The Detention Center
Orange County Jail (Orange County Corrections Department facilities)
- Operated byOrange County Corrections Department (county government)
- Facilities and bedsBooking and Release Center 592; Female Detention Center 652; Horizon 768; Genesis 220; Phoenix 288; Whitcomb 224; Main Facility 1,053 — 4,197 beds in all (county Facilities page)
- Booking and Release Center3855 South John Young Parkway, Orlando
- Department office3723 Vision Blvd., 4th floor, Orlando, FL 32839
- Average daily population3,064 in 2025 (county Fast Facts)
- Total budget$220.3 million, including $2.8M CIP (county Fast Facts)
- AccreditationAmerican Correctional Association, NCCHC, Florida Corrections Accreditation Commission; PREA accredited (county Fast Facts)
- Inmate phonesGTL (OffenderConnect)
- Jail AdministratorChief Louis A. Quiñones, Jr., Warden/Jail Administrator (named in the county-posted PREA audit report, Sept 2023)
Source: Orange County Corrections — Facilities · checked 2026-09-28
Transparency rating
7/10Open- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓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
- Beds4,197 across seven facilities (county Facilities page); PREA audit gives designed capacity 3,797
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff John W. Mina
- Runs the jailNo — the Orange County Corrections Department, a county department, runs the jail; the sheriff's office investigates criminal PREA allegations there (county PREA page)
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- First electedNovember 2018, as the 29th elected Sheriff of Orange County (sheriff's site)
Still needed
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Orange County Sheriff's Office — Office of 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 Orange County
- Circuit Court: Florida's Ninth Judicial Circuit, which also serves Osceola (Fla. Stat. 26.021). Circuit judges are elected circuit-wide to six-year terms and hear felonies.
- County Court: the Orange 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.
- NoteOrange County has an elected Mayor (the county's board page names Jerry L. Demings) who chairs the Board. Minutes and supporting materials are on the Comptroller's Legistar calendar (occompt.legistar.com).
- The boardOrange County Board of County Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Confirmed county-run: the county's own jail site (netapps.ocfl.net/BestJail, reached from ocfl.net Jail & Inmate Services) says the Orange County Corrections Department operates the jail. The Sheriff's Office (ocso.com) site has no jail pages.
- Current-inmate database: 'This database lists people currently in jail and includes information on their charges, bond amount, and booking photo', updated every 30 minutes.
- PREA page posts the 2023 PREA facility audit report (audit 29 Aug-1 Sep 2023; 2 standards exceeded, 43 met, 0 not met) and the PREA Annual Report 2024.
- Bond page: post at the Booking and Release Center by money order, travelers or certified/cashier's check payable to 'Clerk of the Courts', via Western Union, or through a bonding company; release can take up to 12 hours. A $20 fee applies to turning yourself in on an Orange County warrant (weekday mornings).
- Budget: the county's Fast Facts sheet gives a total Corrections budget of $220.3 million; the full county budget book was not opened. Fast Facts is undated apart from citing 2025 population.
- Two capacity figures published: 4,197 beds (Facilities page) and designed capacity 3,797 (2023 PREA audit).
- Accreditations are stated (ACA, NCCHC, FCAC) but no inspection or accreditation report is posted, so inspections = no.
- No deaths-in-custody material or contract documents found. Phone rates sit in a PDF linked from the phone page that was not opened.
- County seat not stated on any page opened.
- 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 Orange 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