The Detention Center
Ingham County Correctional Facility (Justice Complex)
- Operated byIngham County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address630 N. Cedar St, Mason, MI 48854
- Capacity429-bed jail, part of the new Justice Complex (169,000 sq ft) that opened in 2023
- Jail AdministratorJason Buckner
Source: Ingham County, Michigan - Sheriff's Office Historical Page · checked 2026-09-19
Transparency rating
9/10Open- ✓The jail is named
- ✓Who is in custody
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✓Deaths in custody
- ✓PREA audits
- ✓Independent inspection
- ✓Who else it holds, and for how much
- ✓How to post bond
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year built2023 (new Justice Complex; construction began January 2021, completed January 2023; inmates moved from the old jail on February 16, 2023; old jail demolished fall 2023)
- Original cost$79 million (169,000 sq ft Justice Complex, including a 429-bed jail); financed in part by $64,200,000 in limited tax general obligation bonds sold in 2020 (outstanding balance $58,099,500 as of Dec. 31, 2025)
- Paid for byLimited tax general obligation bonds (2020), repaid via the Justice Complex millage approved by voters in August 2018
- Beds429
Since then
- Replaced a 1963-built correctional center (with a 1980 addition); prior facility located adjacent to the new Justice Complex and demolished in fall 2023
The Sheriff
Sheriff Scott Wriggelsworth
- Runs the jailIngham County Sheriff's Office operates the Ingham County Correctional Facility within the Ingham County Justice Complex
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term, MCL 51.70
- 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: Ingham County, Michigan - 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.
Ingham 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 boardIngham County Board of Commissioners: Ryan Sebolt (Chairperson, D9), Chris Trubac (Vice Chairperson, D3), Randy Maiville (Vice Chairperson Pro Tem, D1), Karla Ruest (D2), Todd Tennis (D4), Myles Johnson (D5), Rachel Willis (D6), Thomas Morgan (D7), Robert Peña (D8), Gabrielle Lawrence (D10), Mark Grebner (D11), Irene Cahill (D12), Tanya Pratt (D13), Mark Polsdofer (D14), Monica Schafer (D15) →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The Ingham County Sheriff's Office publishes an extensive Policy and Rules page listing dozens of General Orders and Rules/Regulations, including ones titled 'Inspections' and 'Death or Significant Injury to Civilian or Inmate'; both PDFs were confirmed to load (HTTP 200) from the office's document host (docs.ingham.org), though their scanned/image-based content could not be text-extracted to quote specific language.
- The Corrections Medical Department page states VitalCore Health Strategies is under contract to provide correctional healthcare services at the new facility, effective with the facility's April 2023 opening.
- Bond payments/inmate deposits are referenced via the Sheriff's Office main page and Bond Company List; no separate published jail fee schedule (e.g., booking or per-diem fees) was found on the office's own site, though incidental fees are mentioned in passing (e.g., a fee for attorney video-visitation, and copy fees for legal mail).
- The 2026 Adopted Budget shows the Sheriff Department (2026 appropriation) at $31,870,163 total, including Administration $2,081,242, Adult Corrections Facility $16,559,414, and Law Enforcement/Investigation $13,229,507; Average Daily Population at the jail was reported as 390 for 2025-2026.
- The office's main website (ingham.org) blocks many automated tools via robots.txt on most department sub-pages; pages were instead retrieved via direct HTTP requests to the same public URLs, which is why some sources point to www.ingham.org and its document host docs.ingham.org rather than a WebFetch summary.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Ingham 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