The Detention Center
Rockingham County Department of Corrections (Rockingham County Corrections Complex)
- Operated byRockingham County Department of Corrections
- Who runs itJon Banville — Superintendent, Rockingham County Department of Corrections, appointed by the Board of County Commissioners (RSA 30-B:3)
- Jail address99 North Road, Brentwood, NH 03833
- Assistant SuperintendentSean Norton
- Designed capacity386 beds (federal PREA audit report posted by the county)
- Average daily count136 in FY2025 (county annual report); 138 in the PREA audit's 12-month window
- FY2025 intakes2,457 (1,853 male, 604 female); recidivism rate 46%
- Health careContracted to PrimeCare Medical Inc.; the county says it is the only corrections agency in New Hampshire accredited by the National Commission on Correctional Health Care and runs its own Opioid Treatment Program
- Under constructionA new Community Corrections Building to house the 90-day treatment program
- Year built / costNot found — checked the corrections pages, the FY2025 annual report and the county's 'County Complex History' links
Source: Rockingham County — 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
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds386 (designed facility capacity, PREA audit final report, on-site audit January 2020)
Since then
- A new Community Corrections Building was under construction as of the FY2025 annual report; no cost figure published
The Sheriff
Sheriff Charles Massahos
- Runs the jailNo — the Superintendent of the Rockingham County Department of Corrections does
- RoleElected county officer; court security, service of process, transports and dispatch
- Office101 North Road, Brentwood, NH 03833
- FY2025 sheriff appropriation$8,401,342 (county annual report budget-and-actual schedule)
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Rockingham County FY2025 Annual Report, Elected Officers (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 consent of the Executive Council, and 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. The county pays for and maintains courthouse space but does not choose the judges. The Judicial Branch publishes a clerk for each court location and does not publish a sitting-judge roster per county, so no presiding judge is named here. Appointment method source: https://www.courts.nh.gov/our-courts/superior-court
NH Circuit Court — 10th Circuit, District Division — Brentwood (10 Route 125, Brentwood)
- Not published per county — the Judicial Branch lists Clerk Kathleen E. Tripp and no judge
NH Circuit Court — 10th Circuit, other district divisions: Candia (110 Raymond Rd), Derry (10 Courthouse Lane), Hampton (3 Timber Swamp Rd), Portsmouth (111 Parrott Ave), Salem (35 Geremonty Dr)
- Not published per county — clerks Robin Pinelle, Tracy Meyer and Lindsey O'Brien listed, no judges
Rockingham Superior Court (Rockingham County Courthouse, 10 Route 125, Brentwood)
- Not published — the Judicial Branch page lists Clerk Patrice Touma and no judge
- 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
- Superintendent: the county's live corrections page names Superintendent Jon Banville and Assistant Superintendent Sean Norton. The FY2025 annual report (fiscal year ending 30 June 2025) carries a departmental report signed by Superintendent Jason M. Henry, and the 2021 PREA audit lists Stephen Church as jail administrator, so the post has changed hands at least twice; the current name is taken from the county's own page.
- PREA: the county posts a full PREA Facility Audit Report (Final) for the Rockingham County Corrections Complex, auditor Daniel R. Bean, on-site 7-9 January 2020, report filed 31 January 2021, plus annual sexual assault review and report documents for 2019, 2021 and 2022 and the review for the period ending 31 December 2022.
- Capacity: the posted PREA audit gives a designed facility capacity of 386, a facility population of 142 and a 12-month average daily population of 138. The FY2025 annual report gives an average daily count of 136.
- Budget: the county does not post a standalone budget document; the FY2025 Annual Report contains the Statement of Revenues and Expenditures - Budget and Actual, which shows Corrections at $14,949,026 budgeted and $13,937,418 actual.
- Inspections: apart from the PREA audit, no independent inspection report is published. The county states it holds NCCHC accreditation for correctional health care but posts no accreditation report.
- Fees: the Inmate Information page routes phone, video visitation and e-messaging to Securus Technologies, commissary packages to Access Securepak and deposits to Access Corrections, describing only 'a nominal processing fee'; no rate schedule is published.
- Roster and bail: no inmate roster (custody status is pushed to VINELink, a third-party service) and no guidance on how to post bail.
- New Hampshire has no state agency that inspects county jails and publishes the results the way the Maine Department of Corrections does. The only independent inspection of a New Hampshire county jail that is routinely published is the federal PREA audit, when the county chooses to post it.
- Three county commissioners elected by district under RSA 28: Kathryn Coyle (Chair, District I, Portsmouth), Steven Goddu (Vice Chair, District II, Salem) and Thomas Tombarello (Clerk, District III, Sandown). They administer a county budget of $101,305,409 and supervise the Department of Corrections. The budget itself is voted by the Rockingham County Delegation — the county's state representatives (RSA 24) — whose officers are Kenneth L. Weyler (Chair), Sherman Packard (Vice Chair) and John Potucek (Clerk), with a 21-member Executive Committee chaired by David Milz. FY2025 corrections appropriation: $14,949,026; actual spending $13,937,418.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Rockingham 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.
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