Locate Branchville Correctional Facility Inmates

Branchville Correctional Facility Overview

Branchville Correctional Facility is a medium-security IDOC state prison for men at 21390 Old State Road 37 in Branchville. IDOC says the facility opened in 1982, is located on the southern edge of Indiana, and provides educational and vocational skill training. It is physically in Perry County, but it is not the county jail. People housed there may have been convicted in any Indiana county and assigned by the state after reception and classification.

This distinction controls the lookup path. A newly arrested Perry County defendant should be searched in the county current-inmates roster. A sentenced person assigned to Branchville should be searched in the IDOC locator. A Perry County resident in IDOC elsewhere will also appear in the IDOC locator, not in the Branchville page or county jail roster.

Branchville Facility Population

The IDOC facility page says Branchville was built for more than 1,400 incarcerated individuals. The stronger current figure in the research is the IDOC Total Population Summary Report for May 2026, which lists 1,533 beds, a population of 1,502, and 97.98 percent of capacity. These are state-prison figures and should not be combined with Perry County jail population figures when discussing the sheriff's roster.

Search Branchville Correctional Facility Inmates

Use the IDOC offender locator for Branchville. IDOC allows search by last name, first plus last name, or DOC number. Public profiles can show DOC number, name, month and year of birth, gender, race, facility or location, earliest possible release date, sentence information, cause number, county of conviction, and projected release date.

1. Open the IDOC offender locator.
2. Search by DOC number if known, or by last name and first name.
3. Open the profile and check the facility/location field for Branchville.
4. Review sentence rows, cause numbers, county of conviction, and release-date fields.
5. Use Indiana SAVIN or VINELink for notification, not as a replacement for IDOC's official locator.

The manifest includes the official IDOC Branchville page used for facility-specific population, visitation, mail, and program context.

That IDOC page is the facility source, while the offender locator is the person-search source.

Branchville IDOC Locator Fields

IDOC records are built around sentence administration. A DOC number is the most direct search value when it is known. Name searches can be broad, and the public profile may show only month and year of birth, so common names should be checked against facility, county of conviction, cause number, and sentence information. Earliest possible release date and projected release date are not bond dates.

Branchville Address and Contact

Branchville contact questions should be routed to IDOC or the facility, not to the Perry County Sheriff's Office. The sheriff's roster does not control Branchville assignments, sentence data, or prison visitation approval. Families should verify current IDOC rules before visiting or mailing because prison policies can change by facility operation and statewide IDOC direction.

Branchville Visitation Rules

IDOC uses ViaPath registration and scheduling for in-person and online visits. Visitors must register for a ViaPath account and be approved before scheduling. Supplemental documentation may be required. IDOC notes that visitation requests observe Eastern time and that available dates and times are facility specific. Branchville rules state that all visitors must be on the approved visitor list and that visitors may visit the same offender only once every 14 days.

Branchville Mail and Accounts

IDOC requires prison mail to include the offender's full legal name and DOC number. The Branchville page instructs senders to address both the envelope and letter. Incoming and outgoing mail is opened, examined, and read by designated facility staff. Money, phone, digital correspondence, packages, tablets, and commissary rules are governed by IDOC communication and account policies rather than the Perry County jail's CPC, JailATM, or Stellar kiosk rules.

Branchville Prison Admission

Branchville does not book street arrests for Perry County the way the county jail does. A person reaches IDOC after conviction and sentencing when the court commits the person to state custody. IDOC reception and classification then determine facility assignment. Branchville's public population consists of sentenced adult men, not pretrial detainees waiting for local bond.

Sentence fields in the IDOC locator should be read differently from county jail roster fields. County jail records focus on intake, charges, bond, and release or transfer. IDOC records focus on DOC number, facility, earliest possible release date, sentence date, offense description, cause number, county of conviction, and projected release date.

Branchville Custody Notifications

Indiana SAVIN and VINELink are useful notification routes for people who need custody updates rather than a one-time locator search. They should not replace the IDOC profile when a precise sentence or facility record is needed, and they do not replace MyCase when the question is about the court case. Use notifications as an alert layer after the person has been identified in the correct custody system.

No federal prison or ICE detention center was located in Perry County during research. If a person's status stops matching IDOC or the county jail roster, BOP and ICE searches can still be checked as fallback channels, but those systems do not describe ordinary Branchville state-prison custody.

Branchville Attorney Visits

Attorney visits are separate from ordinary visitor scheduling. The Branchville research states that attorney visits are not counted as part of the regular visitation schedule and that the attorney does not need to be on the visitor list. Attorney visits are scheduled through the Facility Litigation Liaison, with space arranged depending on security, safety, and availability.

Branchville Facility Programs

Branchville programs listed by IDOC include Substance Abuse, Thinking for a Change, PLUS Program, AA/NA, GED, Literacy, Adult Basic Education, Indiana Correctional Industry Products, Pre-Release, Therapeutic Community, Culinary Arts, and Department of Labor apprenticeship programs. IDOC says programs vary by facility and eligibility, and incarcerated individuals work with assigned case managers. Items made through skills programs may go to community organizations.

Research also found February 2025 news about a Branchville inmate death investigation. That incident involved the IDOC state prison, not the Perry County Detention Center. Death-in-custody reporting is handled through state reporting systems, including Indiana Criminal Justice Institute DCRA reporting for covered correctional facilities.