The Detention Center
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- Operated byWinston County Sheriff's Office
- Jail phone(205) 489-5205
- Jail Administrator phone(205) 489-2032
- Jail AdministratorLajonna Berry (Jail Administrator)
Source: Winston County — Sheriff Office · checked 2026-09-29
Transparency rating
0/10Closed- ✗The jail is named — not published
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗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 Caleb Snoddy
- Runs the jailYes — by law the sheriff has legal custody and charge of the county jail (Ala. Code § 14-6-1); the county's Sheriff Office page lists the jail administrator and jail line
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- CurrentNamed on the county's Sheriff Office page
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Winston County — Sheriff 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 Winston County
- Circuit Court: Alabama's Twenty-Fifth Judicial Circuit, which also serves Marion. Circuit judges are elected circuit-wide to six-year terms and try felony cases.
- District Court: the Winston 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 site winstonal.gov home and other pages were refused by our reader; commission not examined.
- The boardWinston County Commission
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- County site winstonal.gov (found by search): its Sheriff Office page opened and confirms Winston County, Alabama; it names Sheriff Caleb Snoddy and Jail Administrator Lajonna Berry, with jail phone lines, and nothing else about the jail.
- Checks scored from the Sheriff Office page only: no jail name, roster, capacity, bond, fee, PREA or other jail material there.
- What was tried: winstonal.gov home page and sub-pages (new_page1, new_page3) were refused by our reader — budget and commission minutes, if posted, were not examined. Guessed domains winstoncountysheriff.com/.org, winstoncountyal.gov/.org, winstoncounty.org refused or nonexistent.
- County seat not confirmed on any page we opened.
- 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 Winston 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