Madison County Jail Role
Madison County Jail is operated by the Madison County Sheriff's Department and is attached to the courthouse in Madison, Nebraska. The research identifies it as the best documented nearby receiving facility for Wayne County because Wayne County does not operate a formal jail and 2025 Wayne County board claims include Madison County Jail expenses. That makes Madison a practical roster channel to check after a Wayne County arrest, but only after the Wayne County Sheriff's Office or another reliable source points to Madison custody.
The facility is a county jail. It holds pretrial inmates and sentenced county-jail inmates, and its roster may also show people booked by local agencies, other county agencies, state patrol, or other authority sources. It is not an NDCS state prison, a federal BOP prison, or an ICE detention center. Sentenced state prisoners should be searched through NDCS, and federal or immigration custody requires separate federal locators.
The Madison County corrections information page documents the jail's capacity, address, mail format, bond location, lobby ATM, and jail office phone.
Those official Madison details control mail, bond, and deposit procedures when a Wayne County prisoner is actually housed at Madison County Jail.
Madison County Jail Capacity
Madison County's official corrections page lists Madison County Jail as a 120-bed facility. The roster inspected for the Wayne County research had a run time of 06/20/2026 06:00 and showed 64 total inmates, with 53 male, 11 female, and 0 other. That inspected count was below the stated bed capacity at that moment, but jail populations change as people are booked, released, transferred, sentenced, or held on outside warrants.
The inspected total is a Madison County Jail facility count. It is not a Wayne County-only inmate population count. Wayne County board claims document Madison County Jail as a nearby channel, but the Madison roster does not publish a Wayne billing subtotal. It may list arresting agency and charge details, which can help identify whether a Wayne-related arrest appears, but final custody confirmation should come from the sheriff or jail office.
| Population item | Inspected detail |
|---|---|
| Male count | 53 on the 06/20/2026 06:00 roster run. |
| Female count | 11 on the 06/20/2026 06:00 roster run. |
| Other count | 0 on the 06/20/2026 06:00 roster run. |
| Total count | 64 total inmates at the inspected roster run time. |
Search Madison County Jail Roster
The official Madison County Jail roster is a free public static roster. The inspected roster had no search box, no login, no payment screen, no filter dropdown, and no reset button. The practical search method is to open the roster and use the browser's page-find function for a name, jail ID, arresting agency, or charge text.
- Open the Madison County Jail roster from the Madison County Sheriff's Department corrections page or the direct roster link.
- Use browser find to search by last name, first name, jail ID, arresting agency, or another known term.
- Review the name, charges, current disposition, total bail, book date, attorney field, next court date field, arresting agency, and release date field.
- Confirm custody with Madison County Jail Office before posting bond, scheduling visits, or sending mail.
- If the person was sentenced to state prison, search NDCS instead of the jail roster.
The Madison County roster screenshot captures the official roster format, including the run time, field labels, sex sections, and population total.
The roster is useful for current jail custody, but it does not replace court records, Wayne County Sheriff's Office housing confirmation, or NDCS records after state-prison transfer.
Madison County Roster Fields
Madison County's roster shows more than a name list. The inspected record fields help a reader separate current jail custody from a court case, a bond issue, or a release. Some fields may be blank for a given person. A blank next court date, attorney field, or release date does not always mean the information does not exist elsewhere.
| Roster field | What it shows |
|---|---|
| JailId | Numeric jail identifier for the roster entry. |
| Photo | A photo column exists, although the text capture did not confirm every image cell. |
| Name | Last name, first name, middle name, or suffix when available. |
| Charges | Charge descriptions and sometimes statute references. |
| Current Disposition | Status such as pretrial felony, sentenced to jail, charges dismissed, or charges not filed. |
| Total Bail | Bail shown in decimal form on the roster entry. |
| Book Date | The jail booking date. |
| Arresting Agency | The agency connected to the booking entry, such as Madison County Sheriff's Office or another agency. |
Use court records for filed charges and case outcomes. Booking charges can be amended, reduced, dismissed, declined, or replaced by formal charging documents. For a Wayne County case, Wayne County Court, Wayne County District Court, the Wayne County Attorney, and Nebraska JUSTICE may all matter after arrest.
Madison County Jail Address
Madison County Jail questions should go to the jail office when the person is confirmed or likely to be housed there. Wayne County questions about where a prisoner was sent should start with Wayne County Sheriff's Office. Once Madison custody is confirmed, Madison's jail office controls roster status, facility rules, visit procedures, bond location, and jail mail instructions.
Madison County Jail
1313 N. Main Street
Madison, NE 68748
(402) 454-1333
Jail Office
Wayne County Sheriff's Office
521 Lincoln Street
Wayne, NE 68787
(402) 375-1911
Use for Wayne arrest and housing direction.
Madison County Jail Visitation
Madison County Jail publishes video visitation rules and time blocks. Visitors must register at least 15 minutes before a scheduled visit and must have government photo identification. Visitors under 18 must be with a parent or legal guardian and need documentation such as a birth certificate. Each inmate is permitted four 30-minute visits per week.
The Madison County Jail visitation rules page lists the schedule, visitor ID rules, age rules, dress limits, contraband limits, professional visit rules, special visit rules, and visit limits.
Use those rules for Madison custody. Wayne County Sheriff's Office does not run a separate local visitation room because Wayne County has no formal jail.
| Day | On-site video visitation hours | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. | Register at least 15 minutes before the visit. |
| Friday | 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. | Register at least 15 minutes before the visit. |
| Saturday | 8:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.; 1:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.; 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. | First come, first served; seven visitors allowed in the visitation area per session. |
| Sunday | 8:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.; 1:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.; 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. | First come, first served; seven visitors allowed in the visitation area per session. |
Madison County Jail Money Mail
Madison County Jail publishes a mail format and several money or communication channels. Mail should use the inmate's name, Madison County Jail, and the jail's post office box in Madison. Clothing brought during visitation or mailed in is subject to laundering before the inmate receives it. Recording devices, cell phones, and other video or photographic devices are prohibited in the facility except for law-enforcement or security use.
Madison County links the JailATM deposit portal for deposits and links the CIDNET public portal for jail communications. Portal fees and account rules should be checked inside the vendor system before payment or scheduling. All bonds are posted at Madison County Sheriff's Office, and the Madison corrections page says an ATM is available in the sheriff's department lobby with correct change preferred.
| Service | Provider / Detail |
|---|---|
| Mail Address | Inmate Name, Madison County Jail, PO Box 209, Madison, NE 68748. |
| Phone / Video | CIDNET public portal is linked from the jail menu. |
| Money Deposit | JailATM is linked by Madison County; verify fees in the portal. |
| Lobby ATM | ATM available in the sheriff's department lobby. |
| Bond | All bonds are posted at Madison County Sheriff's Office; correct change is preferred. |
Madison County Jail Bond
Bond on the Madison roster may not equal immediate release. A person can have more than one charge, a no-bond order, a warrant from another county, a probation or parole hold, a federal warrant, an ICE detainer, or a new case that blocks release. Madison's corrections page controls the facility process for posting bond at Madison County Sheriff's Office when the person is housed there.
- Confirm the person is still in Madison County Jail.
- Review the roster's total bail and current disposition fields.
- Call the jail office to ask whether another hold blocks release.
- Confirm the payment method, exact-change needs, and where the bond must be posted.
- Check Wayne County or Madison County court records for filed charges and appearance dates.
For a Wayne County case, Wayne County Sheriff's Office or the court may still be the right source for the arrest pathway and court setting, even when Madison County Jail is the physical housing facility.
Madison County Jail Booking
Madison County Jail booking creates the facility record after intake. The roster can show jail ID, book date, charges, disposition, bail, arresting agency, and release date. Intake may also include search, property inventory, medical screening, security screening, and classification. Classification is the jail's process for deciding housing and safety needs.
When a Wayne County arrest is moved to Madison County Jail, the public record may be split. Wayne County can hold the arrest or transport record. Madison can hold the jail booking and custody record. Wayne County Court or District Court can hold the case record if Wayne County charges are filed. NDCS takes over as the main search path if the person is sentenced to state prison.
Madison County Custody Locators
Madison County Jail is not the right source for every person with a Wayne County connection. If a person has been sentenced to Nebraska state prison, use NDCS incarceration records. The NDCS search requires last name or DCS ID, with first name optional. It is for state prison custody and should not be described as a county jail roster.
If a federal case is involved, use the BOP inmate locator after designation or contact the U.S. Marshals Service District of Nebraska for federal pretrial custody questions. If immigration custody is involved, use ICE ODLS. BOP, USMS, and ICE systems are custody-location tools, not public federal mugshot galleries.
| System | Use it for |
|---|---|
| Madison County Jail roster | Current Madison county-jail custody, including pretrial and county-sentence inmates. |
| NEVCAP/VINE | Custody status and notification alerts, including Wayne County's VINE path. |
| NDCS | Sentenced Nebraska state prison custody. |
| BOP or USMS | Federal prison or federal pretrial custody questions. |
| ICE ODLS | Current ICE custody or CBP custody over 48 hours. |
About Madison County Jail
Madison County Jail is included as a Wayne County inmate-resource facility because Wayne County has no formal jail and current board claims document Madison County Jail as a nearby expense channel. The facility page should therefore be read as a receiving-jail page for confirmed Madison custody, not as proof that every Wayne County prisoner is housed there.
Official Madison County pages located for the research focus on corrections information, the roster, mail, bond, visitation rules, JailATM, and CIDNET. They did not publish detailed education, GED, vocational, medical-request, mental-health, grievance, or religious-services descriptions in the inspected source material. Nebraska Jail Standards oversight and state jail data collection remain separate statewide context.
Note: Confirm Madison custody with the jail office before posting bond, scheduling a visit, or mailing funds.