The Detention Center
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- Operated byKosciusko County Sheriff's Office (Corrections Division)
Source: Kosciusko County Sheriff's Office home 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 Jim Smith
- Runs the jailYes — Corrections is listed as a division of the Sheriff's Office
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Non-emergency574-267-5667
- Inmate information line866-322-5857
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Kosciusko County Sheriff's Office home 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.
Kosciusko 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 site (kosciusko.in.gov) returned 403, so members and minutes were not recorded.
- The boardKosciusko County Board of Commissioners
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- Sheriff's home page (in.gov/sheriffs/kosciusko) names Sheriff Jim Smith and lists a Corrections division, but as read it gives no jail name, address, beds, roster, bond, fee or PREA information.
- Checks are based on the sheriff home page only; the inmate-information page exists but could not be opened, so the 'no' answers are thin.
- Warsaw is the county seat, but no page opened states it, so seat_source is blank.
- What was tried: in.gov/sheriffs/kosciusko/inmate-information/ (too many redirects), /corrections/ (404), kosciusko.in.gov sheriff department page (403). Commercial roster sites ignored.
- Not scored: Inmate-information and corrections pages could not be opened; only the sheriff home page 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 Kosciusko 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