The Detention Center
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- Operated byCarroll County Sheriff's Office (Jail Division)
- Jail address6499 W 100 N, Delphi, Indiana 46923
- Jail phone(765) 822-2166 ext. 2
- Inmate servicesCombined Public Communications (inmatesales.com); funds via expressaccount.com or lobby kiosk
Source: Carroll County Sheriff's Office — Jail Division · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
1/10Closed- ✗The jail is named — not published
- ✗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 — not published
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✓How to post bond
- ✗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 Tony Liggett
- Runs the jailYes — the sheriff keeps the county jail (IC 36-2-13-5)
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term; no more than eight years in any twelve
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Carroll County Sheriff's Office - Deputies page · 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.
Carroll County Circuit Court
- Not found
- 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).
- NoteCommissioners: Loren Hylton (vice chairman), Scott Ayres, William R. Brown (chairman); meetings biweekly at 9:00 a.m. in 2026. The county site also lists council members (seven-member fiscal body). No agenda/minutes links on the commissioners page.
- The boardCarroll County Board of Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The sheriff's Deputies page lists Tony Liggett as sheriff, but Indiana's eight-in-twelve-years limit means a sheriff first elected in 2014 could not still hold office, so the page looks out of date; the current sheriff was not confirmed and is left as Not found.
- Pay Bonds page: bond by cash or credit card at the Sheriff's Office, 6499 W 100 N, Delphi, M-F 8:30am-5:00pm; no cashier checks, money orders or online payment.
- Inmate search links to the statewide public.indianajail.gov portal, not a county-hosted roster.
- History page says 'Coming Soon!'; no jail name, capacity, PREA, fees or inspection report on the sheriff's site.
- County site moved to in.gov/counties/carroll; its /sheriff/ page returned 404.
- 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 Carroll 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