The Indiana Department of Correction, IDOC, runs the Incarcerated Database Search, which its home page describes as the offender locator tool for a person's facility assignment and DOC number. A search runs by last name, or by first and last name to narrow the results, or by the DOC number, which the department says eliminates one step; the database was last updated on October 14, 2026, the day it was read. Anyone who reuses or publishes the information is solely liable for claims arising from it, and complaints about accuracy go in writing to the Indiana Department of Correction, 302 West Washington Street, IGCS, Room E334, Indianapolis, IN 46204.
The locator covers the department's 21 facilities. A person in a county jail is the sheriff's record; Marion County, for one, runs an Inmate Lookup Tool by name and date of birth or by identifier that can include released inmates, and every other sheriff is listed on the Indiana county pages.
- Locate: the IDOC Incarcerated Database Search by name or DOC number; the Indiana SAVIN search by offender name, offender identification number or the court's case or cause number, with free notification of status changes and of emergencies near facilities.
- Calls: the incarcerated person signs a telephone list of no more than 20 names and numbers under Indiana Code 11-8-2-5(a)(8); calls come collect, by prepaid AdvancePay or by inmate PIN debit through ViaPath, set up at ConnectNetwork.com or (800) 483-8314; a call is refused by hanging up or pressing 1 and blocked by pressing 6 with a four digit PIN.
- Visits: every visitor registers for a ViaPath account and is approved before scheduling an in person or online visit, sends the supplemental documents the facility's visitation coordinator requires, and schedules in Eastern time whatever the facility's time zone; all visitors are subject to search and trafficking brings a permanent ban.
- Facilities: 18 adult facilities, 15 for men and 3 for women, from minimum to maximum security, 3 juvenile facilities and 10 parole districts, each with its own page and visitation rules.
Written by SearchSystems.net from Indiana's own systems: the Indiana Department of Correction Incarcerated Database Search, the Indiana SAVIN and Alert Notification Service Offender Search, the department's home page, the department's Phone Calls page, the department's Visitation page, the department's Adult Correctional Facilities page, the department's Parole Districts page, the Marion County Sheriff's Inmate Lookup Tool, each read on October 14, 2026 by the SearchSystems editorial team.
The locator and SAVIN
The Incarcerated Database Search answers with the facility and DOC number, and the department's own pages send families to it before anything else. Indiana SAVIN, the Statewide Automated Victim Information and Notification service with its Alert Notification companion, searches the same population by offender name, where only a last name is required and a first name narrows the list, by offender identification number, or by the case or cause number the court assigned, and delivers updates on offender status changes and on emergencies near correctional facilities.
The department's home page also links the Indiana Sex and Violent Offender Registry, searched by county. The Marion County Sheriff's Inmate Lookup Tool for the Indianapolis jail searches by first and last name and date of birth, or by a selected identifier and value, with a box to include released inmates.
The facilities
The department oversees 21 facilities, 18 adult and 3 juvenile. The adult male facilities are Branchville, Plainfield and Putnamville, medium security; Edinburgh and Heritage Trail, minimum; the Indiana State Prison, maximum; the Correction Industrial Facility, medium and maximum; Miami, New Castle and Pendleton, minimum to maximum; Wabash Valley, minimum and maximum; Westville, minimum and medium; the Reception Diagnostic Center, the maximum security intake facility; and the Chain O'Lakes and South Bend community reentry centers.
The women's facilities are the Indiana Women's Prison, medium and maximum, Madison, minimum and medium, and Rockville, maximum security and intake. The juvenile facilities are the Logansport and Pendleton juvenile correctional facilities for boys and LaPorte for girls, each handling all risk levels. Attorneys, clergy and government officials request their visits directly with each facility's litigation liaison.
Calls: the 20 name list and ViaPath
An incarcerated person completes and signs a telephone list identifying no more than 20 names and their numbers, under Indiana Code 11-8-2-5(a)(8) and policy 02-01-105, the 20 counting people rather than numbers. The phone page explains the three ways a call arrives: collect, billed monthly through the called party's carrier until a billing limit blocks further calls; prepaid collect through ViaPath's AdvancePay, an account tied to the family member's number, cell phones included, funded at ConnectNetwork.com or 800.483.8314; and debit, where the incarcerated person buys minutes from the commissary or a family member funds the PIN debit account and the person can then call any approved number.
Collect calls cannot reach cell phones, office phones or hospitals, and a trust fund deposit lets the person spend at the commissary. A call is refused by hanging up or pressing 1, blocked permanently by pressing 6 and setting a four digit PIN that is needed to lift the block, and unblocked through ViaPath customer service at (877) 650-4249 in one to two business days; unwanted calls or letters are reported to the warden of the facility, who may impose a written correspondence or telephone restriction after review, and threats go to the warden and local law enforcement.
Visiting through ViaPath
Visiting runs on three steps on the visitation page: register for a ViaPath account and be approved, submit the supplemental documentation the facility requires, found through the visitation coordinator search, since missing documents delay or reject an application, and schedule the visit on ViaPath's site, where the available dates and times for the person's facility are listed. Scheduling runs in Eastern time even for a facility in the Central zone.
Each facility gives a new arrival written visiting procedures within 24 hours and sets limits on visitors and length from its schedule, space and staffing. The department does not tolerate trafficking or the possession of controlled substances, tobacco, electronic devices or weapons on its property, every offender and visitor is subject to search, refusal means denial of the visit, evidence of trafficking goes to the Indiana State Police with a recommendation to prosecute, and a visitor caught trafficking is permanently banned from visiting any offender at any facility.
Policy 02-01-102, Offender Visitation, defines contact visits, in which the offender and visitor are not physically separated, non contact visits, and video visits for those unable to travel, and spells out who counts as attorney, clergy, ex employee and ex offender.
Parole
The Division of Parole Services supervises people released on parole at no cost to them, investigates placements before release and gives each parolee reporting instructions and the agent's contact information; a parolee stays at the approved residence without prior permission to move and follows any registry requirement, under policy 03-03-101. The ten districts are Re-Entry, Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, Evansville, Bloomington, Gary, New Castle, South Bend, Madison and Terre Haute, run from the Indiana Government Center South, 302 W Washington Street, Room E 334, Indianapolis, IN 46204, with an electronic monitoring program begun March 1, 2012 and the Indiana Sex Offender Management and Monitoring program.
The Indiana Parole Board hears victims with safety concerns about a release and posts parole hearing notifications for anyone wishing to support or oppose a parole.
Reading an Indiana result
A locator result gives the facility and DOC number of a person in IDOC custody as of the database's last update, with the department's notice that it stands behind nothing a reuser does with it; SAVIN turns the same record into notifications. The DOC number carries the telephone list, the ViaPath accounts and the visit registration, each facility sets the hours, and a person in a county jail or on parole is found through the sheriff or the parole district instead.
Questions about finding an inmate in Indiana
Related Indiana records
The locator is one of the Indiana records this site covers: the Indiana arrest records guide explains what a booking makes public, the court records guide covers mycase.IN.gov, the sex offender registry guide covers the Sex and Violent Offender Registry, and the Indiana county pages list each sheriff and jail.