Search the Fulton County Inmate Population

Fulton County Inmate Population Overview

The Fulton County inmate population centers on Fulton County Jail, the adult detention facility operated by the Fulton County Sheriff's Office in Rochester. Sheriff Travis Heishman's office publishes the jail as the local custody point and directs the public to the County of Fulton mobile app for inmate listings, commissary, medical, and jail information. That makes Fulton County different from counties that run a normal web roster. The official county source is app-centered, while the jail phone and public-record process are the fallback when the app does not answer a custody question.

Population counts do not all mean the same thing. The local jail count covers people held before trial, people serving local terms, and people held for other agencies. Sentenced prison custody moves to the Indiana Department of Correction offender locator. Federal prison custody is checked through the Bureau of Prisons inmate locator, and immigration custody uses the ICE Online Detainee Locator. Indiana VINE also supports custody and case notifications, but it is not the court docket.

Fulton County Inmate Population Statistics

The most direct official jail operating figure in the research file is the Fulton County Sheriff April 2025 monthly report. It reported a daily in-house average of 107, with 126 inmates booked, 109 released, and 75 inmates from other facilities during the month. A separate construction source, Elevatus, reports the newer detention center as a 230-bed facility. Because county operating pages reviewed do not publish an official bed count, the capacity figure should be read as project background rather than a county operations dashboard.

The official monthly sheriff statistics page is the county source that organizes monthly jail and sheriff reports.

Those monthly reports are the better source for current Fulton County Jail operating figures than older third-party jail directories.

The county monthly sheriff statistics page is the practical place to look for new monthly reports. The public research also includes Vera Institute trend data, which is useful for year-to-year comparison but should not be blended with the sheriff's monthly report as if both use the same reporting window.

Fulton County Inmate Population Trends

Fulton County's recent figures show why dates matter. Vera listed the 2024 total jail population figure as 72, while the sheriff's April 2025 report showed a 107 in-house daily average for that month. Official meeting-minute snippets from early 2024 also showed jail counts of 90 in February and 69 in March. Those figures are not contradictions. They come from different source types and different points in time.

Fulton County Jail Population Makeup

Current Fulton County jail pages reviewed do not publish a live demographic dashboard. The best published local breakdown in the research is historical Vera data from 2019. That row listed a total jail population of 70, with 50 in pretrial custody and 20 in sentenced custody. It also listed 57 male and 11 female jail population figures, plus race and ethnicity counts. Those older figures are useful for context, but they should not be treated as the current daily makeup of Fulton County Jail.

• Pretrial and sentenced custody: Vera's 2019 row listed 50 pretrial and 20 sentenced people.
• Other authorities: April 2025 sheriff reporting listed 75 inmates from other facilities.
• Federal and DOC categories: March 2024 meeting snippets included 8 federal inmates and 4 DOC inmates.
• County context: Census QuickFacts estimated Fulton County's 2025 population at 20,091.

This mix matters when searching. A person can be physically held at Fulton County Jail while another agency has a hold, transport order, or sentence interest. The county app and jail line are still the best first step for immediate local custody. The court docket, IDOC locator, BOP locator, ICE locator, or VINE may be needed to understand why the person is there and what comes next.

Fulton County Jail Capacity

Fulton County's official jail pages reviewed do not publish a rated capacity figure. The supporting Elevatus project page describes the Fulton County Sheriff's Office and Detention Center as a 49,910 square foot replacement facility with 230 beds, including 198 housing-pod beds, 12 inmate-worker beds, and 20 intake or holding beds. It also describes the project as a response to an older 1985 facility that had deteriorated and did not meet current ACA and Indiana jail standards.

Capacity comparisons should be cautious. If the 230-bed construction figure is used against the April 2025 in-house daily average of 107, the month appears below half of that design count. But because the county's own jail page does not publish an official rated capacity table, the stronger statement is narrower: the inspected official sources give current operating contact and service rules, while the construction source gives building design context.

Fulton County Inmate Records Laws

Indiana's Access to Public Records Act controls much of the public-record side of Fulton County inmate population data. The law favors access, but it also has exceptions for confidential records and some law-enforcement investigatory material. Jail and arrest-log facts have a special access path under Indiana law, while court records after charges are filed move through Indiana MyCase and the Fulton County Clerk of Courts.

Search Fulton County Inmates

The official jail lookup path starts with the Fulton County Jail Division page, which tells users to use the Fulton County Sheriff's Office Mobile App for up-to-date inmate information. The app appears in both stores as County of Fulton (Indiana). The official app flyer shows an Inmate Lookup tile, a Jail Info tile, Most Wanted, Reports, Sex Offenders, Submit A Tip, Calls for Service, news, social media, and notifications. The app is not for emergencies.

1. Open the county Jail Division page and confirm the app route.
2. Install the County of Fulton (Indiana) app from Apple or Google Play.
3. Use the app's Inmate Lookup or Inmate Listings area for current local custody.
4. If the person is not listed, call Fulton County Jail at 574-224-5630.
5. If the person was sentenced to prison, search IDOC instead of the county app.

Fulton County also appears in the Indiana County Jail Public Portal metadata, but the research could not inspect a live current roster because the route required captcha or token access. The sheriff's own app direction should therefore stay first for local jail custody.

Fulton County Roster Search Fields

The public web field table is limited because the county's official source is the mobile app. The Indiana County Jail Public Portal has visible fields and confirmed Fulton County metadata, but it was not usable as a verified live Fulton roster during research. Treat it as a possible state portal and the county app as the direct local source.

Fulton County Inmate Record Details

Specific Fulton app profile fields were not publicly inspectable during research. Confirmed county material says the app includes inmate listings, inmate commissary, inmate medical, and jail information. The flyer confirms Inmate Lookup and Jail Info. It does not prove that a public profile shows a mugshot, booking number, charges, bond, housing unit, or release date. Those details may exist inside the app, but they should be verified in the app or by calling the jail before relying on them.

Booking

The jail intake step after arrest, when identity and custody paperwork are created.

Charge

An alleged offense listed by police or later filed by the prosecutor in court.

Detainer

A hold or request from another agency that can affect release.

DOC

The Indiana Department of Correction, which handles sentenced state prison custody.

County Jail vs State Prison Lookup

The jail roster, court docket, DOC locator, and federal locators answer different questions. The county jail app is for current Fulton County Jail custody. Indiana MyCase shows court records after the prosecutor files charges. IDOC is for sentenced state prisoners. BOP and ICE are separate federal systems and do not serve as Fulton County mugshot galleries.

Fulton County Detention Facility

Only one detention-facility page is supported by the Facility Map. Fulton County Jail is the primary county jail and adult detention facility. No separate county work-release center, city jail, state prison, federal prison, or ICE detention center physically located in Fulton County was confirmed in official sources reviewed.

• Fulton County Jail - county jail and adult detention facility for Fulton County arrests, local court custody, and some other-agency holds.

Fulton County Inmate Population FAQ

How big is the Fulton County inmate population? The April 2025 sheriff monthly report listed a 107 in-house daily average. Vera's 2024 county row listed 72. Use source dates because the figures measure different windows.

How do I search the Fulton County inmate population? Start with the County of Fulton mobile app because the official jail page directs inmate listings there. If the app does not answer the question, call the jail at 574-224-5630.

Does Fulton County have a public web roster? The official pages reviewed did not show a traditional county web roster. The county points to the sheriff mobile app instead.

Where do sentenced inmates go? Sentenced Indiana prison custody is searched through IDOC. The county jail app may no longer be the best lookup after transfer.

Are federal or ICE detainees searched locally? Immediate physical custody may start with the jail line, but federal prison and immigration detainee searches use BOP and ICE systems.