Montgomery County Inmate Population
The local Montgomery County inmate population is centered on the Montgomery County Jail, the adult county jail operated by the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office. Official county and sheriff sources identify one local detention facility for Crawfordsville and the rest of Montgomery County. It holds adults before trial, people serving local jail sentences, temporary holds awaiting court or transfer, and approved work-release participants. It is not an Indiana Department of Correction prison, a federal Bureau of Prisons facility, or an ICE detention center.
The count changes as arrests, bond orders, court hearings, local sentences, work-release placements, state-prison transfers, and outside holds move people in and out. A person may be booked into the county jail and later disappear from the local jail channel after release, transfer to another county, sentence to IDOC, federal custody, or immigration detention. That is why Montgomery County inmate population research has to separate county jail custody from state prison and federal custody.
Montgomery County Inmate Population Statistics
The strongest local figure is capacity. The official Montgomery County jail page states that the current jail opened in June 2006 and has 224 beds. It breaks those beds into 130 male beds, 40 female beds, 12 temporary beds, 2 padded detox beds, and 40 work-release beds. The sheriff's jail information page also describes 224 beds, including temporary, medical, permanent, and detox or anti-self-harm housing.
A current average daily population, annual booking count, and county jail demographic table were not located in the official county, sheriff, IDOC, or ICJI sources reviewed. Those gaps matter. Montgomery County should not be described as crowded or under capacity without a sourced count from the jail or a public inspection report. Statewide and national data can give context, but it cannot replace the county jail's own count.
| Measure | Figure | Source / Year |
|---|---|---|
| Montgomery County Jail capacity | 224 beds | Official county jail page and sheriff jail page |
| Bed breakout | 130 male, 40 female, 12 temporary, 2 padded detox, 40 work-release | Official county jail page |
| Local detention facilities | 1 identified county jail | Facility map from official county and sheriff sources |
| County population | 38,954 | STATS Indiana 2025 profile |
| Current average daily population | Not located | Official public sources reviewed June 12, 2026 |
The sheriff homepage also gives the local law-enforcement setting: Sheriff Ryan Needham's office serves Montgomery County from the Memorial Drive sheriff and jail campus. The county sheriff page describes a service area of 504 square miles with hundreds of miles of county and state roadways. That local geography affects booking volume, transport, court service, and rural jail operations, but it does not by itself prove a jail population number.
Montgomery County Inmate Population Trends
County-specific average daily population trends were not found in the public materials reviewed. The Indiana Criminal Justice Institute explains a statewide data issue: Indiana jails use different jail-management systems, and inspection data can be a snapshot rather than a full county time series. For Montgomery County, public agenda material did show local jail repair planning in 2024, but it did not publish a trend line for people held at the jail.
Statewide figures still give a useful frame. The ICJI 1006 evaluation reported 19,173 people in Indiana jails in 2022 inspection-report data, a statewide 77 percent capacity rate. It also reported that 38 Indiana jails were over 80 percent capacity and 14 were over 100 percent capacity in that data set. Those are Indiana-wide figures, not a Montgomery County jail count.
| Year | Indiana Jail Population / Capacity Rate | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 20,101 / 92% | ICJI 2023 1006 Report, Table 16 |
| 2019 | 20,098 / 92% | ICJI 2023 1006 Report, Table 16 |
| 2020 | 16,153 / 71% | ICJI 2023 1006 Report, Table 16 |
| 2021 | 16,294 / 71% | ICJI 2023 1006 Report, Table 16 |
| 2022 | 19,173 / 77% | ICJI 2023 1006 Report, Table 16 |
Montgomery County Jail Capacity
The county's 224-bed layout is more detailed than many jail pages. It shows that the Montgomery County inmate population is not one undifferentiated block. The jail has male, female, temporary, detox, and work-release bed categories. The sheriff site adds medical and permanent housing references. These categories help explain why an available bed count can be more complex than a single total. A male housing unit, a detox cell, and a work-release bed may not be interchangeable for classification and safety reasons.
The official record also separates the active jail from local history. The sheriff's jail information page notes the old Montgomery County Rotary Jail, first constructed in 1882, while the active jail is the Memorial Drive facility that opened in 2006. For visits, bond questions, property pickup, or custody checks, the active jail is the modern sheriff campus, not the historic rotary jail downtown.
Local capital notes add context, not a population count. A June 11, 2024 county council agenda item referenced jail repair as a potential project estimated at over $600,000 and discussed opioid settlement planning. Those items show ongoing facility and programming needs, but they do not state that the Montgomery County Jail was above or below capacity.
Montgomery County Jail Record Laws
Indiana law is the reason jail and booking records are not treated as private office notes. The Indiana Access to Public Records Act, often called APRA, gives the public a right to inspect and copy public records unless a specific rule makes the record confidential or exempt. Jail records are still subject to limits. Investigatory law-enforcement records may be withheld at agency discretion, and court rules can restrict confidential court documents.
Key Statutes:
IC 5-14-3 is Indiana's public-records law for local agencies, including county offices and law-enforcement agencies.
IC 5-14-3-4 lists records that may be confidential or exempt, including discretionary law-enforcement investigatory records.
210 IAC 3 sets Indiana county jail standards, including admitted-inmate records, intake, housing, medical care, mail, and visitation.
Access to Court Records Rule 10 helps explain why some criminal documents are not shown online even when a case index exists.
The Indiana Public Access Counselor is a statewide source for APRA education, complaint information, and public-access guidance. It is not the custodian of Montgomery County jail records. For a local booking record or booking photo, the sheriff or the arresting agency remains the practical starting point.
Search Montgomery County Inmate Population
The official local entry point is the sheriff's Find an Inmate page. During research, the text-rendered page confirmed the official inmate-finder route and repeated the sheriff and jail contact information, but it did not expose a traditional public search form or sample inmate profile. Because the visible roster fields were not confirmed, search instructions should stay flexible and should not promise booking numbers, mugshots, charges, housing units, or bond amounts on the web page.
- Open the official sheriff Find an Inmate page and let any embedded roster or app-supported view load.
- Search by the person's name if a public search form appears.
- If no roster loads, call the Sheriff's Office / Jail at (765) 362-3740 and ask what current custody information can be released.
- Use Indiana SAVIN or VINELink for custody-status notices, not as a full booking-record substitute.
- When the person has been sentenced to state prison, search the IDOC locator instead of the county jail channel.
| Local Field or Control | Status in Research | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Find an Inmate page | Visible entry point | Official sheriff page at the jailtracker URL. |
| Name search | Not visible in text rendering | May depend on an embedded or app-driven view. |
| Booking number | Not confirmed | Do not treat it as a confirmed public search field. |
| Login requirement | Not visible | No public login requirement appeared on the text-rendered page. |
Montgomery County Inmate Record Fields
The local roster sample was not accessible in the research capture, so Montgomery County inmate record content has to be described with care. The official page did not confirm a public booking number, booking date, mugshot, demographics, charges, bond, housing unit, arresting agency, court date, or release status. That does not mean the jail lacks those records. It means those fields were not visible in the public text rendering and should not be promised as web roster fields.
State-prison records are different. The IDOC incarcerated search showed result columns for name, DOC number, date of birth, race, sex, and facility or location. Sample profiles showed DOC number, name parts, birth month and year, gender, race, facility, earliest possible release date, sentence information, offense description, Indiana citation code, cause number, county of conviction, and projected release date. No IDOC mugshot was observed in sampled HTML.
| Field | County Jail Page Status | IDOC Locator Status |
|---|---|---|
| Current custody location | Confirm through sheriff page, phone, or app | Facility/Location shown |
| Booking number | Not visible in text inspection | DOC Number shown instead |
| Booking photo | Not visible on Find an Inmate page | Not observed in sampled HTML |
| Charges or offense | Not visible in local page capture | Sentence information and offense shown |
| Release date | Not visible in local page capture | Earliest possible and projected release dates shown |
Montgomery County Jail vs Prison
County jail and state prison searches answer different questions. The jail answers whether someone is in local Montgomery County custody before trial, serving a short local sentence, held temporarily, or in work release. IDOC answers where a sentenced Indiana prisoner is after transfer to state custody. A person can have Montgomery County listed as the county of conviction in an IDOC profile while being housed far outside the county.
| Question | County Jail | State Prison |
|---|---|---|
| Who is covered? | Pretrial detainees, local sentences, temporary holds, work release | Sentenced Indiana prisoners after IDOC transfer |
| Agency | Montgomery County Sheriff's Office | Indiana Department of Correction |
| Lookup channel | Sheriff Find an Inmate page or jail phone | IDOC incarcerated search |
| Money and visits | Securus, Access Corrections, AllPaid, and jail rules | ViaPath/GettingOut and IDOC facility rules |
- Booking
- The jail intake record created after arrest and acceptance into custody.
- Detainer
- A hold or request from another agency that can affect release.
- Work release
- A jail program allowing approved people to work while housed in custody.
- Classification
- The housing and security decision made after intake.
State Federal Inmate Search
When a person is not found in the Montgomery County jail channel, the next search depends on custody type. For sentenced Indiana prisoners, use IDOC. For federal sentenced prisoners, use the BOP inmate locator, which covers federal inmates from 1982 to present and shows fields such as name, register number, age, race, sex, release date, and location. For immigration detention, use ICE ODLS, noting that the system is JavaScript-based and is separate from local jail records.
No BOP prison or ICE detention facility was identified in Montgomery County. Indiana federal prison context exists at Terre Haute in Vigo County, including FCI Terre Haute and USP Terre Haute, but those are not Montgomery County facilities. If the Montgomery County Jail says a person has a federal or immigration hold, local bond payment may not lead to release until that outside hold is resolved.
| Custody Situation | Where to Look | Key Caveat |
|---|---|---|
| Local arrest or local charge | Sheriff jail channel and MyCase | BOP will not show ordinary county detainees. |
| Indiana sentence | IDOC locator | County jail rules no longer control visits or money. |
| Federal sentence | BOP locator | No public federal mugshots are shown in BOP locator results. |
| Immigration custody | ICE ODLS | No Montgomery County ICE facility was found. |
Montgomery County Detention Facilities
Only one local detention facility was resolved from the official facility map. Work release is part of the main jail capacity rather than a separate building page. Local police agencies may make arrests, but the official county and sheriff sources route adult detention to the Montgomery County Jail.
- Montgomery County Jail - the county jail in Crawfordsville for adult pretrial detainees, local jail sentences, temporary holds, detox/medical housing needs, and work-release participants.
The sheriff's Jail Info page is also the local source for visitation, mail, commissary, bond, medical care, programs, property release, and emergency-contact rules. Its vendor links separate Securus for video, calls, and messages; Access Corrections for commissary deposits; Indiana SAVIN for notification; and AllPaid for online inmate bond payments.
Montgomery County Inmate Population FAQ
How large is the Montgomery County inmate population?
The sourced local capacity is 224 jail beds. A current average daily population was not located in the official sources reviewed, so the county should not be assigned an unsupported daily count.
How do I search the Montgomery County inmate population?
Start with the sheriff's Find an Inmate page. If the roster or embedded search does not load, call the jail at (765) 362-3740, then check SAVIN/VINELink, MyCase, IDOC, BOP, or ICE depending on the custody type.
Does the county jail roster show mugshots?
The official inmate-finder page did not expose public booking-photo fields in text inspection. Booking photos may be requestable under APRA, but release depends on exemptions, confidentiality rules, and sheriff policy.
What if the person was sentenced?
Use the IDOC locator for sentenced Indiana prisoners. The county jail may hold someone briefly before transport, so check both the jail and IDOC during a recent transfer window.