The Detention Center
Lafayette County Jail
- Operated byLafayette County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address178 NW Crawford St, Mayo, FL 32066
- Rated capacityNot found
- DepositsKiosk in the jail lobby or commissarydeposit.com; money orders no longer accepted
- Jail AdministratorCaptain Geoff Condy, Patrol Captain & Corrections Captain
Source: Lafayette County Sheriff's Office — Jail Information · checked 2026-09-28
Transparency rating
1/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗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
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 N. Lamb
- Runs the jailYes — the Lafayette County Sheriff's Office lists the County Jail among its services, with a Corrections Captain on staff
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term; sheriff's page says first elected 2008, re-elected 2012, 2016, 2020 and 2024
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Lafayette County Sheriff's Office — Sheriff · 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 Lafayette County
- Circuit Court: Florida's Third Judicial Circuit, which also serves Columbia, Dixie, Hamilton, Madison, Suwannee and Taylor (Fla. Stat. 26.021). Circuit judges are elected circuit-wide to six-year terms and hear felonies.
- County Court: the Lafayette 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 government site lafayettecountyfl.org opened only a public-works notice; board page not found.
- The boardLafayette County Board of County Commissioners
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- The sheriff runs the Lafayette County Jail; the staff page lists Captain Geoff Condy as Patrol Captain and Corrections Captain.
- The sheriff's jail page gives the address, phone, commissary deposit methods and mail screening only.
- No roster, capacity, budget, bond guidance, fees, PREA, death-in-custody, inspection or contract material found on the sheriff's jail, FAQs, finance, staff or county-services pages. The finance page describes the division but posts no budget.
- County seat (Mayo) not confirmed on an opened county page — seat_source left blank.
- What was tried: lafayettecountysheriffsoffice.com (old lead; refused). Current sheriff domain lafayetteso.org found by search. lafayettecountyfl.org opened only a debris notice. One 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 Lafayette 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