Locate Westville Correctional Facility Inmates

Westville Correctional Facility Custody

Westville Correctional Facility is operated by the Indiana Department of Correction as an adult male prison. It is physically located in LaPorte County, but it is not run by the La Porte County Sheriff's Office. That distinction matters for inmate records. People held at Westville are sentenced IDOC incarcerated individuals, while people arrested by local police and awaiting local court usually appear on the La Porte County Jail roster.

IDOC describes Westville as a medium-security facility with a 220-bed Maximum Control Complex. The campus began as Beatty Memorial Hospital, opened in February 1951 and named for Dr. Norman Beatty. After Indiana needed more prison capacity, the hospital was transferred to the Department of Correction. Westville Correctional Facility opened in July 1979 after renovations and additions, and the Maximum Control Complex was added in 1991.

The official facility page says Westville has capacity for more than 3,400 incarcerated individuals and offers programs focused on community service and re-entry. In practical lookup terms, the name "Westville" may appear as the current facility assignment in an IDOC profile. If the profile shows a different IDOC facility, the person is not currently assigned to Westville even if a case or conviction came from LaPorte County.

Westville Facility Inmate Population

IDOC publishes monthly population reports for prison beds and assignments. The October 2025 offender population statistical report listed Westville with 2,831 assigned beds, 110 available beds, 22 held beds, 34 down beds, and 2,997 total beds in the medium-security table. That report showed 94.46 percent capacity usage. The facility page also describes overall capacity as more than 3,400, so the page-level capacity statement and the monthly bed table should be read together rather than as one identical measure.

Westville Correctional Facility Lookup

Use the IDOC incarcerated locator for Westville inmate lookup. The county JailTracker roster is not the correct system for sentenced state-prison custody. IDOC search results can identify the DOC number, name, date of birth, race, sex, and facility or location. A profile may also show sentence information, county of conviction, cause number, earliest possible release date, and projected release information.

1. Open the IDOC incarcerated locator, not the LaPorte County JailTracker roster.
2. Search by DOC number when known. If it is not known, search by last name and narrow with first name.
3. Review the result for facility or location. Confirm that it lists Westville Correctional Facility.
4. Open the profile to compare DOC number, identity fields, sentence entries, county of conviction, and release-date fields.
5. Use Indiana SAVIN if the need is custody notification rather than a copy of a prison record.

A person can move from the county jail to IDOC after sentencing. That movement changes the lookup source. The local roster may no longer show the current custody record, while the IDOC locator becomes the useful prison assignment record. The LaPorte County inmate population page explains the broader county jail and state-prison split for readers comparing local and state facilities.

Westville Facility Contact

Westville's facility contact is for prison-specific questions such as approved visiting, mail formatting, official prison rules, and IDOC routing. It is not the place to ask the county jail to update a local bond amount or arrest report. Court records still remain with the court system, and closed county arrest reports remain with the sheriff's Records Division when they are county records.

The official IDOC page is the best source for changes to facility notices, visitor instructions, programs, and address formatting. If a caller only knows that the person was arrested in LaPorte County, start with the county jail roster. If the person has been committed to IDOC, start with the state locator and then contact the prison shown on the profile.

Westville Inmate Visitation

Westville follows IDOC visitation rules, not the La Porte County Jail Securus visit schedule. Visitors must register through ViaPath, submit supplemental documentation, receive facility approval, and then schedule the visit. IDOC says all visitation requests observe Eastern time, a practical point for LaPorte County visitors near time-zone-sensitive northwest Indiana travel. The same visitor may visit the same incarcerated individual once every 14 days. Attorney visits are scheduled through the Facility Litigation Liaison and do not count against regular visitation.

Westville Facility Mail

Mail to Westville must use the IDOC prison format, including the incarcerated person's full legal name and DOC number. That is different from the county jail's digital-mail rules. The IDOC facility page states that incoming and outgoing mail is opened, examined, and read by designated facility staff. Use the prison address and DOC number exactly, because a common name alone may not identify the correct person inside a large state facility.

Westville Facility Programs

IDOC lists a broad program mix at Westville, including Recovery While Incarcerated, Purposeful Living Units Serve, Reformative Residential Re-Entry Program, Behavioral Health Group Therapy, Notre Dame Restorative Justice, U.S. Department of Labor programming, TASC, Life Skills, Tutoring, Logistics, Culinary Arts, Business Technology, Building Maintenance, Auto Technology, Thinking for a Change, and pre-release orientations. Partnerships named in research include the University of Notre Dame, Holy Cross College and the Moreau College Initiative, and Gold Standard Truss.

These programs are state-prison reentry, education, treatment, and work programs. They do not mean every person at Westville has the same class schedule or eligibility. Classification, sentence status, conduct, housing, and program space can affect access. For a family member, the first record step is still the IDOC locator. For program participation, the facility or the incarcerated individual is the better source.

The image manifest includes a successful screenshot of the official Westville facility page. The source is the IDOC Westville Correctional Facility page, which carries address, mail, visitation, history, and program details.

The screenshot matches this facility page because the source is the IDOC page for the same prison, not a general state locator page.

Westville Prison Project Context

IDOC's new Westville State Prison project page says the current facility is at the end of its useful life, citing safety risks, severe facility problems, outdated mechanical systems, and design limits. The state describes a $1.2 billion investment with more than 1,500 jobs connected to the project. The project materials emphasize expanded medical services, mental health and addiction recovery space, education, vocational training, contraband control, and housing units with better sight lines.

That project context is important, but it should not be confused with the current inmate locator. A person currently assigned to Westville is still searched through the IDOC locator and contacted through the current facility rules unless IDOC publishes a transfer or facility change. The project page also notes planning tied to Indiana prison population needs and the design of replacement prison space, including mental health and programming features.