The Detention Center
Hamilton County Jail
- Operated byHamilton County Sheriff's Office (Jail Division)
- Jail address18102 Cumberland Road, Noblesville, IN 46060 (Sheriff's Complex)
- Capacity (county site)440 beds main facility + 112 beds female annex = 552
- Average daily population (county site)384
- Opened1993
- Staffing (county site)93 uniformed officers, 4 support staff, 2 part-time civilians, 1 program director, 6 culinary staff
- Medical co-pays (county Inmate Information page, hamiltoncounty.in.gov/557)$15 doctor/nurse visit, $15 dentist visit, $15 prescriptions/monthly refills
- Jail AdministratorCaptain Dustin Castor — Jail Commander
Source: Hamilton County Jail page · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓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 — not published
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✗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 built1993 (opened)
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds552 (440 main + 112 female annex)
Since then
- 112-bed female annex (date not found)
The Sheriff
Sheriff Dennis Quakenbush
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term; no more than eight years in any twelve (Ind. Const. art. 6, §2)
- Runs the jailYes — the jail is a division of the Sheriff's Office, commanded by a captain
- Office address18100 Cumberland Road, Noblesville, IN 46060
- Chief DeputyJohn Lowes
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Hamilton County Sheriff 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.
Hamilton County Circuit Court
- Judge, Hamilton County courts: Andrew R. Bloch
- Judge, Hamilton County courts: Michael A. Casati
- Judge, Hamilton County courts: Jonathan M. Brown
- Judge, Hamilton County courts: William J. Hughes
- Judge, Hamilton County courts: J. Richard Campbell
- Judge, Hamilton County courts: David K. Najjar
- Judge, Hamilton County courts: Stephenie K. Gookins
- Judge, Hamilton County courts: Darren J. Murphy
- 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 shown on the county page: Mark Heirbrandt, Steve Dillinger, Christine Altman. The seven-member Hamilton County Council is the fiscal body (https://www.hamiltoncounty.in.gov/649/County-Council). Agendas and minutes are in the county Agenda Center.
- The boardHamilton County Board of Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- County jail page gives name, address, 552 beds, average daily population 384, opened 1993, and names the jail commander.
- A current-inmates roster is hosted on the county's own secure2.hamiltoncounty.in.gov server.
- Inmate Information page explains commissary deposits (GettingOut online or lobby kiosk) and medical co-pays of $15, but gives no phone, video-visit, commissary or booking fee rates.
- Pretrial Services page describes the county pretrial release program but gives no instructions for posting bond.
- County Finances and Budgets & Expenditures pages link out to the state Gateway and budget-notice portals; no county-hosted budget document showing the sheriff/jail line was found.
- No PREA, deaths-in-custody, inspection report or contract material found on pages opened.
- 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 Hamilton 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