The Detention Center
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- Operated byRipley County Sheriff
- Jail addressNot found (sheriff's office: 102 W. First North St., Versailles)
- Published nameThe sheriff's page refers only to 'Jail Visitation' and 'Current List of Inmates'; no facility name given
Source: Ripley County sheriff page · 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 Rob Bradley
- Runs the jailYes — the sheriff keeps the county jail (IC 36-2-13-5); sheriff's page links a jail visitation page and a current inmate list
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term; limited to eight years in any twelve-year period
- Office address102 W. First North St., Versailles, IN 47042
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Ripley County sheriff 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.
Ripley 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).
- NoteThree-member Board of County Commissioners; seven-member County Council is the fiscal body. The county site lists commissioners' minutes (e.g. 2 October 2023) but the county pages beyond the sheriff page and inmate-list page could not be opened in this session.
- The boardRipley County Board of Commissioners
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- The county posts a downloadable 'Current Inmate List'; the download page showed 'Last Updated January 11, 2024', so it may not be current.
- The sheriff's page links a 'Bond Fees Schedule' and a 'Jail Visitation' page, but both were refused when opened, so bond_info and fees could not be confirmed.
- No commissary, phone-fee, PREA, inspection or budget links appear on the sheriff's page.
- Only the sheriff page and the inmate-list download page could be opened; other county pages were refused.
- 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 Ripley 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