Clinton County Inmate Population
Clinton County's jail map has one physical custody building: Clinton County Jail, run by the Clinton County Sheriff's Office in Frankfort. The jail holds pretrial detainees, people booked on warrant service, county commitments, work-release participants, and other local custody cases. ICE also lists Clinton County Sheriff's Office as a detention facility at the same address, so immigration custody must be treated as a separate status inside or through the same jail setting, not as a second Clinton County building.
The Clinton County inmate population changes when police make arrests, when a court sets release terms, when a person posts bond, when a sentence is served locally, or when a sentenced person transfers to the Indiana Department of Correction. The sheriff roster is useful for live jail custody, but it is not a full census report, a court docket, or a state prison list. Those limits matter because a person can leave the local roster while a court case remains open in MyCase, while a sentence begins in IDOC, or while another agency keeps a hold in place.
For local scale, the STATS Indiana county profile reported a 2025 Clinton County population of 33,322 and a 2025 Frankfort population of 16,837. That means the jail sits in the county seat, where about half of the county's residents live. The jail's official current rated bed capacity was not located in the sheriff pages or public state search results reviewed for this build, so no current capacity number is claimed here.
Clinton County Inmate Statistics
The strongest sourced jail-count figures are historical or point-in-time trend sources, not a current daily jail dashboard. The Vera Institute Clinton County factsheet reported that an average day in May 2022 had 141 people incarcerated in Clinton County. The Prison Policy Initiative Census 2020 correctional-population dataset listed Clinton Co. Jail with 138 local correctional population on December 31, 2013. Those figures are close in size, but they come from different source projects and dates.
| Measure | Figure | Source / Year |
|---|---|---|
| Average day jail population | 141 | Vera Clinton County factsheet, May 2022 |
| Local correctional population | 138 | Prison Policy Initiative, 12/31/2013 |
| County population | 33,322 | STATS Indiana profile, 2025 estimate |
| Frankfort population | 16,837 | STATS Indiana profile, 2025 estimate |
| Current rated bed capacity | Not located | No current official sheriff or IDOC inspection source found in research |
A simple rate check can place the Vera count in county context: 141 people against a 2025 population estimate of 33,322 is about 423 people per 100,000 residents. That is an analytical comparison from the Vera and STATS Indiana figures, not an official county-published incarceration rate.
Clinton County Inmate Trends
Vera reported a 19 percent decrease in the Clinton County jail population from May 2019 to May 2022. The underlying May 2019 count was not included in the research snippet, so the trend can be stated as a percentage change but not rebuilt into a precise baseline number. The 2022 count also should not be used as a current daily count. It is a dated average-day measure for one month.
| Date | Population figure | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 12/31/2013 | 138 | Prison Policy Initiative listed Clinton Co. Jail local correctional population. |
| May 2019 to May 2022 | 19% decrease | Vera trend measure for Clinton County jail incarceration. |
| May 2022 | 141 | Vera average-day count for people incarcerated in Clinton County. |
| 2025 | 33,322 county population | STATS Indiana population denominator for local context. |
| 06/12/2026 inspection | Live roster entries observed | OCV roster feed was current-custody evidence, not an ADP report. |
The STATS Indiana Clinton County profile is useful for the community side of the population story. The sheriff roster tells who is in custody, while STATS Indiana describes the county base from which the local justice system draws residents, arrests, work-release participants, and court cases.
The profile does not replace jail inspection data, but it helps read jail counts against the size and makeup of Clinton County and Frankfort.
Who Is in Clinton County Jail
The public roster does not publish a full demographic or pretrial-sentenced split for the Clinton County inmate population. It does show booking-level fields for each listed person, including age, gender, race code, height, weight, eye color, hair color, arrest date, booking date, arresting agency, and charge labels. The research found examples such as warrant service, commitment to institution, assault, theft, methamphetamine possession, confinement, and other charge categories.
- Pretrial detainees are people held after arrest while court charges or release terms are pending.
- County commitments may be held locally when a court order places the person in jail custody.
- Work release appears in the jail visitation schedule through specific dorm numbers.
- ICE detainees may be connected to the ICE Clinton County Sheriff's Office listing, which uses the same jail address.
- State prisoners are not a local jail roster group after transfer to IDOC custody.
County demographic figures should not be treated as jail demographic figures. STATS Indiana reported 2024 county estimates including 20.4 percent Hispanic origin, 96.3 percent White alone, 1.1 percent Black alone, and a median age of 37.3. Those are community statistics, not a breakdown of people held in the jail.
Clinton County Jail Capacity
The current rated capacity for Clinton County Jail was not located in the official sheriff pages or public state materials inspected during research. That gap is important. The Prison Policy Initiative figure of 138 is a 2013 local correctional population count, not a present-day rated bed capacity. Vera's 141 figure is a May 2022 average-day population count, not a bed rating. Using either one as current capacity would be inaccurate.
Statewide capacity context comes from Indiana Criminal Justice Institute materials. The CJI 1006 report page explains that IDOC County Jail Operations recommends jail population stay at or below 80 percent of available bed capacity because classification and housing needs become harder to manage above that level. The same statewide reporting context said 2022 inspection reports showed 19,173 people in Indiana county jails, equal to 77 percent capacity statewide, while 38 jails exceeded 80 percent and 14 were over 100 percent. Those are statewide figures, not Clinton County's current bed count.
Clinton County Inmate Laws
Indiana law explains why basic jail and arrest information can be public while some details remain restricted. The sheriff is the local jail custodian under state law, the public-records act sets the broad access rule, and jail standards shape how Indiana county jails operate. Court timing and bail laws then affect how long a new arrest remains in jail custody before release, transfer, or sentence.
Key Statutes:
Indiana Code 5-14-3 gives the general right to inspect or copy public records unless an exception applies.
Indiana Code 5-14-3-5 covers law-enforcement daily log and basic arrest information.
Indiana Code 36-2-13-5 includes the sheriff's duty to take care of the county jail and prisoners.
210 IAC 3 sets Indiana county jail standards.
Indiana initial-hearing and bail laws also matter for the Clinton County inmate population. An arrest can place someone in jail, but a court hearing, a bond order, a no-bond hold, a warrant, or a detainer can determine whether that person leaves quickly or stays listed on the roster.
Clinton County State Prison Population
No Indiana Department of Correction adult prison was located inside Clinton County in the official facility materials reviewed. Once a Clinton County defendant is sentenced to state prison and transferred, the person becomes part of the statewide IDOC count rather than the county jail count. The IDOC incarcerated locator is the proper search tool for that stage.
The IDOC locator can be searched by last name, first name, or DOC number. When inspected, the locator stated that its database was last updated 06/11/2026. A state record may show DOC number, name, date of birth month and year, race, sex, facility or status, earliest possible release date, and sentence information. It is not the same record as the sheriff roster, and the sampled IDOC detail page did not show a booking photo.
Search Clinton County Inmates
The fastest current-custody search channel is the Clinton County Sheriff's Office Inmate Search. It is an OCV/RTJB roster feed with search and sort enabled, images visible, and newest booking dates first by default. The live feed is tied to the sheriff website and the Clinton County Sheriff Indiana mobile app.
Use the person's name first. A local Inmate ID helps only after the person is found or if it appears in a prior record. The roster may match visible text beyond a name, so a charge term can sometimes appear in results, but a name search is the most direct path.
- Open the sheriff inmate search and let the roster feed load in a modern browser.
- Enter the person's last name or full name in the roster search field.
- Use the date sort if needed; the manifest default places newer bookings first.
- Review the entry for Inmate ID, booking date, arrest date, charge labels, arresting agency, and photo.
- If no entry appears, call Clinton County Jail at (765) 659-6396 to ask about custody or housing assignment.
- If the person has been sentenced to prison, search IDOC instead of the county roster.
For a deeper roster walkthrough, the dedicated Clinton County jail inmate records page focuses on field-by-field record use.
Clinton County Roster Lookup
The roster feed is free and public. It showed current inmate entries with booking photos during research, and the manifest settings confirmed images were not hidden. The exact browser input labels are controlled by the OCV feed widget, but the captured configuration shows search, sort, display date, and image display as active roster features.
| Field Label | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Search | Text search within feed | Unspecified | Manifest says showSearch true; search likely checks visible roster text. |
| Sort | Sort control | No | Manifest says showSort true and hideSortByDate false. |
| Date display | Feed date | Not applicable | displayDate true; entries show booking dates in content. |
| Image | Roster media | Not applicable | hideImage false; sampled entries included JPEG booking-photo URLs. |
| Limit | List setting | Not applicable | Feature rendering limit shown as 5, while the feed endpoint returned more entries. |
The OCV roster feed source showed the type of current entries behind the public roster.
The feed view is useful for confirming which fields exist, but most readers should use the sheriff's inmate-search page or the mobile app rather than raw feed data.
Past Clinton County Inmate Records
The sheriff roster did not publish a clear retention rule such as removal after release or a set number of days online. Research on 06/12/2026 found entries with booking dates ranging back into 2025, but that does not prove an archive policy. A released person may disappear from the current roster even while court records, public-record request channels, or state custody records remain available.
For older jail records, use the sheriff's official Request for Public Records PDF. For booking photos, the sheriff app also links a separate Request for Photos PDF. The research could not extract form fields or fees from those PDFs, so no fee or processing-time claim is made. Court charges after release should be checked in Indiana MyCase, not the roster alone.
Clinton County Inmate Record Fields
A Clinton County roster entry is a booking and custody record, not a final court judgment. The sampled entries showed local jail details such as Inmate ID and booking date, plus plain charge labels. Bond, housing unit, court date, release date, detailed statute number, street address, and case number were not visible in the sampled feed entries.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Name | Public roster display name for the person in custody. |
| Inmate ID | Local identifier assigned in the jail roster feed. |
| Booking Date | Date entered in YYYY/MM/DD format. |
| Arrest Date | Date of arrest, sometimes the same as booking date. |
| Physical descriptors | Age, gender, race code, height, weight, eye color, and hair color. |
| Arresting Agency | Agency code such as CCSO in sampled entries. |
| Charges | Booking charge labels, which may differ from filed court charges. |
| Images | Public booking photo URLs attached to sampled roster entries. |
Clinton County Custody Terms
Several jail and court terms appear often in Clinton County inmate population searches. These definitions help separate local custody, court process, state prison records, and agency holds.
- Booking
- Jail intake after arrest, warrant service, or court commitment.
- Detainer
- A hold from another agency that may keep a person in custody.
- Classification
- The jail process for assigning security level and housing.
- Work release
- A custody status with restricted work or community access.
- DOC number
- A state prison identifier assigned by the Indiana Department of Correction.
County Jail vs State Prison
Most search errors come from using the wrong custody system. Clinton County Jail is for local jail custody. IDOC is for sentenced state prison custody. BOP is for federal sentenced prisoners. ICE ODLS is for immigration detention. These systems may touch the same person at different times, but they do not share one public roster.
| Question | Clinton County Jail | Indiana State Prison |
|---|---|---|
| Who is held | Pretrial detainees, warrant bookings, county commitments, work release, and local custody cases. | People sentenced or transferred to IDOC custody. |
| Run by | Clinton County Sheriff's Office. | Indiana Department of Correction. |
| Where to look | Sheriff OCV inmate search and jail phone line. | IDOC incarcerated locator. |
| Record fields | Booking date, Inmate ID, photo, arresting agency, charges, physical descriptors. | DOC number, facility/status, release-date information, sentence blocks. |
| Best fallback | Call (765) 659-6396 or use sheriff record forms. | Use IDOC records and Indiana SAVIN for custody notification. |
State Federal ICE Search
The local roster is not the only access channel. The Clinton County Sheriff Indiana app share page links the sheriff app, which exposes the same OCV feature set as the website and can be useful when a phone browser has trouble loading the web shell. For state sentenced custody, use IDOC. For victim or custody-change notification, Indiana SAVIN and VINELink are the notification channels documented in the research.
Federal and immigration custody use separate tools. The BOP inmate locator covers federal inmates from 1982 to the present and does not publish mugshots. ICE lists Clinton County Sheriff's Office under the Chicago Field Office, and the ICE Clinton County Sheriff's Office facility page gives the same Walnut Street jail address and main jail phone. ICE ODLS is the search path for immigration detainees, while the jail phone can confirm local facility questions when ICE says a person is housed there.
Clinton County Detention Facilities
The facility map resolves to a single physical facility for this project. Clinton County Jail should be listed first and used as the local jail anchor. State, federal, and immigration searches still matter, but they are lookup channels or custody systems, not extra Clinton County detention buildings found in the official facility research.
- Clinton County Jail - county jail operated by the Clinton County Sheriff's Office for pretrial detainees, county commitments, warrant bookings, work release, inmate workers, holding inmates, and ICE-listed custody when housed under the Clinton County Sheriff's Office facility listing.
The jail's housing terms in the visitation rules give a clear picture of the building: A-Pod maximum security, general population pods, holding cells, inmate workers, and work-release dorms 167-168, 169-170, and 171.
Clinton County Inmate FAQ
How large is the Clinton County inmate population?
Vera reported 141 people incarcerated in Clinton County on an average day in May 2022. PPI listed 138 local correctional population at Clinton Co. Jail on December 31, 2013. A current official rated capacity and current official ADP were not located in the sheriff or state sources reviewed.
Where is the Clinton County jail roster?
The sheriff inmate search is the primary roster channel. It uses an OCV/RTJB feed with search, sort, booking dates, roster images, and public entry fields. If the web page does not load, the Clinton County Sheriff Indiana app and jail phone line are the next practical routes.
Does Clinton County publish mugshots?
Yes, sampled roster entries included booking-photo image URLs, and the manifest sets hideImage to false. The sheriff also links a Request for Photos PDF. The roster does not publish a firm photo-removal or retention schedule in the materials reviewed.
Why is someone missing from the roster?
The person may have been released, booked under a different name spelling, moved to IDOC, held by another agency, placed in immigration custody, or not yet visible in the web feed. Call the jail at (765) 659-6396 for custody or housing questions.
Is Clinton County on the Indiana jail portal?
The statewide Indiana County Jail Public Portal exists, but Clinton County was not listed among available counties when inspected. Use the sheriff roster instead for Clinton County jail custody.
What law makes jail records public?
Indiana's Access to Public Records Act, IC 5-14-3, is the broad access law. IC 5-14-3-5 covers basic law-enforcement daily log and arrest information, while some records can still be restricted, sealed, or withheld under exceptions.