Calhoun County, Florida — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

Calhoun County Jail

Operated byCalhoun County Sheriff's Office
Jail address20776 Central Avenue East, Blountstown, FL 32424
Jail AdministratorLt. Trevor Ramos, Jail Administrator (sheriff's Jail Information page)

Source: Calhoun County Sheriff's Office — Jail Information · checked 2026-09-28

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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Calhoun County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-09-28. 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.

Year builtNot found
Original costNot found
Paid for byNot found
BedsNot found

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Michael Bryant (Michael A. Bryant)

Runs the jailYes — the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office runs the Calhoun County Jail (sheriff's Jail Information page names its jail administrator)
Took officeJanuary 7, 2025, as the 34th Sheriff of Calhoun County
How the office is filledElected, four-year term

Still needed

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

Source: Calhoun County Sheriff's Office — home page · checked 2026-09-28

The Judges

Florida's circuit and county judges are elected state judicial officers, not county officials. A judge sets the first conditions of release at first appearance, within 24 hours of arrest.

Who sets bail in Calhoun County

Circuit Court: Florida's Fourteenth Judicial Circuit, which also serves Bay, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and Washington (Fla. Stat. 26.021). Circuit judges are elected circuit-wide to six-year terms and hear felonies.
County Court: the Calhoun County Court. County judges are elected countywide to six-year terms and hear misdemeanors.

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 2026-09-28

The Board of County Commissioners

They pay for the jail. In most counties the sheriff runs it; in some, the county does.

What they controlThe sheriff's budget, including its separate line for corrections and detention: the sheriff submits it by June 1 and the board may amend, increase or reduce it (Fla. Stat. 30.49). The board also owns the jail building, and it decides by ordinance whether the sheriff or a county corrections department runs the jail (Fla. Stat. 951.061).
What they don'tDay-to-day operations where the sheriff runs the jail. The sheriff is separately elected, and can appeal the board's budget cuts to the Governor and Cabinet sitting as the Administration Commission. No state agency inspects the jail; peer inspectors from other sheriffs' offices do.
NoteCounty government site not opened.
The boardCalhoun County Board of County Commissioners
Where the jail money is decidedNot found

Notes on the record

The sheriff's Jail Information page names the jail's administrator and address; it gives no capacity, bond, fee or PREA information.
Roster credited from the "Jail Log" the sheriff links from its jail page (a Kologik public jail roster); the roster page opened but needs JavaScript, so no data could be read.
Finance and Public Records pages carry no budget document, death, inspection, contract, fee or PREA material.
What was tried: http://calhounsheriff.com (old lead) refused before search; https://www.calhounsheriff.com opened after search. County government site not tried.
State inspection/oversight: Florida requires every county jail to meet the Florida Model Jail Standards and to be inspected each year, but the inspectors come from other sheriffs' offices, not a state agency, and state law does not require the reports to be published.

These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Calhoun 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. So are the county commissioners who pay for the jail, and the judges who set bail.

Names verified 2026-09-28 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered