The Detention Center
Putnam County Jail
- Operated byPutnam County Sheriff's Department
- Address (sheriff contact page)13 Keightly Rd, Greencastle, IN 46135
- Current facility opened (Wikipedia)December 1995
- Cost (Wikipedia)$5.6 million
- Population (Wikipedia)roughly 145 adult inmates
- Earlier jails (Wikipedia)1836-1840 original; 1939 second jail
Source: Putnam County — Jail Division · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
1/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✗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 built1995 (opened December 1995, per Wikipedia)
- Original cost$5.6 million (per Wikipedia)
- Paid for byNot found
- BedsNot found
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Jerrod E. Baugh
- 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
- Name sourceWikipedia (elected November 2022); the county's sheriff pages opened do not name the sheriff
- Office address (county site)13 Keightly Rd, Greencastle, Indiana 46135
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Wikipedia — Putnam County Jail · 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.
Putnam 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). No commissioners or council page was opened.
- The boardPutnam County Board of Commissioners
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- County Jail Division page names the Putnam County Jail and lists sub-pages for visitation rules, commissary and clothing, trustee property and jail history; those sub-pages were not opened, so no fee rates were seen.
- The county's sheriff pages opened do not name the sheriff; the name Jerrod E. Baugh is from Wikipedia and should be confirmed.
- Sheriff page links a generic JailTracker portal, not clearly the county's own roster, so 'roster' is no.
- Building year, cost and population are from Wikipedia, not a county page.
- The separate sheriff site putnam-sheriff.org was linked but not opened.
- 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 Putnam 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