The Detention Center
Monroe County Jail
- Operated byMonroe County Sheriff's Office
- Jail addressMain Jail Facility: 100 E 2nd Street, Monroe, MI 48161; Dormitory Facility: 7000 E Dunbar Road, Monroe, MI 48161
- BedsNot found on the county's own site
Source: Monroe County, MI - Corrections Division · 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
- ✗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 Troy Goodnough
- Runs the jailThe Sheriff's Office operates the Monroe County Jail (Main facility) and a Dormitory Facility, per the county's own Sheriff's Office and Corrections Division pages
- How the office is filledElected, four-year term, MCL 51.70
- Statutory basisMCL 51.75 gives the elected county 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: Monroe County, MI - 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.
Monroe 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 boardhttps://www.co.monroe.mi.us/159/Board-of-Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The county's own Inmate Lookup page links out to a third-party vendor (Zuercher Portal, at monroe-so-mi.zuercherportal.com), which is not on the county's own domain, so the roster check is scored 'no' per the audit rule.
- The county's own PREA page describes a zero-tolerance policy, categories of prohibited conduct, and an internal reporting phone line (734-240-8008), with policy documents in English and Spanish; it does not include external audit results.
- A 2025 MCSO Annual Report is linked from the county's site (https://www.co.monroe.mi.us/DocumentCenter/View/4634/MCSO-2025-Annual-Report) but could not be opened (response too large to read); it was not used as a source here.
- State inspection/oversight: Michigan county jails are subject to inspection under the Michigan Department of Corrections' Administrative Rules for Jails and Lockups; no county-published inspection reports were found on co.monroe.mi.us.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Monroe 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