Find Vanderburgh County Inmates

Vanderburgh County Jail Roster

The Vanderburgh County Sheriff's inmate lookup is the main online roster for current jail custody. The sheriff also publishes recent booking records, which help when a person was just processed or may not be easy to find in a name search. The roster is a sheriff custody tool, not a court disposition tool. It can list charges and bonds, but the final case path belongs in court records after charges are filed.

The sheriff's office is headquartered at 3500 N. Harlan Avenue in Evansville. The same address houses the county jail, and the jail receptionist and inmate information phone is 812-421-6200. The sheriff homepage also lists the operations center at 3520 N. Harlan Avenue, community corrections at 3540 N. Harlan Avenue, civil process at 812-421-6372, sex offender registration at 812-421-6309, and investigations at 812-421-6201.

The sheriff homepage source image comes from the Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office website.

The sheriff office page is the starting point for inmate records, jail contact information, warrants, civil process, and sex offender registration numbers.

Use the Vanderburgh County Inmate Roster

The online roster works best when the user compares more than one field. Name spelling may vary, and some results use middle names, suffixes, or no photo flags. If the person was recently arrested, check recent bookings as well as the current inmate lookup. If the person has been sentenced and transferred out of the county jail, the Indiana Department of Correction offender locator is the better state custody channel.

1. Open the sheriff inmate lookup and enter a full or partial name in the search field.
2. Use the A-Z last-name filter when a common name returns too many results.
3. Review the booking photo, full name, city/state line, age, gender, and booked date.
4. Open the Charges drawer to view charge descriptions, bond amounts, and bond types.
5. Use Previous and Next if the search spans more than 10 displayed records.
6. Call 812-421-6200 for custody status, release-date questions, or unclear bond information.

Note: The sheriff's old VCSO mobile app is no longer operational or supported, so the current jail lookup should be accessed through the website.

Vanderburgh County Inmate Search Fields

The roster fields are simple, but the embedded record data is richer than the visible search box suggests. The public display supports name search, alphabet filtering, pagination, and expanded charge details. Results usually show enough to identify a current inmate, but a court case, release order, state transfer, or sealed juvenile matter can change what is available to the public.

Vanderburgh County Inmate Profiles

A Vanderburgh County inmate profile is a booking and custody record. It does not prove guilt, and it does not show the final case outcome. For the court side, search MyCase by name or cause number after charges are filed. For the jail side, the profile gives booking facts, charge labels, and bond information that can help a family member decide whether to call the jail, post bond, set up visitation, or request incarceration records.

Vanderburgh County Jail Facility

The Vanderburgh County Jail is a self-contained facility at 3500 N. Harlan Avenue. The jail page says Captain David Guetling commands the facility, which employs 103 full-time officers and can house up to 600 inmates. The building has 156,722 square feet of floor space, pneumatically controlled doors and locks, computerized integrated touch-screen security, internal communications, and more than 130 cameras recorded 24/7.

The jail facility source image comes from the Vanderburgh County Jail page.

The facility details help separate local jail custody from court case records, state prison records, and community corrections supervision.

Vanderburgh County Booking Records

The jail receives people arrested in Vanderburgh County for offenses ranging from public intoxication and theft to rape, burglary, and murder. Booking creates the custody record. The court case may appear later when charges are filed and docketed. That timing difference is why recent bookings, the current inmate lookup, MyCase, and the Clerk can show different stages of the same event.

Video arraignment is available at the jail, and bond details can appear in the online profile. If any charge has a no-bond code, the total bond line may display "No Bond." For the filed court case after booking, use Vanderburgh County arrest records and court charges to follow the arrest-to-charge path.

The jail page also notes that laundry, meal preparation, medical, and dental services are provided inside the self-contained facility. Its kitchen can produce up to 3,500 meals per day. Those details are not search fields, but they confirm that the county jail roster is tied to a full local detention facility rather than a short-term holding list.

Vanderburgh County Jail Visits

Video visitation uses Combined Public Communications and InmateSales.com. The jail visitation page says all remote and on-site visits require a CPC account, created either online or at the jail lobby kiosk. Visits can be refused or ended for rule violations, and non-attorney or non-professional visits may be monitored.

The visitation source image comes from the Vanderburgh County Jail visitation page.

That source is the controlling local reference for remote visits, local video visits, scheduling, free minutes, and visitor conduct rules.

Contact Vanderburgh County Inmates

Mail does not go to the Harlan Avenue jail address. The sheriff mail page says letters should be addressed to Vanderburgh County Detention Center, C/O "Inmate Name", PO Box 76550, Highland Heights, KY 41076. That out-of-state mailing address is easy to miss. Attorneys must email jailcommand@vanderburghsheriff.org to set up a legal-mail account.

Phone accounts are handled by CPC, not owned or operated by the sheriff. Calls can be monitored and recorded. Phone time may be purchased at the jail kiosk, online at InmateSales.com, or by calling 1-877-998-5678. CPC offers pin debit, where the inmate may call any number, and prepaid, where calls are limited to the purchased number.

Vanderburgh County Inmate Funds

Commissary deposits can be made by cash or credit card at the jail kiosk inside the main jail entrance at 3500 N. Harlan Avenue, and the kiosk is available 24/7. Online deposits use JailFunds. These funds are not court payments, fines, restitution, or bond payments. Keep jail commissary, phone account, and court financial obligations separate when reading inmate and case records.

The commissary source image comes from the Vanderburgh County Jail commissary page.

The commissary page connects jail funds to inmate care, while bond and court costs remain separate records handled through jail, sheriff, Clerk, or court channels.

Vanderburgh County Inmate Record Requests

When the roster is not enough, the Sheriff's public-records page is the request channel for incarceration, incident, accident, administrative, medical, and limited criminal-history records. The sheriff's APRA timing is specific: in-person requests receive a response within 24 hours, while mailed or faxed requests receive a response within seven calendar days. A response may be a status update rather than the record itself.

State sentenced inmates are a different access channel. The Indiana Department of Correction links to offender locator tools, the sex and violent offender registry, and SAVIN. A person transferred to state custody may disappear from the county jail roster even though court records and sentence records remain searchable through court or state systems.

Medical care and release timing have separate jail guidance. The jail has full-time medical staff on-site 24/7, sick-call slips are picked up daily, and a clinic visit is scheduled within 48 hours unless the condition is emergent. Sentenced jail release dates can be checked by calling 812-421-6200, and the jail notes a 5:30 a.m. release from the main jail entrance on the release date.

Property rules can also affect families trying to close out a custody issue. The jail property guidance in the research says keys and money may be signed out at any hour one time during incarceration. General property is signed out Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., and some approved items can be dropped off Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m.-9:00 p.m. Those property windows are not the same as visitation windows, phone account funding, bond posting, or public-records request timing.

Indiana public access rules also matter for inmate-related records. Adult booking and incarceration facts may be available through the sheriff, but juvenile records, sealed court records, medical records, and protected personal information can be withheld or redacted. If the requested record is part of a court case, Indiana court access rules may control. If the requested record is a sheriff agency record, APRA timing and sheriff request forms control. Matching the request to the right custodian reduces delays.

The most useful custody check usually follows a simple order: search current inmates, check recent bookings, call the jail, search MyCase for filed charges, then use the sheriff records request channel if a copy is needed. For state custody, use IDOC tools. For victim notice, use SAVIN or VINE links from the jail navigation. For registry questions, use the Indiana sex and violent offender registry rather than the jail roster.

Bond and release questions should also stay tied to the official custody channel. A roster may show bond data, but the jail bond process has its own rules for identification, cash, credit cards, surety bonds, cash-only bonds, Clerk business-hour handling, and after-hours sheriff bonding. Release dates for sentenced jail inmates are checked by phone, not inferred from a court docket. If the person is no longer listed, check whether release, transfer, court action, or a data update explains the change.