The Detention Center
Huntington County Jail
- Operated byHuntington County Sheriff's Office
- Built1984, at a cost of $2.2 million (county site)
- Design capacity (county site)99 inmates
- Average population (county site)100 to 105 inmates throughout the year
- Jail staff (county site)14 full-time and 10 part-time jailers
- Inmate mailSent to a P.O. Box in Highland Heights, KY (mail-processing address, not the jail)
- PhoneOutgoing calls via Combined Public Communications; no rates captured
- MedicalQuality Correctional Care
Source: Huntington County Jail page · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✓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 built1984
- Original cost$2.2 million
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds99 (design); averages 100 to 105 inmates
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Terry Stoffel
- 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 section of the Sheriff's Office
- Office address332 E State St, Huntington, IN 46750
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Huntington 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.
Huntington 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).
- NoteIndiana counties have a three-member Board of County Commissioners and a seven-member County Council (fiscal body). Names and minutes were not confirmed from pages opened.
- The boardHuntington County Board of Commissioners
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- County jail page: 'built in 1984 at a cost of $2.2 million dollars. It is designed to house 99 inmates but averages 100 to 105 inmates throughout the year.'
- Commissary accepts only money orders and cashier's checks; phone vendor named but no rates published on the page opened.
- No roster, bond guidance, PREA, deaths, inspection report, contract or budget material found on pages opened.
- What was tried: the sheriff's 'A Look Inside the Sheriff's Office' topic page returned 403. Search budget was exhausted before the county commissioners/budget pages could be located.
- 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 Huntington 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