Search Hendricks County Jail Inmates

Hendricks County Jail Overview

Hendricks County Jail Division is operated by the Hendricks County Sheriff's Office. It holds people legally detained while criminal cases are pending, local sentenced inmates, people being moved for transport, and people held for other lawful custody reasons. The Jail Division page says Captain Josh Watts commands the division, 57 jail deputies are assigned, and jail deputies have special deputy powers under Indiana law. The jail is the public-facing custody point for arrests routed from Hendricks County communities such as Danville, Avon, Brownsburg, and Plainfield unless the person later moves to another agency.

The county page describes the jail as a newly built facility focused on safe, secure, and humane custody. A HomeWAV case study states that the new jail includes 168,000 square feet, 599 beds, 54 HomePAS kiosks, and 544 ComPAS tablets. Administrative staff moved into the new space in October 2022, and full-service jail operations began in February 2023. Those figures are vendor-sourced, not a daily jail population count. The official county pages reviewed did not publish an average daily jail population or current occupancy dashboard.

The sheriff page at Hendricks County Sheriff's Office links the county inmate lookup, INjail, VINE, iCare, and HomeWAV channels. That mix matters. The roster can confirm current local custody, but records requests, court charges, state prison placement, victim notification, phone accounts, and care packages each use a different source.

Hendricks County Jail Capacity

The only sourced capacity figure located for Hendricks County Jail is the 599-bed count in the HomeWAV case study. The same source reports the new facility's square footage and technology deployment, while the county Jail Division page reports staffing. No official Hendricks County source reviewed published jail average daily population, annual bookings, current occupancy, or a demographic table for jail inmates. Do not treat the work-release count or IDOC prison counts as the county jail population. They belong to different facilities and legal custody systems.

The most practical current population check is the public roster. If the roster is not enough, call the jail or use the sheriff's public-records process for a record that can be released under Indiana's Access to Public Records Act.

Hendricks Jail Roster Lookup

Current local custody is searched through the sheriff-linked JailTracker route or the statewide INjail Public Portal. The county-specific INjail route labels the results as current Hendricks County inmates. Use this path for pretrial jail custody, recent bookings, local sentence custody, and county holds. Do not use the county roster for sentenced state prisoners after transfer to IDOC. Those records move to the IDOC incarcerated search.

1. Start with the sheriff's Inmate Lookup link or open the INjail Public Portal.
2. Choose Hendricks County or use the current Hendricks County inmates results route when checking broad current custody.
3. Search by last name first. Add first name, birth date, booked date, or released date when common names return too many records.
4. Open the View link for the profile. Check booking number, booked-on date, arrest date, agency, holds, cases, and mugshot availability if displayed.
5. If no result appears, check spelling, try released-date filters, call the jail, search IDOC, or register with VINE/SAVIN for custody notifications.

The INjail profile inventory includes name, INjail ID, race, ethnicity, skin tone, sex, age, physical descriptors, county, booking number, booked-on date, arrest date, arresting agency, arresting officer, release date when present, holds, cases, and a mugshot component when a photo is available.

The current Hendricks County inmates page is the roster result view captured for the county. The screenshot below shows the county route rather than a private search result.

Use the table fields as a starting point only. A court case in MyCase is still the formal source for filed charges, hearings, bonds, and dispositions.

Hendricks Jail Contact

Use the jail and sheriff contact for current custody questions, booking confirmation, public lobby records, and facility-specific visit or communication questions. The sheriff's public hours apply to non-emergency office business. Custody operations continue outside lobby hours, but the research did not locate a separate public booking-desk schedule.

Hendricks Jail Visitation

Hendricks County Jail uses HomeWAV for visitation and communication. Visitors need a HomeWAV account, and new accounts are approved Monday-Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Onsite video visits must be scheduled 24 hours in advance and are pending visitor approval. The jail page allows three 30-minute onsite visits per inmate per week. Remote video is available through HomeWAV. Visitors under 18 must be with an adult who has a valid HomeWAV account.

Jail rules prohibit recording devices, cell phones, and cameras in the visitation area. Visitors are subject to monitoring and recording when using jail video equipment. Dress and behavior rules are enforced, and obscene behavior or flashing can lead to blocks from future visits. Professional visitors may be approved with credentials and may visit at reasonable hours, except the published meal and late-night limits.

The county's Jail Division visitation page is the source for the schedule, rates, and visitor rules shown here.

Confirm approval and schedule status before traveling, especially when a person has just been booked, moved, disciplined, or released.

Hendricks Jail Mail and Money

The county jail uses HomeWAV for voice, video, messaging, and deposits. Phones in housing areas are available daily from 8:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. through HomeWAV Voice, and each new inmate receives $2.00 in free phone credit. HomeWAV Voice cannot call pagers or internet phones. The jail page lists $0.25 per minute for video visitation, $0.20 per minute for phone calls, and $0.40 per video or text message. HomeWAV visitor support is 1-844-394-6639.

County pages also link Aramark iCare for care-package ordering and ConnectNetwork for listed Hendricks County Jail services. Verify the person is still in custody before depositing money or ordering items. Clothing generally may not be mailed or dropped off. Court clothing is an exception only by advance arrangement. The jail page also states that books, crossword puzzles, and magazines are not allowed.

Hendricks Jail Booking

Local official sources do not publish one complete booking manual for the public, but the roster fields, handbook, and bond rules show the normal path. A person is arrested or committed by court order, transported to Hendricks County Jail, identified, searched, booked, photographed, screened for health and classification needs, assigned housing, and given phone access. The roster may show booking number, booked-on date, arrest date, arresting agency, arresting officer, holds, and cases.

The inmate handbook states that inmates must wear a wrist ID band and can be charged $10 if caught without it. Searches, shakedowns, and headcounts are part of security operations. Major rule violations can lead to disciplinary segregation and loss of commissary, visitation, telephone, and recreation privileges. Medical status is not released to family or friends without proper medical channels and HIPAA authorization.

Local bond rules add two important Hendricks County details. People who cannot be positively identified at book-in are held without bond until a court bond hearing. Cash bonds are posted with the Hendricks County Clerk or Hendricks County Sheriff only after the defendant signs a personal appearance bond.

About Hendricks County Jail

The jail replaced an older linear jail that HomeWAV described as difficult to manage. The current facility combines jail housing, sheriff operations, communications tools, and transport functions on the Danville county government campus. The Jail Division also maintains a Special Response Team trained for housing disruptions, group demonstrations, violent offenders, cell extractions, contraband searches, and mass searches. The county page states that the jail has zero tolerance for sexual behavior, harassment, or misconduct by any inmate or staff member under PREA.

For records that do not appear online, use the sheriff public-records process. The 2025 form cites Indiana APRA, accepts requests by email to tdouglas@co.hendricks.in.us or fax to 317.745.9276, and lists photos at $25, case reports at $5, crash reports at $5, and body or dash camera video at $75 per video. Photos and video are processed after payment.