The Detention Center
Mono County Jail
- Operated byMono County Sheriff's Office
- County publishes a jail nameYes — Mono County Jail
- Jail address25 Emigrant Street, Bridgeport, CA 93517
- Facility typeType II
- Replacement jailNew jail under construction in Bridgeport; BSCC grant of $25,000,000 obtained in 2017; construction Aug 2025 – Aug 2027, occupancy Aug–Nov 2027
- Designer / construction managerLionakis (design); Kitchell (county construction manager)
- Rated capacity48 beds
Source: Mono County Sheriff — Jail · checked 2026-08-23
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗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 built1964 (renovated 1988)
- Original costNot found
- Paid for by$25,000,000 BSCC grant obtained in 2017 for the replacement facility
- Beds48 (Type II)
Since then
- Replacement facility under construction in Bridgeport; construction Aug 2025 – Aug 2027, inmate move-in Aug–Nov 2027
The Sheriff
Sheriff Ingrid Braun
- Title as publishedSheriff-Coroner
- Also serves asCounty Coroner — the Sheriff/Coroner is the elected official responsible for investigating deaths in the county; day-to-day operations are delegated to a Chief Deputy Coroner and patrol deputies serve as deputy coroners
- Standing25th Sheriff of Mono County; former LAPD lieutenant
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Mono County — Ingrid Braun, Sheriff-Coroner · checked 2026-08-23
The Judges
Two-judge court sitting in Bridgeport with a branch in Mammoth Lakes. The court publishes no separate arraignment or bail assignment list; both judges hear criminal matters.
Superior Court of California, County of Mono — Assistant Presiding Judge
- Gerald F. Mohun, Jr.
- 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.
- What they controlThe detention budget, the building itself, and the agreements that let other agencies rent its beds.
- What they don'tDay-to-day operations. The sheriff is separately elected and answers to voters, not to the board.
- The boardBoard of County Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The Sheriff also serves as Coroner, so the office that runs the jail also determines cause of death for people who die in it.
- Year built, renovation year and the 48-bed capacity come from the 2025-2026 Mono County Civil Grand Jury Annual Jail Inspection (March 5, 2026), published by the Superior Court, not by the county: https://www.mono.courts.ca.gov/system/files/general/annual-jail-inspection-final-report.pdf
- That inspection found the current jail 'outdated and deteriorating', with failing hardware being redistributed and jerry-rigged, and staffing below standard with 5 open positions.
- The county's only PREA-related posting is a 'Annual Review' page reporting aggregated sexual-abuse incident data for 2015-2016 — no PREA audit report is published: https://monocounty.ca.gov/1244/Annual-Review
- The jail page names Citizen RIMS for custody information; no rated capacity, bail guidance, phone rate or commissary rate is published anywhere on the county site.
- Five-member Board of Supervisors, elected by district.
What California law requires
We could not find a death-in-custody page for Mono County.
No page foundNo in-custody death page exists. Searched https://monocounty.ca.gov/1229/Sheriff, its full sitemap, /1242/Jail, /2107/Mono-County-Jail---Bridgeport, /1239/Coroner, /1244/Annual-Review, /1284/Sheriffs-Office-Policies, /1267/Media, and the county site search for 'custody death', 'AB 2761' and 'in-custody' — all returned nothing. A death at the Mono County Jail on July 10, 2026 (John DeMotto, 49) was reported by Eastern Sierra Now and Crime Voice; the county has published no PC 10008 posting for it. A page may exist somewhere we did not look. If you know of one, tell us and we will correct this.
- —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.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Mono 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.
- Find your polling place and check your registration →
- Your county elections office →
- Register to vote in California →
The county elections office runs the polling place in Mono 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