The Detention Center
Scott County Security Center
- Operated byScott County Sheriff
- Jail address111 South First Street, Scottsburg, IN 47170
- Capacity (sheriff's site)200 beds
- Bookings (sheriff's site)About 1,350 per calendar year
- Population on roster when checked136 (Sept 2026)
- Medical contractor (named on site)Advanced Correctional Healthcare
- Phone provider (named on site)Combined Public Communications
Source: Scott County Sheriff — Jail Information · 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 — not published
- ✓Phone, video and commissary rates
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds200 (sheriff's site)
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Jerry Goodin
- Runs the jailYes — the sheriff's site runs the Scott County Security Center pages (jail information, roster, staff)
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term; limited to eight years in any twelve-year period
- Office address111 South First Street, Scottsburg, IN 47170
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Scott County Sheriff website · 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.
Scott 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).
- NoteCounty Council (fiscal body) holds budget hearings and meetings (budget meeting 18 Sept 2026) posted in the county Agenda Center; no budget document itself was opened.
- The boardScott County Board of Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Sheriff's jail page gives 200 beds, about 1,350 bookings a year, visitation rules, and commissary deposit fees ($3.25 for cash, 10% for credit/debit).
- Live inmate roster on the sheriff's site showed 136 people when checked.
- Medical (Advanced Correctional Healthcare) and phone (Combined Public Communications) vendors are named, but no contracts are posted.
- The sheriff's site has a 'Bond/Fine Amount' page, but it was refused when opened, so bond_info could not be confirmed.
- No PREA, inspection or death-in-custody information found.
- 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 Scott 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