Locate Hendricks County Work Release Residents

Hendricks Work Release Overview

Hendricks County Work Release is operated by Hendricks County Community Corrections. It is not the same facility as Hendricks County Jail, even though both are on E Campus Boulevard in Danville. Work Release serves people placed into a structured residential program by county courts, probation sanctions, direct commitments, weekend sentences, or the Community Transition Program. The facility's mission is alternative sentencing for felons and misdemeanants through evidence-based practices, employment, education, vocational services, and community reintegration.

The CY2024 Community Corrections annual report says Work Release began in August 2008 as a 200-bed co-ed facility, with 160 male beds and 40 female beds. It became a Community Corrections Agency in 2010 after accepting IDOC grant funding. Director Bridgette M. Collins is named in the public-records form and annual report. The facility reports 27 full-time staff across administration, case management, and custodial roles.

This facility is often misunderstood because the word "custody" applies, but the day-to-day purpose is different from pretrial jail detention. Residents may leave under approved rules for work, programming, treatment, or court-authorized purposes. Violations can lead to sanctions or remand. If a person disappears from Work Release status, check the jail roster, MyCase, and the supervising court or agency.

Hendricks Work Release Population

The CY2024 annual report gives the strongest population detail for this facility. It lists 516 supervision-type residents during the year: 424 Work Release residents, 91 weekenders, and 1 Community Transition Program placement. Average length of stay was 120 days for Work Release, 6 days for weekenders, and 67 days for CTP. The report also lists 583 release outcomes, including 496 successful completions, 64 remands, 20 absconded, and 3 new charges, for an 85% success rate.

Hendricks Work Release Lookup

Work Release residents do not use a separate public roster in the research materials. Begin with the county jail roster when the immediate question is whether someone is in local custody, then use court records and Community Corrections contact paths to understand Work Release placement. Formal criminal cases and sanctions are tracked in Indiana MyCase. If a resident was remanded, a new jail booking may appear through INjail.

1. Search the Hendricks County jail roster first if the person may have been arrested, remanded, or returned to jail.
2. Search MyCase by name and Hendricks County court location to find the case, sanction, sentence, or program placement.
3. Call Hendricks County Work Release for facility-specific resident confirmation questions that can be answered publicly.
4. Use the Community Corrections public-records request form for annual reports, PREA reports, or administrative records.
5. If the person was sentenced to IDOC instead of county community corrections, use the IDOC incarcerated search.

The Work Release page captured in the manifest shows the county department page rather than a roster. The source link is the official Work Release department page.

Use that page for department-level links and records resources, not as proof that a specific resident is currently inside the facility.

Hendricks Work Release Contact

Use Work Release contact information for questions about the residential program, public records, advisory board information, and facility-specific procedures. Use Hendricks County Jail for jail booking questions and the clerk or court for official case documents.

Hendricks Work Release Visits

The research file does not include a public day-by-day resident visitation schedule for Work Release. Treat this as a facility-specific rule that must be confirmed before arrival. Work Release is a residential community-corrections setting, so approved movement, employment, treatment, and programming can affect when a resident is present and eligible for contact. The county jail's HomeWAV schedule should not be copied onto this facility because Work Release is a separate department.

Visitors should call the facility before traveling and should be ready to follow ID, conduct, dress, and security instructions given by staff. If a resident is in violation status, remanded, transferred, or in a temporary medical or isolation placement, access can change. Court orders and supervision terms also matter.

Hendricks Work Release Mail

The research did not locate a public Work Release mail, phone, commissary, or deposit fee schedule comparable to the county jail HomeWAV page. Do not use jail HomeWAV rates for Work Release unless the facility confirms they apply. For resident contact, payments, employment coordination, and approved property questions, call Work Release directly.

For public documents, use the Community Corrections public-records process. The form says publicly accessible documents may be available free online from the county department page. It cites IC 5-14-3, says all questions must be answered, and gives a 7-10 business-day completion window. Records can be received by email, fax, or U.S. Mail. Mailed copies cost $1 per page and require prepayment plus a self-addressed stamped envelope when applicable.

Hendricks Work Release Intake

Work Release intake is tied to court and community-corrections placement rather than street-arrest booking. The annual report says residents may be county-court sentences, probation-violation sanctions, direct commitments, weekenders, or IDOC Community Transition Program offenders. Placement usually comes with rules for employment, treatment, reporting, movement, fees, and conduct. A violation can lead to remand, new charges, abscond status, or other court action.

The facility reports a mix of offense categories in CY2024: drugs at 39%, burglary/theft/property at 22%, offenses against persons at 14%, alcohol at 13%, weapons or instruments of violence at 4%, traffic at 2%, and other at 6%. These are conviction-category percentages from the annual report and should not be read as a live roster.

About Hendricks Work Release

Work Release has the deepest county-published program detail among Hendricks County custody facilities. Programs include GED, college, vocational and technical education, financial literacy, substance-abuse counseling, cognitive behavioral self-change, individual therapy, mental-health counseling, EMDR, trauma therapy, healthy relationships, parenting, anger management, leadership, peer coaching, religious studies, NA/AA, Moral Reconation Therapy, and intensive substance-abuse counseling.

The CY2024 report describes an 8-bed modular project for temporary isolation and infirmary uses, including severe mental illness stabilization, detox monitoring, pregnancy and newborn breastmilk storage logistics, quarantine, and medical recovery. The report also notes a telehealth area with five cubicle offices to improve privacy and reduce transportation barriers. Lack of public transportation near the facility is named as an employment-placement challenge.