The Detention Center
Sumter County Detention Center
- Operated bySumter County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address219 E Anderson Avenue, Bushnell, FL 33513
- Beds521 beds (sheriff's Intake and Release Center page)
- BookingsApproximately 4,600 bookings a year (sheriff's page)
- Accreditation claimedNCCHC and ACA accredited (statement on sheriff's page; no report posted)
Source: Sumter County Sheriff's Office — Detention Center · checked 2026-09-28
Transparency rating
6/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✗What it costs taxpayers — not published
- ✗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
- Beds521
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Patrick "Pat" Breeden
- Runs the jailYes — the Sumter County Sheriff's Office runs the Sumter County Detention Center
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Took officeElected Sumter County Sheriff in 2024 (sheriff's own biography page)
- Name spellingSheriff's own site spells it Breeden; the FDLE directory lead spelled it Breedon
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Sumter County Sheriff's Office — Meet Your 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 Sumter County
- Circuit Court: Florida's Fifth Judicial Circuit, which also serves Citrus, Hernando, Lake and Marion (Fla. Stat. 26.021). Circuit judges are elected circuit-wide to six-year terms and hear felonies.
- County Court: the Sumter 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 (sumtercountyfl.gov) could not be opened; minutes URL not confirmed.
- The boardSumter County Board of County Commissioners
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- Sheriff's site (sumtercountysheriff.org) opened; detention center, FAQ, bond, PREA, phone/visitation, finance and public-information pages read.
- Roster: the detention center page links 'Current Inmates' on the sheriff's own portal (portal.sumtercountysheriff.org/smartwebclient/jail.aspx); that portal returned a server error when opened.
- PREA page posts audit reports (2016, 2022) and annual PREA reports 2014-2025, and names a PREA coordinator.
- Bond: the sheriff explains bond is set from a court bond schedule and that a judge reviews charges and bond at first appearance within 24 hours; payment methods are not listed.
- Fees: FAQ states a $20.00 subsistence fee is deducted at intake. Phone, video-visit and commissary rates are not posted — the site sends readers to the vendor HomeWAV.
- Budget: the sheriff's Finance Division page posts no budget documents. Budget, deaths, inspections and contracts not found on the sheriff's site.
- What was tried: http://sumtercountysheriff.org and https://www.sumtercountysheriff.org root (refused, PROVENANCE_REQUIRED, later opened after search); sumtercountyfl.gov (refused); Wikipedia for county seat (refused); 2022 PREA audit PDF (redirected to revize file host, refused).
- County seat not confirmed on a 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 Sumter 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