Search Story County Jail Inmates

Story County Jail Overview

Story County Jail is operated by the Story County Sheriff's Office at the Story County Justice Center in Nevada. It is the only official local detention facility confirmed in the county facility map. Adults arrested by the Sheriff's Office, Ames Police Department, Iowa State University Police, Huxley Police Department, Story City Police Department, and other local agencies may be transported to this jail after arrest.

The county describes the jail as a new-generation, modular, direct-supervision facility. It opened in March 2002 and replaced a 1968 linear-style jail that had a most recent capacity rating of 31 inmates. Direct supervision is a key local feature: Story County says officers working in the same area as inmates can address issues before they grow into violence, reducing stress and liability for staff and inmates.

The Story County Jail information page gives the public overview and links to the roster, visitation, VINE, and other jail resources.

That official jail page is the starting point for readers who need county-run custody resources rather than state or federal locators.

Story County Jail Population

Story County Jail has a capacity note that should not be flattened. The older jail information page calls the current Justice Center jail a 104-bed facility. Newer official materials, including the 2026 Jail Healthcare Services RFP and Sheriff's divisions context, list a 122-bed facility. The RFP is the better current operational source, but the older county figure still appears on a public page.

The same RFP says the facility has minimum, medium, and maximum security levels and holds adult male and female pretrial and sentenced offenders. It defines sentenced jail inmates as people serving 365 days or less. Story County's jail information page adds that work-release inmates are also housed at the jail.

Lookup Story County Jail Inmates

Current Story County Jail inmates are searched through the Central Iowa Police to Citizen Inmates module. The Sheriff's Office and jail pages link to that system as the current inmate roster. The public roster is free, and the research did not find a login or subscription requirement for the inmate catalog. Use the county roster for pretrial detainees, short-sentence county inmates, work-release inmates, and current local holds.

1. Open the Central Iowa P2C inmate roster.
2. Search by name in the main text box or open Advanced filters.
3. Use last name, first name, middle name, age, charge, arrest date, race, or sex to narrow results.
4. Sort by arrest date when checking a recent booking.
5. Expand the inmate card to read charge, bond, docket number, booking agency, and image fields when available.
6. If the person is not listed, call the jail or use the records, DOC, BOP, ICE, or IowaVINE fallback route that matches the custody type.

The roster is not a complete historical archive. Story County did not publish an exact refresh interval or a fixed rule for how long released inmates stay visible. For a deeper field-by-field roster explanation, the Story County jail inmate records page focuses on search fields and roster profiles.

Story County Jail Contact

Use the jail line for current custody confirmation, visitation questions, and urgent facility routing. Use the Sheriff's Office non-emergency number for law-enforcement contact outside a jail-specific question. Open-records requests can be routed through Story County's public records liaison when a booking record, older jail record, or copy request is needed.

Visit Story County Jail

Story County publishes separate rules for attorney, clergy, on-site friend and family video visits, and remote HomeWAV visits. Friend and family visits are video visits, not contact visits in the published rules. Visitors must register, use valid ID, follow clothing rules, and avoid three-way calling, prohibited language, nudity, and equipment misuse. All visits are recorded and subject to monitoring by Sheriff's Office staff.

The Story County visitation page is the source for those schedules and visitor rules.

Confirm the schedule before travel because court orders, discipline, holidays, or jail operations can limit a specific visit.

Money Mail and Phone

Story County uses Access Corrections for inmate commissary deposits. The county lists phone, online, lobby kiosk, and certified-money-order options. The lobby kiosk is available during regular business hours, Monday through Friday from 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM. Story County says the jail will not reveal an inmate's commissary balance to visitors, money belongs to the inmate once deposited, and funds are not refunded once placed on the account.

Certified money orders use this format:

Full Inmate Name
Story County Jail
1315 S B Ave.
Nevada, IA 50201

The county did not publish current Access Corrections fee amounts in the research source. Fees may apply through the vendor, so current amounts should be checked with Access Corrections or the jail before deposit.

Story County Jail Booking

Booking at Story County Jail follows the local arrest path. After an arrest, the person is transported to the jail, identified, searched, processed for property, photographed, screened for health and classification needs, and assigned to housing or work-release status if eligible. The county's health-care RFP confirms that booking staff conduct health screenings and that medical providers review those screenings.

Story County's criminal-case timeline says initial appearance occurs within 24 hours of arrest. At that appearance, a judge or magistrate advises the person of the charges, penalties, bail or release terms, and appointed-counsel rights if jail is possible. If the defendant remains in custody, a preliminary hearing date must be set within 10 days of arrest. If released, the timeline says the date must be set within 20 days.

Story County Jail Programs

Story County's jail division page is more program-focused than many county jail pages. It names inmate worker, work release, substance-abuse counseling, jail diversion, and REACH as opportunities tied to jail operations. The REACH Program is described by the county as a program for high-risk inmates with criminal-thinking, mental-health, and substance-abuse supports. Story County also has an Alternatives Pre/Post Arrest Diversion Program for people with substance-use disorders and low-level nonviolent misdemeanor charges.

Medical and mental-health details are also documented in the 2026 RFP. The requested scope includes comprehensive health assessments, sick call, chronic and acute care, medication administration, communicable disease management, women's health including prenatal care, medication-assisted treatment, mental-health screening, suicide prevention and monitoring, emergency care, mortality review, and discharge planning. That RFP is a procurement source, not proof of a completed contract outcome, so it should be read as the county's stated service scope for the solicitation.

Story County Jail Records

For current custody, search the P2C roster first or call the jail. For older booking records, booking photos not visible online, incident records, or records no longer on the roster, use Story County's open-records process. The county says requests may be made with or without the optional form, in person, by phone, or by email, and that no identification, reason, or motive is required.

Public records liaison Sandra King is listed for public information requests at 900 6th Street, Nevada, IA 50201, phone (515) 382-7243, fax (515) 382-7206, Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM. The policy email in the research is sking@storycountyiowa.gov. Requests needing review or research receive a reply within 10 business days, and Iowa Code allows 20 calendar days to decide confidentiality.

For court charges after an arrest, use Iowa Courts Online and the Clerk of District Court rather than the jail. Jail records and court records are held by different custodians.