Conducting an Indiana Inmate Search

The Department of Corrections in the state of Indiana maintains and updates all information pertaining to the inmates that are housed in the various prisons in the state. The Department of Corrections makes the information on inmates available to the general public through its public website. You can also retrieve information about a particular inmate by contacting the Department of Corrections at 302 W. Washington Street, Room E-334, Indianapolis, IN 46204. Phone (317) 501-1626, Email dsgarrison@idoc.in.gov

Once you contact the Department of Corrections in Indiana you are sure to receive all the assistance that you need with regards to locating an inmate in Indiana prison or the inmate records of a particular offender provided the information are not sealed by a court ruling or rendered confidential by a statute.

When you have the relevant information such as the name, date of arrest, arresting agency involved or the location of the imprisonment of a convict, it is not difficult to locate the individual through the Indiana Inmate Search or Indiana Inmate Locator.

Types of Inmates Held in Indiana

In Indiana the prison system works on the basis of four levels of security such as minimum, low, medium, high medium and maximum level of security. Offenders are assigned to the levels of security on the basis of the nature of the crime committed, the length of the sentence that an offender may be subjected to by a sentencing court and the offender’s previous history of crimes.

Each offender is evaluated at the Rockville Correctional Facility and at the Diagnostic Center, where the offender is given a score based on the instrument of “classification designation”. According to this classification procedure, each offender is judged on the basis of the severity of the offense committed by the individual, length of his or her prison sentence, the type or degree of violence involved, if the offender has any trouble with regards to substance abuse or not, if the offender has any history of previous escapes, and his or her conduct while incarcerated. After this procedure the offenders are then assigned to appropriate security levels. Violent offenders and sexual offenders are not eligible for a minimum security level.

According to recent prison statistics, there are about 25,832 adult male offenders, 2,466 adult female offenders, 692 juvenile male offenders, and about 94 female juvenile offenders housed under the correctional facilities of the Indiana State.  Cases involving burglary, drug abuse and peddling, robbery, forgery and child molestation cases are some of the major reasons for which the offenders are serving their sentences in Indiana State prisons.

For an individual breakdown of the number of inmates in each jail in the state of Indiana, nature of crime committed and sentencing period you can visit http://www.in.gov/idoc/files/1009OffenderPopulation.pdf.

Conducting a Indiana Inmate Search

You can search for the inmates housed in the various Indiana State prisons over the Internet from the following address: http://www.in.gov/apps/indcorrection/ofs/ofs. While conducting an entire database search will only provide information available on the inmates that are presently housed in the various correctional facilities and prisons in the state of Indiana, your best bet to obtain details about a particular inmate in Indiana is to narrow down your search by finding out and utilizing the particular offender number assigned to an offender.

The simplest way to conduct an inmate search in Indiana is to use the last name and first name of the inmate. To narrow down the search criteria so that the search can generate a better result, you can punch in both the last name as well as the first name. This is particularly helpful in cases where the first name is one that is quite commonly used. The use of the last name along with the offender number of the inmate can help to provide better results and also increase the chances that the result generated by the database matches with the one that you are looking for.

You can view a list of all the inmates by punching in the county in which the offender committed the crime or by searching by the offender’s next date of hearing before a parole board.

Many counties in Indiana have their own websites and allow individuals to conduct a search for inmates. The offices of the various County Sheriffs and the police departments at the various county levels can also provide information about the inmates to the residents within their jurisdiction. The public website of the Department of Corrections at Indiana shows the most wanted fugitives in the state of Indiana.

For more information on Indiana Inmate search or to point out any inaccurate information about an inmate in Indiana State you can contact the Department of Corrections in Indiana at: http://www.in.gov/idoc/.