Carson City County, Nevada — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

Carson City Sheriff's Detention Facility (also published as the Carson City Detention Facility; the jail information line is 775-283-JAIL)

Operated byCarson City Sheriff's Office, Detention division
Jail address897 E. Musser St., Carson City, NV 89701
When it was built'The Carson City Sheriff's Detention Facility was completed in April of 1999, featuring the latest in high-tech surveillance and security'
Population'The center averages approximately 200 inmates at any given time'
Throughput'With well over 4,000 intake and releases annually, it is impossible for the department to anticipate exact release times'
Who it holds'providing services for all of the Carson City Judicial responsibilities, and receiving arrested persons from the Nevada Highway Patrol, Carson City Alternative Sentencing, State Parole and Probation, and many other state and federal agencies'
Health care'When warranted, the Sheriff's Office utilizes the services of Carson Tahoe Regional Medical Center and other local care providers'
VisitingBy appointment only; appointments taken on Thursdays 9:00 am to 3:00 pm on 775-283-4777; visits are on Saturday only, last 15 minutes, are non-contact and supervised, one visit per week, no more than two visitors and one child; no restriction on attorney visits
Bail'For Bail questions, please see your local directory to select an appropriate agency. Detention Center staff are prohibited from recommending any particular bail bond agency.' The page gives no instruction on how, where or when to post bail
MoneyCommissary deposits are made through Smart Deposit; money orders payable to CCSO and the inmate's name, or US currency, are accepted. No price list is published
What was triedcarson.org and carsoncity.gov were unreachable from this environment - carson.org would not resolve through the network proxy and carsoncity.gov returned HTTP 403 to every request. The Sheriff's Office and Detention pages were therefore read from Internet Archive captures of the county's own site, and the Nevada Association of Counties 2026 directory and the Nevada Judicial Directory were used for officials and judges. The live inmate search, hosted for the Sheriff's Office on app.powerbigov.us, does open

Source: Carson City Sheriff's Office - Detention (Internet Archive capture of the county's own page, 9 May 2023) · checked 2026-08-23

Transparency rating

2/10Closed

✓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 — not published
✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Carson City 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 builtCompleted April 1999
Original costNot found
Paid for byNot found
BedsNot found. The county publishes an average - 'approximately 200 inmates at any given time' - but no rated capacity

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff Kenneth Furlong

Runs the jailYes. The Detention division is one of the divisions of the Carson City Sheriff's Office, alongside Patrol, Investigations, Dispatch, Civil and Records, the Business Office and Administration
How the office is filledElected. NRS 248.010 provides for a sheriff elected in each county; Carson City is a consolidated municipality and elects a sheriff in the same way
ContactSheriff, Carson City, 775-283-7800, kfurlong@carsoncity.gov
The consolidated municipalityCarson City is not a county with a county seat in the ordinary sense. It is a consolidated municipality - city and county in one - governed by a Mayor and four Supervisors rather than a Board of County Commissioners, with offices at 201 N. Carson Street, Carson City, NV 89701, 775-887-2000
How this was verifiedListed as Sheriff under Carson City's Local Elected Officials in the Nevada Association of Counties 2026 directory. Carson City's own websites, carson.org and carsoncity.gov, could not be opened from this research environment

Still needed

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

Source: Nevada Association of Counties, 2026 NACO Directory - Carson City · checked 2026-08-23

The Judges

Nevada District Court judges are elected in nonpartisan countywide (or district-wide) races to six-year terms; Justices of the Peace are elected to six-year terms in their township. Both are state judicial officers under Article 6 of the Nevada Constitution, not county officials, although the county pays for the Justice Court. At first appearance it is normally the Justice of the Peace who sets bail. NRS 211.030 makes the sheriff the keeper of the county jail and NRS 248.050 makes the sheriff responsible for the prisoners in it. Carson City is unusual in that its Justice Court and Municipal Court are run as a single bench of two departments, and the First Judicial District Court is shared with Storey County. The Sheriff's Office holds people for all of the Carson City judicial responsibilities and for the Nevada Highway Patrol, State Parole and Probation and other state and federal agencies.

First Judicial District Court (Carson City and Storey counties)

Jason Woodbury - Department 1; took office 2 December 2024, term expires 3 January 2027
Kristin Luis - Department 2; took office 9 January 2024, term expires 3 January 2027

Carson City Justice/Municipal Courts - the Justice of the Peace normally sets bail at first appearance

Tom Armstrong - Department 1; took office 2 May 2011, term expires 7 January 2031
Melanie Bruketta - Department 2; took office 5 August 2024, term expires 7 January 2031

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

Notes on the record

This entry carries a research limitation that should be read before the checks. Carson City's own web addresses could not be opened from this environment: carson.org would not resolve through the network proxy at all, and carsoncity.gov returned HTTP 403 to every request, with and without a browser user-agent. The checks below therefore record only what could actually be opened, and several 'no' answers may mean 'the page could not be reached' rather than 'the page does not exist'. They should be re-run from an unblocked connection before being relied on.
'named' is marked yes on an Internet Archive capture of Carson City's own Detention page, which names the Carson City Sheriff's Detention Facility, gives its address and the date it was completed. The capture is from 9 May 2023.
'roster' is marked yes on the live Inmate Search, a Power BI Gov report linked as 'Inmate Search' from the Sheriff's Office page and reachable directly. It returned HTTP 200.
bond_info is marked no on the substance, not on reachability. The county's own Detention page addresses bail only to say 'For Bail questions, please see your local directory to select an appropriate agency' and that staff are prohibited from recommending a bail bond agency. It gives no instruction on how, where or when to post bail.
Carson City is a consolidated municipality, so 'county seat' is a formality: the seat and the city are the same place. The county name is recorded as 'Carson City County' only because that is the string used in the group assignment; the correct name of the jurisdiction is Carson City.
Carson City is a consolidated municipality and is governed by a Board of Supervisors, not a Board of County Commissioners: Mayor Lori Bagwell and Supervisors Stacey Giomi, Curtis Horton, Lisa Schuette and Maurice White, at 201 N. Carson Street, Carson City, NV 89701, 775-887-2000. City Manager Glen Martel; Deputy City Manager Stephanie Hicks; Chief Financial Officer Sheri Russell-Benabou. There is no jail district and no dedicated jail tax; the detention facility is a division of the Sheriff's Office. The Board's own agenda and minutes pages are on carson.org, which could not be opened from this environment.

These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Carson City 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.

The sheriff is on your ballot

The county clerk or registrar of voters runs the election in Carson City County and prints the ballot the sheriff’s name is on. Links from USA.gov and vote.gov.

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