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Martin County Inmate Population Overview

The Martin County inmate population starts with one local detention facility: the Martin County Security Center in Shoals. The Martin County Sheriff's Office operates that jail for local arrests, short local sentences, court holds, warrant holds, and people waiting for transfer after a court order. The official county sheriff page identifies the Sheriff's Office administration at the same Capital Avenue address used for the jail contact line, and the county contact directory lists the jail phone and fax as a separate county contact. No separate city jail, regional jail, state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention center was found in Martin County from the official sources reviewed.

That compact facility map matters. A person arrested by a sheriff deputy, city police officer, Indiana State Police officer, conservation officer, or another local agency may be booked into the county security center. A person sentenced to the Indiana Department of Correction leaves the local jail population and is searched in the state prison locator instead. Federal and immigration custody use still different systems. The Martin County inmate population should therefore be read as a current local jail population plus several possible transfer paths, not as one single database that follows a person through every stage.

Martin County Inmate Population Statistics

Martin County does not publish a local jail dashboard, current custody count, average daily population, annual bookings total, or demographic report on the accessible county pages reviewed. The live INjail portal is useful for person lookup, but it is not a public statistics dashboard. The research found one secondary public database that summarized Indiana jail inspection data and listed Martin County Jail with 60 beds and 36 inmates. Because that figure was not found on the county's own site, it should be treated as a pointer to Indiana Department of Correction inspection data rather than a county-published number.

The most useful population fact from official material is procedural: Indiana county jail standards require statistical reporting. The Indiana county jail standards include annual report elements such as beds, bookings, average daily population, jail deaths, in-custody deaths, escapes, juvenile bookings by waiver or direct file, and services availability. That means missing web publication is not the same as missing records. A person who needs official Martin County inmate population figures should request the annual jail statistical report from the sheriff or the proper state custodian.

Martin County Inmate Population Trends

Martin County trend lines should be handled with care. The county annual financial report index includes recent financial reports, but no official jail statistical report or multiyear jail population table was located online. INjail can show current and recent person-level records when a search is made, yet the direct count and map endpoints require a live browser token. That makes the portal a custody lookup tool, not a reliable public source for a year-by-year Martin County inmate population chart.

State and national context can help explain why the local jail count may change. The Indiana Department of Correction publishes population reports for state custody, and the April 2026 IDOC material summarized in the research reported adult male and adult female statewide counts, including county jail backups. Nationally, the Bureau of Justice Statistics Jail Inmates in 2023 reported 664,200 people in local jails at midyear 2023. Those figures are context only. They should not be converted into a Martin County count.

Martin County Jail Population Makeup

The local Martin County jail population includes people at different points in the case process. Some are newly booked and waiting for the first court appearance. Some are held on warrants, probation or community-corrections issues, or outside-agency holds. Some may be serving short local sentences. Others may be waiting for transfer to IDOC after a felony sentence. INjail profile labels show why this can be hard to read from one field. The portal has booking and arrest fields, plus separate holds and cases components, but the research could not confirm full live Martin County profiles through the protected direct endpoints.

Aggregate demographic data for Martin County was not found in official county sources. Individual INjail profiles may show race, ethnicity, skin tone, sex, age, eye color, hair color, height, and weight. Those are record fields for a person, not a countywide demographic table. Community Corrections also affects the shape of the population. Martin County Community Corrections is described by the county as an alternative to prison and county jail, and its pretrial and home-detention documents show local supervision paths outside physical jail custody.

Pretrial detainee

A person held after arrest while charges, bond, or court dates are still pending.

Hold

A separate legal reason that may stop release, such as another county warrant, probation issue, DOC hold, federal matter, or immigration detainer.

DOC transfer

Movement from county jail to Indiana state prison custody after a qualifying sentence or correctional order.

Community corrections

A local court-related program that can supervise some people outside jail through approved alternatives.

Martin County Inmate Population Laws

Indiana law supplies the framework for Martin County jail records and population reporting. The Indiana Access to Public Records Act generally gives the public a right to inspect and copy public agency records unless a statute allows or requires withholding. Law-enforcement daily log and arrest information rules are especially relevant for booking facts. At the same time, APRA exemptions, juvenile confidentiality, sealed records, investigatory records, and protected personal information can limit what appears online or in a copy request.

Search Martin County Inmates

Current or recent Martin County jail custody starts with INjail Public Access, the Indiana County Jail Public Portal. The Indiana Judicial Branch public-records page links this system as the county jail offender locator, and Martin County appears in the public county list with FIPS 18101 and county code 51. The older separate sheriff and security-center domain linked from the county page did not serve usable sheriff content during research, so IN.gov county pages and INjail are the usable official channels for online lookup.

The search path is simple when the name is known. Open INjail, enter at least one search value, and narrow common names with first name, birth date, Martin County, booked-between dates, or released-between dates. The county-specific route displays current Martin County inmates when results are available. If the portal does not show the person, call the jail line, search MyCase for formal court records, check IDOC if the person was sentenced, or use federal and immigration locators when the arrest has moved outside local custody.

1. Open the INjail Public Access search or browse the Counties tab to Martin County.
2. Enter last name and first name when known. Add birth date for common names.
3. Choose Martin County or use the Martin County results route to keep the search local.
4. Review name, age, race, sex, booked date, released date, and county context in the results.
5. Use View to open the profile, then check booking details, holds, cases, release status, and any photo component.

Martin County Roster Search Fields

INjail accepts several search fields, and the portal requires at least one value. Last name is the most common start, but a birth date and county filter help when a name is common. The release-date filters are useful for recent releases, yet the app includes logic indicating results may be limited to the last 30 days. Older Martin County inmate population questions should move to a written APRA request rather than assuming the portal is an archive.

The INjail Public Portal search screen is a matching image for this lookup workflow.

The screenshot shows why a Martin County jail search should use more than a surname when possible, since the portal supports name, birth date, county, booking-date, and release-date filters.

Martin County Inmate Record Fields

A Martin County INjail profile is a jail record, not a full criminal case file. The visible labels captured from the official app include identity, booking, arrest, release, hold, and case sections. The app has a mugshot image component and a mugshot route, but the research did not confirm that every Martin County booking profile displays a photo. The direct profile endpoints require a reCAPTCHA token, so no live Martin County sample record was pulled by direct API.

Martin County Jail vs Prison

The county jail roster and state prison locator answer different questions. The Martin County Security Center holds local jail custody. The Indiana DOC incarcerated search covers sentenced state custody, parole or discharge status, state facility location, sentence data, and release-date fields. A person may disappear from the county jail roster because of release, transfer to IDOC, movement to another county, federal custody, immigration detention, or a data limit in the portal.

The IDOC locator form screenshot captured during research shows the state fields used after a Martin County case results in prison custody.

Use that state search when INjail no longer shows local custody and the court record suggests the person was sentenced to IDOC.

Martin County Federal Inmate Search

Federal and immigration records sit outside the Martin County inmate population even when the arrest began locally. The Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator covers federal inmates incarcerated from 1982 to present and can be searched by register number or by name. It does not show county jail booking numbers, Martin County arresting agency fields, local bond, or public federal mugshots. A federal defendant may not appear in BOP until sentenced and committed to federal prison.

Federal pretrial custody routes through the U.S. Marshals Service. The research identified Martin County as part of the Southern District of Indiana, but the district page is a contact and operations resource, not a public inmate roster. Immigration custody is searched through ICE ODLS by A-number or by name, country of birth, and date of birth according to USAGov. ICE and BOP searches should not be used as substitutes for the county jail roster.

Martin County Inmate Records Requests

When INjail does not answer the question, the local fallback is the Martin County Sheriff's Office and jail at the security center. No dedicated Martin County sheriff records-request form was found on the accessible county pages. A written APRA request should identify the record type, subject name, date of birth if known, approximate arrest or booking date, arresting agency, booking number or cause number if visible, and the preferred delivery method. Ask the office to cite the statutory reason for any denial or redaction.

Use the right custodian. Booking sheets, arrest log entries, mugshots, jail release records, and jail incident records belong with the sheriff or jail unless another record holder is identified. Filed charges, court orders, hearings, dispositions, and certified court copies belong with MyCase and the Martin County Clerk. Charging decisions and victim routing involve the Martin County Prosecutor, not the jail records counter.

Martin County Detention Facilities

The Martin County facility list has one jail facility for this build. The Martin County Security Center is the local custody point for county arrests and jail records. Martin County Community Corrections is important, but the county describes it as an alternative to prison and county jail rather than a detention facility that holds an inmate population. No municipal lockup in Shoals or Loogootee was located from official pages.

• Martin County Security Center holds pretrial detainees, local jail sentences, court holds, warrant holds, and people waiting for transfer when applicable.

Martin County Inmate Population FAQ