Wayne County Jail Overview
Wayne County Jail is the primary and only local detention facility identified in official Wayne County research sources. It is operated by the Wayne County Sheriff's Office under Sheriff Keith Davis. Official county and sheriff sources place the jail and sheriff's office at 207 N Lafayette St, Corydon, IA 50060, with the same public phone line, 641-872-1566.
The facility is a county jail, not a state prison. It holds people at several points in the local criminal process: new arrestees, people charged and awaiting trial, warrant arrests, county-sentenced inmates, parole or probation holds, state-prison bed waits, community corrections holds, municipal-court commitments, and other-agency holds. The jail division text says pretrial confinement is used to assure court appearance, while sentenced inmates are in custody as punishment for the offense.
The Wayne County Sheriff's Office site is an OCV-hosted public hub. It links the inmate roster, most-wanted page, jail information, visiting and mail procedures, Reliance Telephone services, allpaid bail, VINE notifications, the sheriff app, and public notices. That makes the sheriff site the main local access point for jail information.
Wayne County Jail Contact
For custody, booking, visiting, mail, bond, and facility procedure questions, use the Wayne County Sheriff's Office and Jail contact information. The sheriff site posts public office hours as 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Wayne County, Iowa is in Central Time, but the sheriff footer uses EST wording, so callers should verify timing before relying on a posted time zone label.
Wayne County Jail
207 N Lafayette St
Corydon, IA 50060
641-872-1566
Public office hours posted by the sheriff site: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.
The county office directory lists Sheriff Keith Davis, Chief Deputy Tyler Moore, Civil Secretary Kim Gibson, and deputies Garrett Abel, Joseph Lund, Riley Nelson, Craig Neighbors, Cameron Nicoletto, and Kyle Jensen. The sheriff site contact card also lists ddavis@wayneso.org.
Who Wayne County Jail Holds
The Wayne County jail population is broader than a simple list of people arrested that day. The sheriff's jail division describes local custody for people accused of all levels of charges and for people held under several legal reasons. A current roster entry is only a snapshot of those people who are still in custody when the public roster is viewed.
| Custody Group | What It Means at Wayne County Jail |
|---|---|
| Pretrial detainees | People charged and awaiting court action or trial. |
| Warrant arrests | People booked after an arrest warrant or failure-to-appear event. |
| County-sentenced inmates | People serving a local jail sentence. |
| Parole or probation holds | People held due to alleged supervision violations. |
| State-bed waits | People sentenced and waiting for Iowa DOC or Community Corrections placement. |
| Other-agency holds | People held for another jurisdiction or agency. |
Search Wayne County Jail Inmates
The official Wayne County current-inmate roster is at wayneso.org/inmate. The roster is a free public OCV feed with current entries, booking-photo images, "View Charges" buttons, and "Notify Me of Status Change" links that route to VINE. During research on June 13, 2026, the roster showed 9 current entries across 2 pages. That was an observed live count, not a formal average daily population.
- Open the Wayne County Sheriff's Office inmate page and review the visible current-inmate cards.
- Use the "Type to Search" field to filter by name when the roster has several entries.
- Click the person's name or "View Charges" to open the public profile.
- Review the booking photo, inmate ID, descriptors, booked date, custody details, and any charge information shown.
- Use the VINE notification link for status alerts, but check court records separately for formal filed charges.
The roster does not replace Iowa Courts Online. A Wayne inmate profile can show a charges area, yet the inspected sample showed "No Charges Available." For the formal case filed after an arrest, use Iowa Courts Online or the Wayne County Clerk of Court. For more detail on roster fields and fallback channels, the Wayne County jail inmate records page covers the roster side of the lookup process.
The official Wayne County current inmate list is the roster source for this facility.
The roster image reflects the facility-specific lookup path because Wayne County Jail is searched through the sheriff's current-inmate feed.
Wayne County Jail Profile Details
Public Wayne County Jail profiles can include a booking photo, name, inmate ID, height, weight, gender, race, age, eye color, hair color, custody details, booked date, and a VINE notification link. The profile area can include charges, but the inspected profile showed "No Charges Available." Bond amount, bond type, arresting agency, court date, housing unit, release date, and warrant numbers were not visible on the inspected profile.
| Roster Field | Public Detail Found |
|---|---|
| Name and image | Uppercase name format and a booking/photo image when available. |
| Inmate ID | Local or VINE-linked identifier shown in record details. |
| Physical descriptors | Height, weight, gender, race, age, eye color, and hair color. |
| Custody details | Booked date and time in Central Time on the inspected profile. |
| Charges area | Exists, but may show no available charges. |
| VINE notification | Link for custody-status notification. |
Wayne County Jail Visits and Mail
Wayne County does not publish a fixed public visitation schedule, visitor ID rule, dress code, minor-visitor rule, legal-mail rule, or package policy in the official sources reviewed. The sheriff's "Visiting & Mail Procedures" jail-info page says to check back for updates and call the jail at 641-872-1566 for visiting and mail procedures. That call-the-jail instruction is the official local procedure found during research.
| Topic | Official Wayne County Detail | Practical Action |
|---|---|---|
| In-person schedule | Not published. | Call 641-872-1566 before traveling. |
| Visitor ID | Not published. | Confirm the current ID requirement by phone. |
| Dress code | Not published. | Ask the jail before a visit. |
| Children or minors | Not published. | Confirm approval and supervision rules first. |
| Mail format | Not published. | Ask whether to use the jail address and what name or inmate ID format is required. |
| Packages and books | Not published. | Do not send items unless the jail confirms acceptance. |
The sheriff site uses its OCV news feed and app for public notices, including weather, evacuation, road, and sheriff's sale notices. Jail visitors should still call the facility for jail-specific changes because the research did not locate a public visiting calendar.
Wayne County Jail Phone and Money
The sheriff site links inmate funds to Reliance Telephone. The Reliance Telephone Wayne County Jail facility page lists the jail at 207 N Lafayette St in Corydon and gives the inmate voicemail number as 641-328-8334. The sheriff site also links "Deposit Funds To Inmates" to the Reliance checkout service. Local commissary fees, deposit deadlines, and facility-specific spending rules were not published in the official local sources reviewed.
The sheriff site links online bail to allpaid's Wayne County bail payment page. It also links civil payments through a separate allpaid entry. Before paying bail online, confirm the person's custody status, exact name, case or booking reference, amount, and any hold with the jail or clerk. A parole hold, probation hold, no-bond court order, or another-agency detainer may prevent release even when a payment screen exists.
| Service | Provider or Source | Captured Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Phone and voicemail | Reliance Telephone | Voicemail line listed as 641-328-8334. |
| Deposit funds | Reliance Telephone checkout | Linked from sheriff jail info menu. |
| Bail payment | allpaid | Sheriff site links allpaid PLC details a004kl. |
| Commissary fees | Not published locally | Call the jail for current deposit fees, deadlines, and limits. |
Wayne County Jail Booking
Official Wayne County pages do not publish a step-by-step intake manual, but the local record path is clear. A person can enter Wayne County Jail after a new arrest, a warrant arrest, a mittimus or sentence, a parole or probation hold, a municipal-court commitment, or an outside-agency hold. The jail then creates or receives custody data that may become visible on the current roster.
Observed public roster fields show the booking record can include an inmate ID, name, booking photo, physical descriptors, booked date and time, custody status, and VINE link. Property release, local medical screening steps, classification details, and housing-unit assignments were not published. Iowa Administrative Code 201 Chapter 50 governs jail standards statewide, including facility operations, capacity, supervision, discipline, health care, and confinement conditions.
Formal charges should be checked through Iowa Courts Online after filing. The official Iowa Courts guide says cases added to the case-management system take one business day to appear and citations may take up to 14 days to post. For immediate custody confirmation, the jail phone line is the practical route.
Wayne County Jail Capacity
Wayne County did not publish an exact rated jail bed count in the official county sources reviewed. The best official capacity category located is the Iowa Department of Corrections December 10, 2024 recognition release, which placed Wayne County in the medium jail category. In that release, medium jails are in the 31 to 100 bed category. That is a category, not an exact bed count.
Historical BJS-derived data published by Prisoners of the Census listed Wayne Co. Jail with a 2013 average daily population of 20 local jail inmates. The public roster showed 9 current entries during inspection on June 13, 2026. The roster count is live and can change quickly, so it should not be used as an annual average or capacity measure.
Wayne County Jail Recognition
Iowa DOC recognized Wayne County as one of six counties with outstanding jail operations in a December 10, 2024 release. Wayne was listed in the medium jail category alongside Allamakee County. The release is useful for two reasons: it gives the official medium-jail capacity category and it documents recent state-level recognition of Wayne County's jail operations.
The Iowa DOC recognition release is the source for the jail category and 2024 recognition.
The recognition does not publish a precise Wayne County Jail bed count, but it is the strongest official facility-quality note found in the research.
Wayne County Jail Records
When the public roster does not answer a custody or booking question, the local fallback is the Wayne County Sheriff's Office. Iowa Code Chapter 22 gives the public access to records of state, county, city, and other government bodies unless a statute makes the record confidential. Chapter 22 allows requests in person during office hours or in writing, by phone, or by electronic means. A useful request should name the person, approximate booking date, and record type.
Some records can be limited. Iowa Code 22.7 includes confidentiality rules for peace officers' investigative reports and criminal identification files, while also recognizing current and prior arrest records and criminal history data as public records. For a filed criminal case, formal charges, court dates, fines, dispositions, and docket events are court records, not jail records. Use Iowa Courts Online or the Clerk of Court for that part of the process.
Wayne County Jail Transfers
Wayne County Jail is the local custody point, but not every person remains there. If a Wayne County defendant is sentenced to state prison, the person may wait in county jail for a state prison or Community Corrections bed. After transfer, the lookup path becomes Iowa DOC Offender Search, not the county roster. DOC records are public under Iowa Code 904.601, and DOC says its offender search is updated weekly but can change quickly.
Federal and immigration custody are separate. No BOP prison, ICE detention facility, or U.S. Marshals detention facility was found in Wayne County. Federal sentenced inmates are searched through the BOP inmate locator, which covers federal inmates from 1982 to present. Immigration detainees are searched through ICE ODLS. Wayne County may hold a person for another agency, but the outside agency's locator controls after transfer.
Note: Confirm custody, visiting, mail, and release status with Wayne County Jail before travel or payment.