Washington County Jail
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Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
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Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 29 May 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
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Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
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Region
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Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
A ProPublica report documented an incident where deputies released a sick inmate from the Washington County Jail to avoid hospital bills, resulting in the inmate losing consciousness after signing a release form.
Contact & address
No public contact details available.
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 5/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · Substantial documented known-issues record
This facility scores 5. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 3 points above national average.
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Reports
- propublica30 Sept 2019
took him to the hospital. But before they loaded the inmate into the back of a car, deputies propped up his slumping body and handed him a pen so he could sign a release from the Washington County Jail. “I could barely stand up or keep my eyes open,” he recalled. Tidwell said that he didn’t know what he was signing at the time, and that he lost consciousness a short time later. The consequences
Data completeness
16%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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World Prisons. (2026). Washington County Jail. Retrieved October 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/washington-county-jail-us-4
"Washington County Jail." World Prisons. Accessed October 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/washington-county-jail-us-4.
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