How the United States is organised on this site
US counties often publish who is in jail today — name, booking date, charges, charge class, bond, and how long the person has been in custody — because state public-records law and sheriff policy allow it. That is why a Texas or Ohio county page on CurrentPrisonList looks like a roster. It is also why we refuse to paste that product onto a British or German URL. If you opened Countries in the header and picked the United States, you should see states, not Bavaria and not Wandsworth.
The federal Bureau of Prisons, ICE detention, and state departments of corrections are different systems from the county jail. This hub is the county-jail map: 50 states and the District of Columbia. A state page then lists counties. A county page is the roster when we have a feed, or a clear note when we do not. We do not invent inmates to fill holes.
Coverage is uneven on purpose. Some sheriffs post a usable feed; some hide behind a vendor portal we have not licensed; some rural counties still answer the phone and nothing else. The counts on each state card are real coverage, not a marketing total. If a state looks empty, that is a gap in our adapters, not a claim that the state has no jails.
Not the UK, not the EU
British Find a prisoner, German Auskunft and French permis de visite are consent or written-interest systems. They do not yield a Google-wide inmate spreadsheet. Those countries live under their own first-level maps — nations and regions in the UK, Länder in Germany, régions in France — each with original copy. Mixing a Florida booking log into /germany would be both legally wrong and a junk search result. The Countries menu exists so that never happens.
If you need a European prison, leave this page and open that country. If you need a US county inmate search, stay here and pick a state. Canonical state URLs remain /states/[code]; this /united-states hub is the country doorway Google and the header both need.