Indiana

Sets bail first

Jail on the county court's bail schedule; judge, magistrate, or commissioner at the initial hearing

Who that is

Judges and others

Release on a schedule

Jail or police can release on a schedule

Time to see a judge

No hour limit set

Money bail

Allowed

Risk assessment

Indiana Risk Assessment System Pretrial Assessment Tool (IRAS-PAT) (statewide)

Prosecutor

Prosecuting attorney, one per judicial district, elected

Public defense

Mixed

Jails run by

County sheriff

Who decides release first

For misdemeanors and lower felonies, the jail usually releases people on the county court's bail schedule as soon as they are booked. For serious felonies, a judge, magistrate, or commissioner sets bail at the initial hearing. Since July 2025, a person arrested for a crime of violence can't be released on a schedule and gets a bail hearing in open court.

Indiana Office of Court Services, Legislative Update on SB 324 (2025), adding IC 35-33-8-3.4Marion Superior Court bail schedule

Time to see a judge

A person arrested without a warrant must be taken promptly before a judicial officer for an initial hearing. The general law sets no number of hours, but since 2025 a person arrested for a crime of violence must get a bail hearing within 48 hours unless exigent circumstances prevent it.

IC 35-33-7-1 (2016 text)Indiana Office of Court Services, Legislative Update on SB 324 (2025)

Money bail

Indiana courts may set money bail. A court rule says a person who is not a substantial flight risk or danger should be released without money bail, except people charged with murder or treason or already on pretrial release, probation, or parole.

Ind. Crim. Rule 2.6

Population covered

87%

of Indiana's people lived under an agency that reported to the FBI in 2025.

Agencies on NIBRS

80%

291 of 360 agencies send incident detail. The rest send summary counts or nothing.

Source: FBI Crime Data Explorer, pulled 2026-09-26.

Program

Indiana State Police, Indiana Statewide NIBRS Program

Incident reporting

Yes, Indiana Statewide NIBRS, FBI-certified May 17, 2017 and modeled on Kentucky's. Before it, Indiana had no state UCR program.

Annual report

Annual crime reportNo annual report found online.

Online portal

No state portal found.

What changed

HB 1189 requires ISP to report crime statistics to the governor twice a year; I found no public copy.

Links and years checked 2026-09-26.

• Indiana Statewide Crime Statistics (NIBRS)State · IN

  Indiana State Police · Incidents, Arrests · dashboard · continuous

  Statewide NIBRS program, FBI-certified in May 2017; before that Indiana had no state UCR program.

• Indiana Judicial Service Report, trial court statisticsState · IN

  Indiana Office of Judicial Administration · Courts · xls, xlsx, pdf · annual

  Court within county: pending, new, venued, transferred, disposed by case type (MR, F1-F6, FA-FD, CM); methods of disposition. Excel 2013-2025 (2025 provisional), PDF 1998-2012. Loaded.

Plus 83 national sources, from the FBI, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Census Bureau, the courts, and others.