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Cambria County Prison Overview

Cambria County Prison is the primary county prison for Cambria County government. The county describes the institution as the place that provides care, custody, and control for people charged with or convicted of criminal offenses by the legal committing authority. In plain terms, that means the Cambria County Prison inmate population is the local jail population: recent arrestees who remain in custody, defendants awaiting hearings or trial, people serving local sentences, and people committed by a court or other lawful authority.

The prison is not the same lookup system as the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections or the Federal Bureau of Prisons. A person held before a Cambria County criminal case is resolved may be at Cambria County Prison. After a state-prison sentence and transfer, the search moves to the Pennsylvania DOC Inmate and Parolee Locator. A sentenced federal inmate at Federal Correctional Institution Loretto is searched through BOP, not the county prison. That distinction matters because a local custody call, a state DOC lookup, and a federal BOP search answer different questions.

The county prison page identifies Kurt Wolford as Warden, Megan Bursky as Chief Deputy Warden, and Donald Ochenrider as Major of Security and Investigations. The same county page lists official resource files for visitation, mail procedures, phone and tablet information, PREA files, a 2024 annual sexual-abuse and harassment data report, and current vendor links. It does not publish a current roster, a booking photo gallery, a current bed count, a housing-unit list, or a public bond-payment policy.

The official county prison source is shown in the image below. The county prison page is the best source for the facility contact block, staff names, resource file list, map, and vendor links.

The screenshot is useful because Cambria County places several inmate-service details in linked files and vendor buttons rather than in a public roster table.

Cambria County Prison Population

Cambria County does not publish a current rated capacity or current average daily population for Cambria County Prison on the official county prison page reviewed in the research. Older correctional facility tables list historical local facility figures, but those numbers should not be treated as current bed capacity. The research located a 389 local facility figure dated March 31, 2006, and a 487 figure for Cambria Co. Prison dated December 31, 2013. Those are historical data points only.

Because the current county figure is not posted, a Cambria County Prison population inquiry should avoid guessing. For current local custody, call the prison or use VINE when a record is available. For broader population context, Pennsylvania county prisons are subject to state county-correctional standards and population reporting rules, but the public county page does not display the submitted monthly reports.

Cambria County Prison Lookup

No official Cambria County Prison online roster, booking report, or mugshot gallery was located on the county prison page, sheriff page, or inspected county navigation. That changes the lookup order. Start with the prison for local custody, then use Pennsylvania VINE for custody notification, UJS Case Search for court charges and bail entries, and the county open-records process for records that are not posted online. If a person has been transferred, use the state DOC locator, BOP locator, or ICE locator based on the agency now holding the person.

1. Call Cambria County Prison with the full name and date of birth if known. Ask whether the person is in local custody and what information can be released.
2. Search Pennsylvania VINE for custody status and notification options. VINE can be useful, but very new bookings may lag or may not appear.
3. Search UJS Case Search by participant name, OTN, docket number, complaint number, or incident number to review formal charges and bail entries.
4. Use the Cambria County open-records process for booking logs, mugshots, or copies that are not online and may be releasable.
5. Switch systems after transfer: Pennsylvania DOC for state-sentenced custody, BOP for sentenced federal inmates, and ICE ODLS for current immigration detention.

Cambria County Prison Contact

The prison phone line is the direct local route for a current Cambria County Prison custody question. The county page also publishes a fax number and weekday public-facing lobby hours. For records that need a written request, use the county open-records process rather than sending broad questions to a vendor account.

Cambria County Prison Visits

Cambria County publishes lobby and professional visitation hours on the prison page, and it links separate county-hosted PDFs for visitation information and the March 2024 visiting list. The research did not locate extractable text for exact personal-visit length, visitor ID wording, dress-code text, child-visitor rules, or remote-video rules. Use the official PDFs and call before travel rather than borrowing rules from another Pennsylvania prison.

Cambria County Prison Services

The county prison page links inmate account and phone services through GTL/ConnectNetwork and package purchasing through Access Securepak. The ConnectNetwork Cambria County PA-Prison page identifies the facility as Site ID 1 and lists AdvancePay Phone and Trust Fund services. The county also links a mail-procedures PDF, but the research did not recover readable text that would support exact mail-format claims.

The ConnectNetwork facility source is shown below. Use it for the vendor identity and available services, not for unlisted fee claims.

The vendor page supports the service names, while the county prison page remains the source for facility contact and official county PDF links.

Cambria County Prison Intake

A person can arrive at Cambria County Prison after a new arrest, a court commitment, a bench warrant pickup, a transfer from another agency, or a sentence that is to be served locally. The official prison page does not publish a step-by-step booking manual. The sheriff page says sheriff duties include criminal arrests for bench warrants, processing, and transporting to the proper prison, while UJS dockets show the court side of the case after filing.

Booking and intake are separate from a public roster. The prison can create internal custody records, receive property, identify the person, process the legal commitment, and classify housing without publishing those fields online. For very recent arrests, the prison phone line and the arresting agency are often more direct than UJS because docket sheets can lag. Once formal charges are docketed, UJS can show charge status, bail entries, court dates, and dispositions.

Booking

Jail intake after arrest or commitment, including identification and custody records.

Detainer

A hold from another agency that can block release even when local bail is posted.

DOC transfer

Movement from county custody to Pennsylvania state custody after a state-prison sentence.

About Cambria County Prison

Cambria County Prison publishes more practical service information through resource files than through long web text. The official file list includes visitation information, a visiting list, mail procedures, phone and tablet information, PREAInformation, a PREA Final Audit Report from 2022, and an annual report of sexual-abuse and sexual-harassment data for 2024. That source pattern is important: use the county page and linked PDFs before relying on secondhand summaries.

State oversight context comes from Pennsylvania county correctional standards. The Pennsylvania DOC Office of County Inspections and Services describes inspections under 37 Pa. Code Chapter 95, including essential and non-essential standards for county correctional institutions. Those standards do not create a public Cambria County Prison roster, but they explain why local custody operations, admissions, releases, and reporting are governed by state-level rules as well as county practice.