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Yaphank Jail Overview

Suffolk County Correctional Facility - Yaphank is operated by the Suffolk County Sheriff's Office Corrections Division under Sheriff Dr. Errol D. Toulon, Jr. It is a local correctional facility for male and female incarcerated individuals at minimum, medium, and maximum security levels. Like Riverhead, Yaphank can hold sentenced and unsentenced people, but its identity is shaped by dormitory and podular housing, a medical pod, treatment programs, and reentry work on the facility grounds.

The sheriff's official corrections page gives Yaphank a maximum capacity of 976 incarcerated individuals. The page also names medical, dental, and mental-health services, a rehabilitation unit, and a visiting section. Yaphank is not a state prison, and it should not be searched through DOCCS unless the person has already left Suffolk County jail custody after a state sentence. For current local custody, families should start with Suffolk's county channels.

The official Suffolk facility directions page places Yaphank at the end of Glover Drive after the Long Island Expressway exit 67 route. That matters because Yaphank and Riverhead do not use the same visitor approach, bail hours, or program mix.

The sheriff's official directions page gives the public route to the Yaphank correctional facility.

The directions source is especially useful for Yaphank because the facility sits off a local road reached from the Long Island Expressway, rather than from Riverhead's eastern county route.

Yaphank Inmate Population

Yaphank is larger than Riverhead by stated capacity and by recent average census. The sheriff lists Yaphank's maximum capacity as 976. DCJS reported a 2025 Yaphank average census of 589, while the monthly DCJS report prepared June 1, 2026 showed a final monthly value of 538. Those figures do not identify a specific person, but they help explain why many Suffolk County inmate searches may lead to Yaphank rather than the primary Riverhead facility.

The 2025 DCJS custody-category row for Yaphank counted 98 sentenced people, 5 civil holds, 44 federal holds, 6 technical parole violators, 32 state-ready people, and 408 other unsentenced people. This mix is one reason families should ask Central Records about holds, transfer status, and the exact building. A person may be housed at Yaphank while still appearing in court, while awaiting transfer, or while a federal or state issue affects release.

Yaphank Custody Search

Suffolk County did not expose a sheriff-hosted public jail roster with searchable current inmate profiles during the research sweep. For Suffolk County Correctional Facility - Yaphank, the practical lookup path is VINELink New York, Central Records, and then a records request if the information is historical or not available by phone. Court charges, state prison location, federal custody, and immigration custody use separate systems.

1. Start with VINELink New York for a custody or release-notification search connected to Suffolk County.
2. Call Central Records at (631) 852-2241 if the person is newly arrested, the VINE result is unclear, or bail is the main concern.
3. Ask whether the person is in Yaphank or Riverhead, and ask whether a court order, state-ready status, warrant, federal hold, or detainer affects release.
4. Use WebCriminal for court charges and DOCCS, BOP, or ICE only if the case has moved to those systems.

The visitor registration form asks for the incarcerated person's six-digit Sheriff's Office PIN, which is a useful local identifier for family coordination. It is not documented as a public search field in a county roster. For more detail about the full Suffolk lookup chain, use the Suffolk County jail inmate records page.

Yaphank Address and Contact

The same main sheriff number is published for the county correctional facilities, but bail, visits, and attorney visits route through separate numbers. Call before traveling, especially when the question is bail after evening hours, a recent transfer, or visitor registration.

The sheriff's official directions say to take the Long Island Expressway to exit 67, Yaphank Avenue, travel south about 1.25 miles, turn right onto Glover Drive, and continue to the correctional facility entrance at the end of Glover Drive. The sheriff's bail information page says all bail after 10:30 PM must be handled at Riverhead, and all bonds are accepted only at Riverhead.

Visiting Yaphank Inmates

Yaphank family visits follow the Suffolk County sheriff's countywide appointment rules. Visitors must register before making a reservation by phone, and the form asks for the incarcerated person's name, date of birth, and six-digit Sheriff's PIN. Reservations are made at (631) 852-1893. Attorney visiting may be scheduled through (631) 852-3356, with non-contact booth visits and video or telephone conferences available under sheriff procedures.

Only two adult visitors may visit each incarcerated individual, and only adults scheduled for that visit may be on the grounds. Visitors must present one of the accepted ID types listed by the sheriff, such as a valid driver's license, DMV non-driver ID, U.S. Military ID, or foreign passport in English with photo ID. Minor visitors must meet parent, guardian, or parental acknowledgement requirements before they are allowed on facility property.

Yaphank Mail and Deposits

The sheriff's inmate mail and resources page uses the Suffolk County Correctional Facility mail address in Riverhead for incarcerated-individual mail. Address mail care of the incarcerated individual's name at Suffolk County Correctional Facility, 110 Center Drive South, Riverhead, NY 11901. If the person has a common name, add date of birth to the front of the envelope to reduce the risk of delay.

Mail rules are specific. The sheriff prohibits colored envelopes, stamps, Polaroids, photos larger than 5 by 7 inches, cards larger than 6 by 9 inches, stickers, pornographic or offensive graphic pictures, and hard-covered publications with the cover attached. Deposits are generally available in about 15 minutes or sooner, although the service fee is deducted from the deposited amount.

Yaphank Program Housing

Yaphank should not read like a duplicate Riverhead page because the research gives it a separate program identity. The sheriff's correctional programming material places the Sheriff's Addiction Treatment Program, Veterans Pod, 55+ Pod, Choose to Thrive, and START Resource Center grounds at Yaphank. The Suffolk County Jail Medical Unit also serves both jail facilities and SATP patients, which links Yaphank's custody role to treatment and health services.

SATP is an intensive substance-abuse treatment program for sentenced or unsentenced participants whose criminal charges correlate with substance-use disorders and who have at least 30 days left in custody. The program uses treatment phases and is staffed by social workers, Credentialed Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselors, and dedicated correction officers. Choose to Thrive is a program for female incarcerated individuals, with supportive services, mental-health services, vocational training, parenting and family reunification, and outside-agency visits focused on transition back to the community.

SATP

Sheriff's Addiction Treatment Program, a phased substance-use treatment program housed at Yaphank.

State-ready

A county incarcerated person waiting for transfer to DOCCS after a state sentence.

Detainer

A notice or hold from another agency that may affect release from county custody.

Yaphank Intake and Holds

Yaphank intake uses the same Suffolk County records framework as Riverhead. The sheriff's Records Unit processes admissions and discharges, coordinates court and transfer movements, and reviews court documents. After admission, staff handle identity, property, screening, classification, phones, and housing. At Yaphank, classification may involve dormitory units, podular housing, a medical pod, program housing, or other custody needs.

Because Yaphank's 2025 DCJS row included federal holds, state-ready people, parole violators, sentenced people, and other unsentenced people, a Yaphank custody search should include more than one question. Ask where the person is housed, what court or agency controls release, whether bail is set, and whether another hold prevents release even if bail is posted. The jail can process the court's custody order, but the court record is still the better source for the exact charge, next date, and disposition.

About Yaphank Facility

Yaphank is central to Suffolk County's treatment and reentry profile. The START Resource Center, opened in 2020, is on Yaphank grounds and uses the Sheriff's Transition and Reentry Team to assess needs during and after incarceration. The team includes correction officers, correctional counselors, and community correction officers. Correctional Counselors meet with incarcerated individuals during the first week, discuss needs and goals, and connect people with programs or referrals.

The Riverhead correctional facility is the older primary jail and bond location, while Yaphank is the larger capacity site with more named treatment and specialized housing programs. The Suffolk Sheriff FOIL page remains the route for older incarceration records or booking details that are not available through VINE, Central Records, or an in-person inquiry. The sheriff limits its records to Suffolk correctional facility incarceration records, so police reports and court records must be requested from the agency that created them.