Nassau County Correctional Center Inmate Lookup

The Two Nassau Counties

Before anything else, a test you can apply to any page or phone number you find:

	New York	Florida
Area code	516	904
Facility	Nassau County Correctional Center	Nassau County Jail and Detention Center
Location	East Meadow, Long Island	Yulee, near Jacksonville
Public roster	No	Yes

Florida’s sheriff publishes a searchable in-custody list. New York’s does not. That asymmetry is exactly why the Florida result wins: it answers the query better, for the wrong county.

If a number starts 904, or an address mentions Yulee or Citizens Circle, you are in the wrong state. New York’s jail is on Carman Avenue in East Meadow, and its numbers start 516.

This is worth knowing even when you are being careful, because search summaries will present the Florida answer first and mention New York afterwards as an aside.

What New York’s Nassau Does Offer

Two routes, and neither is a roster.

VINE, which the county links from its Correctional Center page as V.I.N.E., Victim Information and Notification Everyday, on 1-888-VINE-4-NY, which is 1-888-846-3469.

The New York VINE search asks you to identify someone by Name or by ID Number, so a name is enough to begin with. That matters on the first day, when nobody has a number yet.

The Inmate Records line on 516-572-3802, which is a staffed county number and the better option when a search result does not settle it.

VINE Is a Notification Service First

Worth understanding so the interface makes sense. VINE was built to tell victims when a custody status changes, and Nassau lists it under that heading. The site leads with registering for alerts rather than with looking somebody up.

You can use it purely as a search without registering. But its real strength is the thing no roster does: telling you when something changes, rather than what is true right now.

VINE also warns that agencies can go temporarily offline, and that while one is, record information is not available through the tool even though notifications continue. So an empty result is not proof of anything. Check VINE’s own agency status list before concluding, then ring the county.

The Question a Search Will Not Answer, and You Need

At most jails the search tells you the facility and you are done. At Nassau there is a second question underneath it: which building.

B building and D building take visits on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. E building takes visits on Tuesday and Thursday. People are only visited in the building where they are housed. So the building decides your visiting days, and neither VINE nor any roster will tell you which one somebody is in.

516-572-3802 is the number for that, and it is worth calling before you book a slot through the county’s scheduler.

Where the Address Goes Wrong Even on Official Sites

If you are copying an address from a search result, use 100 Carman Avenue, spelled with an A.

The county’s own Mailing Address block spells it Carmen, and so does the New York State Commission of Correction in its statewide county jail directory. The facility’s own rules document, its accommodations form and every Sheriff’s Department contact block use Carman, which is also the real street name in East Meadow.

Who Is Held There

New York State data for August 2026 put the average daily population at 653, of whom about 77 per cent were unsentenced. The population fell roughly 14 per cent over the year.

The jail also holds a small number of federal detainees under a US Marshals agreement, and ICE detainees: Immigration and Customs Enforcement was added to that agreement in 2007, and ICE carried out a compliance inspection of the facility between April and May 2026.

Nassau publishes no rated capacity, so there is no official figure for how full 653 is.