Chautauqua County, New York — The Jail, the Sheriff, the Judges

The Detention Center

Chautauqua County Jail

Operated byChautauqua County Sheriff's Office
Jail addressE. Chautauqua Street, Mayville, NY 14757 (NYS Commission of Correction facility list)
Who is heldAbout 75% of people held are awaiting trial; the average stay is about six months and the maximum sentence served is two years
2026 jail appropriation$15,283,706 (budget line A.3150 Jail)
2026 sheriff appropriation$12,044,384 (budget line A.3110 Sheriff)
Jail AdministratorWarden (the Sheriff's site names the post but not the officeholder)

Source: Chautauqua County Sheriff — Corrections · checked 2026-09-20

Transparency rating

4/10Partial

✓The jail is named
✓Who is in custody
✗Beds and daily population — not published
✓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

This rates disclosure, not conduct — what Chautauqua County publishes about a jail its taxpayers own, checked 2026-09-20. 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 builtNot found
Original costNot found
Paid for byNot found
BedsNot found

Since then

Not found

The Sheriff

Sheriff James B. Quattrone

Runs the jailYes — the Sheriff's Office Corrections division runs the Chautauqua County Jail, with a Warden appointed by the Sheriff
How the office is filledElected county sheriff

Still needed

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

Source: Chautauqua 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.

Chautauqua County Circuit Court

Not found

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 2026-09-20

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.
NoteChautauqua County also has an elected County Executive.
The boardChautauqua County Legislature →
Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →

Notes on the record

The supplied chautauquacounty.com URL is dead; the county's live domains are chqgov.com and chautauquacountyny.gov, and the Sheriff's Office keeps its own site at sheriff.us.
The Sheriff's Office publishes its own booking list of people currently held, excluding people under 19 and federal prisoners, which is a genuine county roster.
The bail page sets out five ways to post bail and says cash brought to the jail carries no fee while card, bondsman, online and telephone routes carry one, without giving rates.
The 2026 adopted budget on the county site carries a Jail line of $15,283,706 and a Sheriff line of $12,044,384.
The Sheriff's Office posts monthly and cumulative segregated confinement reports; these are compliance reports, not inspection reports, so inspections stays no.
No rated capacity, PREA material, death-in-custody record, housing contract or published phone, visit or commissary rate was found.
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 Chautauqua 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?

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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