The Detention Center
Not found
- Operated byTalladega County Sheriff's Office
- RosterSheriff's site links an inmate booking search run for the Talladega County Sheriff's Office
- CommissarySheriff's site links commissary deposits and phone/tablet services through outside vendors
Source: Talladega County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-09-29
Transparency rating
1/10Closed- ✗The jail is named — not published
- ✓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 Jimmy Kilgore
- Runs the jailYes — by law the sheriff has legal custody and charge of the county jail (Ala. Code § 14-6-1)
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- CurrentNamed on the county's Sheriff page
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Talladega County — Sheriff · 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 Talladega County
- Circuit Court: Alabama's Twenty-Ninth Judicial Circuit, which serves Talladega County alone. Circuit judges are elected circuit-wide to six-year terms and try felony cases.
- District Court: the Talladega 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.
- NoteFive-member County Commission elected by district; the page names the chairman as Malley Limbaugh (District 4).
- The boardTalladega County Commission →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- County site talladegacountyal.org opened; its Sheriff page names Sheriff Jimmy Kilgore and links talladegasheriff.com.
- Sheriff home page talladegasheriff.com opened: links an inmate booking search (Southern Software portal, AgencyID TalladegaCoAL, identified as Talladega County Sheriff's Office), commissary deposits and phone/tablet vendors. No jail name, capacity, bond guidance or fee rates on the home page.
- Roster counted: the sheriff's own site links the booking search and the portal identifies it as the Talladega County Sheriff's Office records.
- What was tried: talladegasheriff.com/our-history/ and /contact-us/ were refused by our reader (not examined); talladegacountysheriff.com guess refused.
- County Financial Reports page lists annual audited financial reports FY2014–FY2023 (audits, not budgets); FY2022/FY2023 PDFs could not be opened (server error / redirect refused). No adopted budget found.
- County courthouse address shown on county site footer: 1 Court Square, Talladega, AL 35160.
- 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 Talladega 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