Find the IDOC Inmate Population

IDOC Inmate Population Overview

IDOC is the official abbreviation used by the Indiana Department of Correction. The agency name is singular "Correction," and the agency's own homepage, policy pages, statistical reports, public-service pages, and records-request page use IDOC for statewide prison operations. IDOC is the custodian for sentenced state prison custody, not for every person booked into a county jail after arrest.

The IDOC inmate population includes people assigned to adult correctional facilities, intake or diagnostic custody, reentry centers, and other Department of Correction placements reflected in its reports. IDOC's June 2026 Total Population Summary Report lists 26,580 DOC adults as of May 1, 2026. Its May 2026 facility population table lists 26,428 people housed in DOC facilities, 27,848 operational beds, and 94.9 percent capacity use.

The Indiana Department of Correction homepage confirms the official agency name, IDOC service paths, the offender locator, adult facilities, juvenile facilities, SAVIN, parole, reentry, and records links.

The IDOC homepage is a statewide gateway, while the incarcerated search is the direct lookup tool for a named person in state custody.

IDOC Inmate Search Fields

The official IDOC locator is the Indiana Incarcerated Database Search at offenderlocator.idoc.in.gov. Use it when the person is serving an Indiana state sentence, has been transferred from a county jail to IDOC, or may have a DOC number. Do not use it as a fresh arrest feed. A person booked today in Marion, Lake, Allen, Vanderburgh, St. Joseph, Vigo, or another county usually appears first through the county jail route.

The IDOC incarcerated search is the direct public form for Indiana Department of Correction inmate lookup.

A no-result search can mean county custody, release, spelling issues, federal custody, ICE custody, a restricted record, or a transfer timing gap.

IDOC Inmate Population Statistics

The recent IDOC inmate population trend is upward. The June 2026 report shows 24,026 DOC adults on June 1, 2024, 25,175 on May 1, 2025, 26,331 on December 1, 2025, and 26,580 on May 1, 2026. The adult count increased by 2,554 across that window. Statewide copy should use these dates rather than rounding away the source.

The IDOC Total Population Summary Reports page hosts the monthly report index for prison population and related correctional population summaries.

The report also includes county-of-commit and Level 6 jail population slices, which should not be confused with a real-time jail roster.

IDOC Facilities and Placement

IDOC says it operates 18 adult facilities across Indiana, from minimum to maximum security. It also oversees three juvenile correctional facilities through the Division of Youth Services. Adult facilities include Branchville, Chain O'Lakes, Correctional Industrial Facility, Edinburgh, Heritage Trail, Indiana State Prison, Indiana Women's Prison, Madison, Miami, New Castle, Pendleton, Plainfield, Putnamville, Reception Diagnostic Center, Rockville, South Bend Community Re-Entry Center, Wabash Valley, and Westville.

Placement depends on classification, custody level, sentence structure, sex, medical or mental-health need, intake status, program needs, and bed availability. A Marion County conviction can lead to LaPorte, Hendricks, Sullivan, Henry, Miami, Perry, Parke, or another IDOC location. Facility or location on an IDOC result is the prison placement, not necessarily the county of arrest.

The IDOC adult facility directory lists the official adult prison pages that make up the state prison system.

Facility pages help identify the institution, but the locator remains the public search route for a specific incarcerated person.

IDOC Release and Credit Time

Indiana release dates cannot be calculated from a single web result. The court sentence, pre-sentence jail credit, credit class, good-behavior credit, Case Plan Credit Time, disciplinary credit loss or restoration, consecutive sentences, detainers, parole, and court orders can all affect the practical date. IDOC's Case Plan Credit Time page explains that CPCT was prompted by 2020 legislation and moved toward individualized case plans rather than simple program "time cuts."

IDOC says CPCT can allow up to one day of credit for every three days of participation in programming and classes tied to the person's needs. People admitted after January 1, 2022, with more than 180 days to earliest possible release at initial housing are automatically entered into CPCT. The page also warns that reviews are periodic and individualized, and eligible credit days can be confirmed by a sentence computation specialist when processed.

The IDOC Case Plan Credit Time page explains CPCT eligibility, reviews, and its separate role from good-behavior credit.

Use the public release field as a starting point, then verify exact sentence computation with official IDOC channels when timing matters.

IDOC Parole and Records

The Indiana Parole Board has five members appointed by the Governor to four-year terms. It has jurisdiction over old-code offenders who committed crimes before October 1977 and discretionary authority over those parole release decisions. It also has jurisdiction over new-code offenders whose release on parole is mandatory, and it decides reinstatement issues when parole has been revoked. Victims with safety concerns can contact the Board through official channels.

IDOC's records request page asks requesters to be detailed and to include name and DOC number for requests about an incarcerated individual. It separates Public Records requests from Offender Records requests. Offender records are regulated and limited to authorized people and entities, so a public APRA request is not the same thing as full offender-file access.

The Indiana Parole Board page describes parole authority, old-code and new-code jurisdiction, victim services, and revocation responsibilities.

Parole information belongs with the state prison record, while pending charges and court orders belong in MyCase or the court file.

IDOC and County Jail Records

The IDOC inmate population should be read beside, not instead of, Indiana's county jail layer. A county jail can hold a person before trial, after arrest, on a local sentence, for a warrant, for another county, for IDOC transport, for BOP, or for ICE. When the jail roster says a person is held for another agency, the physical custody record may still be local until transfer happens. When IDOC later shows the person, the county roster may stop showing current custody or may show a release-to-agency event.

The county of commit table in the June 2026 IDOC report also shows why local and state records are linked. Marion County had the largest listed county-of-commit total across the report's DOC Adult, Community Corrections, Jail DOC Contract, and Jail Felony F6 Diversion columns. Madison, Tippecanoe, Lake, St. Joseph, Vanderburgh, Hamilton, Johnson, Vigo, and LaPorte also appeared as large contributors. Those counts are not jail rosters. They are statewide correctional population slices tied to the county where the case originated.

Use the Indiana county directory for the local jail layer and the IDOC locator for state prison custody.

When the public IDOC inmate population record is unclear, avoid estimating the release date from a roster field. The official variables include jail credit, credit class, CPCT review, disciplinary action, parole status, detainers, and later court orders. Those items can change after a public lookup. The safest record path is to confirm the DOC number, facility, and status in the locator, then use IDOC records, facility staff, counsel, or the court for official documents.

Indiana's juvenile correctional facilities also sit under IDOC's Division of Youth Services, but juvenile custody should be handled with more caution because public access is more limited than adult state-prison search.