The Detention Center
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- Operated byPulaski County Sheriff's Office
- Jail phone574.946.3753
- Sheriff's Office locationJustice Center, 110 East Meridian Street, Winamac
Source: Pulaski County — Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
1/10Closed- ✗The jail is named — not published
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✗Beds and daily population — not published
- ✗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 builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsNot found
Since then
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The Sheriff
Sheriff Chris Schramm
- Runs the jailYes — the sheriff keeps the county jail (IC 36-2-13-5)
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term; no more than eight years in any twelve
- Chief Deputy (county site)Fred Rogers
- OfficeJustice Center, first floor, 110 East Meridian Street, Winamac, IN 46996
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Pulaski 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.
Pulaski 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.
- The boardPulaski County Board of Commissioners
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- County sheriff page names Sheriff Chris Schramm and Chief Deputy Fred Rogers.
- The page links a 'JailTracker Current Inmate Roster' (omsweb.public-safety-cloud.com/.../Pulaski_County_IN) as the county's roster; the vendor page itself was not opened.
- The page lists a jail phone line but gives no proper name for the jail, so 'named' is recorded as no.
- No capacity, bond, fee, PREA or inspection material on the page opened.
- Seat (Winamac) from Wikipedia.
- 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 Pulaski 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