The Detention Center
Cattaraugus County Jail
- Operated byCattaraugus County Sheriff's Office
- Jail address301 Court Street, Little Valley, NY 14755
- Rated capacityMaximum security 148 bed facility
- VisitsTuesdays and Fridays, scheduled online
- Commissary depositsLobby kiosk, Smart Deposit Plus or by phone
- Jail AdministratorCaptain Amy George, Correction Captain
Source: Cattaraugus County Sheriff — Jail Division · 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
- Beds148
Since then
- Not found
The Sheriff
Sheriff Eric Butler
- Runs the jailYes — the Sheriff's Office Jail Division operates the county jail
- How the office is filledElected county sheriff
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Cattaraugus County Sheriff's Office · 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.
Cattaraugus 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.
- The boardCattaraugus County Legislature →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- The supplied cattco.org URL redirects to cattco.gov, the county's live domain.
- The Jail Division page names the jail, gives the 148-bed capacity and explains that bail can be posted online through GovPayNet.
- The county's 2026 adopted budget carries a Sheriff/Jail department (A 311).
- The Jail Division publishes segregated confinement and residential rehabilitation unit reports; these are county compliance reports, not inspection reports, so inspections stays no.
- The jail page says the facility is in substantial compliance with State Commission of Correction standards, but the county posts no copy of an inspection report.
- The visitation page gives detailed rules but no phone, video or commissary rates.
- 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 Cattaraugus 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