The Detention Center
Not found — Treasure County has no jail
- Operated byNot found
- Where prisoners goThe Treasure County Sheriff's Office page states its dispatch 'is run through Rosebud County' and directs the public to Rosebud County's Sheriff site (https://rosebudcountymt.gov/departments/sheriff/) for the current warrants list and inmate roster — indicating Treasure County relies on Rosebud County for detention/booking
- What was triedChecked https://www.treasurecountymt.gov/tcsheriff and https://www.treasurecountymt.gov/ (full site nav) for a named jail/detention facility — none exists on the county's own site
Source: Treasure County, MT · checked 2026-08-24
Transparency rating
0/10Closed- ✗The jail is named — not published
- ✗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 — 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 Scott Upchurch
- TitleSheriff-Coroner
- Deputy SheriffAnthony Martinez (also listed as Undersheriff contact)
- How the office is filledElected
- Runs a jailNo — Treasure County has no jail of its own; see jail entry
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Treasure County, MT · checked 2026-08-24
The Judges
Montana district court judges and justices of the peace/city judges are elected. The Justice of the Peace typically sets bail at first appearance. Both are state judicial officers under the Montana judicial branch (MCA Title 3), not county officials.
16th Judicial District Court Judges (Carter, Custer, Fallon, Garfield, Powder River, Rosebud, and Treasure Counties)
- Hon. Michael Hayworth
- Hon. Rennie Wittman
- 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
- Treasure County has no jail. Its own Sheriff's Office page states dispatch is run through Rosebud County and points to Rosebud County's own site for the current inmate roster/warrants list — this is recorded as the finding rather than treated as a missing jail page, per the research brief.
- Because Treasure County holds no inmates of its own, all ten transparency checks are recorded as 'no' for the county's own site; a roster (if any) would be published by Rosebud County, not Treasure County.
- Montana has no confirmed statutory adult jail inspection agency; state_inspection is recorded as empty per the research brief.
- Board of County Commissioners: Marlo Moehr, Ruth Baker (a third seat is not clearly listed on the county's own Commissioner Meetings page as checked).
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Treasure 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