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Middleton Jail & House of Correction Overview

Middleton Jail & House of Correction is operated by the Essex County Sheriff's Department at the sheriff's headquarters complex in Middleton. The official facility page identifies it as a medium-security jail and house of correction that opened in 1991. It holds people awaiting trial from Essex County, people serving county sentences, safekeeps, intake cases, and people assigned to secure housing, medical services, education, work, substance-use treatment, and reentry services.

The official facility identity matters because many readers search for an "Essex County Jail" roster. The public-facing name is Middleton Jail & House of Correction, and the facility sits at 20 Manning Avenue, Middleton, MA 01949. Massachusetts county facilities may hold both pretrial detainees and people serving shorter county sentences, so a Middleton custody question can involve arrest intake, bail, court timing, housing status, or sentence classification.

The official Middleton facility page is the best source for facility identity, address, operator, security level, and leadership. For public-records access, the sheriff directs requests to Public Information Officer and Records Access Officer Gretchen Grosky through the public records request page. For bail amount questions, the sheriff's bail page names Records at extension 3400.

The official Middleton facility page is shown in the source screenshot below.

The screenshot supports the facility-specific details used here: Middleton is the secure ECSD custody center, not a generic statewide prison locator.

Middleton Capacity and Population

The July to December 2025 Massachusetts Sheriffs' Association operational capacity report lists Middleton Jail & House of Correction at 1,138 all units, including 1,136 in-house beds and two average hospital placements. ECSD's 2024 Annual Report lists Middleton average daily population at 847 and a Middleton average length of stay of 60 days. Those are official reported measures, not a live roster count.

Older Mass.gov audit material listed the Essex County Correctional Facility in Middleton at 1,260 beds with an average inmate census of 1,173 during the audit period ending in 2016. The more current capacity figure for page use is the 2025 operational-capacity number. ECSD's 2024 report also says Middleton processed 3,723 new male inmates and 176 new female inmates, while female Essex custody now has an important Barnstable routing note for current detention.

How to Look Up an Inmate at Middleton

Official sources reviewed did not locate a public, searchable Essex County online jail roster. That means Middleton lookup should start with official phone and records channels rather than an assumed web roster. Call ECSD at 978-750-1900. For bail amounts, the sheriff's official bail page says to call Records at 978-750-1900 ext. 3400. For nonurgent booking sheets, custody records, or booking photographs, use Gretchen Grosky, Public Information Officer and Records Access Officer, at 978-750-1900 ext. 3361 or ggrosky@essexsheriffma.org.

1. Prepare the person's full legal name, aliases, date of birth, approximate arrest date, arresting agency, and possible court.
2. Call ECSD main at 978-750-1900, or Records ext. 3400 when the question is bail amount.
3. Ask whether the person is in sheriff custody and whether Middleton, Barnstable, state DOC, federal, or ICE routing applies.
4. For records not provided by phone, submit a public-records request with a reasonable description and preferred electronic format.

Middleton Address and Contact

Use the official ECSD and Mass.gov address for maps, records routing, and facility questions. Official sources do not publish detailed visitor parking, public transit, parking-rate, or ADA entrance instructions. Because Middleton visits require scheduling, confirm the visitor entrance, parking, and mobility-access details before traveling.

Visiting Someone at Middleton

Middleton visits must be scheduled 48 to 24 hours in advance by calling 978-750-1900 ext. 3472 between noon and 3 p.m. The ECSD in-person visit page limits visits to two adults and two children. Minors must be supervised by a parent or legal guardian, and birth certificates or guardianship documents may be required. Only wedding bands, medic alert bracelets, and car keys are authorized in the visit area. Dress code rules prohibit bare tops, bare shoulders, bare feet, halter, tank, tube, cropped, see-through tops, bathing suits, headgear, and fashion jeans with holes, rips, or tears.

ECSD's official in-person visits page gives the scheduling and rule framework for Middleton and other ECSD facilities.

Use the official visit page before travel because appointment timing, forms, and unit schedules can change before a person appears at the facility.

Mail, Phone, and Money at Middleton

Personal, nonprivileged Essex inmate mail is processed through Securus Digital Mail Center, not simply mailed to the physical jail. The official ECSD mail page gives the format as inmate name, ID number, housing unit, care of Securus Digital Mail Center/Essex County, PO Box 20527, Tampa, FL 33622. Originals are kept for 60 days before destruction unless the sender requests return with a self-addressed stamped envelope. Legal mail and certain publications should be handled under the separate legal-mail rules and verified before sending.

ECSD's official depositing-funds page names Aramark Correctional Services for commissary and ConnectNetwork GTL for trust deposits.

The deposit instructions are useful after custody is confirmed, but they are not a substitute for an inmate lookup because some deposits require inmate name, date of birth, and ID.

Booking and Intake at Middleton

Middleton is the main secure point for Essex County sheriff custody after arrest, court commitment, safekeeping, or transfer from local police custody. A new arrest does not automatically mean an online roster entry will appear, because no official public Essex roster was located. The practical sequence is arrest, possible local police processing, sheriff intake if committed, bail or court timing, then classification and housing.

ECSD's 2024 Annual Report lists 3,947 people processed through intake across the department, including 467 safekeeps, 2,723 pretrial cases, and 757 sentenced cases. Releases totaled 4,056 in that same report. Those numbers show why a current custody check can change quickly: court decisions, bail, transfers, state-prison sentences, female-custody routing, federal holds, and immigration issues can all move a person out of the expected channel.

About Middleton Jail & House of Correction

Middleton's official profile is broader than intake and housing. ECSD describes work opportunities, education, substance-use treatment, and reentry services. Research notes from ECSD annual reports identify objective jail classification work, renovation and control projects, medical housing planning, and a department-wide education partnership with Northern Essex Community College that served over 1,100 unique students in 2024 across Middleton, ECPRC, WIT, and STAR.

Oversight records should be read carefully. A Massachusetts Department of Public Health inspection from October 4 to 5, 2023 listed an inmate population of 902 at Middleton and documented violations, including repeat violations. That inspection is a dated official oversight record, not a same-day statement about current conditions after corrective action. A 2025 federal complaint, Caron v. Coppinger, includes allegations about Hepatitis C testing and treatment; allegations are not findings.