The Detention Center
Broome County Sheriff's Correctional Facility
- Operated byBroome County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address155 Lt. VanWinkle Drive, Binghamton, NY 13905 (NYS Commission of Correction facility list)
- Mailing address given by the countyP.O. Box 2047, Binghamton, NY 13902-2047
- Rated capacity536-bed direct supervision correctional facility
- VisitsGeneral housing allows up to two hours of contact visitation a week; video visits through the tablet system
- Accreditation the county claimsNYS Commission of Correction, NYS Sheriffs' Association and the National Commission on Correctional Health Care
Source: Broome County Sheriff — Corrections · checked 2026-09-20
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 — not published
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✓How to post bond
- ✗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
- Beds536
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Frederick J. Akshar II
- Runs the jailYes — the Sheriff's Office Corrections division operates the county correctional facility
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff
- UndersheriffSammy L. Davis
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Broome County Sheriff · checked 2026-09-20
The Judges
New York's county and supreme court justices are state judicial officers, not county officials; city, town and village justices also set bail for people arrested in their areas.
Broome County Circuit Court
- Not found
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-09-20
The County Legislature or Board of Supervisors
They pay for the jail. In most counties the sheriff runs it.
- What they controlThe jail budget, the building itself, and the agreements that rent its beds to other agencies. Several counties also have an elected County Executive. In Westchester a county Department of Correction runs the jail rather than the sheriff.
- What they don'tDay-to-day operations, and state oversight. The sheriff is separately elected and keeps the jail in most counties (NY Correction Law art. 20), while the State Commission of Correction sets the standards, inspects the facility and investigates every death in custody. The five New York City counties have no county sheriff jail at all — the city Department of Correction runs them.
- NoteBroome County also has an elected County Executive.
- The boardBroome County Legislature →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The supplied URL redirects from gobroomecounty.com to broomecountyny.gov, which is the county's live domain.
- The Corrections page names the facility and gives the 536-bed capacity.
- The county's 2024 operating budget carries a Sheriff line in the Public Safety section.
- The bail page gives pay location codes and payment routes but publishes no fee figures; the corrections page says tablet phone and video rates are set by the provider, so fees stays no.
- The Sheriff's Office posts annual reports and a 2026 HALT Act report on the county site, but no inspection report, death-in-custody record, PREA material or housing contract was found.
- Inmate location is offered only through the statewide VINE service, not a county-hosted roster.
- State inspection/oversight: New York's State Commission of Correction oversees every local correctional facility in the state, sets the minimum standards they must meet, inspects them, and investigates every death in custody.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Broome 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 legislators who pay for it.
Names verified 2026-09-20 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered