The Detention Center
Liberty County Jail
- Operated byLiberty County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address12422 NW Revell Road, Bristol, Florida
- Capacity"Over 80 inmates" (sheriff's jail page)
- Regional arrangementHouses female inmates from Calhoun and Gulf Counties (sheriff's jail page)
- Jail AdministratorAllan Crosby, Jail Administrator
Source: Liberty County Sheriff's Office — Jail · checked 2026-09-28
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓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
- BedsOver 80 inmates (sheriff's jail page)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Robert "Dusty" Arnold
- Runs the jailYes — the Sheriff of Liberty County operates the Liberty County Jail
- ElectedNovember 5, 2024 — the county's 30th sheriff (sheriff's own page)
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Liberty County Sheriff's Office — About the 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 Liberty County
- Circuit Court: Florida's Second Judicial Circuit, which also serves Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon and Wakulla (Fla. Stat. 26.021). Circuit judges are elected circuit-wide to six-year terms and hear felonies.
- County Court: the Liberty 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.
- The boardLiberty County Board of County Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The old site list pointed Liberty at a Texas county; the real Liberty County, Florida sheriff is libertycountysheriff.org (Bristol), confirmed Florida on its pages.
- Sheriff Robert "Dusty" Arnold is named on the sheriff's own site, elected November 5, 2024.
- County FY2025-26 approved budget shows a line "586911 SHERIFF BUDGET 3,108,906.00" (General Fund transfer to the sheriff).
- Jail page names the jail and administrator and says it holds over 80 inmates, including women from Calhoun and Gulf Counties.
- No roster, bond guidance, fee rates, PREA material, inspection report, deaths record or contracts found on the sheriff's site; the sheriff's finance page posts no budget.
- What was tried: no sheriff site lead was usable (old list pointed at Texas); one search found the Florida site.
- 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 Liberty 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