The Detention Center
Ionia County Correctional Center
- Operated byIonia County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address133 Adams Street, Ionia, MI 48846
- Beds141 (jail opened January 1990 with 122 beds; increased to 132 in 2004 and 141 in 2013)
- Jail AdministratorCapt. Andrew Dinehart
Source: Ionia County Sheriff's Office History (PDF) · checked 2026-09-19
Transparency rating
4/10Partial- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗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
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year built1990 (current facility on Adams Street); predecessor jails date to 1851, 1881, and 1957
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found (a $10,000 bond issue funded the 1880-81 jail; funding source for the 1990 facility not stated in the source)
- Beds141 (122 originally in 1990, increased to 132 in 2004 and 141 in 2013)
Since then
- Bed count increased from 122 to 132 in 2004, and to 141 in 2013
The Sheriff
Sheriff Charlie Noll
- Runs the jailIonia County Sheriff's Office operates the Ionia County Correctional Center
- 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: Ionia 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.
Ionia 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 boardIonia County Board of Commissioners (partial): David Hodges (D1), Scott Wirtz (D2), Lawrence Stewart Tiejema (D3, per page text, though page also listed D3 as 'Vacant') →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The county's own 'Sheriff's Office History' PDF, linked from the Sheriff's Office page, gives a detailed history of the county's jails, including the current Adams Street facility opened in January 1990 under Sheriff Terrence Jungel.
- The county's 2022 Budget Recommendation (published on the Finance Department's Budget Documents page) shows detailed line items for 'Dept 301 - SHERIFF' (Administration, Uniformed Services, School Resource Program, Act 302 Training Grant, OHS Grants) and 'Dept 351.000 - JAIL' (including a Jail Substance Abuse Treatment sub-fund).
- No inmate roster, PREA policy, inspection records, contracts, or a dedicated jail fee schedule were found published on the county's own site; the Circuit/District Court 'Fee Schedule' pages found in site navigation concern court filing fees, not jail fees, and were not used for the fees check.
- www.ioniacounty.org redirects to ioniacounty.org (no 'www').
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Ionia 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