Antrim County

The Detention Center

Antrim County Correctional Facility

• Operated byAntrim County Sheriff's Office
• Jail address207 E. Cayuga St., PO Box 568, Bellaire, MI 49615
• CapacityRated to hold 56 inmates by the Michigan Department of Corrections, per the office's own site
• Year built1955, per the office's own site
• Staffing24/7 operations with 14 corrections deputies, 4 sergeants, 1 lieutenant, 1 full-time cook, 2 nurses (1 full-time, 1 part-time), and 1 part-time doctor, per the office's own site
• Jail AdministratorLieutenant Sherry Knight

Source: Antrim County Correctional Facility · checked 2026-09-19

• ✓The jail is named
• ✗Who is in custody — not published
• ✓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 — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Antrim County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-09-19. Nothing here says the jail is run well or badly. Every mark moves the moment the county posts the document.

The Building

You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.

• Year built1955
• Original costNot found
• Paid for byNot found
• Beds56 (rated by the Michigan Department of Corrections, per the office's own site)

The Sheriff

Sheriff Kevin S. Hoch

• Runs the jailAntrim County Sheriff's Office operates the Antrim County Correctional Facility
• How the office is filledElected, four-year term, MCL 51.70
• Statutory basisMCL 51.75 gives the sheriff custody of the county jail

Source: Antrim County Sheriff's Office · 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.

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