The Detention Center
John E. Goode Pretrial Detention Facility
- Operated byJacksonville Sheriff's Office Department of Corrections
- Jail address500 E. Adams Street, Jacksonville, FL 32202
- HeldPre-trial, federal, juvenile, state and county sentenced inmates
- Other facilitiesMontgomery Correctional Center (4727 Lannie Road); Community Transition Center (451 Catherine Street); Jacksonville Re-Entry Center (1024 Superior Street)
- VisitationVideo only; remote visits $0.25 per minute, onsite Video Visitation Center free
- FY 2026-27 proposed city budgetJSO $673,613,389 (lump sum; corrections not broken out in the highlights)
Source: Jacksonville Sheriff's Office — Corrections Facility Information · checked 2026-09-28
Transparency rating
6/10Partial- ✓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
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✓How to post bond
- ✓Phone, video and commissary rates
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 T.K. Waters
- Runs the jailYes — the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Department of Corrections runs the John E. Goode Pretrial Detention Facility and the city's other corrections facilities
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- JurisdictionConsolidated City of Jacksonville and Duval County
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Jacksonville 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 Duval County
- Circuit Court: Florida's Fourth Judicial Circuit, which also serves Clay and Nassau (Fla. Stat. 26.021). Circuit judges are elected circuit-wide to six-year terms and hear felonies.
- County Court: the Duval County Court. County judges are elected countywide to six-year terms and hear misdemeanors.
- 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.
- NoteDuval County is governed by the consolidated City of Jacksonville: the 19-member Jacksonville City Council and the Mayor.
- The boardJacksonville City Council →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- jaxsheriff.org confirmed as the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office (Duval County, Florida); Sheriff T.K. Waters named on the home page.
- Corrections page lists four JSO Department of Corrections facilities, with the John E. Goode Pretrial Detention Facility as the jail.
- Bond: corrections page explains cash bond (full amount at the jail's public reception; cash, local certified/cashier's check or USPS money order) and surety bond through a bonding agency.
- Fees: remote video visits $0.25 per minute; onsite video visits free.
- PREA: zero-tolerance statement and confidential/anonymous reporting instructions with a phone number.
- Roster: JSO's Inmate Information page describes its search as covering current and historical incarcerated inmates; the search site itself (inmatesearch.jaxsheriff.org) could not be opened (certificate error).
- Budget: city's FY 2026-27 budget highlights show JSO $673,613,389 as one line; the full proposed budget PDF was too large to open, so no separate corrections figure was confirmed.
- JSO's 2025 Open Data report publishes 763 response-to-resistance incidents involving corrections officers; no deaths-in-custody, jail population or capacity figures found on JSO open data or corrections pages.
- No inspection report or contracts found.
- One search used.
- 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 Duval 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