St. Joseph County

The Detention Center

St. Joseph County Jail

• Operated bySt. Joseph County Sheriff's Office
• Jail address650 E. Main St., PO Box 339, Centreville, MI 49032
• BedsNot found (the county's own Corrections division page displays a capacity figure of 0, which appears to be a broken/placeholder value rather than a real bed count)
• FeesSentenced prisoners are charged $30.00 per day for room and board, per the county's jail-information page
• Jail AdministratorTroy Faulk

Source: St. Joseph County jail information page · checked 2026-09-19

• ✓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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what St. Joseph 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 builtNot found
• Original costNot found
• Paid for byNot found
• BedsNot found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Chad Spence

• Runs the jailThe St. Joseph County Sheriff's Office operates the St. Joseph County Jail at 650 E. Main St., Centreville, MI
• How the office is filledElected, four-year term, MCL 51.70
• Statutory basisMCL 51.75 gives the sheriff custody of the county jail

Source: St. Joseph County official site · 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 boardSt. Joseph County Board of Commissioners →
• Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →