identification when requested. Staff may deny or stop a visit and document that action.

The Valley County jail information page is the source for visitation, JailATM, CIDNET, mail, and facility rules.

Check that source and call the jail before traveling, especially when a court date, hold, or release could change the person's custody status.

Mail Money and CIDNET

Valley County Jail publishes a specific mailing format. Incoming non-legal mail is opened and inspected for contraband. Legal mail is treated as legal mail only when the sender name and official status appear on the envelope, and it is still opened and inspected. Outgoing mail may be inspected, censored, or opened when safety, security, or public-safety grounds exist. These rules are stricter than ordinary correspondence and should be checked before sending documents or items.

Valley County Jail Booking

Local published material does not describe every internal intake step, but the public entries and call logs show the visible record trail. A person may arrive after an arrest, court commitment, warrant execution, or transfer for a hold. Intake can include identity checks, property handling, search and security processing, fingerprints when required, a booking photo, and creation of a jail record. Medical or safety screening and classification follow before the person is housed or released.

Bond and hold status are driven by court or warrant instructions. Nebraska court material explains that the purpose of bond is to secure appearance and address future risk, while Neb. Rev. Stat. 29-901 governs release, recognizance, surety, and pretrial supervision authority. Valley County public entries often show a dollar amount with 10% wording. A bond amount does not always mean release is available because another hold, warrant, court commitment, or other county case can block release.

About Valley County Jail

The official county material places the jail in Ord, the county seat, near the local courthouse and government offices. Valley County covers 570 square miles in central Nebraska and had a 2020 Census population of 4,059. The jail's public-facing records are unusual for a small county because the dispatcher-operated site posts not only inmate entries but also call logs and active warrants. That makes the call-log page useful when a person is no longer easy to find on the inmate page.

Program information is limited in the public sources. The jail information page documents visitation, professional visits, mail, JailATM, and CIDNET. It does not publish GED, work release, substance-use treatment, medical request, grievance, or reentry program details. Nebraska Jail Standards supply the statewide governance baseline for adult detention, but no Valley County-specific accreditation, consent decree, current inspection report, or jail conditions litigation was located in the official sources reviewed.