The Detention Center
Glacier County Jail
- Operated byGlacier County Sheriff's Office
- Phone406-873-2711, option 2
- Roster'Jail Roster / Active Inmate Report' documents were posted periodically on the county's site (dated entries observed from late Feb–March 2025 in the archived capture)
- Access noteLive site inaccessible to automated requests during this research (bot-protection wall); fact sourced from a Wayback Machine archive
Source: Wayback Machine archive of Glacier County, MT — Sheriff's Office (captured 2025-04-21) · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
2/10Closed- ✓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 — 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 Maurice Redhorn
- TitleSheriff/Coroner
- UndersheriffTom Seifert
- Access noteThe live county site (glaciercountymt.gov) returned a bot-protection challenge (HTTP 202, 'sg-captcha') to automated requests throughout this research session; this fact is sourced from a Wayback Machine archive of the county's own Sheriff's Office page
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Wayback Machine archive of Glacier County, MT — Sheriff's Office (captured 2025-04-21) · checked 2026-08-24
The Judges
Montana District Court judges (elected, serving a multi-county judicial district) and county Justices of the Peace (elected countywide) are the judicial officers who handle bail; neither is a county administrative official. The Justice of the Peace typically sets bail at first appearance.
Glacier County (Cut Bank) — Justice of the Peace
- Carolyn Berkram
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-08-24
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 →
Notes on the record
- Glacier County's live official website (glaciercountymt.gov) returned a bot-protection challenge (HTTP 202, SiteGround 'sg-captcha') to every automated request made during this research session, including from the WebFetch tool. Facts that depend on that site are instead sourced from Wayback Machine archives of the same pages, with capture dates noted.
- Because the live site could not be crawled for the remaining checks (capacity, budget, deaths, PREA, inspections, contracts with rates, bond information, fees), those are recorded as 'no' to reflect what could be verified, not a confirmed claim that the county fails to publish them.
- Montana has no confirmed statutory adult jail inspection agency; state_inspection recorded as empty per the research brief.
- Board of County Commissioners. The county's own site lists a 'Commission' section and a separate meetings page, confirmed to exist via both a direct fetch of the homepage and an archived snapshot, but current membership could not be confirmed because the live site blocked automated access to inner pages during this research.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Glacier 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 2026-08-24 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered