The Detention Center
Clinton County Jail
- Operated byClinton County Sheriff's Office
- Detention commandLt. Paul Hammond — Clinton County Jail Administrator
- Named on county siteYes — named as 'Clinton County Jail' in the IDOC inspection reports the county itself posts
- Sheriff / board address1900 N. 3rd Street, Clinton, IA 52732
- Beds / capacityNot found — no rated capacity or daily population figure appears in the inspection reports opened or elsewhere on the county domain
- Inmate lookupThe county links a 'Who's in Jail' lookup hosted on a third-party vendor portal (centralsquarecloud.com), not on a county or sheriff domain
- What was triedhttps://www.clintoncounty-ia.gov/sheriff/jail/ was refused by the fetcher and could not be opened, so nothing from it is cited here
Source: Clinton County Jail Inspection Report, February 24, 2021 · checked 2026-09-18
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓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
- ✗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 Bill Greenwalt
- Runs the jailYes — the Sheriff's Office lists a Jail division; Iowa Code 356.2 gives the sheriff charge and custody of the prisoners in the county jail
- How the office is filledElected; Iowa Code 331.651 makes the sheriff elective to a four-year term
- Also chairsThe Jail Programs & Reentry committee of the Clinton County Justice Coordinating Commission
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Clinton County Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-09-18
The Judges
Iowa district judges are merit-selected: a district judicial nominating commission (Iowa Code ch. 46) sends the governor two nominees, the governor appoints one, and the judge then faces a yes/no retention election and a six-year term. Bail at first appearance is set by a magistrate under Iowa Code 804.22, and Iowa magistrates are appointed, not elected — Iowa Code 602.6501 puts a magistrate appointing commission in each county (one district judge, three members appointed by the county board of supervisors, two attorneys elected by the county's attorneys) and Iowa Code 602.6403 has that commission appoint the county's magistrates to four-year terms. The three supervisor appointees are the only voter-accountable link in how the bail-setting magistrate got the job. The two judges named above sit on the Justice Coordinating Commission and were taken from the county's own membership roll; no county magistrate was named on a source opened for this entry.
Iowa District Court — Chief Judge
- Marlita Greve
District Associate Court
- Kim Shepherd
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-09-18
The County Commissioners
They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.
- What they controlThe detention budget, the building itself, and the agreements that let other agencies rent its beds.
- What they don'tDay-to-day operations. The sheriff is separately elected and answers to voters, not to the board.
- The boardBoard of County Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Clinton County publishes what almost no other Iowa county does: its own archive of the annual IDOC jail inspection report. The archive was opened and verified for this entry. It holds 15 reports — 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 (no 2017 report is listed). The page states the reports are 'created by the Iowa Department of Corrections, as required by Iowa Code Section 356.'
- The archive is kept by the Clinton County Justice Coordinating Commission, established in April 2009 after a National Institute of Corrections assessment, with the mission 'Improving the justice system in Clinton County, Iowa.' It works through four committees: Alternative Sanctions & Diversions, Court Issues, Jail Programs & Reentry (chaired by Sheriff Bill Greenwalt), and Mental Health & Substance Abuse.
- The 2021 report was opened directly: inspected February 24, 2021 by the Chief Jail Inspector of the Iowa Department of Corrections, recording that 'Clinton County Jail is in compliance with Chapter 50, Iowa Jail Standards.'
- The 2020 report was opened directly: inspected March 5, 2020 by Delbert G. Longley, Chief Jail Inspector, Iowa Department of Corrections, describing the facility as 'a clean, well-maintained, and well-managed facility' with documentation 'current, complete and readily available for inspection.'
- Neither the 2020 nor the 2021 report gives a rated capacity or a population count on the day of inspection, so the capacity check does not pass despite the inspection check passing.
- The county's 'Who's in Jail' link points to a third-party vendor portal rather than the county's own domain, so the roster check is recorded as no.
- Board of Supervisors, three members serving staggered four-year terms: Dan Srp (Chairperson), Erin George (Vice Chairperson), Jim Irwin, Jr. Supervisor Dan Srp also sits on the Justice Coordinating Commission, which is consistent with Iowa Code 356.43(4) making the local governing body a statutory recipient of the jail inspection report.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Clinton 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).
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Names verified 2026-09-18 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered