Martin County Jail Roster Basics
The public online starting point for Martin County jail inmate records is INjail Public Access, the Indiana County Jail Public Portal. Martin County appears in the portal county list with FIPS 18101 and county code 51. The portal is separate from the Indiana Department of Correction locator, so it is meant for county jail custody and recent county jail release searches, not sentenced state prison records.
The local facility behind those Martin County jail records is the Martin County Security Center, operated by the Martin County Sheriff's Office. The county page links to a separate sheriff/security-center domain, but that domain did not provide usable jail content when inspected. For page-ready jail facts, the reliable official sources are the Martin County IN.gov pages, the county contact directory, and INjail.
The INjail record should be read as a custody and booking record. It can confirm that a person appears in the participating county jail search universe, show booking and release fields when available, and open a public profile. It does not replace the court case in MyCase, the state prison locator, or federal and immigration search tools.
The INjail Public Access search page is the official roster interface for participating Indiana county jails, including Martin County.
Use the INjail form first for current Martin County jail roster records, then use the fallback channels below if the person is not shown or the public profile lacks the needed detail.
Use Martin County Inmate Search
A clean Martin County inmate search uses the narrowest facts known about the person. Last name alone can work, but a common name may return many Indiana county jail records. First name, birth date, county filter, and booking or release date ranges can cut down false matches. The portal also requires at least one search value, so a blank search is not a county population list.
Follow this order when looking for a person who may be in the Martin County Security Center:
- Open INjail Public Access and choose the Search tab or the Counties route.
- Enter the last name. Add the first name when known, because the state portal may search more than one county.
- Use birth date or the Martin County filter if the name is common or if a recent booking is expected.
- Use Booked Between for a new arrest or Released Between when checking a recent release.
- Review the results for name, age, race, sex, booked date, released date, and county.
- Use the View control to open the public profile and check booking, arrest, holds, cases, and any mugshot component shown for that record.
- If the record is missing, call the Martin County jail line or make an APRA request rather than assuming the person was never booked.
Released-person searches need care. The research found portal logic that displays an "Only showing results for the last 30 days" message, so the released search should be treated as a recent-release tool. Older booking records may require the sheriff's office records process under Indiana public-records law.
Martin County Roster Search Fields
INjail gives Martin County inmate records several filters that are more useful than a simple name box. The county filter matters because the portal covers participating counties across Indiana. Date ranges also matter when the user knows only that someone was arrested this week or recently released from the Martin County Security Center.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last Name | Text | Optional, with at least one value | Maximum length 50. The app bundle showed alpha-only entry guidance. |
| First Name | Text | Optional | Use with last name to narrow common-name searches. |
| Birth Date | Date | Optional | Displayed with an m/d/yyyy style placeholder and date picker controls. |
| County | Dropdown | Optional | Choose Martin when looking for Martin County jail records. Martin code is 51. |
| Booked Between | Date range | Optional | Useful for a recent arrest. Presets include today, last 7 days, and last 30 days. |
| Released Between | Date range | Optional | Useful for recent release checks. Treat it as recent, not historical archive access. |
The county-results route is built around the phrase "Current Martin County Inmates." That route is helpful for roster browsing, but a profile still depends on the portal returning a live result through the public interface.
Martin County Inmate Profile Fields
A Martin County jail inmate profile can show person details, arrest details, holds, and cases. The research could not pull a live Martin County sample profile through direct API because the detail endpoints require browser-generated reCAPTCHA validation. For that reason, the safest profile inventory is the official INjail profile structure, not a promise that every Martin County record will show every field.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Name | The public display name shown on the profile heading. |
| Mugshot | The app has a mugshot component, but Martin County photo availability depends on the returned booking profile. |
| INjail ID | A statewide portal identifier separate from a local booking number. |
| Demographics | Race, ethnicity, skin tone, sex, and age when populated. |
| Physical description | Eye color, hair color, height, and weight when populated. |
| Booking # | Local booking number field. A Martin County live format was not confirmed. |
| Booked On / Arrest Date | Booking date and arrest date as separate fields. |
| Arresting Agency / Officer | Agency and officer fields if the public profile includes them. |
| Released On | Release date, or a blank-style value when not released in the profile logic. |
| Holds / Cases | Separate profile components for legal holds and linked case information. |
County roster limit: Bond amount, housing unit, full charge text, or court date should not be assumed unless the live public profile or MyCase shows it.
Martin County Jail Records Channels
Not every Martin County inmate record question is answered by one database. Current custody starts with INjail. Booking copies, arrest log entries, and older or incomplete records may require the sheriff's office. Formal charges and dispositions belong in court records. Sentenced prison custody, federal custody, and immigration custody use different systems.
| Channel | Best Use | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| INjail Public Access | Current or recent Martin County jail custody. | Recent-release and profile access limits apply. |
| Jail phone line | Custody, bond, visits, property, mail, and deposit questions. | Staff may restrict protected information. |
| In person at the sheriff/security center | Records inspection, copy request, and local routing. | Lobby hours were not published. Call first. |
| Written APRA request | Booking sheet, mugshot, arrest log entry, or jail record not online. | Redactions and lawful denials can apply. |
| MyCase | Filed charges, hearings, warrants tied to cases, and dispositions. | Not a jail roster and not a booking-photo source. |
| IDOC locator | Sentenced state prison custody after transfer. | No local booking number, bond, or county jail housing details. |
| Indiana SAVIN / VINELink | Custody or case notification where supported. | Notification service, not a full archive. |
| BOP locator / ICE ODLS | Federal sentenced custody or immigration detention. | Separate from county jail custody. |
The Martin County contact directory is useful because it separates the jail, court, clerk, prosecutor, probation, and community corrections phone lines.
That separation helps avoid a common error: calling the court for a jail release question, or calling the jail for certified court filings.
Martin County Custody Comparisons
Martin County jail inmate records cover people held locally before trial, after local sentencing, for court or warrant reasons, or while waiting on a transfer or outside hold. The Indiana Department of Correction locator begins to matter when the person is sentenced to state custody or appears in a state facility, parole, discharge, or returned-to-court status. Federal and immigration custody are still different.
| Custody Type | Where to Look | What the Record Emphasizes |
|---|---|---|
| County jail pretrial or local hold | INjail and Martin County jail | Booking, arrest date, release date, holds, and cases. |
| Formal court case | MyCase and Martin County Clerk | Charges, hearings, cause number, filings, and disposition. |
| State prison sentence | Indiana Department of Correction locator | DOC number, facility/location, sentence data, and release dates. |
| Federal sentence | Federal Bureau of Prisons locator | Register number, age, race, sex, release date, and location. |
| Immigration detention | ICE Online Detainee Locator System | A-number or name and birth-country based custody search. |
The Indiana DOC incarcerated individual locator is the correct next search when a Martin County case has moved from county jail custody into a state prison record.
DOC records can show sentence and facility information, but they do not show Martin County jail booking photos, local bond status, or county jail housing.
Martin County Jail Facility
The only detention facility identified in Martin County from official sources is the Martin County Security Center. It serves Shoals, Loogootee, and the rest of Martin County for county jail custody. No Indiana state prison, BOP facility, ICE detention center, separate city jail, or regional jail was found in Martin County.
Martin County Security Center
318 Capital Avenue
Shoals, IN 47581
812-247-3726
Operator: Martin County Sheriff's Office
Published visitation schedule: not located
The sheriff page lists Josh Greene as sheriff and gives jail-related staff contacts, including the jail commander email shown on the county page. That staff list helps verify agency routing, but it should not be read as a published records-request form, visitation policy, or commissary rule.
Martin County Booking Records
After a Martin County arrest, the person may be taken to the Martin County Security Center unless another agency, court, medical, or legal reason changes the route. Intake creates identity and booking data. INjail profile labels show name, race, ethnicity, skin tone, sex, age, physical description, booking number, booked-on date, arrest date, arresting agency, arresting officer, release date, holds, cases, and a mugshot component.
Booking is not the same as conviction. Booking records can reflect the arrest event and the jail's custody file. The prosecutor decides what charges to file, and the court case appears in MyCase after filing. A person can be booked on one set of facts, charged differently later, released from jail while the case remains pending, or held because of another warrant, probation issue, DOC hold, federal hold, or immigration detainer.
- Booking
- Jail intake event after arrest.
- Hold
- A legal reason that may prevent release even when another charge has bond.
- Detainer
- A request or hold from another agency, such as DOC, another county, federal authorities, or immigration officials.
- Cause number
- The Indiana court case number used in MyCase and court filings.
Note: A release date in the jail roster does not mean the related court case was dismissed.
Martin County Jail Visit Rules
Martin County does not publish an accessible jail visitation schedule, mail rule page, commissary vendor, deposit vendor, video visit system, or inmate phone provider in the official county pages reviewed. The controlling source for those practical jail tasks is the Martin County jail phone line before travel, mail, deposit, or visit plans are made.
| Topic | Verified Martin County Information | Practical Step |
|---|---|---|
| In-person visits | Schedule not published. | Call 812-247-3726 before driving to Shoals. |
| Video visits | Vendor and schedule not located. | Ask whether visits are in person, video, or both. |
| Visitor ID | Local rule not published. | Bring government photo ID and confirm minor rules. |
| Dress code | Local rule not published. | Use conservative clothing and ask for current rules. |
| Mail format | Inmate-name and booking-number format not published. | Call before sending mail or books. |
| Commissary or deposits | Vendor and fees not located. | Do not use another county's vendor as proof. |
If INjail shows that a person has been released or transferred, do not send money or mail until the new custody location is verified. State prison family resources on the IDOC site apply to IDOC prisoners, not to Martin County jail detainees.
Request Martin County Jail Records
When INjail does not show a full Martin County inmate record, the next formal route is a public-records request under Indiana's Access to Public Records Act. The official county pages did not show a dedicated sheriff records-request portal, so a narrow written request to the sheriff or jail is the practical fallback. Indiana APRA generally allows public records to be inspected or copied unless an exception applies, while law-enforcement records may be redacted or withheld in specific situations.
A useful Martin County jail records request should name the record sought, such as a booking sheet, arrest log entry, jail release record, mugshot, warrant return, or incident report. Include the person's full name, date of birth if known, arrest or booking date, arresting agency if known, INjail ID or booking number if visible, and any MyCase cause number. Ask the sheriff's office to confirm fees before copies, certified materials, or large packets are prepared.
The Martin County Sheriff/Jail address is 318 Capital Avenue, P.O. Box 180, Shoals, IN 47581. The jail phone line is 812-247-3726, and the county contact directory lists jail fax 812-247-2226. Court filings should go to the Martin County Clerk, not the sheriff, because the clerk is the court-record custodian.
Martin County Custody Alerts
Indiana SAVIN and VINELink are useful when the task is notification rather than a one-time roster lookup. SAVIN can help track custody or case changes where the offender or case is supported by the system. It should be used along with INjail, MyCase, and direct jail contact when release timing matters.
The Martin County Sheriff IN app exists on Google Play and is described as a communication, tips, crime reporting, interactive feature, and public safety news app. The inspected listing did not advertise an inmate roster, mugshot lookup, warrant search, or records request function. Use it as a sheriff communication/news channel only. It is also not for emergency reporting, so emergencies still require 911.