This is a private reference website, not the Brown County Sheriff's Department, Brown County Jail, a court, or a records office. It cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, release an inmate, post bond, pull official booking records, change a court record, or verify release dates. Use the official office or locator that matches the need.
Official Brown County Contacts
For local jail and booking questions, start with the Brown County Sheriff's Department and Brown County Jail. Sheriff Brad Stogsdill heads the department, and Jail Commander Andy Reed is identified for jail operations.
Brown County Jail / Sheriff's Department55 State Road 46 East
Nashville, IN 47448
Mailing: P.O. Box 95, Nashville, IN 47448
Phone: 812-988-6655
Fax: 812-988-8859
Administrative hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Use these routing points when the question is not simply a general site question:
- For a current county-jail custody check, booking question, bond direction, or jail procedure, contact Brown County Jail or review jail inmate records.
- For booking-photo context and roster-photo limits, use jail roster mugshots and verify with the jail before relying on a photo.
- For charges and case filings after an arrest, contact Brown Circuit Court at 20 E Main St, Nashville, IN 47448, phone 812-988-7557, or the Brown County Clerk, Pearletta Banks, at 812-988-5510. The related guide is court records after a jail arrest.
- For prosecution questions, the Brown County Prosecutor is Ted Adams at 31 Buck Stogsdill Way, Nashville, IN 47448, phone 812-988-5470.
- For facility-specific basics, use the Brown County Jail page.
- For victim notification or custody alerts, use VINELink or Indiana SAVIN. Brown County links to those services because no county-hosted jail roster was found.
- For a broader Indiana jail search, check the INjail Public Portal, which includes Brown County.
- For a sentenced state prisoner, use the Indiana Department of Correction offender locator instead of the county jail.
- For federal custody, use the Federal Bureau of Prisons locator. For immigration detention, use the ICE detainee locator.