Carroll County, New Hampshire — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

Carroll County House of Corrections & Jail (Carroll County Department of Corrections)

Operated byCarroll County Department of Corrections
Who runs itBrian King — Superintendent, Carroll County Department of Corrections, appointed by the Board of County Commissioners (RSA 30-B:3)
Jail address50 County Farm Road, Ossipee, NH 03864 (PO Box 688)
Assistant SuperintendentPat Bachelder
PREA CoordinatorCaptain Michael Baker
Designed capacity132 (December 2022 PREA audit published by the county)
2025 populationDaily average 64; 841 booked in, 775 released; 581 males and 260 females over the year
AccreditationNational Commission on Correctional Health Care accredited (2025 Annual Report)
Published facility name'Carroll County House of Corrections & Jail' as recorded in the county's own PREA audit report

Source: Carroll County — Department of Corrections · checked 2026-08-23

Transparency rating

4/10Partial

✓The jail is named
✗Who is in custody — not published
✓Beds and daily population
✓What it costs taxpayers
✗Deaths in custody — not published
✓PREA audits
✗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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Carroll County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-08-23. 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 built2003 (county jail at 50 County Farm Road, per the Schedule of County Owned Property in the 2025 Annual Report, from Town of Ossipee assessing records)
Original costNot found — the 2025 Annual Report gives a current assessed value of $6,766,700, not a construction cost
Paid for byNot found for the original build. A Corrections Security Project bond was issued in 2023 for $732,555 at 4.69% through Municipal Leasing Consultants, Inc., maturing 2032 (2025 Annual Report, Long Term Debt Schedule)
Beds132 designed capacity (December 2022 PREA audit)

Since then

2023 Corrections Security Project, $732,555 bond

The Sheriff

Sheriff Domenic Richardi

Runs the jailNo — the Superintendent of the Carroll County Department of Corrections does
RoleCivil process, warrants, court bailiffs, prisoner transport, and the county-wide dispatch centre
Source of nameReport of Carroll County Sheriff, 2025 Annual Report — the county website does not name the sheriff

Still needed

Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail

Source: Carroll County 2025 Annual Report (PDF) · checked 2026-08-23

The Judges

Judges in New Hampshire are state judicial officers, not county officials. They are nominated by the Governor and appointed with the approval of a majority of the Executive Council, and hold office until age 70 — they are never elected. New Hampshire has a unified state trial court: the Superior Court and the Circuit Court (district, family and probate divisions) are state courts, and the county pays for and maintains the courthouse but does not choose the judges. The Judicial Branch publishes clerks and deputy clerks for each location but does not publish a judge roster per county, so no presiding judge is named here. Source for the appointment method: https://www.courts.nh.gov/our-courts/superior-court

NH Circuit Court — 3rd Circuit, District Division — Ossipee (96 Water Village Road, Box 2, Ossipee)

Not published per county — Circuit Clerk Elaine Lowe is listed, no judge

NH Circuit Court — 3rd Circuit, District Division — Conway (35 East Conway Rd., Center Conway)

Not published per county

Carroll County Superior Court (96 Water Village Road, Box 3, Ossipee)

Not published — Clerk Abigail Albee is listed, no judge

Still needed

The county's bond schedule
Share of the jail population held pretrial
Median time from booking to first appearance

Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-08-23

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

Carroll is the strongest PREA publisher in this group: the county posts a PREA page carrying the full 189-page December 2022 Final PREA Facility Audit Report by auditor Jack Fitzgerald (on-site 9/26-9/28/2022), a PREA Report Nov 2025, a PREA Report 2023 & 2024, a PREA 2022 Annual Report and the PREA policy. Page: https://www.carrollcountynh.gov/169/PREA
Capacity marked yes: the published PREA audit gives designed capacity 132, current population 45 and 12-month average daily population 59, and the 2025 Annual Report gives a daily average of 64.
Budget marked yes: the 2025 Approved Expenditure Budget carries department 4230 CORRECTIONS with a total of $6,465,874 for 2025.
Fees marked no: the Inmate Telephone & Commissary page directs families to Securus, JailATM/Oasis kiosks and a lobby kiosk but publishes no phone, video-visit or commissary rate.
Contracts marked no: no contract or per-diem rate for holding other agencies' prisoners is published.
The county website does not name the elected sheriff anywhere; his name was recovered from the county's own 2025 Annual Report.
New Hampshire has no state agency that inspects county jails and publishes the results the way the Maine Department of Corrections does under 34-A M.R.S. sections 1208 and 1402(13). No state or county inspection report was found for this facility.
Three county commissioners (Chuck McGee, Harold Parker, Gene Chandler) form the executive branch. The legislative branch is the County Delegation — Carroll County's 15 elected state representatives — which under RSA 24:13, 24:13-d and 23:7 raises county taxes, appropriates all county funds, approves buildings over $25,000, issues bonds and biennially sets the salary of the sheriff, commissioners, county attorney, treasurer and register of deeds.

These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Carroll 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.

These offices are on your ballot

In New Hampshire your town or city clerk runs the checklist and the polling place. Links from vote.gov and USA.gov.

Names verified 2026-08-23 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered