The Detention Center
Park County Detention Center
- Operated byPark County Sheriff's Office, per Montana state law
- Address414 E. Callender, Livingston, MT 59047 (City/County Complex)
- Holds prisoners forPark County Sheriff's Office, Livingston Police Department, Montana Highway Patrol, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, and Montana Department of Corrections, plus occasional other agencies — no rate schedule published
- FeesFingerprinting $20 (exact cash or check); phone calls, video visitation, and commissary (via kiosk or Team3InmateCanteen.com) are available but rates are not published
- Bail/bond guidanceCash, certified checks, or bond companies accepted; amounts over $10,000 cash or $1,000 personal check must be posted with the courts during business hours
- RosterPublished online, updated nightly between midnight and 2 a.m., listing names, charges, bond amounts, and arrest dates
- What was triedparkcounty.org DETENTION-CENTER and Inmates-Housed pages were checked for beds, year built, cost, funding, budget, PREA, inspections, and deaths — none published
Source: Park County Detention Center · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓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
- ✗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 Brad Bichler
- Runs the jailYes — Park County Detention Center, 'operated under the authority of the Sheriff and as directed by Montana State law'
- How the office is filledElected
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Park County — Sheriff's Office · checked 2026-08-24
The Judges
Montana district court judges and justices of the peace are elected. The Justice of the Peace usually sets bail at first appearance. Both are state judicial officers, not county officials.
District Court Judge (judicial district covering Park County)
- Not found
Park County Justice Court — Justice of the Peace
- 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 2026-08-24
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 →
Notes on the record
- Park County's own site publishes the detention center's name, address, bail/bond guidance, and a nightly-updated roster, but no bed count, budget, PREA, inspection, death-in-custody, contract-rate, or phone/video/commissary fee schedule.
- The commissioners page and district/justice court department pages on parkcounty.org could not be reached during this research session, so those names are recorded as Not found rather than guessed.
- Montana has no confirmed statutory adult jail inspection agency; state_inspection recorded empty per the research brief.
- Not found — the parkcounty.org commissioners page could not be reached during this research session.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Park 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