The Detention Center
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- Operated byLaGrange County Sheriff's Office
Source: LaGrange County — Sheriff · 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
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- Runs the jailYes — the office's stated duties include managing the jail structure and providing humane, secure confinement of the jail population
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- State directory listsTracy Harker — not confirmed on a county or sheriff page. The State of Indiana's sheriff directory (in.gov/sheriffs) was out of date for 4 of the 66 counties we could check against county pages, so this name is shown for reference only.
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: LaGrange County — Sheriff · 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.
LaGrange 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). No commissioners or council page was opened (search cap reached), so members and minutes were not recorded.
- The boardLaGrange County Board of Commissioners
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- The county's Sheriff page (lagrangecounty.org) opened but showed only the office's mission statement: no sheriff name, jail name, address, roster, bond or fee information.
- The county site has a 'LaGrange County Jail' division page (per search listing), but it returned 403, so it could not be read and is not counted.
- Checks are based on the one sheriff page only, so the 'no' answers are thin.
- LaGrange is the county seat, but no page opened states it, so seat_source is blank.
- What was tried: jail division page and sheriff location page on lagrangecounty.org returned 403. Commercial roster sites ignored.
- Not scored: County Jail division page returned 403; only the sheriff page's mission statement 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 LaGrange 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