The Detention Center
Hamilton County Sheriff's Office Jail
- Operated byHamilton County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address207 NE 1st St., Jasper, FL 32052
- Jail phone(386) 792-2004
- FY2026 corrections budgetSheriff Corrections: personal services $2,403,219; operating $529,861; capital outlay $90,000 (county FY2026 final budget)
- Rated capacityNot found
Source: Hamilton County Sheriff's Office — Jail Division · checked 2026-09-28
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 builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Brian S. Creech
- Runs the jailYes — the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office runs the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office Jail (Jail Division)
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- In office sinceTook office in 2024 (sheriff's own page)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Hamilton County Sheriff's Office — Sheriff Brian Creech · 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 Hamilton County
- Circuit Court: Florida's Third Judicial Circuit, which also serves Columbia, Dixie, Lafayette, Madison, Suwannee and Taylor (Fla. Stat. 26.021). Circuit judges are elected circuit-wide to six-year terms and hear felonies.
- County Court: the Hamilton 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.
- NoteCounty site posts agendas and BOCC minutes (e.g. 1 Sep 2026 minutes).
- The boardHamilton County Board of County Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Sheriff site hamiltonsheriff.com confirmed Hamilton County, Florida; it names Sheriff Brian S. Creech, matching the FDLE lead.
- The sheriff's 'Jail View' in-custody search on its own subdomain (inmate.hamiltonsheriff.com) opened and shows current bookings with a current-only filter.
- The county's FY2026 final budget PDF, posted on hamiltoncountyfl.com/finance/, shows separate 'Sheriff Corrections' lines (personal services $2,403,219; operating $529,861; capital $90,000). Budgets back to FY2019 are posted.
- Jail Division page gives name, address, phone and a mission statement only — no capacity, visitation, commissary, fees, bond, PREA, deaths, inspection or contract information.
- No searches spent beyond the one county search; 1 WebSearch 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 Hamilton 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