Deer Lodge County

The Detention Center

Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Detention Center

• Operated byAnaconda-Deer Lodge County Law Enforcement Department, Detention Division
• Who runs itBill Sather — Chief of Police, Law Enforcement Department (which includes the Detention division). Reports to: No sheriff exists - Anaconda-Deer Lodge County's consolidated Law Enforcement Department, headed by an elected Chief of Law Enforcement (Chief of Police Bill Sather), runs the Detention Division
• Address800 S Oak Street, Anaconda, MT 59711
• CommissaryTurnKey system; $75.00 combined limit on all commissary orders
• Phone/text/videoReliance Telephone system (account funded online); no itemized per-minute rate published on the county's own site
• Year built / cost / bedsNot found

Source: Anaconda-Deer Lodge County — Law Enforcement · checked 2026-08-24

• ✓The jail is named
• ✓Who is in custody
• ✗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 Deer Lodge County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-08-24. 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 None — Anaconda-Deer Lodge County has no elected sheriff

• No sheriffAnaconda-Deer Lodge is a consolidated city-county with no sheriff's office at all; the jail is run by the consolidated Law Enforcement Department, whose head - the Chief of Law Enforcement, styled Chief of Police - is himself directly elected rather than appointed, so no elected sheriff has been displaced.
• Runs the jailNo — the county's consolidated Law Enforcement Department runs both policing and the detention center, headed by a Chief of Police, not a sheriff
• Government structureDeer Lodge County merged with the City of Anaconda into a single consolidated city-county government, effective January 1, 1977; the county's own staff directory lists no "Sheriff" position, only "Law Enforcement" (police officers, detectives, dispatch and detention staff)
• CoronerA separate department exists — Jessie Sather, Coroner — even though there is no sheriff
• Chief ExecutiveBill T. Everett, Chief Executive Officer, heads the consolidated government

Source: Anaconda-Deer Lodge County — Staff Directory · checked 2026-08-24

The Judges

Montana District Court judges (3rd Judicial District, covering Deer Lodge, Granite and Powell counties) and the Justice of the Peace are both elected and are not county officials. The District Court judge's name was not found on adlc.us directly; it is sourced here from a legal-directory site, montanacourtlocator.com, flagged as a lower-confidence source, with an address (800 South Main, Anaconda) and phone prefix (563-40xx) consistent with the county's own directory.

Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-08-24

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 boardBoard of County Commissioners →
• Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →