The Detention Center
Not found
- Operated byNot found
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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
Since then
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The Sheriff
Sheriff Jody Wade
- CurrentNamed in the Alabama Sheriffs Association directory; not confirmed on a county page
- Runs the jailYes by law — the sheriff has legal custody of the county jail (Ala. Code 14-6-1)
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Alabama Sheriffs Association directory · checked 2026-09-29
The Judges
Alabama's circuit and district judges are elected state judges. A district judge or magistrate usually sets bail soon after arrest; felony cases are tried in circuit court.
Who sets bail in Bibb County
- Circuit Court: Alabama's Fourth Judicial Circuit, which also serves Dallas, Hale, Perry and Wilcox. Circuit judges are elected circuit-wide to six-year terms and try felony cases.
- District Court: the Bibb County District Court. District judges are elected countywide to six-year terms; a district judge or magistrate usually sets bail soon after arrest.
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-09-29
The County Commission
They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.
- What they controlThe county budget that funds the sheriff's office and the jail, and the jail building itself.
- What they don'tDay-to-day operations. By law the sheriff has legal custody and charge of the jail and everyone held in it (Ala. Code 14-6-1). No state agency sets and enforces standards for the jail.
- NoteCounty commission site not located.
- The boardBibb County Commission
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- NOT EXAMINED: no page on the county's or sheriff's own site could be opened, so no checks are scored.
- What was tried: guessed domains bibbcountyal.gov, bibbcountyal.org, bibbcountysheriff.com and co.bibb.al.us were all refused by our reader (PROVENANCE_REQUIRED); the Sheriffs Association directory lists no website for this county.
- No search was spent: the group's cap of 4 searches went to the larger counties (Baldwin, Autauga, Blount, Chambers). This county needs a follow-up search.
- Rescue pass (29 Sep 2026): one search found bibbcosoal.org, titled 'Bibb County Sheriff's Office' (Centreville, Alabama by its page title). It opened but returned only page metadata — no text, links, sheriff name or jail details (the page appears to load by script). No sub-page could be reached.
- The search also returned inmate.bibbsheriff.us ('Bibb County Sheriff's Office Inmate Search'); it opened but shows no state or address, so it cannot be tied to Alabama (a Bibb County also exists in Georgia) and is not used.
- The Alabama Department of Corrections 'Bibb' facility in the results is a state prison, not the county jail; not used. No county-commission site appeared in results. Still not examined.
- State inspection/oversight: Alabama has no state agency that sets and enforces standards for county jails. The law that once gave a state agency jail-inspection duties was repealed in 2015.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Bibb County and what it costs the people who live here. Nationally, almost 77% of the people who died in local jails in 2019 had not been convicted of anything, and suicide was the leading single cause of those deaths (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Mortality in Local Jails, 2000–2019).
How much is your sheriff — and your judge — costing you?
Your VOTE is POWERFUL.
The sheriff is elected — every Alabama sheriff's seat is on the November 2026 ballot. So are the commissioners who pay for the jail, and the judges who set bail.
Names verified 2026-09-29 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered