Decatur County Jail Overview
Decatur County Jail is operated by the Decatur County Sheriff's Department. The county's current public sheriff contact address is on South Ireland Street in Greensburg, while the sheriff history material still identifies the historic jail address on East Railroad Street. That two-address history matters because older jail references may point to Railroad Street, but public sheriff, dispatch, directions, and visitor contact material now point readers to the South Ireland Street annex.
The jail holds pretrial detainees, people arrested on warrants, local sentenced inmates, temporary holds, people awaiting court, and work-release participants. The official sheriff history page says the South Ireland Street annex includes the Sheriff's Office, the 911 dispatch center, and modern work-release facilities for male and female inmates. No separate official work-release facility page was located, so work release should be treated as part of the Decatur County Jail custody picture rather than a separate local jail.
The official sheriff jail directions page shows the South Ireland Street location through an embedded map.
That directions source supports the current public contact route, but custody status, entry rules, and visit availability still need direct confirmation before travel.
Decatur County Jail Population
Direct official current capacity and daily population pages were not located on the county or sheriff websites. The best located local annual-report summary reported that the Decatur County Detention Center had 242 beds in 2023 and 1,360 admissions that year. That summary also reported 965 male arrests and 395 female arrests. Because the official annual-report PDF was not located, those figures should be read as sourced local reporting, not as a current official jail dashboard.
Indiana county jail standards give useful context for why those numbers matter. Under 210 IAC 3-1-2, annual jail reporting includes items such as total beds, bookings, average daily inmate population, deaths, escapes, juveniles, and services. That rule does not create a live public roster for Decatur County Jail, but it does show why a written public-record request can be useful when a current daily count, average daily population, or annual booking total is needed.
| Measure | Located Detail | Use With Care |
|---|---|---|
| Bed figure | 242 beds reported in a local summary of the sheriff's 2023 annual report. | Confirm any current capacity with the sheriff. |
| Annual admissions | 1,360 admissions reported for 2023. | Not a current daily population count. |
| Current population | No official daily online count located. | Use phone, counter, or APRA request. |
Decatur County Jail Lookup
No standalone official Decatur County online jail roster or mugshot feed was located. The Indiana County Jail Public Portal exists, but research found that Decatur County was not in the participating county list returned during inspection. The Decatur sheriff website also showed corrections pages for bail information, visitor information, and jail directions, but not a visible current-inmates link. A current Decatur County Jail custody search should therefore start with sheriff contact and then move through statewide and court systems as needed.
- Call dispatch at 812-222-4911 or administration/non-emergency at 812-663-8125. Ask whether the person is currently held at Decatur County Jail, whether bond has been set, and whether another hold affects release.
- Use the public counter at 601 South Ireland St., Greensburg, IN 47240, during the posted weekday office hours if phone confirmation is not enough or a document is needed.
- Search Indiana VINE and Indiana SAVIN for custody status, case-based search options, and notification registration.
- Check Indiana MyCase after arrest for formal court charges, hearings, bond entries, and Decatur County criminal case activity.
- Use the IDOC incarcerated individual locator only after a person has moved into state prison custody. Use BOP or ICE tools for federal or immigration custody.
For older booking records, booking photos, jail logs, or released-person records that are not online, the fallback is a written Indiana APRA request to the sheriff under Indiana public-record inspection law. The request should identify the person's full name, approximate arrest or booking date, record type sought, requester contact information, and preferred delivery method. Investigatory records, juvenile records, sealed records, medical material, victim details, and jail security information may be redacted or withheld.
The Decatur County Sheriff IN app is listed for Apple devices and on Google Play. The located app listings describe public safety news, tips, crime reporting, and resident communication. No app-only inmate roster, warrant search, mugshot feed, or records portal was verified, so the app should be treated as a communication tool rather than a proven Decatur County Jail inmate lookup system.
Decatur County Jail Contact
The public Decatur County sheriff contact channels are the safest starting point for custody status, jail record questions, bond confirmation, and visit questions. The South Ireland Street address is the public sheriff and dispatch address in the county source material. The East Railroad Street location appears in the sheriff history discussion as the newer jail ordered after the 1979 action and should not be confused with the current public contact address used in directions and visitor material.
Decatur County Sheriff's Department
601 South Ireland St.
Greensburg, IN 47240
Dispatch: 812-222-4911
Administration/non-emergency: 812-663-8125
Fax: 812-663-6887
Public office hours: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
Historic Jail Reference
119 East Railroad Street
Greensburg, IN 47240
Use sheriff contact lines for current custody questions.
Listed in official history, not as the current public office address.
Decatur County Jail Visits
The official sheriff website has a Visitor's Information page with a jail-visitation heading and the sheriff contact block, but the accessible text did not publish a detailed visitation schedule, dress code, child visitor rule, video visit vendor, attorney visit process, or visitor ID rule. The right approach is to confirm the current visit process before arrival. A government ID is a common jail entry need, but it was not located as a published Decatur County Jail rule in the research.
| Topic | Located Decatur Detail | Practical Step |
|---|---|---|
| Schedule | No official visible schedule located. | Call before traveling. |
| Visit type | No confirmed video or in-person schedule located. | Ask whether visits are on-site, remote, attorney-only, or suspended. |
| Visitor ID | No published Decatur rule located. | Bring government ID unless the jail gives a different instruction. |
| Dress and property | No published local dress, locker, or bag rule located. | Avoid bags, weapons, contraband, and recording devices unless approved. |
| Parking and entry | Directions page points to South Ireland Street. | Confirm entry point and any accessibility need in advance. |
Note: Confirm custody and visit availability with the sheriff before driving to the jail or arranging a remote visit.
Decatur County Jail Mail
Visitor, mail, phone, and commissary details are thin in the located official sources. No Decatur-specific inmate mail format, scanned-mail vendor, publisher-only rule, phone vendor, video vendor, kiosk, online deposit provider, deposit fee, or commissary fee schedule was verified. Do not assume a national jail vendor applies to Decatur County Jail unless the sheriff confirms it. Sending money or mail to the wrong address or vendor can delay delivery and may be hard to reverse.
| Service | Verified Detail | Before Sending or Paying |
|---|---|---|
| Inmate mail | No official inmate mail format located. | Ask the jail for the exact name, ID, address, and allowed contents. |
| Books and photos | No local rule located. | Do not send packages until the jail confirms the rule. |
| Phone calls | No phone vendor located. | Ask whether account setup is required and what fees apply. |
| Money deposits | No deposit vendor or fee located. | Confirm accepted payment methods directly with the jail. |
| Commissary | No commissary vendor located. | Ask whether the inmate is eligible before sending funds. |
Decatur County Jail Booking
Decatur County did not publish a detailed booking-process manual in the located official sources, so local intake steps should not be overstated. A typical Indiana county jail booking begins after an arrest or warrant service by the sheriff, Greensburg Police Department, Westport Police Department, St. Paul Police Department, Indiana State Police, or another agency working in the county. The person is transported to jail, identified, searched, photographed, fingerprinted, checked for warrants and holds, and routed through medical or mental-health screening before housing or release processing.
Classification is the jail's process for deciding security level, housing, supervision needs, and program or work-release eligibility. It is not the same as the court charge. The jail may record an arrest or booking charge at intake, while the prosecutor later decides what formal charges to file in court. MyCase is the follow-up source for the formal court case, while the sheriff remains the route for custody status and jail records.
- Booking charge
- The arrest or intake label used when a person enters jail custody.
- Court charge
- The formal charge filed by the prosecutor and shown in court records.
- Detainer
- A hold request from another agency, county, state, federal, or immigration authority.
- Work release
- A custody program that may allow eligible people to work while still under jail authority.
Decatur County Jail Transfers
Decatur County Jail is a county jail, not a state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention center. A person newly arrested in Decatur County is normally checked through sheriff custody channels first. If the person is later sentenced to Indiana Department of Correction custody, the IDOC locator becomes the better search tool after transfer. State prison records can include DOC number, facility assignment, sentence information, offense information, release timing, and other public profile fields.
Federal and immigration custody use separate systems. The BOP inmate locator covers federal Bureau of Prisons custody, usually after federal sentencing. ICE's Online Detainee Locator System is for immigration custody and is not a county jail roster. A federal hold or ICE detainer can affect release from a county jail case, so bond on a Decatur County charge may not mean the person leaves custody if another active hold remains.
| Custody Question | Best Starting Point | What It Does Not Show |
|---|---|---|
| Held now in Decatur County Jail | Sheriff phone or public counter | State prison sentence details |
| Formal charges after arrest | Indiana MyCase | Live jail housing or mail rules |
| Sentenced to Indiana prison | IDOC incarcerated individual locator | Current county jail booking sheet |
| Federal sentenced custody | BOP inmate locator | County booking mugshots |
| Immigration custody | ICE ODLS | Decatur court case events |
About Decatur County Jail
The sheriff history page gives Decatur County Jail a long local record. The first jail was ordered in the early county period, later buildings replaced it, and the jail was moved away from the courthouse square in the nineteenth century. Another jail contract followed in the late nineteenth century, and a newer jail was ordered in the modern period. The South Ireland Street annex was later purchased from the former Washington School building and became the public sheriff, dispatch, and work-release center described in current county materials.
Program details are not broad on the sheriff website, but the located annual-report summary reported voluntary jail programs such as Moral Recognition Therapy, Residents Encounter Christ, HSE/GED courses, AA meetings, and work release. It also said employment workshops and construction training courses were expected to begin in 2024. Because a current official jail-program page was not located, program availability should be confirmed before relying on it for release planning, court planning, or family support.
Note: Jail status, program access, and visit rules can change without an online update, so confirm with the sheriff first.