The Detention Center
Gibson County Detention Center (Gibson County Jail)
- Operated byGibson County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address119 E Brumfield Ave, Princeton, IN 47670
- BuildingNew facility, operational from mid-May 2025; houses the Sheriff's Office, 911 dispatch and the jail
- Accreditation (sheriff's site)Says it is one of 10 Indiana jails accredited by the National Commission on Correctional Health Care
- NursingQuality Correctional Care
- Phone/videoInmate Sales; tablet rental $4/month, $0.10 per text
- CommissaryTiger Commissary
- Jail AdministratorAmanda Loesch and Andrea Shell — Both listed as Jail Commander on the sheriff's jail page
Source: Gibson County Sheriff, Jail page · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗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
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year built2025 (new facility operational mid-May 2025, per sheriff's site)
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Bruce Vanoven
- Runs the jailYes — Indiana sheriffs keep the county jail (IC 36-2-13-5)
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term; no more than eight years in any twelve
- Office119 E Brumfield Ave, Princeton, IN 47670; 812-385-3496
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Gibson County Sheriff, Jail 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.
Gibson 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).
- NoteCounty commissioners, council and minutes pages were not opened.
- The boardGibson County Board of Commissioners
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- Sheriff's 'Inmate Lookup' links to a bookings list on the sheriff's own subdomain; 105 records were shown when opened.
- Jail page gives bond guidance: a standard bail schedule with 10% cash options, bonds posted 24/7 in the lobby or online via govpaynow (location code 1020, online maximum $2,500).
- Jail page publishes tablet rental ($4/month) and text ($0.10) rates.
- New jail opened May 2025 at 119 E Brumfield Ave; beds and cost not published on the pages opened.
- No PREA or inspection material found.
- 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 Gibson 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