The Detention Center
St. Joseph County Jail
- Operated bySt. Joseph County Sheriff (St. Joseph County Police Department)
- Jail address401 W. Sample St., South Bend, IN 46601
- Staff102 corrections officers (sheriff department's jail page)
- SecurityUpdated security system with 130+ cameras (per jail page)
- VisitationScheduled via stjosephin.gtlvisitme.com (linked from jail page)
- Jail AdministratorNot confirmed — Warden
Source: St. Joseph County Police — Jail · checked 2026-09-20
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✓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
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff William Redman
- Runs the jailYes — the St. Joseph County Police Department (the sheriff's department) runs the St. Joseph County Jail
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term; limited to eight years in any twelve-year period
- Office address401 W Sample Street, South Bend, IN 46601
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: St. Joseph County staff directory — County Sheriff / Police · 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.
St. Joseph 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).
- NoteThree-member Board of County Commissioners and seven-member County Council (fiscal body); county Agenda Center and home page were refused when opened.
- The boardSt. Joseph County Board of Commissioners
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- The sheriff's department (sjcpd.org) jail page names the St. Joseph County Jail, links an 'Inmate Search' (JailTracker, StJoseph_County_IN) and visitation scheduling; the roster itself did not render when opened.
- Warden is not confirmed: the county directory and the jail page give different names.
- No capacity, bond guidance, fee rates, PREA, inspection, death-in-custody or contract information found on the pages opened.
- sjcpd.org home page, its visitation-policy page and sjcindiana.gov home/Agenda Center were refused when opened.
- sjcsheriff.com is a privately owned informational site, not the sheriff's; not used.
- 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 St. Joseph 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