Keokuk County Jail Overview
Keokuk County Jail is operated by the Keokuk County Sheriff's Office. The official sheriff page lists the facility and sheriff office contact at 204 South Stone in Sigourney, with mailing to PO Box 306. The same page names Casey Hinnah as Keokuk County Sheriff and Adam Pence as Chief Deputy/Jail Administrator. No separate official detention-center page, live booking report, public jail roster, visitation page, mail rule page, commissary page, or mugshot gallery was located on the county site during the research sweep.
This jail serves a compact rural county custody role. Local pretrial detainees, people serving short local sentences, and people held for court, bond, or warrant processes may be held there. The official sources reviewed do not publish housing units, medical unit details, work-release beds, male/female housing splits, or contract hold rules. For that reason, the safest Keokuk County Jail record path is direct sheriff contact, then Iowa Courts Online after charges are filed, then Iowa DOC Offender Search after sentencing or transfer to state supervision.
The official Keokuk County Sheriff page is the local source for jail contact details.
The sheriff page is especially important here because Keokuk County does not publish a separate official online inmate roster.
Keokuk County Jail Contact
Use the sheriff contact information for custody questions, jail record requests, bond questions before a case appears online, visiting questions, and mail or money questions. Posted office hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The county does not publish a separate jail records unit or booking desk number, so the Sheriff's Office number is the official public route for Keokuk County Jail questions.
Keokuk County Jail
204 South Stone
Sigourney, IA 52591
Mailing: PO Box 306
Sigourney, IA 52591
641-622-2727
sheriff@keokukcounty.iowa.gov
Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
When calling or emailing, provide the person's full name, date of birth or age if known, approximate arrest date, and the record needed. Useful request terms include current custody status, booking sheet, charge or bond sheet, arrest report, incident report, and booking photo if releasable. Iowa Code chapter 22 allows public-record requests by phone, in writing, or electronically, but law-enforcement, juvenile, victim, medical, and investigative details may be withheld or redacted.
Find Keokuk County Jail Inmates
No official Keokuk County online inmate roster, recent-booking report, public "who is in jail" list, or sheriff mugshot gallery was located. That means Keokuk County Jail inmate lookup starts with the local fallback chain rather than a search form. The sheriff phone and email path is the current custody path. Iowa Courts Online is the court-charge path after filing. Iowa DOC is the sentenced-prisoner path. VINE is the notification path, not a complete historical roster.
- Call 641-622-2727 during posted sheriff office hours and ask whether the person is currently held at Keokuk County Jail.
- Email sheriff@keokukcounty.iowa.gov or make a Chapter 22 request if a booking or jail record is needed.
- Search Iowa Courts Online once charges may have been filed in District Court.
- Use Iowa DOC Offender Search if the person has been sentenced, transferred, paroled, placed on probation, or moved to community-based corrections.
- Use Iowa VINE for custody notifications where available.
The distinction matters. Keokuk County Jail is a county jail, so it is tied to arrest, bond, local holds, and short local sentences. The Iowa DOC locator covers prison, parole, probation, work release, and community corrections. The Federal Bureau of Prisons and ICE systems cover federal or immigration custody and are not local jail rosters.
| Need | Best starting point | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| Current Keokuk County Jail custody | Sheriff phone or email | No official online roster was located. |
| Filed charges and hearing dates | Iowa Courts Online or Clerk of Court | The docket tracks the court case after filing. |
| Sentenced state custody | Iowa DOC Offender Search | DOC covers prison and supervision, not new bookings. |
| Custody notifications | Iowa VINE | VINE can send alerts but is not a full court file. |
Keokuk County Jail Population
Keokuk County does not publish a live jail count, current capacity, current housing census, or dashboard on the official sheriff or county website. The only sourced capacity and population figures in the research are historical Vera Institute Incarceration Trends data. Vera's county data lists Keokuk County jail rated capacity as 11 beds for each year from 2015 through 2019. It also lists total jail population of 11 in 2019. These are historical dataset values, not a live count from the jail.
Vera's 2019 county row also lists 4 people in pretrial custody and 7 in sentenced custody. Some race and sex subfields in the extracted row are blank or do not fully allocate the total, so they should not be overread as a full current demographic profile. The official sheriff contact remains the better source for a current custody question about one person.
| Year | Total jail population | Rated capacity | Vera note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | 11 | Near rated capacity in the historical dataset. |
| 2016 | 8 | 11 | Below rated capacity. |
| 2017 | 7 | 11 | Lowest extracted 2015-2019 count. |
| 2018 | 8 | 11 | Below rated capacity. |
| 2019 | 11 | 11 | Equaled rated capacity in Vera's historical row. |
Note: The 11-bed and 2019 population figures come from Vera historical data and should not be used as a live Keokuk County Jail headcount.
Keokuk County Jail Visits
Keokuk County does not publish an official jail visitation schedule, video-visit rule, visitor application, dress code, minor visitor rule, attorney visit procedure, or holiday visitation notice on the county or sheriff site. Do not assume a generic county-jail schedule applies. Call the Sheriff's Office before traveling, especially because small jails may change access based on staffing, court movement, classification, medical needs, or lockdown status.
| Topic | Official Keokuk County finding | Practical action |
|---|---|---|
| In-person visits | Schedule not published. | Call 641-622-2727 before visiting. |
| Video visits | Vendor and schedule not published. | Ask whether video visits are available. |
| Visitor ID | Local rule not published. | Bring government photo ID unless told otherwise. |
| Children or minors | Rule not published. | Ask before bringing a minor visitor. |
| Attorney visits | Procedure not published. | Attorneys should contact the jail directly. |
Iowa DOC visitation rules are different. After a person enters state prison custody, DOC visiting uses approval and scheduling through Ameelio. Those DOC rules should not be applied to Keokuk County Jail unless the person has transferred into state DOC custody.
Keokuk County Jail Mail and Money
The county site does not publish a Keokuk County Jail inmate-mail format, books and publications rule, photo or card rule, mail-scanning policy, phone provider, commissary vendor, deposit method, kiosk location, or fee table. The sheriff page provides the mailing address PO Box 306, Sigourney, IA 52591, but the research does not confirm whether that is the correct format for inmate personal mail. Confirm the current format before mailing anything.
| Service | Published county detail | Action before use |
|---|---|---|
| Inmate mail | No official inmate-mail format posted. | Ask whether to use PO Box 306 or another format. |
| Books and photos | No official rule posted. | Call before ordering or sending items. |
| Phone service | County site does not name a provider. | Ask the jail for the current phone process. |
| Commissary | No official vendor or fee table posted. | Do not send funds until the jail confirms the method. |
| Online deposits | No county deposit vendor posted. | Do not assume Access Corrections, JPay, or another vendor. |
For state prison money, the Iowa DOC process is separate and uses DOC fiduciary account rules and Access Corrections links. That system applies only after a person is in DOC custody. It is not a Keokuk County Jail commissary policy.
Keokuk County Jail Booking
No local booking handbook, intake timeline, property policy, medical screening rule, fingerprint or photograph rule, or booking-fee schedule was located on the official county site. The supported public process is the Iowa arrest-to-court path. Iowa Code chapter 804 covers arrest and initial appearance. Section 804.22 says a person arrested without a warrant must be brought before a magistrate without unnecessary delay, with grounds stated by complaint. Section 804.21 covers initial appearance after arrest by warrant and recognizes release under approved pretrial procedures or a bond schedule.
Bond and release are governed by Iowa Code chapter 811. Section 811.2 says bailable defendants are to be released on personal recognizance or unsecured appearance bond unless the magistrate finds that other conditions are needed. In practice, call the Sheriff's Office for current custody or bond status before the case appears online. Use Iowa Courts Online or the Clerk of Court for filed bond conditions and hearing dates. Use the County Attorney for prosecution questions, not for posting bond or confirming custody.
- Personal recognizance
- Release based on a promise to appear, without a secured payment up front.
- Unsecured bond
- A bond amount may be set, but payment is not deposited unless terms are violated.
- Hold
- Custody that continues because of a court order, warrant, probation or parole matter, or another agency.
Keokuk County Jail Standards
Keokuk County Jail is subject to Iowa jail law and state standards, even though the county site does not publish a local jail policy manual in the reviewed sources. Iowa Code chapter 356 governs jails and municipal holding facilities. Section 356.44 says the county sheriff formulates rules for conduct and behavior of county jail prisoners. Iowa Code section 356.36 requires the Iowa Department of Corrections, in consultation with sheriff and local government associations, to draw up minimum standards for jails and related facilities.
Iowa Administrative Code chapter 201-50 covers jail facilities, personnel, classification, cleanliness, fire safety, mail and correspondence, standard operating procedures, and inspection compliance. No official Keokuk County Jail inspection report, accreditation claim, overcrowding litigation, consent decree, or remedial order was located in the reviewed sources. That means the page should not describe the jail as accredited, non-accredited, compliant, noncompliant, overcrowded, or under an active court order unless a future official source supports it.
When Keokuk County Jail Is Not the Right Search
A person may be connected to Keokuk County but not be held at Keokuk County Jail. Once sentenced to prison or placed under DOC supervision, use Iowa DOC Offender Search. For sentenced federal custody, use the BOP Inmate Locator. For immigration detention, use ICE ODLS. No Iowa DOC prison, BOP institution, ICE detention facility, regional adult jail, or official city jail was found in Keokuk County.
Sigourney has a police department, but no municipal jail page was located. Richland's official police page routes law-enforcement contact to the Keokuk County Sheriff. That local pattern reinforces why the sheriff phone path matters in Keokuk County. For county jail custody, start locally. For court charges, use the court system. For prison or federal custody, use the correct statewide or federal locator.
Note: Confirm custody and visit rules with the Sheriff's Office before traveling, sending mail, or sending money.