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Noble County Jail Overview

Noble County Sheriff's jail information identifies Noble County Jail as the county confinement facility operated by the Noble County Sheriff's Department in Albion. It handles recent Noble County arrests, pretrial detainees, local sentenced inmates, work release participants, and people held under other authority. The sheriff's 2025 Annual Department Report also shows the jail houses some Indiana Department of Correction inmates and federal inmates for the U.S. Marshals Office, so physical custody at this jail does not always mean the legal case is only a county case.

The sheriff lists the jail at 210 S. 7th Street, Albion, IN 46701, with the jail phone at (260) 636-6404. The business office is listed as Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., while Central Control and confinement coverage operate 24 hours a day. That split matters for Noble County Jail records. A records counter question may wait for business hours, but a current custody or urgent release question can begin with the jail phone because the facility itself is staffed around the clock.

The official jail information page is the source for the building figures shown here.

The sheriff's facility page gives the local phone, office hours, bed count, cell count, and work release capacity that shape Noble County Jail inmate lookup and visitation planning.

Noble County Jail Population

The most useful Noble County Jail population source is the sheriff's 2025 Annual Department Report. It reports 1,946 jail bookings in 2025, with 1,415 male bookings and 531 female bookings. The average daily population was 186, made up of 150 male inmates and 36 female inmates. The report also says the average length of stay was 33 days and 9 hours, and it reported zero juveniles waived or direct-filed in custody, zero in-custody deaths, and zero escapes for the year.

Noble County Jail has a listed capacity of 270 beds, 100 cells, and 15 work release beds. The 2025 average daily population was below the rated bed count, but the jail still served more than one custody stream. The annual report lists revenue from housing DOC inmates and federal inmates. It also states that Noble County began housing federal inmates for the U.S. Marshals Office in 2019. For a searcher, that means the local jail phone can confirm whether a person is physically there, while IDOC, BOP, or federal court records may still control the person's legal status.

Noble County Jail Lookup

No current official Noble County, Indiana online jail roster was located on the sheriff's website during the official-source research sweep. The current sheriff site publishes jail information, visitation, commissary, work release, jail staff, forms, records, and annual reports, but it does not expose a public "current inmates" or "jail roster" search form. Search results for a Noble County inmate search can point to Noble County, Oklahoma, which is not the Indiana jail and should not be used for Noble County, Indiana custody.

For a recent Noble County arrest, begin with the jail phone. Ask whether the person is in custody, whether a bond or hold exists, whether the person was released, and whether a court date or case number is known. If the jail says the person is not there, ask whether the person was transferred to IDOC, held on a federal matter, released before booking records appeared elsewhere, or booked under a different spelling. Then move to Indiana VINELink, Indiana SAVIN, Indiana MyCase, the IDOC incarcerated database search, the BOP inmate locator, or ICE ODLS depending on the custody type.

1. Call Noble County Jail at (260) 636-6404 for current physical custody, bond, release, transfer, and hold information.
2. Use Indiana VINELink or Indiana SAVIN for custody-status notifications when a person may have been released or transferred.
3. Search Indiana MyCase for charges filed after the arrest. Court records do not prove current jail custody, but they can show the case number and next court dates.
4. Use IDOC for sentenced state custody, BOP for federal custody, and ICE ODLS for immigration detention questions.
5. Use the sheriff's records process for public booking records, incident records, or jail records not available by phone.

The sheriff's records page says report requests need at least two identifiers, such as a name, date and time, location, or incident description. Crime summary reports are available only in person during records-section hours, and the official research notes a $5 report fee for report copies.

Noble County Jail Contact

Noble County Jail contact should be matched to the question. Current custody, release timing, bond, transport, and urgent facility questions start with the jail phone. Public report requests and ordinary sheriff records questions use the records section during business hours. The sheriff's main agency phone is separate from the jail phone, and the official site also routes people to forms, report requests, jail information, visitation, commissary, work release, and annual reports.

Noble County Jail Visits

Noble County Jail visitation uses an approved visitor list and a block-specific schedule. The jail visitation policy says each inmate completes an approved visitor list after incarceration, the list has space for five visitors, and only people on the list may visit. Visits are limited to three visitors per inmate per week. Visitors must show picture U.S. government-issued identification, and minor visitors are limited to immediate family with proof of the relationship and an approved adult visitor.

The policy bars weapons, smoking materials, electronic devices, purses, backpacks, cameras, food, drink, and other personal articles from the visitation area. Staff may ask visitors to submit to a search if contraband is suspected, and all people entering the building are subject to search. The jail also states that visiting hours may change without advance notice because of jail needs or discipline.

The sheriff's visitation schedule page gives the call-ahead number and block schedule for Noble County Jail visits.

The schedule is tied to housing block, so a caller should confirm the inmate's housing group before choosing a visitation window.

Note: Call (866) 340-7879 at least 24 hours before the desired visit, and verify the schedule before traveling.

Noble County Jail Money

Noble County Jail property and commissary rules are narrow. The sheriff's property page says personal property is placed in locked storage when a person books into jail. Inmates may keep plain white underpants, plain white socks, and plain white bras that were worn or brought at booking, but colored items and under-wire bras are not accepted. The jail provides initial hygiene items, prescribed medication may be brought to the jail, and paperback books must be mailed directly from a bookstore or publisher.

The sheriff's kitchen and commissary page explains that inmates receive three meals daily and that commissary is available to inmates who have funds. Commissary passes once per week. The sheriff FAQ states that money can be deposited at the Jail ATM kiosk at the sheriff's department, online through JailATM.com, or by mailed money order payable to the inmate. Cash and personal checks should not be mailed.

The official commissary page shows how Noble County Jail handles meals, weekly commissary, and indigent supplies.

Those details are useful before sending money because commissary access depends on the inmate account and weekly facility process, not on a public roster.

Noble County Jail Booking

When a person is arrested in Noble County and taken to county custody, the booking point is Noble County Jail in Albion. The research file does not locate a public booking manual, but the sheriff's jail pages and annual report show the main pieces of the process. Personal property is stored, jail staff process the person into custody, and the person may be held pending bond, court appearance, transfer, or release. The 2025 report's 1,122 video courts show that many court appearances occur by video from the facility.

Booking charges and court charges should be read as related but different records. A booking record reflects the reason a person was taken into jail. A court case begins when the prosecutor files formal charges in a Noble County court, and those charges can be amended, reduced, dismissed, or resolved later. For the court side, Indiana MyCase is the public portal. For the jail side, the jail phone and sheriff records process are the practical channels because no official Noble County online roster was found.

About Noble County Jail

The jail has a named command and support structure in the sheriff's materials: Jail Commander Lieutenant Jenny Cummins, Jail Matron Susan Goodman, Work Release Coordinator Madison Cleckner, Kitchen Director Tammie Skinner, Chaplain Brad Geans, and Jail Nurse Pam Gardner, LPN. The 2025 annual report lists two full-time transport officers who completed 1,694 transports and drove 66,207 miles. It also reports maintenance and security work, including camera replacements, added cameras, a security automation upgrade scheduled for completion in 2026, cell block repairs, R block suicide holding cell padding, and parking lot sealing and striping.

Programs listed for Noble County Jail include Alcoholics Anonymous for men and women, jail chaplains, visiting clergy, HSE instruction, Before 5 parenting classes, Kick the Addiction counseling, Q360 through Quality Correctional Care, family relationship programs, financial planning, and Learning to Navigate Life. The January 2024 Noble County SIM Mapping Strategic Planning Report adds useful context about behavioral-health planning, including jail medical and behavioral-health services through Quality Correctional Care, bi-weekly mental health care, and planning gaps such as limited jail release planning and no medication-assisted treatment except pregnancy as of that report.

The Noble County Sheriff's annual report page is the strongest public source for recent jail bookings, population, programs, transports, and federal or DOC housing.

The annual report is especially important because it separates Noble County Jail capacity, annual bookings, average daily population, work release, programs, and other-agency housing from broader county court data.