About the Madison County Prosecutor's Office:
The Prosecuting Attorney is a Constitutional Office in Indiana tasked with representing the State in certain criminal and civil matters. Madison County has ten courts with jurisdiction from Murder to Traffic Infractions. Madison County has one Circuit Court with six divisions and six Circuit Court Judges, two Magistrates, and three Commissioners. Four Circuit Courts have major felony jurisdiction, which includes Murder through Level 6 felonies. One Circuit Court, Circuit Court II, has juvenile jurisdiction and one court, Circuit Court V, has Level 6 felony jurisdiction. Circuit Court I, in addition to a major felony case load, presides over the Problem Solving Courts (Drug Court, Re-entry Court and Mental Health Court). Further, there are three City and Town Courts: Anderson, Elwood, and Pendleton. The courts in Anderson and Elwood have jurisdiction over misdemeanors and traffic violations. Pendleton Town Court has jurisdiction over traffic infractions.
Madison County is served by 19 law enforcement agencies with more than 300 police officers. The Madison County Prosecutor's Office has a staff of 59 employees with one Prosecuting Attorney and 20 deputy prosecutors. Madison County is the home of three Indiana Department of Correction prison facilities: the Indiana Reformatory, the Correctional Industrial Facility, and the Pendleton Juvenile Facility. Crimes committed by offenders at these facilities are prosecuted by the Madison County Prosecutor's Office.
Each year, the Madison County Prosecutor's Office files and prosecutes approximately 2,000 felonies, 500 juvenile delinquency petitions, and 12,000 misdemeanors and traffic citations. While 13th in the State by population, Madison County has sent the 3rd highest number of convicted criminal offenders to the Indiana Department of Correction in 10 of the past 11 years.
About the Community We Serve:
Nestled on the banks of White River and just 30 miles northeast of Indianapolis, Madison County is, in many ways, a microcosm of the American Midwest. Comprised of 450 square miles and 130,000 people, Madison County is home to Mounds State Park, Harrah’s Hoosier Park Racing and Casino, and Anderson University (a private, liberal arts institution offering more than 60 undergraduate majors).
With suburban development pushing east from Hamilton County, much of the southern portions of Madison County are now considered within the Indianapolis Metropolitan Area. Once home to about 20 General Motors’ plants, in 1971 one in every three people in Anderson worked for General Motors. However, today, like hundreds of other communities across the rust belt, Anderson continues its economic recovery from those bygone days. Conversely, Northern Madison County remains representative of rural Indiana with rolling farmlands weaving their way through a handful of idyllic cities and towns.
Madison County is also synonymous with high school basketball. The now vacant Anderson Wigwam was once the world’s second largest high school gymnasium. Collectively, Madison County schools have won six coveted state basketball championships and boasts five former Mr. Basketball award winners and one Miss Basketball winner. The award honors the best basketball player in the state of Indiana and is the oldest such award in the nation, having been established in 1939 (girls in 1976).
We, in Madison County, continue to cleave to our historic blue-collar work ethic and hometown values.
