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California · County seat: Madera · Checked 2026-08-23

Madera County

The jail, the sheriff who runs it, and the judges who decide who sits inside. Every fact below comes from a named public record. Anything not yet sourced is marked still needed rather than guessed.

The Detention Center

Madera County Jail (county Corrections page; BSCC lists the facility as Madera Adult Correctional Facility)

Source: Madera County — County Jail (Corrections) · checked 2026-08-23

Transparency rating

3/10Closed

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Madera County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-08-23. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the county posts the document.

The Building

You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.

Since then

  • Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Tyson J. Pogue

Still needed
  • Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
  • Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
  • Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail

Source: Madera County — Sheriff · checked 2026-08-23

The Judges

The court's Judiciary & Court Staff page names the Presiding Judge, Assistant Presiding Judge, the three criminal-division judges and the two commissioners (assigned to traffic and family support, Department 17). The page does not state which department takes arraignments or sets bail.

Superior Court of California, County of Madera — Presiding Judge

  • Dale J. Blea

Superior Court of California, County of Madera — Assistant Presiding Judge

  • Sosi C. Vogt

Superior Court of California, County of Madera — Criminal Division

  • Katherine M. Rigby
  • Miguel Valdovinos
  • Brian W. Enos

Superior Court of California, County of Madera — Commissioners

  • Elizabeth Diaz
  • Douglas Treisman
Still needed
  • The county's bond schedule
  • Share of the jail population held pretrial
  • Median time from booking to first appearance

Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-08-23

The County Commissioners

They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.

Notes on the record

What California law requires

Madera County posts a death-in-custody page.

Posts 3 of 7

The page is here. The page is titled 'In Custody Death 2026' although its URL slug reads in-custody-death-2023, and it sits under the Madera County Jail section of the county site. It cites neither AB 2761 nor Penal Code 10008. It carries a single narrative notice: Mark Anthony Munoz, 49-year-old male of Madera, booked March 30 2026, medical emergency, transported to Madera Community Hospital, pronounced deceased April 1 2026, cause of death pulmonary artery disease per independent autopsy and toxicology. Gender and age are given but race is not, so the race/gender/age element is incomplete; the facility is named but no location within the facility is given; custodial status is not stated in the statutory terms; a cause of death is given but the manner is not labeled. No pages for other years were found in the navigation.

  • ✓The agency with custodial responsibility
  • ✓The county where the death occurred
  • —The facility — and where inside it
  • —Race, gender and age
  • ✓The date of death
  • —Custodial status — awaiting arraignment, awaiting trial, or incarcerated
  • —Manner and means of death

California Penal Code § 10008, enacted by AB 2761 and in force since January 2023, requires the agency with custodial responsibility to post these seven items on its own website within ten days of a death in custody, and to update them within thirty days if the facts change. California is the only state in the country with this duty. Checked 2026-08-23. This records what is published, nothing more.

The record

11 people have died in the Madera County jail since 2016.

5 by suicide
4 illness or medical
11 deaths in all, 2016 onward
Deaths where the person had not been convicted of the charge holding them10 of 11
Most recent death on the state's record2023-01-14

Deaths: Texas Justice Initiative, the cleaned copy of the Texas Attorney General’s custodial death reports — the state’s own public index carries no cause of death and has not been refreshed since August 2025. Population: Texas Commission on Jail Standards monthly report. Counted, not estimated.

These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Madera 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 who runs this jail is elected. So are the commissioners who pay for it.

The sheriff is on your ballot

The county elections office runs the polling place in Madera County and prints the ballot the sheriff’s name is on. Links from the California Secretary of State and vote.gov.

Names verified 2026-08-23 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered