Vermillion County Inmate Population
Vermillion County, Indiana has one confirmed local detention facility in the research file: Vermillion County Jail, operated by the Vermillion County Sheriff's Office in Hillsdale. That jail count is not the same as the state prison count, the federal prisoner count, or an immigration detention search. The county jail holds people arrested in Vermillion County before court, people serving local sentences, people held on local warrants or short-term agency holds, and program participants when jail policy allows. Once a person is sentenced to the Indiana Department of Correction, the public lookup changes from the county channel to the IDOC locator.
Public sources do not give a live Vermillion County inmate population dashboard. The strongest population data in the research comes from Vera Institute county jail trend files and Vera's jail-construction dataset. Those sources show the pre-expansion jail population and capacity history, while the official county and sheriff pages show the agencies, addresses, phones, and records channels used for present-day custody questions. That split matters. A family member trying to confirm custody should call the jail or use the records process, while a researcher looking at jail population trends should read the historical Vera data with source-year labels.
Vermillion County Jail Statistics
Vera's county incarceration trends file reports a 2019 total jail population of 77 for Vermillion County, with a rated capacity of 72 beds in that same historical row. Vera's separate jail-construction dataset lists a Vermillion County jail expansion in 2022, marked passed, with capacity moving from 70 beds to 138 beds and a project amount of $28,000,000. The sheriff page reviewed for the research does not publish a current capacity number, so the 138-bed figure should be read as a high-authority research figure that still needs county confirmation for current operations.
| Measure | Figure | Source / Year |
|---|---|---|
| Total jail population | 77 | Vera county trends CSV, 2019 |
| Pretrial custody population | 53 | Vera county trends CSV, 2019 |
| Sentenced custody population | 24 | Vera county trends CSV, 2019 |
| Rated capacity before expansion | 70 to 72 beds | Vera trends and Vera jail-construction CSV, 2019 to 2022 |
| Capacity after listed expansion | 138 beds | Vera jail-construction CSV, 2022 |
| Statewide incarceration context | 721 per 100,000 | Prison Policy Initiative Indiana profile, accessed 2026 |
Vermillion County Capacity Trend
The Vermillion County inmate population was close to or above the pre-expansion rated capacity in several Vera years. That does not prove the jail is full today, but it explains why capacity history is part of the county jail story. Vera shows 70 people in 2015, 71 in 2016, 85 in 2017, 56 in 2018, and 77 in 2019. In the same series, rated capacity stayed around 72 beds. The later 2022 construction entry then lists a passed expansion from 70 beds to 138 beds.
| Year | Total Jail Population | Rated Capacity | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 70 | 72.67 | Near rated capacity in Vera data. |
| 2016 | 71 | 72.5 | Still near capacity. |
| 2017 | 85 | 72.33 | Above pre-expansion capacity. |
| 2018 | 56 | 72.17 | Below pre-expansion capacity. |
| 2019 | 77 | 72 | Above rated capacity in the Vera row. |
| 2022 | Not a live population row | 70 before / 138 after | Construction dataset lists a passed expansion. |
Vermillion County Jail Makeup
Vera's 2019 row gives the best demographic snapshot in the research. The figures are historical and rounded, so some subcounts do not add exactly to the total. The row reports 55 male and 23 female people in jail, 53 pretrial people, and 24 sentenced people. It also reports two people held for state prison authority and two held for another jail authority. Federal, BOP, ICE, and Marshals held categories were zero in that row. Current demographic, daily population, and annual booking figures were not found on the official sheriff site.
- Pretrial versus sentenced: Vera reported 53 pretrial and 24 sentenced people in the 2019 Vermillion County jail row.
- Sex breakdown: Vera reported 55 male and 23 female people in 2019, with rounded counts that may not sum exactly.
- Outside holds: Vera listed two state-prison-authority holds and two other-jail-authority holds in 2019.
- Current race and age data: no live county dashboard was located in official Vermillion County sources.
Vermillion County Jail Laws
Indiana law is the access frame for Vermillion County inmate information. The county publishes a public-records form, and the sheriff is one routing option on that form. Indiana's Access to Public Records Act gives broad inspection and copy rights for public agency records unless an exception applies. A separate APRA section requires public availability of specified arrest and jailed-person information, while the exceptions section allows some law-enforcement investigatory records to be withheld at agency discretion. County jail standards also regulate confinement operations, but they are not a live roster.
Key Statutes:
Indiana Code 5-14-3-3 lets any person inspect and copy public records during regular business hours unless an exception applies.
Indiana Code 5-14-3-5 covers required public information about arrests, summonses, jailed people, and law-enforcement logs.
Indiana Code 5-14-3-4 lists mandatory and discretionary exceptions, including law-enforcement investigatory records.
210 IAC 3 sets county jail standards for supervision, classification, sanitation, health, and jail operations.
Vermillion County Prison Transfers
The Vermillion County inmate population changes when a court sentence sends a person to IDOC. County jail custody covers arrest, booking, pretrial detention, local sentences, and short holds. State prison custody covers sentenced people after commitment and intake by the Indiana Department of Correction. Vera's 2019 data listed 87 people in the state prison population from Vermillion County, separate from the jail count. Once a person is received into IDOC, mail, phone, money, visitation, and locator rules shift to state prison systems.
The IDOC incarcerated locator is the statewide search channel for sentenced prisoners. It uses name or DOC number and returns prison-style information, not a Vermillion County booking sheet. IDOC also publishes support pages for mail, video visits, phone calls, and money accounts. For released county jail records, the sheriff's public-records route remains the better channel. For custody notification, Indiana SAVIN and VINELink can supplement the one-time search.
Search Vermillion County Custody
The main local search point is that no official Vermillion County online jail roster was found on the county or sheriff website. The statewide INjail Public Portal exists, but the public county API inspected for the research returned Brown, Carroll, Elkhart, Fountain, Hendricks, Martin, Putnam, Spencer, and Warren. Vermillion was not in that list. A Vermillion County inmate search should therefore start with the jail phone line and move to a records request when the question concerns a booking sheet, jail log, mugshot, or older release.
The official sheriff page is still useful because it gives the local agency and contact path. The research screenshot of the Vermillion County Sheriff's Office page shows the sheriff contact block used for custody and records questions.
That page should be treated as an agency contact source, not as proof of an online roster. Current custody still needs confirmation by phone or through the public-records path.
- Call Vermillion County Jail or the sheriff's office and give the person's full legal name, birth date or approximate age, arrest date, and arresting agency if known.
- Ask whether the person is in custody, released, transferred, transported to court, or held for another agency.
- If the phone call does not resolve it, file the county public-records form and route it to Sheriff.
- Search MyCase for formal charges, hearings, warrants, and dispositions after the prosecutor files a case.
- Use IDOC, SAVIN/VINELink, BOP, or ICE when the custody type has moved outside the county jail.
Vermillion County Lookup Fields
Because Vermillion is not shown as a participating county in INjail, the portal's search fields are useful only as a contrast for what a participating Indiana county roster may ask for. Vermillion County users should not assume that an INjail result exists for a local arrestee. The county phone and records channels are stronger. When filing a request, use the same identity fields that roster systems normally rely on: full name, date of birth, arrest date, arresting agency, booking number if known, and case number if MyCase already shows a filing.
| Channel | Search Inputs | Best Use | Vermillion Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jail phone | Name, DOB or age, arrest date | Current custody and release status | Best first step for a recent arrest. |
| Public records form | Name, DOB, booking date, agency, requested record | Booking sheets, logs, mugshots, older records | Route to Sheriff and describe the record with specificity. |
| INjail portal | Last name, first name, birth date, county, booking date range | Participating Indiana county rosters | Vermillion was absent from the inspected county list. |
| MyCase | Name, case number, citation, court, case type | Filed charges and court events | Use after booking when the court case opens. |
| IDOC locator | Last name, first name, DOC number | Sentenced state prisoners | Not a county jail custody list. |
Vermillion County Booking Records
The Vermillion County public-records request form is central because no official online county roster was found. The form lets a requester choose the office that should receive the request, including Sheriff, and asks the requester to describe the records with specificity. It also warns that copy fees may be charged and may be due before copies are received. That is the practical route for a booking record, jail log, release date, or booking photo when a phone call cannot answer the question.
The research screenshot of the county records form shows the office-routing and fee-warning context that should guide a jail-record request.
A clear request should name the record type and the person. For example, ask for the booking record for a named person, the approximate arrest date, the arresting agency if known, the booking number if known, and whether a booking photograph is being requested.
Vermillion County Inmate Records
A Vermillion County booking record is different from a court case and different from an IDOC profile. The booking record begins at jail intake. It may identify the person, booking date, arrest date, arresting agency, booking number, charges listed at intake, bond, release status, holds, and a booking photograph if released under public-records rules. The official research did not locate a public Vermillion roster profile, so these fields should be requested from the sheriff rather than treated as an online preview.
| Field | What It Means |
|---|---|
| Booking number | Jail identifier for the intake event, if assigned and releasable. |
| Booked on | Date and time the jail received the person. |
| Arresting agency | Deputy, police department, or outside agency that brought the person to jail. |
| Charges | Arrest or booking allegations that should be checked against the later court filing. |
| Bond | Release amount or condition if set, subject to court changes and holds. |
| Release status | Whether the person is still held, released, transferred, or held for another agency. |
| Mugshot | Booking photograph, not published in an official online Vermillion gallery in the research. |
Jail Versus Prison Search
A county jail roster answers a short-term custody question. A court search answers a filed-case question. A DOC locator answers a state-prison question. A federal or immigration locator answers a separate custody question. Mixing those systems is the most common search problem in Vermillion County because a person may leave the county jail quickly, appear in MyCase later, then move to IDOC after sentencing. The custody path can also involve a hold from another county, probation, parole, federal authorities, or ICE.
| Custody Type | Where to Look | What It Covers |
|---|---|---|
| County jail | Vermillion County Jail phone or Sheriff records | Recent booking, local custody, local release status, booking record. |
| Court case | Indiana MyCase | Formal charges, case number, hearings, warrants, disposition. |
| State prison | IDOC incarcerated locator | Sentenced prisoners received by Indiana DOC. |
| Victim notification | Indiana SAVIN or VINELink Indiana | Custody status and release notification where available. |
| Federal or immigration | BOP inmate locator or ICE ODLS | Federal sentenced custody or immigration detention. |
Vermillion County Detention Facility
The facility map confirms one local detention facility. No separate county annex, city jail, regional jail, state prison, BOP prison, or ICE detention center was confirmed in Vermillion County. Clinton has a municipal police department, and Clinton City Court appears in court sources, but no official Clinton city jail page was located. For arrests from Clinton, Cayuga, Newport, Dana, Perrysville, and rural Vermillion County, the working custody path is the county jail unless a court, hospital, or another agency changes the route.
- Vermillion County Jail - the sole confirmed local jail, operated by the sheriff's office for local arrestees, pretrial detainees, local sentences, work-release or program participants when authorized, and short-term holds.
Vermillion County Jail Programs
The county's Addiction Education page gives unusually specific local detail. It describes the Vermillion County Sheriff's Office and Jail Offender Educational Program, also called the Jail Linkage Program. The program is for selected inmates with alcohol or drug related offenses and treatment need. It is intended as a bridge from incarceration to continued treatment after release, not as a full treatment program and not for people likely to receive an executed IDOC sentence.
Program criteria include agreement to participate for at least six weeks, follow jail and provider rules, allow information exchange among court-related agencies, remain abstinent from mood-altering drugs unless approved by a treatment provider, and follow treatment recommendations after release. The page also describes Moral Reconation Therapy, a cognitive-behavioral program aimed at lowering recidivism by improving moral reasoning. These programs do not replace a custody search, but they help explain why some people may remain in local custody for court-approved programming rather than immediately posting bond.
Vermillion County Inmate FAQ
How big is the Vermillion County inmate population? Vera reported a total jail population of 77 in 2019 and a rated capacity of 72 in the same historical row. Vera's jail-construction data later listed a passed 2022 expansion from 70 beds to 138 beds. The sheriff page did not publish a current daily population count.
Can Vermillion County inmates be searched online? No official Vermillion County online jail roster was found in the county or sheriff sources reviewed. INjail exists for participating counties, but Vermillion was not listed in the API county list inspected for the research. Call the jail first, then use the public-records request form if a booking record is needed.
Where do court records appear after jail booking? The Vermillion Circuit Court page points case-status users to MyCase. MyCase is the better source for filed charges, case numbers, hearings, warrants, and dispositions after the prosecutor files a criminal case.
Are Vermillion County mugshots online? The research did not locate an official county mugshot gallery or recent-bookings page. Booking photos should be requested through the sheriff records channel, and release may depend on Indiana public-records law and law-enforcement exceptions.
What if the person is in state prison? Use the IDOC locator. County jail phone staff are not the public source for a person who has already been received into Indiana DOC custody.
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