Adams County Jail Record Search
No dedicated Adams County sheriff-hosted online jail roster was located on the official sheriff page or in the public jail information PDF. That matters. A local roster page often shows a current-inmate list, but Adams County's official materials instead point the public to custody-notification tools, the jail phone line, and written records requests. The Adams County Sheriff Department, led by Sheriff Dan Mawhorr, operates the Adams County Sheriff's Office & Detention Center and the Sheriff's Work Release Building from the same Decatur law-enforcement campus.
The practical starting point is VINELink, which the county sheriff page identifies as the VINE service for telephone and internet custody status. The sheriff page also gives the Indiana VINE phone number, 866-959-8463. If VINE does not return a clear result, call the jail at 260-724-5345 or visit the public counter during published office hours. For records that are not online, a written request under Indiana's Access to Public Records Act can ask the Adams County Sheriff Department for releasable booking information.
The official Adams County Sheriff Department page shows the local jail contact, VINE direction, and sheriff's office hours. The screenshot below is a useful source marker because it shows that custody lookup in Adams County starts with the sheriff's published channels, not a separate county roster page.
Use that county page to confirm the sheriff's office phone, address, and public counter hours before calling, visiting, or preparing a written records request.
Adams County Custody Channels
Adams County inmate records work best as a channel chain. Start with the fastest custody source, then move toward the record-owning office if the online result is thin. VINE can confirm whether a person is in custody or trigger notifications, but it is not the same as a full sheriff booking file. The statewide county jail portal may help with county custody searches, but the research did not locate an Adams County sample profile with public booking photos, charges, bond, or housing details. The jail phone line remains the direct local check.
A written APRA request is the next step when the question is about the booking record itself. The request should identify the person by full name, date of birth if known, arrest date, arresting agency if known, and court cause number if a case has already been filed. Ask for the releasable jail booking record, booking date, custody status, bond information, and booking photo only if the photo is actually needed. Court charges, hearing dates, and official case copies come from MyCase and the Adams County Clerk, not from the jail roster.
- Indiana VINE / VINELink
- Use it for custody status and custody-change notification. The county sheriff page points to VINE and gives 866-959-8463.
- Jail phone and public counter
- Call 260-724-5345 for direct custody, booking, bond, visit, or property questions. The public counter is at 911 W Peacekeepers Way during Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. office hours.
- Written APRA request
- Use a written request to the sheriff for releasable booking records that are not posted online.
- Indiana county jail portal
- Use the statewide county-jail search for name, birth date, and county fields, then confirm important results with the jail.
- IDOC, BOP, and ICE locators
- Use these only when the person is in sentenced state custody, federal prison custody, or immigration custody.
Search Adams County Jail Records
Because the official local roster was not located, the search process should not depend on one county webpage. Use VINE first for custody status, then check the Indiana county jail public portal if the person may be in a county jail. If neither route gives enough detail, call the Adams County Sheriff's Office & Detention Center. This order keeps the search focused on official systems while leaving room for the delay that often occurs between arrest, intake, and public custody updates.
- Open the Indiana VINE person search or call VINE at 866-959-8463 to check whether a custody record or notification option appears.
- Search the Indiana county jail public portal with last name, first name, birth date, and Adams as the county when those details are known.
- Call the Adams County jail at 260-724-5345 if the online search is unclear, the name is common, or the arrest may be recent.
- Ask whether the person is in the main detention center, the work release program, already released, or held for another agency.
- Use MyCase or the Adams County Clerk after charges are filed, because court records are separate from the jail booking record.
- Use the IDOC, BOP, or ICE locator if the person is no longer in county custody and may have been transferred.
Adams County Roster Search Fields
The statewide Indiana county jail public portal is the closest online roster-style tool located during the custody sweep. It is not the same as a dedicated Adams County sheriff roster, and no Adams County profile page was available to inspect. Treat it as one official search path, then confirm any important result with the jail before taking action on bond, visitation, pickup, or release plans.
The Indiana county jail public portal uses a compact search screen. The manifest image below shows the portal that supports county jail lookup across Indiana, including the county selector that should be set to Adams for this county.
Search fields can help narrow a same-name match, but they do not replace confirmation from the Adams County jail when the result affects a visit, money deposit, or bond payment.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last Name | Text | Unspecified | Search by surname. Start here if only one name is known. |
| First Name | Text | Unspecified | Use with last name to narrow results, especially for common surnames. |
| Birth Date | Date | Unspecified | Helps separate people with the same or similar names. |
| County | Dropdown | Unspecified | Select Adams when searching Adams County jail custody. |
Adams County Inmate Record Fields
A sample Adams County public roster profile was not available from the official sheriff page or public jail PDF. For that reason, the safe field inventory is a request checklist, not a promise that each item appears online. Use it when calling the jail or drafting an APRA request. The jail may release some information, withhold other details, or direct court questions to the Clerk after the prosecutor files charges.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Name | The identity used for VINE, jail phone checks, and written records requests. |
| Date of birth | A matching detail that helps separate same-name or similar-name results. |
| Booking date and time | The intake date to request from the sheriff if it is not visible in an online custody result. |
| Booking number | Not located in a public Adams County roster sample; ask the jail if one is needed. |
| Mugshot | No official public Adams County mugshot roster was located; request a releasable booking photo under APRA if needed. |
| Charges | Booking charges may differ from filed court charges, so verify filed charges through MyCase or the Clerk. |
| Bond | The 2026 bond schedule gives presumptive amounts, but the actual bond depends on court and jail records. |
| Housing unit | The jail PDF names pod labels, but no inmate-specific housing lookup was located. |
| Court date | Use MyCase or the Adams County Clerk because court events are not controlled by a jail roster. |
| Release status | Check VINE or call the jail for current custody status before visiting or sending funds. |
Record caution: A custody status result is not an official court record. Filed charges, warrants, dispositions, and hearing dates must be checked through the court record system or the Clerk.
Adams County Booking Process
Booking starts after an arrest by the sheriff's office, a Decatur, Berne, Geneva, state, probation, parole, or other law-enforcement agency. The person is transported to the Adams County Detention Center, where intake may include identity checks, property inventory, search, photo, fingerprints, charge or hold entry, medical and mental-health screening, and initial classification. Classification means the jail decides the custody level and housing area based on security, medical, and operational concerns.
Adams County Pretrial Services begins after arrest and before conviction. The program gathers information through interviews and record checks, assesses risk, reports to the judge, and supervises people ordered to pretrial supervision. After booking, VINE or the jail phone line is the best custody check. The prosecutor then reviews the case, and if charges are filed, the public case may appear in MyCase unless it is confidential, sealed, expunged, or otherwise restricted.
The Adams County bond schedule effective May 13, 2026 affects many booking outcomes. Some arrests do not receive schedule bail until an initial hearing or court-set bail. Examples in the schedule include crimes of violence, resisting law enforcement, intimidation, harassment, invasion of privacy, stalking, battery, domestic violence, Level 1-5 felonies, unknown identity, certain substance or alcohol holds, ICE holds, and holds from another jurisdiction.
Adams County Custody Compared
County jail custody and state prison custody are often confused. Adams County jail records cover people held locally, including pretrial arrestees, sentenced local inmates, work-release participants, and people waiting for court action or transfer. IDOC covers sentenced Indiana state prisoners. Federal and immigration custody use separate federal systems, and no federal prison or ICE detention facility was found in Adams County, Indiana.
Use the Indiana Department of Correction incarcerated search when a person has moved from the Adams County jail into state custody. The IDOC locator is a different record system, with fields such as DOC number, birth month and year, race, sex, facility or location, sentence information, and projected release data.
| Custody Type | Where to Search | What It Covers |
|---|---|---|
| Adams County jail | VINE, jail phone, Indiana county jail portal, or APRA request | Pretrial detainees, local sentences, work release, and holds awaiting court or transfer. |
| Indiana state prison | IDOC incarcerated search | Sentenced state prisoners after transfer from county jail to IDOC custody. |
| Federal prison | Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator | Federal inmates from 1982 to present, not state or county jail inmates. |
| Immigration custody | ICE Online Detainee Locator System | People in ICE custody or CBP custody over 48 hours, when locator criteria match. |
Adams County Jail Facilities
The local detention map is a single sheriff-operated campus with two public facility names. The Adams County Sheriff's Office & Detention Center is the main county jail. The Sheriff's Work Release Building is named separately by the sheriff page and appears in the jail PDF through WR-Females and WR-Male visitation blocks. No separate work-release address, phone, capacity, or public roster was located, so the same sheriff phone and public jail instructions should be used unless jail staff gives a work-release-specific direction.
Adams County Sheriff's Office & Detention Center
911 W Peacekeepers Way
Decatur, IN 46733-0608
260-724-5345
Public office hours: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
Adams County Sheriff's Work Release Building
911 W Peacekeepers Way
Decatur, IN 46733-0608
260-724-5345
Work-release visitation appears as WR-Females on Monday and WR-Male on Friday.
Adams County Visitation Schedule
Adams County uses Combined Public Communications and InmateSales for video visitation registration. The jail PDF gives the vendor phone number as 866-340-7879 and lists the web service at inmatesales.com. The same public jail information gives pod-based visiting days, which means a visitor should confirm the person's housing assignment and eligibility before setting up a visit. B-Pod is the key exception because the schedule lists no visitation for that pod.
| Housing Block | Day | Time |
|---|---|---|
| A-Pod & WR-Females | Monday | 9 a.m.-9 p.m. |
| C-Pod | Tuesday | 9 a.m.-9 p.m. |
| D-Pod | Wednesday | 9 a.m.-9 p.m. |
| E-Pod | Thursday | 9 a.m.-9 p.m. |
| F-Pod & WR-Male | Friday | 9 a.m.-9 p.m. |
| G-Pod | Saturday | 9 a.m.-9 p.m. |
| J & H-Pod | Sunday | 9 a.m.-9 p.m. |
| B-Pod | No visitation | No visitation |
Note: Confirm custody and housing with the jail before scheduling, because a move, hold, court trip, or release can change visit eligibility.
Adams County Inmate Services
Inmate services can help confirm whether a person is still in local custody, but they are not record systems. The Adams County public jail information PDF names InmateSales and Combined Public Communications for phone, chirping, and visits. It also names JailATM for commissary funds. The lobby kiosk is available 24/7, with the black option listed for commissary funds and the blue option listed for phone time.
For service routing, the kiosk's black option is for commissary funds and the blue option is for phone time. Phone, chirping, and video visitation registration run through Combined Public Communications / InmateSales at 866-340-7879 or inmatesales.com. Online commissary deposits use JailATM. Bond payment is separate: cash bonds may be paid in cash or by credit card, web payments use govpaynow.com, phone payments use 877-392-2455, and surety bonds require a bondsman or the full cash amount to the jail.
Note: Do not send money or schedule a visit until VINE or jail staff confirms the person is still in Adams County custody.
Adams County Property Rules
Property rules in the public jail PDF are specific and should be checked before anyone drives to the jail. Pickup and dropoff are limited to Wednesday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday from noon to 4 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. The jail states that it will not assume responsibility for items left but not accepted, so call first if an item is unusual or time sensitive.
Unsentenced inmates cannot release clothing, except prescribed medication or clothing for jury trial up to three days before trial. Accepted items listed in the PDF include prescription contacts or glasses in soft cases, dentures, medically required prostheses, and a wedding band with no stones. Engagement rings are not permitted. These rules affect inmate records work because a property visit should not be treated as proof of custody unless the jail confirms the person is still held there.
Adams County Sheriff App
An Adams County Sheriff's Office mobile app was located in both major app stores. The Apple App Store listing names Adams County Government as seller, and the Google Play listing names OCV, LLC as publisher. The Google Play description says the app helps residents connect with the sheriff's office by reporting crimes, submitting tips, using interactive features, and receiving public-safety news and information. The listing also says the app is not for emergency reporting.
The app listings did not clearly verify an inmate roster, warrant search, most-wanted list, or booking-record portal. For that reason, do not rely on the app as the official Adams County inmate records source unless a feature is confirmed inside the app or by the sheriff's office. Use it as a public-safety communication tool, while custody checks still run through VINE, the jail phone, the statewide county jail portal, and written records requests.
Official Adams County Records
Indiana's Access to Public Records Act, IC 5-14-3, is the public-records framework for sheriff, county, and jail records unless a record is confidential or exempt. Court records use a different access system. Indiana Rules on Access to Court Records and Rule 5 control what court material is public, confidential, sealed, or excluded. A booking record can say one thing on intake day while the filed court case later shows amended charges, dismissed counts, or a different bond order.
Use Indiana MyCase for public non-confidential court case information after the prosecutor files charges. Use the Adams County Clerk for official copies. A request should include the person's name, case or cause number if known, document type, filing date if known, delivery method, and whether a certified copy is needed. For booking-photo access, the separate Adams County jail mugshots page covers the public-record limits and request path.