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Miami County Jail — Peru, Indiana
A source-bounded guide to the adult Sheriff jail in Peru, Indiana, with dated mail rules and unresolved local procedures explicit.
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A source-bounded guide to the adult Sheriff jail in Peru, Indiana, with dated mail rules and unresolved local procedures explicit.
- Confirm custody
Use the official lookup and call the jail when spelling, booking delay, release or transfer remains possible.
- Verify before travel
Confirm the current visit mode, eligibility, identification, minor rules, parking and entrance.
- Keep provider tasks separate
Use a provider only for the local task the jail or county actually assigns to it.
- Confirm mail and money
Verify the resident identifier, destination, product, fee and receipt before sending anything.
- Route health and safety locally
Give urgent facts to jail staff and ask for the current medical, grievance, ADA or PREA channel.
- Verify case and bond
Use the court record for the order, then confirm amount, tender, fees and holds before paying.
- Plan release and transportation
Confirm timing, exit, property, medication, pickup and the exact transit curb; do not treat an estimate as a guarantee.
Start here
Confirm the adult Sheriff jail, locate the person and route urgent concerns.
Confirm the correct jail
Use the adult Miami County Sheriff jail at 1104 W 200 N, Peru, IN 46970. The jail’s current pages give 765-472-1322 and fax 765-472-7520. The facility opened in 2010 and has a stated capacity of 244. Do not route to Miami Correctional Facility, Community Corrections, a court, youth custody, Peru Police, or another Miami County.
Sources: Miami County Sheriff’s Office · Miami County Detention Facility · Miami County Jail Visitation Schedule · Miami County Jail directory
Find a person in custody
Start with Indiana SAVIN using a partial or full last name, identification number, or case number. Keep the exact spelling, displayed ID, custody status, location, booking/case number, and update time. Then call 765-472-1322 to confirm Miami County Jail custody before sending money or mail.
Sources: Miami County Sheriff’s Office · Indiana MyCase · Indiana SAVIN offender search
Troubleshoot no result
Try name variants and confirm date of birth, arresting agency, county, booking time, transfer, release, and whether the person is in IDOC, federal, immigration, youth, or another county custody. A missing online result is not proof of release; ask the jail which system now holds the person.
Sources: Miami County Sheriff’s Office · Indiana SAVIN offender search · Miami Correctional Facility · Indiana IDOC offender search · Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator · ICE Online Detainee Locator
Handle an urgent safety concern
Call 911 for an immediate emergency. For a person already inside the jail, call 765-472-1322 and ask staff to document the concern and route it to the shift supervisor or Jail Commander Tiffany Hostetler, extension 4559. Central Dispatch says administrative jail calls belong at 765-472-1322, not its non-emergency line.
Sources: Miami County Sheriff’s Office · Sheriff staff directory · Miami County Central Dispatch
Visiting
Verify visiting mode, identification, minors and exceptions before travel.
Plan the weekly visit
The county publishes one 20-minute visit per incarcerated person each week. Availability is Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 8:00 a.m.–8:30 p.m.; Wednesday has no visitation. A visit must start before 8:00 p.m. Confirm the person remains eligible and the appointment method before travel.
Visitor list, ID and minors
Every visitor age 18 or older must show valid photo identification and appear on the resident’s visitor list. Visitors under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. The county does not publish accepted ID alternatives, proof-of-guardianship documents, infant supplies, dress rules, or belongings storage; call first.
Restrictions and exceptions
Misconduct can revoke visiting privileges for an unspecified period. A person who served time in this jail within the prior 60 days cannot visit unless visiting a parent, sibling, spouse, or child. Ask the jail about housing, discipline, quarantine, protective orders, long-distance, clergy, attorney, disability, and language exceptions.
Sources: Miami County Jail Visitation Schedule · Miami County ADA information
Calls, video and mail
Keep calls, video, messages, personal mail, legal mail, books, photos and packages task-specific.
Set up video visitation
Miami County assigns visitation transactions to InmateSales. Create or sign in to an account, select Indiana and the exact Miami County facility, add the correct resident, and use only the options actually displayed. The county page does not say whether the published weekly window is remote, onsite video, or both, nor does it publish price or advance-booking time; confirm before paying.
Sources: Miami County Jail Visitation Schedule · InmateSales
Fix a failed video session
Before the session, verify the account email, facility, resident, date, time, camera, microphone, browser permissions, network, and confirmation. If the resident does not appear or the connection fails, save screenshots and transaction numbers, use InmateSales support, and call the jail for a housing or facility restriction. Do not promise a refund; no local refund rule is published.
Sources: Miami County Jail Visitation Schedule · InmateSales · Combined Public Communications support
Set up calls and chirping
The county assigns phone calls and “chirping” to InmateSales. Confirm the resident is still at this jail, create or fund only the product shown for that person, enter the exact receiving number, and keep the receipt. The county does not publish call hours, rates, free-call policy, number approval, recording exceptions, or whether chirping means text messaging on a particular device.
Sources: Miami County Jail Visitation Schedule · InmateSales
Troubleshoot call failures
Check that payment cleared, the phone number and facility are correct, spam or carrier blocking is disabled, and the resident has not moved housing or transferred. Use account recovery or support@combinedpublic.com for account access, then call 765-472-1322 for a facility restriction. Keep ticket and receipt numbers.
Sources: Miami County Jail Visitation Schedule · InmateSales · Combined Public Communications support
Address personal mail carefully
The 2017 Sheriff directive remains linked from the current jail page. Use the person’s proper legal name and confirm the current addressing format with 765-472-1322 before mailing to 1104 W 200 N. Send correspondence only on originally purchased plain white lined paper; no greeting cards, colored paper or envelopes, printer paper, stationery, stamps, clippings, internet printouts, laminated material, drawings, stickers, tape, staples, stains, perfume, glitter, glue, wet paper, or foreign substance.
Sources: Miami County Jail Visitation Schedule · Sheriff’s mail directive dated 2017-11-22
Keep legal mail separate
Legal mail is exempt from the 2017 content directive but is opened in front of an officer; the envelope is then taken during mail pass, so the resident should copy the return address at that time. Counsel should confirm the current legal-mail address and markings before sending because the county page publishes the physical jail address but not a distinct legal-mail format.
Sources: Miami County Jail Visitation Schedule · Sheriff’s mail directive dated 2017-11-22 · Miami County Public Defender
Send publications only from the source
Magazines, newspapers, and books must be sent by the publisher under the linked directive; books must be softback. Confirm quantity, seller eligibility, title restrictions, and current address before ordering. Religious correspondence from an organization—not an individual—may be exempt only after jail staff approval.
Sources: Sheriff’s mail directive dated 2017-11-22 · Indiana county jail standards: definitions
Follow the photo limits
The directive bars Polaroids, home-printed photo-paper pictures, images larger than 5 by 7 inches, nudity, and hand gestures. It does not publish a quantity limit or appeal deadline. Call before sending and keep irreplaceable originals at home.
Do not send unapproved packages
No current local source reviewed publishes a general package or property-drop process. Do not infer Access SecurePak availability from Access branding; the county page verifies Access Corrections only as its commissary website. Ask the jail for an approved item, seller, address, resident identifier, and delivery window before paying.
Sources: Miami County Jail Visitation Schedule · Access Corrections
Understand rejected mail
Disallowed incoming mail produces a confiscation letter. The directive says the mail is placed in the resident’s property and returned at release; staff will not make copies. Outgoing nonlegal mail is searched, must not be sealed, and is accepted only at breakfast pass. Confirm whether this dated directive has changed before relying on it.
Money and commissary
Match each payment to its verified purpose and confirm commissary or bond instructions before paying.
Use the verified commissary channel
The county designates AccessCorrections.com as the commissary website. Select Indiana, the exact Miami County agency, and the correct resident; review the offered method, fee, limit, and approval message before submitting. Access explains that methods and services vary by agency, so do not assume kiosk, phone, mail, walk-in, package, refund, or spending rules without local confirmation.
Sources: Miami County Jail Visitation Schedule · Access Corrections · Access Corrections approved depositors · Access Corrections Cash Pay Today help
Separate deposit from store rules
A successful Access Corrections deposit does not establish the jail’s order day, item catalog, spending cap, medical debt treatment, indigent supplies, or release-balance method. Ask 765-472-1322 which account receives funds and how the resident accesses commissary. Preserve the receipt and resident ID.
Sources: Miami County Jail Visitation Schedule · Access Corrections
Verify remote bond before payment
The detention page advertises remote debit/credit-card bond payment but the crawler did not expose the destination, fee, case eligibility, accepted bond types, or refund rules. Confirm the person, court, case number, exact bond order, amount, and payment link with the jail and Clerk before paying. Court fines are a separate Clerk transaction.
Sources: Miami County Detention Facility · Miami County offices by phone · Miami County Clerk of Courts
Health, grievance and safety
Route health, medication, grievance, disability and sexual-safety concerns to the responsible channel.
Communicate a medical concern
No current local source reviewed names the jail’s clinical provider, family medical line, request form, copay, records process, or information-release form. For immediate danger call 911. Otherwise call 765-472-1322, give the resident’s legal name and only necessary facts, ask staff to document and route the message to medical, and understand privacy law may limit the reply.
Sources: Miami County Sheriff’s Office · Sheriff staff directory · Miami County Central Dispatch
Escalate mental-health risk
For suicide, overdose, withdrawal, or immediate self-harm risk call 911 and 765-472-1322; ask for a welfare check and documentation. The person can request mental-health care inside, but the local request channel is unpublished. Families can use 988 for crisis guidance and Four County at 1000 N Broadway, Suite A, Peru, 574-321-2008 for community planning; neither controls jail treatment.
Sources: Miami County Central Dispatch · Miami County Systems of Care · 988 Lifeline
Confirm medication and assistive-item handling
The reviewed local sources do not publish rules for outside medications, pharmacy verification, continuity doses, eyeglasses, hearing devices, CPAP, mobility aids, or medical diets. Do not bring medication to the lobby without instruction. Call 765-472-1322 with the resident’s legal name, medication name, prescriber, pharmacy, and urgent timing, and ask what documentation staff will accept.
Sources: Miami County Sheriff’s Office · Sheriff staff directory
Use the current internal grievance path
Indiana jail standards require written conduct rules, but no reviewed Miami County source publishes resident medical or conditions grievance levels, forms, deadlines, emergency bypass, retaliation report, or appeal. The resident should request the current written grievance procedure and keep dates/copies when allowed. Families can ask the Jail Commander at 765-472-1322 extension 4559 for the responsible channel without substituting a family complaint for the resident’s filing.
Sources: Sheriff staff directory · Indiana county jail standards: discipline · Indiana county jail standards: admissions
Request disability access
For a jail-specific accommodation, notify jail staff at 765-472-1322 and ask who decides the request and appeal. Miami County’s ADA Coordinator is Janice Hughes, 765-473-7125 extension 2, ada@miamicountyin.gov; use that route for county-program access or escalation. The county-wide procedure does not establish a jail medical accommodation outcome.
Sources: Miami County ADA information · Miami County ADA transition plan 2025
Report sexual abuse safely
For immediate danger call 911. Report promptly to jail staff or the Jail Commander, 765-472-1322 extension 4559, and ask how to make a confidential or third-party PREA report. No reviewed local page publishes an independent PREA hotline or outside reporting entity, so this remains an explicit gap. RAINN provides confidential survivor support but is not the jail’s investigative authority.
Sources: Sheriff staff directory · U.S. DOJ PREA resources · RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline
Court, counsel, bond and release
Separate case, counsel, bond, property, release and reentry tasks.
Track the case separately from custody
Use Indiana MyCase for public docket information and confirm hearing dates with the Clerk at 765-472-2705. Circuit Court handles murder and Level 1–4 felony cases; Miami Superior courts handle other allocated matters. Court location is 25 N Broadway, Peru, not the jail. A custody change may not change the court record immediately.
Sources: Miami County offices by phone · Miami County Clerk of Courts · Miami County Circuit Court · Miami Superior Court I · Miami Superior Court II · Miami County Prosecutor · Miami County Victim Advocate · Indiana MyCase
Reach defense counsel
The Miami County Public Defender is at 25 Court Street, Peru, 765-472-4802, Monday–Friday 8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.; Chief Public Defender Eric Huneryager is listed at 765-472-3901 extension 320. Appointment depends on the court and case. Counsel should call the jail for attorney visits, confidential calls, and legal-mail routing because local procedures are unpublished.
Sources: Miami County Public Defender · Miami County Circuit Court
Read the actual bond order
Use MyCase and the Clerk to identify the court and case, then confirm the current written bond order and payment recipient. The jail advertises remote card payment but does not publish bond categories, cash/surety/10-percent eligibility, hours, fees, holds, or release timing. Never substitute a generic county bond table or a bondsman’s summary for the case order.
Sources: Miami County Detention Facility · Miami County Clerk of Courts · Indiana MyCase
Arrange property release before arrival
No current local source reviewed publishes property-release authorization, eligible recipient ID, hours, clothing exchange, cash/check handling, or rejected pickup. The resident should ask staff for the current form; the recipient should call 765-472-1322 before travel and bring only the identification staff confirms.
Sources: Miami County Sheriff’s Office · Miami County Jail directory
Prepare for release without predicting a time
Court order, transport, holds, records processing, medication, property, and staffing can affect release. No local source publishes notification, clothing, medication, after-hours door, pickup wait, or remaining-account method. Confirm custody near departure time, keep the driver reachable, avoid blocking secure access, and never rely on an estimated release time as a guarantee.
Sources: Miami County Sheriff’s Office · Miami County Detention Facility
Connect reentry supports
Community Corrections at 25 Court Street, 765-472-8599, is a separate alternative-to-incarceration/supervision program, not the jail. For mental-health or addiction planning use Miami County Systems of Care/Four County; for food, housing, transportation, benefits, and other needs call 211 or use the county’s 2026 directory. Eligibility and intake must be confirmed directly.
Sources: Miami County Community Corrections · Miami County 2-1-1 resource directory 2026 · Miami County Systems of Care · United Way of Miami County resources · Indiana 211
Travel and community support
Plan parking, transit, food, lodging and community support without inventing a final path.
Confirm parking and entrance
The county verifies 1104 W 200 N as the physical destination but publishes no visitor lot name, entrance, accessible parking location, screening point, after-hours door, or overflow rules. Call 765-472-1322 before travel, ask where the public should park and enter for the specific task, and do not stop at the secure vehicle gate or assume the Sheriff administrative entrance is the visit entrance.
Sources: Miami County Sheriff’s Office · Miami County Jail Visitation Schedule · Miami County Jail directory
Book YMCA Transit as demand response
INDOT identifies YMCA Transit for Miami County. The YMCA says it serves anyone traveling within or from Miami County, requires new riders to register at 765-472-6028, and asks for reservations 24–48 hours in advance before 4:00 p.m. when possible; same-day rides depend on availability. Ask for the exact jail drop point, fare, accessibility, companion rule, and return ride. No fixed jail stop or final walk is verified.
Sources: INDOT Indiana public transit systems · Miami County YMCA transportation · Miami County YMCA contact
Use service dates only for the published Wabash trip
The YMCA publishes a separate $5 Walmart-in-Wabash ride on the second Monday of each month, departing 9:30 a.m. and returning 12:30 p.m. from only the YMCA and Eastwood Apartments unless the office approves other arrangements. Seven calculated dates are preserved in transit-evidence.json. This monthly shopping trip is not jail service and does not verify release pickup.
Sources: Miami County YMCA transportation
Use verified local food help
The current county directory and Salvation Army list Miami County food assistance at Parkview United Methodist Church, 1785 S State Road 19, Peru, 765-473-5498, with current directory hours shown as Monday–Thursday mornings by appointment. Miami County Helping Hands, 176 N Broadway, 765-472-1875, is another local food/clothing contact. Call before travel because schedule and eligibility can change.
Sources: Miami County 2-1-1 resource directory 2026 · United Way of Miami County resources · Salvation Army Indiana service locations
Check lodging directly
Best Western Circus City Inn lists 2642 S Business 31, Peru, IN 46970. Contact the hotel directly for current price, availability, accessibility, check-in identification, pet policy, and cancellation terms; none is guaranteed by this guide. Confirm transportation to 1104 W 200 N separately.
Sources: Best Western Circus City Inn
Use community contacts without mixing authority
United Way of Miami County, 13 E Main Street, Peru, 765-473-4240, links food, housing, mental-health, senior, transportation, and 211 resources. Indiana Legal Services handles civil legal-aid screening. These providers can help families plan but cannot change custody, visiting, medical, mail, bond, or release rules.
Sources: United Way of Miami County resources · Indiana Legal Services · Indiana 211
Scope and verification
Plan parking, transit, food, lodging and community support without inventing a final path.
Keep systems separate
This guide covers only adult county jail custody at 1104 W 200 N. It excludes the state Miami Correctional Facility at 3038 W 850 S near Bunker Hill, federal/ICE custody there, Community Corrections at 25 Court Street, courts at 25 N Broadway, youth custody, Peru Police, the historical 35 Court Street jail listing, transfer facilities, and namesake counties in Ohio, Kansas, and Florida.
Sources: Miami County Sheriff’s Office · Miami County Community Corrections · Miami County Circuit Court · Miami Correctional Facility · Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator · ICE Online Detainee Locator · Indiana public defender juvenile facilities list · Historic 2010 census correctional population record
Verify facts at the responsible contact
This packet was reviewed September 30, 2026. Use the jail for custody and local operating rules; provider support for account/transaction failures; Clerk/court for case and bond orders; counsel for legal strategy; ADA Coordinator for county access; YMCA for rides; and community providers for eligibility. Keep names, dates, receipts, screenshots, and unanswered questions.
Sources: Miami County Sheriff’s Office · Sheriff staff directory · Miami County ADA information · Miami County Public Defender · Miami County Clerk of Courts · INDOT Indiana public transit systems · Miami County YMCA transportation · Indiana county jail standards: inmate records
Original directory record & nearby facilities Open preserved information
This section preserves the earlier Jail411 directory information, including historical figures and contacts. Use the dated, sourced family guide above for the instructions covered there. Other local facilities have their own rules.
Facility record / Indiana
Miami County Jail is a county or city jail in Peru, Miami County, Indiana. It has a rated capacity of 244. By capacity it is the 15th-largest of the 49 county or city jail records listed for Indiana with a published capacity. It is one of 2 correctional facilities in Miami County.
Jail411 does not hold custody records. A listing here does not mean anyone is held at this address. Confirm the person’s location with the responsible agency before you travel, send money, or pay for a service.
Where this record came from. The contact, status and security fields, with capacity and population, come from the HIFLD and Federal Bureau of Prisons directory release refreshed February 2026. They describe the record, not today’s population. Check the facility’s current official website.
Contact this facility
- Phone
- (765) 472-1322
- Address
- 1104 W 200 N
Peru, IN 46970Open in maps - Official page
- Official page at miamicountyin.gov
- County
- Miami County
Facility details
Listed as open in the February 2026 directory release.
Finding someone held here
Use the county system for a recent arrest. A state corrections search covers people in state custody. It generally will not list someone booked into a county jail this week. Bookings, bail, release, and visiting are all handled by Miami County Sheriff’s Office.
Official site for this facility →
Call this facility directly: (765) 472-1322
Before you travel, pay, or mail anything
Get two things first: which facility the person is actually in, and their booking or ID number. Almost nothing works without them. Then check this facility’s current instructions — rules and service providers change.
Other facilities in Miami County
| Facility | City | Type | Security |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miami Correctional Facility | Bunker Hill | State prison | Maximum |
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