O'Donnell Center Work Release
The O'Donnell Center at Victory Noll is a county Community Corrections facility operated through Huntington County Community Corrections. The official location page places it at Victory Noll and describes a restorative work-release program under a local alternative sentencing initiative. It is linked to Huntington County Drug Court and to Parkview Behavioral Health Institute/Park Center services.
This distinction controls the whole record search. O'Donnell is not the main arrest-and-booking jail. It should not be treated as a mugshot source, bond desk, booking counter, or recent-arrest roster. A resident may have a criminal case in MyCase, may have terms set by a court, may be participating in a work-release program, or may be transitioning from IDOC custody under a Community Transition Program route.
The broader Huntington County Community Corrections department describes its mission as providing the local court system with alternatives to incarceration, evidence-based practices, accountability, and services that help people preserve family structure while under supervision.
O'Donnell Center Capacity
The official Victory Noll location source says The O'Donnell Center can accommodate up to 46 residents. That number is a work-release residential capacity, not Huntington County Jail capacity. It should not be added to the jail's 99 designed beds or used as a current jail population count.
Huntington County's jail statistics should remain separate. The jail page reports a designed capacity of 99 and an average of 100 to 105 inmates, while the O'Donnell Center serves a different legal population through community-corrections placement and work release.
O'Donnell Center Resident Lookup
O'Donnell Center resident status is not a simple county-jail roster question. The best first contact for program status is Huntington County Community Corrections. For court terms, hearings, or case status, use Indiana Courts MyCase. For people released from IDOC through Community Transition Program status, use the Indiana Department of Correction incarcerated search when a state DOC number or prison history is relevant.
- Confirm whether the person is in work release, home detention, community transition, pretrial services, or another Community Corrections program.
- Call Huntington County Community Corrections at (260) 359-3640 for program questions tied to The O'Donnell Center.
- Search MyCase for the court case, sentencing order, hearing schedule, and supervision-related court entries.
- Use the IDOC locator when the person has state-prison custody or Community Transition Program history.
- Use Huntington County Jail lookup only when the person may be newly booked or returned to county jail custody.
The Huntington County Jail facility page is the correct path for new arrests, bond, booking photos, and county jail visitation. O'Donnell questions should be framed around program placement, treatment access, approved activities, and court supervision.
| Question | Best source | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Is the person in work release? | Community Corrections | O'Donnell is a program facility, not a public booking roster. |
| What does the court case show? | MyCase | Court entries show charges, hearings, orders, and case status. |
| Was the person released from IDOC? | IDOC locator and Community Corrections | CTP can involve adults released from IDOC under supervision. |
| Was the person just arrested? | Huntington County Jail | New arrests are booked at the county jail, not O'Donnell. |
O'Donnell Center Contact
The official location and department pages route O'Donnell Center questions through Huntington County Community Corrections. Leslie Rentschler is listed as Community Corrections Director in the research source set, and the department contact block gives the Victory Noll address, phone, and fax.
The O'Donnell Center at Victory Noll
20 Victory Noll Dr
Huntington, IN 46750
(260) 359-3640
Community Corrections residential work release
Huntington County Community Corrections
20 Victory Noll Dr
Huntington, IN 46750
Fax: (260) 359-3641
Director contact: leslie.rentschler@huntington.in.us
Use this contact route for program questions, approved activities, resident rules, treatment participation, and reporting requirements. Do not use it as a substitute for emergency dispatch, jail bond payments, or jail booking confirmation.
O'Donnell Center Programs
Huntington County Community Corrections lists several alternatives and supervision tracks connected to the same department. The research source identifies Day Reporting, Community Transition Program, Electronic Monitoring Home Detention, Community Service, Ignition Interlock, Pretrial Services, SCRAM CAM, and Residential Living Work Release. Placement in one program does not mean every resident has the same custody status or the same movement rules.
The county's Community Corrections programs page documents the program list, launch dates, and supervision model.
That source is the strongest matching successful image for O'Donnell because the direct facility screenshot did not capture successfully in the manifest.
| Program | Research-supported note |
|---|---|
| Residential Living Work Release | Supervised residential work-release placement tied to the O'Donnell Center. |
| Community Transition Program | Launched December 2013 for male and female adult offenders released from IDOC through CTP. |
| Electronic Monitoring Home Detention | Launched April 2014 with GPS monitoring and risk-informed supervision. |
| Day Reporting | Launched October 2013 as a community-corrections reporting program. |
| SCRAM CAM | Listed by the county as a Community Corrections program. |
O'Donnell Center Services
The Victory Noll location source says Parkview Behavioral Health Institute/Park Center provides onsite addictions recovery counseling and comprehensive mental-health services 24 hours a day, year-round. That treatment partnership is central to why O'Donnell should be described as a community-corrections facility rather than a standard detention pod.
Community Corrections describes the department's work as evidence-based and focused on public safety, personal development, accountability, and reintegration. Those goals fit work release because residents may be allowed to work, attend approved treatment, complete court-ordered tasks, or report under supervision while still living in a structured setting.
- Work release
- A residential supervision program that may allow approved work, treatment, or other court-authorized activity while the person remains under rules.
- Community Corrections
- A local alternative-sentencing system that supervises people outside standard jail housing.
- Community Transition Program
- A route for eligible adults released from IDOC through CTP and supervised with local programming.
- Pretrial Services
- A supervision track for some defendants before case disposition, separate from being booked into jail.
O'Donnell Center Visits
The research file does not locate a public O'Donnell visitation schedule like the jail's CPC video-visitation table. Because O'Donnell is a residential work-release and community-corrections facility, visitation, resident movement, phone access, and contact rules should be confirmed with Community Corrections before any visit. A court order, program phase, treatment schedule, work schedule, or supervision rule may affect access.
| Contact or visit issue | How to handle it |
|---|---|
| Visitation hours | Call Community Corrections because no public schedule was located in official research. |
| Resident movement | Confirm approved work, treatment, reporting, and pass rules with the program. |
| Court schedule | Use MyCase or the court office for hearings and case entries. |
| New arrest or bond | Use Huntington County Jail, not O'Donnell, for booking and bond questions. |
Note: Confirm resident contact rules with Community Corrections before travel because no official public visit schedule was located.
O'Donnell Center Fees
The research file notes that O'Donnell program fees are payable through a GovPay link, but an exact public fee schedule was not located. That means final dollar amounts should come from Community Corrections, court paperwork, or the payment portal shown to the resident, not from a guessed schedule.
| Money issue | What is sourced |
|---|---|
| Program fees | Payable through GovPay according to the research notes; exact public schedule not located. |
| Commissary | No O'Donnell-specific commissary schedule was located. |
| Jail deposits | JailATM and CPC deposit rules belong to Huntington County Jail, not O'Donnell. |
| Court costs | Use court records, MyCase, or the clerk for court-assessed costs. |
This separation prevents a common error. Jail commissary and bond instructions are for people held at Huntington County Jail. O'Donnell residents follow Community Corrections and court instructions instead.
O'Donnell Center vs Jail
Huntington County Jail and The O'Donnell Center both serve the local criminal-justice system, but they are not interchangeable. The jail books new arrestees, houses pretrial detainees, processes bond information, and uses VINE/INjail for custody lookup. O'Donnell houses supervised work-release and community-corrections residents in an alternative-sentencing setting.
| Facility | Population | Lookup route |
|---|---|---|
| Huntington County Jail | New arrests, pretrial detainees, local sentenced inmates, holds, and transfers. | VINE, INjail Public Access, and jail station. |
| The O'Donnell Center at Victory Noll | Work-release residents and Community Corrections participants. | Community Corrections, MyCase, and IDOC locator when CTP applies. |
The Huntington County inmate population overview separates these two facilities because one is a jail and the other is a community-corrections residential program.