The Detention Center
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- Operated byHendricks County Sheriff's Office
- Services referenced on sheriff pageJailTracker, Aramark iCare, Homewav, VINE (no URLs or rates captured)
Source: Hendricks County Sheriff's Office page · checked 2026-09-20
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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 Jack Sadler
- 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 sheriff keeps the county jail (IC 36-2-13-5)
- Office address189 E Campus Blvd., Danville, IN 46122
- Chief DeputyScott Larsen
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Hendricks County Sheriff's Office 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.
Hendricks County Circuit Court
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- 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).
- NoteIndiana counties have a three-member Board of County Commissioners and a seven-member County Council (fiscal body). The county home page could not be opened, so names and minutes were not confirmed.
- The boardHendricks County Board of Commissioners
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- Only the sheriff's department page on co.hendricks.in.us opened; it names Sheriff Jack Sadler and Chief Deputy Scott Larsen and mentions JailTracker, Aramark iCare and Homewav, but gives no jail name, capacity, roster link, bond guidance or fee rates.
- What was tried: a sheriff PDF (co.hendricks.in.us/egov/documents/1717589727_48422.pdf), the sheriff topics page and the facility-location page all returned 403; the county home page refused (PROVENANCE_REQUIRED). The 'no' checks reflect only the one page that could be read.
- Town of Avon and Town of Danville sites carry jail-lookup pages, but those are not county or sheriff sites and were not counted.
- Not scored: Sheriff PDF, topics and facility pages returned 403; one sheriff page with no jail detail was read. Marking the rest 'not published' would claim more than was checked.
- 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 Hendricks 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