Search the Switzerland County Inmate Population

Switzerland County Inmate Population Overview

The Switzerland County inmate population is centered on one local facility, the Switzerland County Detention Center in Vevay. The sheriff's office operates the jail for adults arrested in the county, people waiting for bond or first appearance, local sentenced misdemeanor inmates, and some out-of-county inmates when the jail accepts them. No official source located a separate city jail, state prison, federal prison, ICE detention center, or work-release annex inside Switzerland County.

Population numbers should be read with source dates. American Structurepoint describes the sheriff, communications, and detention building as an 18,900-square-foot project with a 50-bed adult detention unit. A January 28, 2021 Eagle Country report citing Sheriff Brian Morton said 56 of 60 beds were accounted for that day, including 42 Switzerland County inmates and 14 from surrounding counties. Vera Institute jail trend data lists a 2024 total jail population value of 15.11 for Switzerland County, so the most recent dataset found does not show the near-capacity level reported in 2021. That contrast is the key local pattern: a small jail can have a low annual dataset value and still face pressure on a specific day.

Switzerland County Jail Statistics

Local official pages do not publish a current live jail population dashboard, annual booking count, or average length of stay. The best located modern series is the Vera Institute county jail dataset, which should be treated as dataset reporting rather than a sheriff dashboard. The figures below keep the source and year visible because Switzerland County is small, and a few custody changes can move the rate sharply.

Switzerland County Jail Trends

The modern Vera trend does not show a straight line. It shows a small county jail with swings from year to year, including a high value in 2022 followed by a lower 2024 value. The 2021 local news item is useful because it records a near-capacity day, but it should not be treated as a current count. It is a dated snapshot, while Vera's 2024 value is the most recent dataset value found during research.

Vera demographic fields are sparse in some years and may be imputed or drawn from different source systems. Use them as Vera dataset values, not as sheriff-published daily counts. The dataset includes pretrial and sentenced custody fields for some years, which show that the county jail has often held more pretrial people than sentenced people in the populated rows.

Switzerland County Jail Capacity

Capacity is the main source conflict. The design source says 50 beds. The 2021 sheriff-cited news story uses 60 beds. Those may reflect design capacity, later operational use, or a source difference, so the careful wording is that capacity sources range from a 50-bed design reference to a 60-bed operational count reported in 2021. No newer official inspection document or live capacity dashboard was captured in the research file.

The 2021 report also matters because it explains who was counted. Of the 56 beds accounted for that day, 42 were Switzerland County inmates and 14 were from surrounding counties. That means the Switzerland County inmate population can include local residents and people accepted from other counties. It also means a roster count is not the same as a county-resident incarceration count.

Laws for Switzerland County Jail Records

Indiana law separates public access from full access. The Indiana Access to Public Records Act, IC 5-14-3, is the general public-records framework. It gives a right to inspect and copy public records unless an exception applies. Law-enforcement records can include arrest information, daily logs, and booking material, but investigatory, juvenile, sealed, medical, security, or confidential items may be withheld or redacted.

Jail operations also sit under statewide standards. 210 IAC 3 sets Indiana county jail standards for administration, supervision, medical screening, and related jail operations. The Indiana Criminal Justice Institute's Death in Custody Reporting Act page explains that deaths in local and state correctional facilities are reportable through the federal DCRA framework. These rules do not create a live public roster by themselves, but they explain why jail records, conditions, and custody events are handled through formal state and local channels.

Search Switzerland County Jail Inmates

The online starting point for a current Switzerland County jail search is the INjail Public Portal. The portal has Search and Counties tabs, and the county route is built to show current inmates for a selected county. Direct API extraction was blocked by a token requirement during research, so no live Switzerland County sample profile was copied. The app's visible labels and scripts still document the search fields and profile sections.

The INjail Public Portal screenshot shows the statewide jail search interface used for participating county jails.

Use the portal for roster checks, but call the Switzerland County Jail phone line if a new arrest is urgent or no match appears online.

1. Open the Search tab or the Counties tab in INjail.
2. Enter last name and first name when known.
3. Use birth date, county, booked-between, or released-between filters to narrow common names.
4. Choose Switzerland County when using the statewide search.
5. Open the View link for any matching result and check booking, release, hold, case, and charge fields.
6. If no record appears, call the jail at 812-427-2057 and check VINE, IDOC, BOP, or ICE depending on the custody type.

Switzerland County Roster Fields

INjail supports more than a simple name lookup. The field set is useful when spelling, release timing, or a same-day booking makes a search difficult. The portal can also limit broad results to recent records, so an older release may require a written sheriff request instead of another online search.

Switzerland County Inmate Record Details

A county jail roster record is not the same as a final court record. INjail results can show name, county, age, race, sex, booked date, released date, and a View link. The detail profile can include a mugshot component, INjail ID, physical description, booking number, arrest date, arresting agency, holds, cases, booking charges, case charges, and bond-charge fields when populated.

Booking charge

A charge or hold reason listed during jail intake. It may change after prosecutor review.

Case charge

A charge tied to a court case after filing.

Hold

A court, agency, warrant, detainer, or legal reason that may block release.

DOC

The Indiana Department of Correction, used for sentenced state-prison custody.

County Jail or State Prison

Search tools depend on the custody stage. A person arrested by a local agency normally starts at the Switzerland County Detention Center. After felony sentencing and transfer, the lookup path changes to the Indiana Department of Correction incarcerated search. Federal criminal custody and immigration custody use separate federal tools.

The IDOC incarcerated search screenshot shows the state prison locator, which is separate from the county jail roster.

Use IDOC after a person is committed to state prison or when the county roster no longer shows the person after sentencing.

Switzerland County VINE Notices

The sheriff's VINE page says Indiana VINE provides 24-hour custody-status information and automated notice of release, transfer, or escape. Registration is available online, by phone, or by email, and the VINE phone number is 1-866-959-VINE. VINE is not mainly a mugshot source, and it is not a substitute for court records, but it is useful when release timing matters.

The sheriff's VINE information page explains the Indiana notification service used for county jail custody changes.

Registering for VINE can help families and victims receive status notices, while the jail phone remains the direct local custody channel.

Switzerland County Detention Facility

The facility map resolves to one local detention facility. The Switzerland County Detention Center is also called the Switzerland County Jail in sheriff pages and the Switzerland County Sheriff/Communications/Detention Facility in the project source. The building combines sheriff operations, 911 communications, booking intake, adult detention housing, public lobby space, video visitation, and a courthouse connector.

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