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Clay County Jail Overview

Clay County Jail is operated by the Clay County Sheriff's Office. Official county materials list the sheriff's office and jail address as 611 East Jackson Street, Brazil, IN 47834, and identify Sheriff Brison Swearingen as the sheriff for the 2023-2026 term. The same local source provides the sheriff's non-emergency phone number, 812-446-2535, and promotes the official sheriff app through a QR code.

The facility is both the county jail and an ICE detention facility. That dual role is important. A person arrested locally may be held there as a pretrial detainee or local sentenced jail inmate. A person in immigration custody may also be housed there under ICE detention channels. No separate work-release center, state prison, Bureau of Prisons institution, or standalone ICE facility was confirmed inside Clay County from the official sources reviewed.

The official Clay County sheriff page is sparse, so many live operating details should be confirmed by phone or through the official app. The facility should not be confused with Clay County jail pages from Florida, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama, South Dakota, or other states.

Clay County Jail Contact

The main public contact path for local jail questions is the Clay County Sheriff's Office. For ICE detainees at Clay County Jail, ICE lists a separate detainee information number and time window. Use the custody type to choose the right phone line before asking about visits, mail, bond, or release.

The official Clay County sheriff page shows the sheriff office listing and app route.

Use the county page to verify the office, address, sheriff, and app link before relying on a similarly named Clay County source.

Clay County Jail Lookup

Clay County Jail inmate lookup is not a single search box for every custody type. The official county page points users to the sheriff app, while the standalone sheriff domain found during research displayed a new-site notice and a current-inmates prompt that could not be inspected as a normal public roster page. Use the sheriff app and phone line for local custody, then shift to ICE, IDOC, BOP, or MyCase when facts show the person is in another system.

1. Start with the Clay County Sheriff's Office page and the official Clay County Sheriff's Office app route at OCV's app share page.
2. Call 812-446-2535 if the app or web route does not confirm current local custody.
3. Use ICE Online Detainee Locator System or the ICE facility line if immigration custody is possible.
4. Use the Indiana DOC locator after a Clay County defendant has been sentenced to state prison.
5. Use the BOP inmate locator only for sentenced federal inmates, not routine Clay County Jail bookings.
6. Search Indiana MyCase for public court charges, hearing dates, and case disposition after arrest.

A broader Clay County inmate population search often needs more than one source. The Clay County inmate population overview separates local jail, ICE, state prison, and federal lookup paths.

Clay County Jail ICE Facility

ICE lists Clay County Jail as an official detention facility in Brazil. That listing gives the same street address as the sheriff's office and provides the ICE detainee information number. ICE custody can continue even when a local criminal bond or case issue is resolved, and immigration bond is separate from a state criminal bond. ICE transfers can also move a person from Clay County Jail to another facility.

The ICE facility profile is the strongest official source for ICE detainee visit and mail rules. The facility has also appeared in ICE Office of Detention Oversight inspection materials for 2023 and 2024. Direct inspection PDF text was not accessible in the research environment, so the facility page and ICE contact line should be treated as the current practical source for detainee-facing rules.

The ICE Clay County Jail facility profile identifies the facility and detainee information line.

When an inmate lookup involves immigration custody, the ICE locator and ICE facility line are more direct than a county jail roster.

Clay County Jail Visitation

Clay County did not publish a detailed local visitation schedule in the official county pages reviewed. That gap matters because visits can change by housing unit, custody type, staffing, security status, and vendor. Confirm local inmate visits with the sheriff's office or official app before travel. ICE detainee visitors should use the ICE facility page and the ICE detainee information line.

Note: Do not travel to Clay County Jail for a visit until the facility confirms the person is still there and the visit is allowed.

Clay County Jail Mail and Money

Local Clay County Jail mail, phone, video, commissary, and deposit vendor details were not published in the official county pages reviewed. County jails change vendors often, so avoid sending funds through a third-party site unless the sheriff's office, official app, or facility staff confirm the current method. For ICE detainees, use ICE facility instructions and include the detainee name and A-number when available.

Mail and money rules should also account for holds. A person may be released, transferred to IDOC, transferred by ICE, or moved on another agency's warrant before a letter or deposit is processed.

Clay County Jail Population

Current post-expansion rated capacity was not located in official county or ICE text available to the research. Historical Indiana criminal-code reform materials show Clay jail capacity in the 170-bed range, with population figures of 107 in 2017 and 2018 and 134 in 2019. Later public reporting and litigation discuss expansion and ICE detention, but a single current official bed count should be confirmed with IDOC Jail Services or the sheriff before use.

The 238 figure comes from the IDOC June 2025 total population summary by county of commitment. It is not a live Clay County Jail count. It includes DOC, community corrections, jail DOC contract, and felony F6 diversion categories tied to Clay County commitment data.

Clay County Jail Booking

A typical Clay County Jail booking starts after an arrest by the sheriff's office, Brazil police, Indiana State Police, or another agency. Intake may include identity checks, property inventory, medical or mental-health screening, fingerprints, a booking photo, classification, and housing assignment. Indiana county jail standards require inmate records and jail management information, which supports internal recordkeeping even when a public web profile is not visible.

Booking records and court records serve different roles. The jail may show arrest charges or holds. The Clay County Prosecutor decides what charges to file in court, and MyCase is the better source for filed charges, court dates, and disposition. A person can also remain in custody for another reason after a charge is dismissed, including ICE custody, an out-of-county warrant, a probation hold, a DOC commitment, or a federal hold.

Clay County Jail Directions

Clay County Jail is at 611 East Jackson Street in Brazil, near the county courthouse and other downtown government offices. The Clay County courthouse address is 609 E. National Avenue, so jail, court, prosecutor, and clerk business may be close together but still involve different entrances and offices. Visitors should distinguish the sheriff and jail address from the courthouse address.

Drivers coming from I-70 generally route toward Brazil and then into the downtown government area. U.S. 40, also known locally as National Avenue, is the main east-west route through Brazil. State Road 59 traffic should route toward central Brazil and East Jackson Street. Because the official jail page does not publish turn-by-turn visitor entrance details, use live routing and call ahead for visitor parking, security screening, and accessible entry.

• Confirm visitor parking with the facility before arrival.
• No official visitor parking rates were located in county pages reviewed.
• No jail-specific public transit stop was confirmed from official sources.
• Call ahead if accessible parking or an ADA entrance is needed.
• Bring government-issued photo identification for visits unless the facility gives different instructions.

Clay County Jail Records

Booking records, mugshots, incident reports, and jail records are sheriff records, while filed charges and court events are court records. Indiana's Access to Public Records Act, IC 5-14-3, supports access to public agency records unless an exception applies. Copy fees and denials are handled under APRA rules. Court files are governed by court-access rules as well as public-record principles.

For current custody, start with the sheriff app or 812-446-2535. For immigration custody, use ICE ODLS and the Clay County Jail ICE information line. For sentenced state prisoners, use IDOC. For federal sentenced prisoners, use BOP. For formal charges after arrest, use MyCase. The full Clay County jail inmate records page gives more detail on the lookup chain and possible record fields.