Monroe County PA Correctional Facility

The Monroe County Correctional Facility at 4250 Manor Drive in Stroudsburg is the main county jail for Monroe County, Pennsylvania, serving the Pocono Mountains region in the state's northeast corner. Operated by the Monroe County Prison Board (following the standard Pennsylvania county-prison governance model), the facility holds people awaiting court on state and county charges, people serving Pennsylvania county sentences (which by statute cap at two years less one day), and various state and federal holds. Family-contact infrastructure at Monroe County is Securus-based across the board: phone service, video visitation, and personal-mail routing all run through Securus, with personal mail now scanned at the Securus Digital Mail Center in Tampa, Florida rather than delivered directly to the Stroudsburg facility. Visitation runs seven days a week with generous weekday evening hours to 9:00 p.m., though individual visits are capped at 30 minutes. This guide covers what families need to know.

About the Monroe County Correctional Facility

Monroe County covers the Pocono Mountains resort region of northeastern Pennsylvania, including Stroudsburg (the county seat), East Stroudsburg, and the surrounding communities that host both a growing residential population and significant seasonal tourism at the Pocono resorts. The Correctional Facility at 4250 Manor Drive serves the county as its main pretrial and county-sentenced jail. It operates under the Monroe County Prison Board's governance — a panel that typically includes the county's Common Pleas judges, the District Attorney, county commissioners, and appointed lay members — rather than under an elected sheriff.

Every inmate at the facility has a booking or inmate ID assigned at intake. That ID, plus the full legal name used at booking, is required on every letter, deposit, video-visit registration, and Securus phone-account setup. Confirm current custody status through the Monroe County Correctional Facility page or on AllRecentArrests.us before mailing or planning a visit.

Visitation at Monroe County: seven days a week, 30 minutes per visit

Monroe County offers a comparatively accommodating visitation schedule, with visits available seven days a week:

• Monday through Friday: 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
• Saturday and Sunday: 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Each visit is limited to 30 minutes — a shorter individual-visit window than at some other Pennsylvania county prisons, but the extended weekday-evening hours through 9:00 p.m. give working families genuine after-hours flexibility. Confirm the current visitation format (on-site vs. remote video, whether pre-scheduling is required) and any capacity restrictions by calling (570) 517-3312 before you travel. Visitors typically must be pre-registered and approved before scheduling any visit; expect a background review as part of that process.

The county publishes visitor information in a formal document at monroecountypa.gov (search "correctional facility visitor information") that details dress code, prohibited items, and behavioral expectations. Bring a valid government-issued photo ID and follow those rules.

Mail to a Monroe County Correctional Facility inmate

Monroe County no longer accepts personal mail delivered directly to its Manor Drive address. All personal correspondence goes to the Securus Digital Mail Center processing PO Box in Tampa, Florida:

Inmate Name and Inmate ID#
Monroe County, PA Jail
C/O Securus Digital Mail Center
PO Box 21368
Tampa, FL 33622

The Tampa Securus center opens and scans the envelope and delivers the scanned images to the inmate on a jail tablet or kiosk. Because everything is scanned, use single-sided white paper with pen or clear print for best after-scan readability. Avoid stamps, cardstock, decorations, and Polaroids; printed or photocopied photos are typically accepted. Legal mail from an attorney or court, clearly marked as legal correspondence, still goes to the facility's physical address at 4250 Manor Drive and is opened in the inmate's presence. Our how to send mail to an inmate explains the scanned-mail model in more depth.

How to send money and Securus phone service

Deposits for Monroe County inmate commissary and phone accounts flow through the county's contracted vendor. Family members can deposit funds through the vendor's online portal or by phone; confirm the current deposit provider, accepted payment methods, and any reimbursement rules by calling the jail at (570) 517-3312. Standard per-transaction fees apply.

Securus Technologies is the contracted phone carrier for the Monroe County facility. Family members set up prepaid AdvanceConnect accounts at securustech.net or by calling (800) 844-6591, and register the phone numbers the inmate will call. Standard per-minute rates apply. Our how to send money to an inmate and how to call an inmate cover the details.

Court dates, bond, and release in Monroe County

Pennsylvania criminal cases in Monroe County are handled through the Monroe County Court of Common Pleas, with case records searchable through the Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania's UJS Portal at ujsportal.pacourts.us. Bond decisions in Pennsylvania can be handled through cash bail, unsecured bail, or release on recognizance; Pennsylvania has moved substantially away from commercial surety bail in favor of a risk-assessment-based model. If your loved one has been arrested in Monroe County, look them up on the county correctional facility page and use the UJS Portal to check case status.

Rated for nearly twice its design capacity

Monroe County Correctional Facility was designed to hold 250 people and is rated for 435 — a rating 74% above what the building was drawn for. Its peak population during the reporting year was 391, meaning it ran at more than one and a half times its design figure. On a small site that pressure is felt more sharply than the raw numbers suggest: there are fewer housing units to move people between, so crowding tends to show up as doubled cells and converted space rather than as a quiet redistribution.

How much room the Monroe County Correctional Facility has

The federal jail census gives three different capacity figures for the Monroe County Correctional Facility, and the gaps between them are the useful part. In its 2019 count the facility had a design capacity of 250 and a rated capacity of 435. Its highest population during that reporting year was 391. The design figure is what the building was drawn for, the rated figure is what the jurisdiction says it can hold, and the peak is what actually happened.

A jail whose peak exceeds its design capacity is common and is not on its own a sign of a crisis, but it explains conditions families notice without being given a reason: temporary bunks in dayrooms, slower medical and dental response, and visits that get shortened or cancelled when the building is under pressure.

The same count recorded 299 adult men and 63 adult women held at the facility. A jail holding both means separate housing, and often separate visiting and program schedules, inside one building — which is a common reason two people booked the same day end up on different routines.

These are census figures for 2019, so they describe that year rather than today. Treat them as the scale of the facility and confirm anything current with the sheriff's office.

Who was held at the Monroe County Correctional Facility

On the day of the 2019 federal jail census, the Monroe County Correctional Facility held 362 adults: 299 men and 63 women.

Women were 17% of that count. Jails typically run separate housing for men and women, and the smaller side of the population often means fewer program places, fewer visiting slots and less movement — a practical disadvantage that rarely gets stated anywhere.

The census also recorded this as a facility that holds people beyond 72 hours, rather than a short-term lockup that transfers everyone onward almost immediately. That matters for planning: it means someone can serve a full short sentence here, and that mail, deposits and visiting are worth setting up rather than waiting out.

These are census figures for a single reporting year and are now several years old. Treat the split as the shape of the population rather than a current count.

How the Monroe County Correctional Facility compares with other jails in Pennsylvania

The 2019 federal jail census counted 72 jails in Pennsylvania. Ranked by rated capacity, the Monroe County Correctional Facility was the 21st largest of them, at 435 beds.

That places it mid-sized for the state: large enough to run formal visiting and classification systems, small enough that the published procedure and the actual practice can differ. Calling ahead is worth more here than at either extreme.

This ranking covers only the jails the census counted, and reflects that one reporting year. It is a guide to scale, not a current league table.

What the Monroe County Correctional Facility is set up to do

The federal jail census records each facility's designated functions — the roles it is set up and authorised to perform. In its 2019 count, the Monroe County Correctional Facility was recorded as holding adults awaiting trial or serving a sentence, holding people awaiting return to probation or parole custody, running a work release program, acting as a reception or intake centre for other facilities, operating as a dedicated mental health facility and holding people in protective custody.

Equally useful is what it is not designated as: holding juveniles and operating as a dedicated medical facility. That is a statement about the facility's formal role, not about the services inside it — a jail without a dedicated medical or treatment designation can still provide on-site care, but specialised needs are more likely to be met by transporting someone out to a hospital or a specialist facility. If that applies to your family member, ask early who provides the care and where.

These designations come from the 2019 census, so treat them as the facility's established role rather than a current service list.

How the Monroe County Correctional Facility is inspected

Every county correctional institution in Pennsylvania is inspected by the Department of Corrections' Office of County Inspections and Services, which runs an independent statewide field inspection programme. Inspections review the county's own written policies and procedures, the supporting documentation behind them, and the physical plant itself. The requirement comes from 37 Pa. Code Chapter 95.

• A facility is inspected at least every 12 months, and at most every 24 months.
• The minimum operational regulations run to 48 essential standards and 94 non-essential standards.
• A violation of an essential standard produces a citation. A violation of a non-essential standard produces a deficiency — a citation is the more serious finding.

There is an incentive built into the system. If the final inspection report finds a county prison in full compliance with every minimum requirement, the next annual inspection is waived and the facility moves to a two-yearly cycle. A jail inspected only every other year is therefore one that passed cleanly — which makes the inspection interval itself worth asking about.

This matters more than most oversight machinery, because an inspection report is a document you can ask for. If you have a concern about conditions that the jail itself will not address — sanitation, medical access, overcrowding, safety — asking whether the facility's most recent inspection raised it, and requesting that report, is a concrete step that carries more weight than a phone complaint. Reports are generally public records.

Emergencies, safety concerns, and your first steps

For urgent family emergencies such as a death, serious illness, or birth, call the Monroe County Correctional Facility at (570) 517-3312 with the inmate's name and ID and ask that a chaplain or unit staff relay the message. If you are worried about a loved one's medical care, mental health, or safety inside, contact the Warden's office directly, keep a written record of who you spoke with and when, and follow up in writing if the initial response is inadequate.

Be cautious about paying third-party sites — the county correctional facility page, Securus for phone and Digital Mail Center, and the county's contracted deposit vendor are the authoritative and only fully reliable channels. If someone you love has just been booked into the Monroe County Correctional Facility, focus first on the essentials: confirm booking through the county correctional facility page and note the inmate ID, plan visits within the 30-minute-per-visit format across the seven-day-per-week schedule, register with Securus for a prepaid AdvanceConnect account, fund an initial deposit through the county's contracted vendor, and send personal mail through the Securus Digital Mail Center at PO Box 21368, Tampa, FL 33622 (with legal mail from an attorney still going to 4250 Manor Drive). Look up the case number on the UJS Portal.

Making the most of the 30-minute-per-visit format

Monroe County's 30-minute-per-visit cap is shorter than many Pennsylvania county prisons offer, but the seven-day-a-week availability and evening hours through 9 p.m. mean families can string together multiple weekly visits if scheduling supports it. If you have several approved visitors, coordinate across the week so your loved one has visits from different family members spread across multiple days rather than all clustered on one weekend. That pattern — a Monday evening visit from one relative, a Wednesday evening from another, a weekend afternoon from a third — can effectively deliver more contact than a single longer visit block, and it distributes the emotional and logistical load across the family.

PA county-to-state transition

If your loved one is convicted in Monroe County of a felony and sentenced to more than two years less one day, the sentence transfers to Pennsylvania Department of Corrections state prison. That state-system handoff means new inmate ID, new mail routing (typically through Smart Communications' Tampa scanning center for many PA DOC facilities), JPay for deposits, and ViaPath for phone service. Understanding the transition ahead of time helps families avoid mail and deposit routing errors during the handoff and reset family accounts as needed.

Poconos travel considerations for weekend visits

Because Monroe County's population swells during Pocono Mountains vacation seasons and weekend tourist traffic can significantly increase travel times on I-80 and Route 611 into Stroudsburg, families driving from outside the county should build in extra travel time particularly during summer weekends, fall foliage season, and winter ski weekends. Winter weather also affects Pocono travel with lake-effect snow bands and freezing rain being routine hazards from December through March. Call (570) 517-3312 before departing during weather advisories to confirm the facility is operating on normal program rather than a weather-related lockdown or modified schedule — a wasted trip to Stroudsburg in a snowstorm is easily avoided with a five-minute call.

Working with a defense attorney on release timing

For pretrial detainees at Monroe County Correctional Facility, working proactively with an assigned defense attorney — whether private counsel or a Monroe County Public Defender — is often the fastest path to bond reduction or resolution. Families can provide the attorney with employment records, community-ties documentation, medical needs, and housing arrangements that support arguments for lower bond, release on recognizance, or diversion program eligibility. Pennsylvania's risk-assessment-based pretrial model favors data-supported release petitions, so preparing that documentation early helps.