Spencer County

The Detention Center

Spencer County Jail

• Operated bySpencer County Sheriff
• Jail address120 North 2nd Street, Rockport, IN (Spencer County Law Enforcement Center)
• VisitationVideo visitation through Combined Public Communications (inmatesales.com)
• Commissary/phoneStellar Services (per sheriff's page)
• Jail AdministratorStella Blair — Jail Commander (sheriff's Corrections page)

Source: Spencer County Sheriff: Corrections · checked 2026-09-20

• ✓The jail is named
• ✗Who is in custody — not published
• ✗Beds and daily population — not published
• ✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
• ✗Deaths in custody — not published
• ✗PREA audits — not published
• ✗Independent inspection — not published
• ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
• ✗How to post bond — not published
• ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Spencer County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-09-20. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the county posts the document.

The Building

You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.

• Year builtNot found
• Original costNot found
• Paid for byNot found
• BedsNot found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Sherri A. Heichelbech

• Runs the jailYes — the sheriff's site has a Corrections page for the Spencer County Jail
• How the office is filledElected, four-year term; limited to eight years in any twelve-year period
• Phone(812) 649-2286

Source: Spencer County Sheriff (in.gov/sheriffs/spencer) · checked 2026-09-20

The Judges

Indiana circuit and superior court judges are state judicial officers, not county officials. In most counties they are elected to six-year terms; a few counties choose some judges through a nominating commission followed by retention votes.

Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-09-20

The Commissioners and County Council

They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.

• What they controlThe three county commissioners own and maintain the jail building and sign its contracts; the seven-member county council adopts the budget and appropriates the jail's money.
• What they don'tDay-to-day operations. The sheriff is separately elected and keeps the jail by state law (IC 36-2-13-5).
• NoteThree-member Board of County Commissioners and seven-member County Council (fiscal body); the county's departments page lists no commissioners, council or budget section, and spencercounty.in.gov pages returned too many redirects.
• The boardSpencer County Board of Commissioners
• Where the jail money is decidedNot found