Boone County, Indiana — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

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Operated byBoone County Sheriff's Office (County Corrections division)
Corrections address1905 Indianapolis Ave, Lebanon, IN 46052
Corrections office phone765-483-5782
Jail AdministratorTimothy Turner — Commander (listed on the sheriff's County Corrections division page)

Source: Boone County Sheriff — Corrections inmate lookup page · checked 2026-09-20

Transparency rating

Not scored. Boone County's and its sheriff's own websites could not be reached or read in the session that produced this record, so their disclosures were never examined. This is a gap in the research, not a finding about the county.

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

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The Sheriff

Sheriff Tony Harris

Runs the jailYes — the sheriff keeps the county jail (IC 36-2-13-5)
How the office is filledElected, four-year term

Still needed

Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail

Source: Boone County Sheriff's Office - Contact Us · checked 2026-09-20

The Judges

Indiana circuit and superior court judges are state judicial officers, not county officials. In most counties they are elected to six-year terms; a few counties choose some judges through a nominating commission followed by retention votes.

Boone County Circuit Court

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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 2026-09-20

The Commissioners and County Council

They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.

What they controlThe three county commissioners own and maintain the jail building and sign its contracts; the seven-member county council adopts the budget and appropriates the jail's money.
What they don'tDay-to-day operations. The sheriff is separately elected and keeps the jail by state law (IC 36-2-13-5).
NoteThree-member Board of Commissioners plus seven-member County Council (fiscal body). County site boonecounty.in.gov could not be opened (PROVENANCE_REQUIRED).
The boardBoone County Board of Commissioners
Where the jail money is decidedNot found

Notes on the record

Sheriff's site links a Jailtracker inmate look-up for Boone_County_IN as its own roster.
Corrections page links 'Pay Bond Online' (govpaynow) and an Approved Bondsmen page, but the bondsmen page could not be opened, so no written bond guidance was verified.
The current sheriff was not confirmed on any page opened; sheriff homepage and staff directory were refused.
What was tried: boonecountyindianasheriff.com homepage, staff directory, approved bondsmen, commissary, visitation and medical pages, and boonecounty.in.gov, all refused (PROVENANCE_REQUIRED).
Not scored: Sheriff homepage, corrections sub-pages and county site were all refused (PROVENANCE_REQUIRED). Marking the rest 'not published' would claim more than was checked. Found published on the pages that did open: roster.
State inspection/oversight: IDOC Jail Services inspects annually (IC 11-12-4); reports are public record on request but not posted by the state. None found on the county's own site.

These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Boone 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 who runs this jail is elected. So are the commissioners and council members who pay for it.

Names verified 2026-09-20 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered