The Detention Center
Allegan County Sheriff's Office and Corrections Center
- Operated byAllegan County Sheriff's Office
- Jail addressNot found — address not confirmed on an office page that was successfully opened during this research (a Corrections Center subpage returned a 403 error)
- VisitationVideo visitation available Monday-Friday 7:50am-4:00pm, scheduled at least 24 hours in advance via www.gettingout.com
Source: Allegan County - Visiting Inmates · checked 2026-09-19
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓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
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 Frank Baker
- Runs the jailAllegan County Sheriff's Office operates the Allegan County Sheriff's Office and Corrections Center
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term, MCL 51.70; per the office's own site, Sheriff Baker joined the office in 1990 and was elected Sheriff, beginning his term in January 2017
- Statutory basisMCL 51.75 gives the sheriff custody of the county jail
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Allegan County - Sheriff's Office Administration · checked 2026-09-19
The Judges
Michigan circuit and district court judges are elected on a nonpartisan ballot to six-year terms under Mich. Const. art. VI — state judicial officers, not county officials.
Allegan 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 2026-09-19
The County Commissioners
They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.
- What they controlThe detention budget, the building itself, and the agreements that let other agencies rent its beds.
- What they don'tDay-to-day operations. The sheriff is separately elected and answers to voters, not to the board.
- The boardNot found
- Where the jail money is decidedNot found
Notes on the record
- An 'Inmate Lookup' page exists on the county's own domain (allegancounty.org/.../corrections/inmate-lookup) but returned a 403 error each time it was fetched, so it could not be confirmed and 'roster' was marked no.
- A Corrections Center overview page also returned a 403 error on fetch; jail address/capacity could not be confirmed from a page that was actually opened.
- The Sheriff's Office main page lists fees for Livescan fingerprinting ($57.00) and CPL fingerprints ($15.00).
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Allegan 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 who pay for it.
Names verified 2026-09-19 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered