The Detention Center
Blount County Detention Center
- Operated byBlount County Sheriff's Office
- Jail addressNot found
- Rated capacityNot found
- Roster countRoster showed 208 people in custody when read on 29 Sep 2026
Source: Blount County Sheriff's Office — Inmate Roster · checked 2026-09-29
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✗PREA audits — not published
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✗How to post bond — not published
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
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
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Mark Moon
- Runs the jailYes — the Sheriff's Office runs the Blount County Detention Center and publishes its roster (Ala. Code 14-6-1)
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Name checkSheriff's own site shows 'Sheriff Moon'; first name from the Alabama Sheriffs Association directory
- Office225 Industrial Park Road, Oneonta, Alabama 35121 (sheriff's site)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Blount County Sheriff's Office · 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 Blount County
- Circuit Court: Alabama's Forty-First Judicial Circuit, which serves Blount County alone. Circuit judges are elected circuit-wide to six-year terms and try felony cases.
- District Court: the Blount 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 website not found or not opened.
- The boardBlount County Commission
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- Sheriff's site blountalsheriff.org found by search and confirmed Alabama (Oneonta address).
- Sheriff publishes a current-inmate roster and a 48-hour release list for the Blount County Detention Center. The live roster count is not recorded as a published capacity or daily population figure.
- No bond, fee, PREA, inspection, contract or death-in-custody material seen on the pages opened. The 'Departments & Services', 'Contact' and 'Site Map' pages were refused by our reader, so those checks are unverified rather than confirmed absent.
- County government site not located: blountcountyal.gov and blountcountysheriff.com were refused; no search left to find it. County seat, budget and commission minutes therefore not recorded.
- Searches used for this county: 1.
- 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 Blount 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