The Detention Center
Montgomery County Sheriff's Office Jail
- Operated byMontgomery County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address600 Memorial Drive, Crawfordsville, IN 47933
- Beds224 (sheriff's jail page)
- Year builtJune 2006 (sheriff's page: newest facility constructed June 2006)
- Historic jailRotary jail first constructed 1882
- Bond paymentOnline via AllPaid
- Commissary / communications vendorsAccessCorrections (deposits); Securus (video visits, calls, messages)
- Phone(765) 362-3740
Source: Montgomery County Sheriff's Office — Jail Info · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓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
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year built2006
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds224
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Ryan Needham
- Runs the jailYes — the sheriff keeps the county jail (IC 36-2-13-5); sheriff's office and jail share 600 Memorial Drive
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Montgomery County Sheriff's Office · 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.
Montgomery 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).
- NoteBoard of Commissioners (executive) and County Council (fiscal body). County homepage shows a Commissioner Agenda & Meeting Packet (e.g. 8 Dec 2025); Agenda Center returned 403. Government Center: 1580 Constitution Row, Crawfordsville.
- The boardMontgomery County Board of Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Sheriff's own site (montgomerycosheriffin.gov) confirmed Indiana; names Sheriff Ryan Needham.
- Jail Info page gives 224 beds, 2006 construction, visitation hours, and vendors (AllPaid bonds, AccessCorrections, Securus) but no fee rates.
- Roster: the sheriff's own 'Find an Inmate' (JailTracker) page; the lookup loads dynamically so its contents were not visible to the fetch.
- No PREA, inspection, death-in-custody, contract or budget material found on the sheriff pages opened; county Agenda Center returned 403.
- 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 Montgomery 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