Audubon County Jail Overview
Audubon County Jail is operated by the Audubon County Sheriff's Department. Official county sources place the sheriff's department and jail at the courthouse complex in Audubon, and the sheriff staff page identifies Chief Deputy David Beane as the Jail Administrator. The jail is a county facility, not a state prison. Its role is local custody, intake, short-term detention, and sheriff-managed jail operations.
Official county-indexed department-history text says the jail houses male and female inmates and out-of-county inmates as needed. It also describes separate cell blocks, one holding room, one isolation cell, and camera monitoring by dispatchers. No official security-classification system, medical unit, mental-health unit, work-release unit, federal-hold policy, or ICE-hold policy was published in the sources reviewed.
Audubon County Jail Capacity
Capacity figures for Audubon County Jail require source context. The official county department-history text indexed from auduboncountyia.gov describes a 12-bed facility, although the direct page returned a county-site error during research. Vera's 2019 Audubon County row reports rated capacity as 9 and total jail population as 13. Use the 12-bed figure as the current county-described capacity and the Vera figures as historical dataset context.
Small-jail counts can change quickly. One or two new bookings, releases, holds, or transfers can affect how full the jail appears on a given day. No official live population dashboard was found for Audubon County Jail.
Look Up Audubon County Jail Custody
No official online Audubon County Jail roster was located. The correct lookup process is therefore a direct sheriff contact and records-request chain, supported by VINE and court searches where they fit. A recent local arrest is a county jail question first, not an Iowa DOC or BOP search.
- Call the Audubon County Sheriff's Department at 712-563-2631 and ask whether the person is currently held at the jail.
- Ask whether booking date, bond status, release status, or booking-record details can be released by phone.
- Use Iowa VINE / VINELink for custody notifications when participating-agency data is available.
- Search Iowa Courts Online if the question is filed charges after the arrest.
- Use Iowa DOC Offender Search only if the person may have been sentenced to state prison.
Audubon County Jail Contact
The official sheriff page and county directory list the sheriff's office contact information. No public jail email, booking desk email, visitation email, or jail lobby schedule was found. Call before visiting, sending property, or trying to confirm a bond or release process.
Audubon County Jail
318 Leroy St. Ste. 4
Audubon, IA 50025
712-563-2631
Emergency: 911
Public jail lobby hours were not published.
The official sheriff contact screenshot below comes from the Audubon County Sheriff's Department page.
That page is the local source for the phone-first custody lookup path because no county-hosted roster was found.
Visit Audubon County Jail
Audubon County did not publish a current jail visitation schedule in the official sources reviewed. Board minutes show that Sheriff Todd Johnson discussed a new jail video visitation kiosk on January 24, 2023, and that supervisors discussed placing the kiosk on the lower floor in the north hallway on the west side on January 26, 2023. Those minutes support the existence or implementation of a kiosk, but they do not provide visitor hours, remote scheduling, a vendor, ID rules, dress code, or visit length.
| Visit Type | Published Schedule | Rules / Access Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Public jail visit | Not published | Call the sheriff at 712-563-2631 before traveling. |
| Video kiosk visit | Not published | Board minutes confirm kiosk discussion and placement, not a schedule. |
| Attorney visit | Not published | Attorney access is usually handled apart from public visiting; call the jail. |
Audubon County Jail Mail Money
No official Audubon County Jail mail policy, commissary vendor, money-deposit vendor, phone-provider page, or online deposit fee schedule was located. Older county minutes reference jail commissary funds, and February 17, 2026 board minutes set room and board rates for sentenced, work-release, and out-of-county inmates. Those room and board rates are not bond and are not proof of a public deposit method.
| Service | Published Detail | What to Do |
|---|---|---|
| Personal mail | No official policy found | Call before sending mail, cash, books, or property. |
| Legal mail | No official policy found | Ask the jail for current legal-mail handling. |
| Money deposit | No vendor or fee found | Confirm accepted methods with the sheriff. |
| Room and board | 2026 minutes list $30/day sentenced, $40/day work release, $65/day out-of-county | Do not treat these as bail, fines, or commissary deposit fees. |
Audubon County Jail Booking
Audubon County does not publish a booking-process page. Under Iowa practice, a local arrest can lead to transport to the county jail, intake, phone and counsel access, a magistrate or first appearance step, bond or release conditions, and a court filing if charges are pursued. Iowa Code section 804.20 is important at the jail stage because it gives an arrested or restrained person the right to communicate with family or an attorney without unnecessary delay after arrival at detention.
The jail booking record and the court case are different. The booking record is a custody and intake record. The court case is a docket maintained through the Iowa courts after a complaint, information, indictment, citation, or other filing is entered. If the person is not found through the sheriff, check court timing, VINE coverage, release, transfer, or another custody system.
Audubon County Jail Bond
Bond and release conditions are court matters, but the jail is often the first place families call to learn whether a person can be released. Iowa Code Chapter 811 covers release options such as personal recognizance, unsecured appearance bond, cash or surety conditions, conditional release, and holds that prevent release. A bond amount is not a conviction. It is a court condition intended to address appearance and safety while the case is pending.
Call the sheriff for current custody and local release handling. Use Iowa Courts Online or the Audubon County Clerk of Court for filed court entries, payment questions, or case-file details. A hold from another jurisdiction, probation or parole, a warrant, federal custody, or immigration detention can prevent release even when a cash amount appears in a record.
About Audubon County Jail
Official indexed county text says the sheriff department and jail are located in the Audubon County Courthouse, which was constructed in 1939. The jail is described as small and local, with dispatchers monitoring cameras. The sheriff staff page lists dispatcher/jailer personnel, showing that jail and dispatch functions are closely tied in the local department structure.
No official Audubon County Jail program page, inmate handbook, PREA page, grievance form, medical-services policy, mental-health provider page, religious-services schedule, GED program, reentry program, accreditation page, recent jail inspection report, consent decree, or major jail litigation item was located in official sources. Iowa jail standards still apply, including state jail rules and capacity standards.
Note: Confirm custody, visiting rules, mail rules, and money options with the sheriff before traveling or sending anything.