Colfax County Holding Overview
Colfax County's official jail page describes the sheriff's office as having a six-person holding cell in the courthouse building. That local detail controls the rest of the Colfax County inmate lookup process. The holding cell is used for short-term sheriff custody, not as an overnight jail with a public roster, commissary window, or routine family visitation program. When a person remains in custody beyond the local holding period, the county points users to the detention center where the person is housed.
The operator is the Colfax County Sheriff's Office. The official sheriff material describes patrol, investigations, emergency response, communications, jail management, community outreach, and sex-offender registration duties. For jail purposes, the sheriff's role is intake, short-term holding, transport coordination, and contract-housing coordination. The page should be read as a holding-cell contact route, not as proof that a public Colfax jail roster exists.
The official Colfax page is the matching source image for this facility. It shows the county's own statement about the holding cell and the contracted detention center notice: official Colfax County Jail page.
The image supports the key custody point: a Colfax arrest may start with the sheriff, but jail services usually depend on the receiving contract facility.
Colfax County Holding Capacity
The sourced capacity for the Colfax County Sheriff's Office Holding Cell is six people. The same official page says inmates are not housed in the holding cell outside business hours. That makes the current Colfax County jail population different from a county that operates a staffed overnight detention center with an average daily count, housing pods, and public inmate service windows.
Current average daily population, annual bookings, and demographic splits were not located in the official Colfax materials. The accurate statement is narrower: Colfax County has a six-person sheriff holding cell, and contract facilities handle longer custody. Historical datasets may show older jail-population figures for Colfax County, but those figures do not override the current official holding-cell model.
Search Colfax County Inmate Custody
Colfax County does not publish an official online jail roster or mugshot gallery for the holding cell. The lookup starts with the sheriff's office during posted business hours. If the person has already been moved, the next step is the facility identified by Colfax staff. The contract facilities named in the research are Butler County Detention Center, Platte County Detention Facility, and Antelope County Law Enforcement Center.
- Call the Colfax County Sheriff's Office at (402) 352-8526 during business hours and ask whether the person is in local holding, released, pending court handling, or transferred.
- If Colfax confirms a transfer, contact the named facility rather than calling every jail by guesswork.
- For Platte housing, check the Platte County Detention Facility page, where the visible roster fields are Last Name, First Name, and POD.
- For sentenced state prisoners, use the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services locator, not the Colfax holding-cell page.
- For custody notification, use NEVCAP when supported by the facility and custody type.
| Lookup Channel | Use It For | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Colfax Sheriff phone | Current local holding or transfer confirmation | Business-hours contact path |
| Contract jail | Visitation, property, phone, and money rules after transfer | Must know or confirm the receiving facility |
| NDCS locator | Sentenced Nebraska state prisoners | Not a pretrial Colfax roster |
| BOP or ICE | Federal or immigration custody | Separate from county custody records |
Colfax Holding Cell Contact
The Colfax County Sheriff's Office is in the county courthouse building. Because the holding cell is not a full overnight jail, callers should be precise. Ask about custody status, release, court timing, transport, or the receiving detention center. For records that are not online, Colfax County public-records guidance says requests should go to the department in charge of the record, or to the County Clerk if the requester is unsure.
Colfax County Sheriff's Office Holding Cell
411 E 11th Street, 4th Floor
Schuyler, NE 68661
(402) 352-8526
8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Monday-Friday, closed holidays
Colfax County Visiting Rules
Colfax County did not publish a holding-cell visitation schedule. That fits the facility's stated use: short-term holding during business hours, followed by release, court handling, or transfer if custody continues. Family visitation, video visits, inmate mail, commissary, property pickup, and account deposits should be confirmed with the detention center where the person is actually housed.
| Visit Topic | Colfax Holding Cell Status | What to Confirm |
|---|---|---|
| In-person visits | No public schedule located | Call before traveling |
| Video visits | No Colfax holding-cell vendor located | Use receiving facility rules after transfer |
| No long-term mail process located | Ask the receiving jail for address format | |
| Property | No Colfax policy located | Ask whether property stayed local or moved with the inmate |
| Business access | Weekday office access only | Confirm courthouse entry and floor access |
Colfax Jail Services
Most inmate services are facility-specific because Colfax County uses contract housing. Platte publishes the most detail for one possible destination, including collect calls after housing assignment, CIDNET communications, MyCarePack care packages, NEVCAP notice options, property release forms, and photo ID requirements. Butler and Antelope official pages confirm jail or law-enforcement-center contact paths, but the inspected sources did not show full service schedules.
| Service | Colfax Holding Cell | Likely Next Source |
|---|---|---|
| Money deposits | No Colfax holding-cell deposit process found | Receiving jail |
| Phone calls | No public holding-cell phone program found | Receiving jail phone rules |
| Commissary | Not documented for short-term holding | Receiving jail commissary or package vendor |
| Bond | Confirm custody and court status first | Court or receiving jail payment path |
| Records request | Colfax Sheriff or record-holding department | County Clerk forwarding path if unsure |
Colfax Holding Intake
For a Colfax County arrest, the custody path can be two-stage. A person may be brought to the sheriff's office holding cell for a short period, then released, routed to court, or transported to a contract jail. The research identifies a Colfax transport officer, which supports the practical role of moving people from local holding to a contracted detention facility when continued custody is required.
Platte County's official detention page describes a more complete intake process for people housed there: property intake, medical screening, fingerprinting, photographing, and warrant checks. That is not a published Colfax holding-cell manual, but it is relevant when Colfax confirms that Platte is the receiving jail. Booking records or photos should be requested from the agency or jail that actually keeps the record.
Colfax County Records Requests
For non-roster records, the record custodian matters. Colfax Sheriff may hold arrest, holding, transport, or local incident records. The receiving jail may hold facility intake, housing, property, account, visitation, or booking records. Court records after a filing belong with County Court, District Court, or the state JUSTICE system. Nebraska public-records law allows access to many public records, but law-enforcement exceptions, sealed matters, juvenile limits, medical privacy, and investigatory records can affect what is released.
Note: Confirm custody and visit rules with Colfax Sheriff or the receiving jail before traveling to any facility.