Grafton County

The Detention Center

Grafton County Jail / Grafton County Department of Corrections

• Operated byGrafton County Department of Corrections
• Who runs itTim Lethbridge — Superintendent, Grafton County Department of Corrections, appointed by the Board of County Commissioners (RSA 30-B:3)
• Jail address3787 Dartmouth College Hwy, North Haverhill, NH 03774
• OpenedJuly 2012 — the county calls it 'a new state of the art facility'
• Beds150 (32 female, 118 male) per the county; the 2021 PREA audit records a designated capacity of 174
• Average daily population72 in FY2025, up from 66 in FY2024; 966 new admissions in FY2025
• Holds for another county71 female inmates were held in FY2025 under an agreement with Coos County — the agreement and its rate are not published
• Separate DOC websitewww.graftoncountynhdoc.us, linked from the county site

Source: Grafton County — Department Of Corrections · checked 2026-08-23

• ✓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 Grafton 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 built2012 — opened July 2012
• Original cost$33,000,000 borrowed; the project came in substantially under budget and the surplus paid for the county's biomass plant and demolition of the old jail
• Paid for byCounty bond — the Delegation authorised borrowing up to $38,000,000; after the project was delayed and downsized the county borrowed $33,000,000 (Grafton County FY2013 Annual Report)
• Beds150 published by the county (32 female, 118 male); the 2021 PREA audit records designated facility capacity of 174

The Sheriff

Sheriff Jillian Myers

• Runs the jailNo — the Superintendent of the Grafton County Department of Corrections does
• Elected countywideYes — one of four elected department heads alongside the County Attorney, Register of Deeds and Treasurer
• Office3785 Dartmouth College Hwy., North Haverhill, NH 03774

Source: Grafton County — Sheriff's Office · 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 The Judicial Branch page for Grafton Superior Court returned HTTP 403 on every attempt, so that entry is sourced to the county's own About Us page, which states that the Grafton County Courthouse houses the Superior and Circuit Courts. The county also notes that since 1984 New Hampshire has funded a unified court system while counties still own and rent the courthouses to the State.

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 →