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Brown County Jail Overview

The Brown County Jail is a county jail operated by the Brown County Sheriff's Department. The jail and sheriff share the public safety address in Nashville, and the county jail page names Andy Reed as Jail Commander. Sheriff Brad Stogsdill is listed on the sheriff's department page. The facility is not a state prison, federal prison, ICE detention center, or municipal jail. No separate Nashville city jail page, Brown County work-release building, county jail annex, BOP site, ICE site, or Indiana Department of Correction prison inside Brown County was found in the research.

Who is held at Brown County Jail depends on the case stage. The facility is the local custody point for people arrested by the sheriff, Nashville Police Department, Indiana State Police, DNR law enforcement, or another agency with Brown County jurisdiction. It may hold pretrial detainees, people serving local jail sentences, people held on Brown County court orders, and people with possible holds or cases that appear in official custody systems. A person sentenced to an Indiana prison term should be searched through the Indiana Department of Correction locator, not through Brown County Jail.

Brown County Jail Capacity

The county jail page does not publish a current capacity figure or live population dashboard for Brown County Jail. The available figures are point-in-time indicators from inspection-derived and trend sources. Inspection-derived jail data sourced to Indiana jail inspection records listed Brown County Jail at 117 beds, 42 people in custody, and 35.90% capacity use in the snapshot found. That same snapshot marked the facility as not understaffed, not overcrowded, and not over capacity.

Vera Institute Brown County trend data also showed 117 capacity and 43 people on March 31, 2024. Those numbers are useful for context, but they are not a same-day jail count and should not be treated as an average daily population unless a source says so. The Indiana Criminal Justice Institute has warned that annual inspection data is tied to inspection timing, so Brown County Jail population figures should be described as recent sourced snapshots.

Note: Confirm any current custody count with the sheriff or the live custody tools before relying on it.

Search Brown County Jail Custody

Brown County does not publish a traditional county-hosted jail roster page on the official jail page found in the research. The sheriff's useful-links page routes the official "Inmate Locator" link to VINELink and the victim-notification link to Indiana SAVIN. The statewide INjail Public Portal also includes Brown County in its official county list, with Brown County FIPS 18013 and county code 07 captured from the portal API. That makes the Brown County Jail lookup path a chain of official systems rather than a single local roster page.

1. Open INjail and use the Search tab, or use the Counties tab to narrow the search toward Brown County.
2. Enter name details, birth date if known, county, booked-date range, or release-date range. The portal supports Last Name, First Name, Birth Date, County, Booked Between, and Released Between fields.
3. Check results for county, name, age, race, sex, booked date, released date, and a detail link when a record is returned.
4. Use VINELink or Indiana SAVIN for custody status and notification, especially when a status change alert matters.
5. Call the sheriff's main number if online systems disagree, omit a person, or do not show the level of detail needed.

The portal fields can include INjail ID, demographic details, booking number, booked and arrested dates, released date, arresting agency or officer, holds, cases, and a mugshot component. Live Brown County detail records were not captured during research because current detail calls required a token, so the safest wording is that INjail supports those fields, not that every Brown County Jail profile will show each one.

For wider custody searches, separate the systems by custody type. Brown County Jail and INjail are local jail channels. The Indiana Department of Correction incarcerated locator is for sentenced state prisoners. The Federal Bureau of Prisons locator is for federal inmates after commitment. The ICE locator covers immigration custody only. For more detail on the local search chain, the Brown County jail inmate records page covers current and past lookup routes.

Brown County Jail Contact

The sheriff's department is the local fallback for custody confirmation, jail-record questions, bond-after-hours questions, and public-records routing. The county did not publish a separate booking-desk number, separate jail-only records number, or separate attorney visit number in the source material reviewed. Use the main sheriff and jail phone, and ask for the correct unit or staff member based on whether the question is about current custody, bond, a public-record request, visitation, phone cards, or commissary.

The sheriff's mailing address is P.O. Box 95, Nashville, IN 47448. The official page also lists fax 812-988-8859. No separate mail address format for inmate mail was found, so do not invent an inmate mail format from the street address. For booking records that are not visible online, start with the sheriff's Useful Links and Forms page and the posted Request For Public Records Form.

Brown County Jail Visitation

The Brown County Jail visitation page publishes separate schedules for males, females, protective custody, and weekday video visits. Visitors must have a non-expired state-issued ID, must be signed in and in the sheriff's office lobby before visiting hours begin, and must bring the BCSO Facility Visitor Form. Each inmate receives one visit per week. Up to four visitors may attend, and a visitor who leaves the visitation area may not re-enter. Visitors under 18 must be with a parent or legal guardian over 18.

The visitor form asks for the inmate being visited, the relationship, and the visitor's name, email, date of birth, Social Security number, phone, address, county of residence, employer, and emergency contact. It also asks whether the visitor has open criminal cases or is on probation. Official-use fields include warrant, NCIC, and approval checks. The county noted one free onsite video kiosk visit per inmate per week, and the lobby kiosk is the onsite option referenced in the research.

Note: Brown County did not publish a separate dress code or attorney visit rule in the source material reviewed.

Brown County Jail Money

The official jail page gives practical service details for phone cards, commissary, and inmate-account deposits, but it does not publish a commissary fee table, phone rate table, video rate table, inmate handbook, or complete mail policy. Phone cards can be purchased through a Combined Public Communications kiosk in the sheriff's office lobby, by calling 1-877-998-5678, or through the InmateSales link provided by the sheriff's useful-links page. Commissary is passed weekly, and inmate money is due by midnight Tuesday.

Because no county rate table was found, avoid quoting phone, video, deposit, or commissary fees beyond the local timing rules and named service channels. If a family member needs a current charge, the safest route is to use the kiosk or vendor page at the time of payment and confirm with the jail when a transaction affects release, phone access, or commissary cutoff timing.

Brown County Jail Bond

Bond and court money are split between the clerk and the sheriff depending on time and case posture. The Brown County payment page says cash bonds are accepted by the clerk Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. After-hours cash bond payments are accepted at the Brown County Sheriff's Department at the jail address, and after hours the sheriff accepts cash or credit cards. A $5 Death Benefit Fee is added to all bond payments.

Warrant bond has an extra local limit: bond payments for arrest warrants are not accepted until the warrant has been served by the court. Refund treatment also depends on the date and case result. The research notes that after July 1, 2022, later bonds are refunded to the person who posted bond after fees and charges, while earlier released bonds go to the defendant. The refund process starts when the case is decided. For filed charges and court financials, the Brown County Clerk is the court-record and payment office.

Brown County Jail Intake

Brown County does not publish a detailed jail booking-process page, so the local record path must be built from sheriff contact facts, Indiana public-record law, and Brown Circuit Court rules. A typical local arrest can move from arrest by a law-enforcement agency, to transport to Brown County Jail, to booking and initial jail intake, to a bond or release decision, and then to Brown Circuit Court if formal charges are filed. Booking is the jail intake event. A hold is a notice or order that may keep a person in custody for another case, warrant, or agency.

Brown County local rules add important timing facts. An arrested person must complete a Pretrial Services Intake Information Form. A person not released by recognizance or bond must be assessed by a pretrial services officer within 48 hours, excluding weekends and court holidays. A hearing must occur no later than 10 days after arrest unless exigent circumstances prevent it. The local-rule material also describes own-recognizance release for some non-violent misdemeanor arrestees and some lower-level felony cases when the person is not already on supervision.

Indiana APRA, including IC 5-14-3-5, supports public access to certain arrest and jailed-person facts, such as identifying information, charges, arrest circumstances, and custody details. That does not mean all investigative records are public. When a Brown County Jail record is not online, a request should be framed as booking record, jail intake information, arrest information required under IC 5-14-3-5, or booking photo if maintained and releasable.

Brown County Jail Standards

Indiana county jails operate within a state jail-standards framework. IC 11-12-4 authorizes minimum standards and jail inspection, and 210 IAC 3 is the Indiana Administrative Code article for county jail standards. The research also points to the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute Death in Custody Reporting Act page, which defines "in custody" broadly for reporting purposes. These sources help explain why jail population, custody, and condition details may appear in several systems rather than one county web page.

No ACA accreditation status, detailed housing-unit list, construction history, or inmate handbook was found for Brown County Jail in the county sources reviewed. That gap matters. It means facility pages should not invent security levels, pod names, mail rules, staffing details, or program lists. The strongest official Brown County Jail facts are the address and operator, lookup routing, visitation rules, visitor form, phone-card methods, commissary timing, bond payment distinctions, and the practical sheriff contact path.