Search Madison County Jail Inmates

Madison County Jail Overview

The official Madison County Jail page identifies the jail as the county facility tied to public jail information, inmate inquiry, visitation, commissary, communication, and programs. It is operated by the Madison County Sheriff's Department. The jail handles adult local custody, not sentenced state-prison custody. That distinction matters because a person arrested in Anderson, Elwood, Pendleton, or another Madison County community may start in the jail roster, while a person later sentenced to Indiana Department of Correction custody should be searched through the state locator instead.

The sheriff's office says the jail was built in 1984 and is maintained by jail officers who handle security, book-in, and transport to courts and other counties. The public roster also shows that Madison County custody can be more complex than one building. Its Housing Facility filter includes Madison County Correctional Complex, Madison County Detention Center, Department of Corrections, Delaware County Jail, Hamilton County Jail, Tipton County Jail, and Out to Other Department. Read the housing field before assuming the person is physically inside the main jail.

The sheriff's jail page is the source for this facility screenshot.

The jail page is useful as a launch point because it groups the roster, visitation, commissary, inmate communication, and program links in one official county location.

Madison County Jail Capacity

The sheriff's office lists Madison County Jail capacity at 207 offenders and says 45 jail officers maintain security, booking, and transport functions. A roster snapshot in the research showed 217 public results on June 12, 2026. That roster count is not an audited average daily population, but it is a dated public count from the county's own inmate inquiry. Local reporting has also described crowding pressure: WTHR reported 227 people housed in the 207-bed jail on September 13, 2022, and Indiana Public Radio reported in September 2024 that Madison County approved a new 525-bed jail project.

Madison County Jail Lookup

Use the Madison County Jail Inmate Inquiry for local jail and correctional custody. The roster is hosted on Tyler/New World and was observed as a free public search with no login. It is the correct lookup for Madison County Jail, Madison County Correctional Complex, and local housing entries tied to county custody. It is not the correct system for someone already sentenced to an Indiana state prison, in federal Bureau of Prisons custody, or in ICE custody.

1. Open the official Madison County Jail Inmate Inquiry, not a commercial inmate-search result.
2. Search by name first, or use a subject number or booking number if one is known.
3. Use the In Custody, booking date, and Housing Facility filters when the result list is too broad.
4. Open the person's profile and compare name, date of birth, booking number, custody status, court, charge, and bond fields.
5. If the person is not listed, call the jail, check Records, search IDOC for sentenced state custody, or use federal and ICE locators where the facts point that way.

The official roster search is shown in the captured manifest image.

The roster search is also useful after a bond or transfer question because the Housing Facility field may show whether the person is in the jail, correctional complex, DOC, or another listed placement.

Madison County Jail Contact

The jail and Sheriff's Department share the 720 Central Avenue public safety address. Use the jail number for custody questions, visitation uncertainty, or roster problems. Use Records for booking records, incident or case reports, public-records requests, and records not visible online. Records business is listed as Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., with a 3:30 p.m. arrival cutoff for records requests and related services.

Madison County Jail Visits

Madison County Jail visitation is video-based. The sheriff's visitation page says accounts can be created through on-site terminals or online through InmateSales, and on-site visits must be scheduled two hours in advance. Visitors need valid state or federal photo ID, must be 18 to register an account, and visitors under 18 must be with a parent or guardian who has an approved account. Attorney video visits are listed separately, and the sheriff page says attorney video visits are not recorded or monitored.

The jail can deny, end, or restrict visits for rule violations. The posted rules bar provocative or see-through clothing, nudity, sexual acts, illegal activity, intoxication, alternate recording devices, and display of photos, videos, or social media during the session. Combined Public Communications support is listed at +1 (877) 998-5678 for video help.

Madison County Jail Money

The sheriff's commissary page says online deposits for Madison County Jail are handled through Access Corrections and in-person deposits can be made through the jail lobby kiosk. The same page cautions that commissary is a privilege and may be limited for discipline, so a deposit does not always mean instant or unlimited purchase access. The captured research did not locate an official county mail-rules page, so mail format, scanned-mail policy, package rules, and banned-item rules should be confirmed with the jail before anything is sent.

Madison County Jail Booking

Madison County does not publish a full intake manual, but the sheriff's office, roster fields, and bond schedule show the main path. A person may arrive after arrest by Anderson Police, the Sheriff's Department, another local agency, or another jurisdiction. Booking creates a local booking number, a booking date, a prisoner type, a classification, photo links, booking origin, bond records, court references, and charge rows. A sample profile in the research showed pretrial status, medium classification, multiple bond entries, multiple court entries, and charge details with arresting agencies.

The March 6, 2025 Madison County Advisory Bail/Bond Schedule affects release from the jail. It says people who cannot be positively identified at book-in must be held without bail or bond until an initial hearing. It also lists charge levels, warrants, holds, supervision status, intoxication, domestic or family holds, and other exceptions that can require a judicial officer review before release. That is why one profile's total bond amount may not tell the full release story.

Booking number

The local identifier for one jail booking event.

Classification

A jail security or housing risk category, such as the medium classification observed in the sample profile.

Hold

A custody barrier from another case, warrant, agency, probation, parole, ICE, or another jurisdiction.

Madison County Jail Records

When the roster does not answer the question, the Records Division is the fallback. The Records Division page says public records and case reports may be requested by fax, email, or in person during approved business hours. Requests must use the department form and include a copy of the requester's state ID. The form asks for records with reasonable particularity, such as the type of incident, date, time, location, and other identifiers. Fees may apply, and the office does not accept personal checks or online or phone payments.

The inmate programs page lists HIP 2.0 enrollment, faith-based services, No More Excuses, Celebrate Recovery, and chaplaincy support. The sheriff's office also describes a Correctional Emergency Response Team made of specially trained jail officers who respond to volatile or dangerous jail situations. For court status after a booking, use Madison County court records after jail arrest rather than treating the roster charge text as the final court record.